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Wearing a Canadian hockey jersey and the flag hanging around his shoulders, Ryan Badr said he was thrilled to see Canada take the win.

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Trump stoked the fire Thursday morning, using that rhetoric yet again in a social media post supporting the American team.

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香蕉视频直播� With files from Joshua Clipperton in Boston, Nono Shen in Vancouver and Matthew Scace in Calgary.

Daniel Rainbird, The Canadian Press