Canada coach Jon Cooper said the mixture of personal political feelings and hockey rivalry didn’t make sense. He didn’t mind Montreal fans booing Auston Matthews because he’s a hockey rival on the Maple Leafs. But he thought politics at a hockey game were misplaced.

Fans in Montreal booed the U.S. national anthem prior to the Americans’ first game of the 4 Nations Face-Off against Finland. Forward Matthew Tkachuk had a simple reaction. "I didn’t like it, and that’s all I got,

Despite the public address announcer asking fans in attendance to show respect for the anthems, the Star Spangled Banner was booed Thursday night at the Bell Centre. Before the puck dropped between Finland and the United States at the 4 Nations Face-Off,

The NHL announced on Thursday that the opening game of the 4 Nations Face-off between Canada and Sweden drew more than 4.1M viewers across North America. Within the United States, it was the highest rated game that has aired on TNT this season averaging more than one million viewers.