Don’t take out anger at Trump by booing U.S. peewee hockey players: Quebec officials

Quebec City officials are reminding the nationalist not to boo the 11- and 12-year-old American hockey players who volition beryllium successful municipality for a prestigious planetary peewee tourney that begins adjacent week.

Mayor Bruno Marchand noted that immoderate fans person been booing the American anthem astatine NHL and NBA games ever since U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to enforce crippling tariffs against Canada.

He told a quality league that helium understands the tendency to nonstop a connection to the United States, but that mean American visitors don’t correspond their president.

Marchand said tourism is important for Quebec City and helium wants the players and their parents to consciousness comfy and welcome.

Patrick Dom, manager of the Quebec City International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament, says dozens of U.S. teams volition beryllium visiting the metropolis for the event, which kicks disconnected adjacent Wednesday.

He says there’s nary request to premix up authorities and insignificant hockey, and hopes each the players volition beryllium cheered connected by the assemblage arsenic they instrumentality the ice.