NHL announcer cracks tariff joke while calling game for Canada-based team

Even Canada-based NHL teams aren't harmless from feeling the brunt of President Donald Trump's tariffs connected the country.

Mere hours aft Trump's enforcement bid to enforce tariffs connected Canada, some Ottawa Senators and Toronto Raptors fans booed the playing of "The Star-Spangled Banner."

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Vancouver Canucks fans did the aforesaid connected Sunday nighttime against the Detroit Red Wings, but determination was much to beryllium had.

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The Canadian emblem is displayed during the Stanley Cup playoff crippled betwixt the Edmonton Oilers and the Vancouver Canucks astatine Rogers Place connected May 18, 2024, successful Edmonton, Canada. (Andy Devlin/NHLI via Getty Images)

During the archetypal period, Vancouver defenseman Derek Forbot was assessed a two-minute punishment for interference. That prompted longtime Canucks announcer John Shorthourse to facetiously accidental that the punishment would really beryllium 25% longer.

"This volition really beryllium a two-and-a-half infinitesimal powerfulness play for the Detroit Red Wings, owed to the 25% tariff that has been imposed connected penalties to Canadian-based teams," Shorthouse said.

Vancouver was capable to termination the penalty, with the ending of the archetypal play benefiting them.

Vancouver tied the crippled midway done the 3rd aft newcomer Filip Chytil scored, but Detroit would win, 3-2, successful overtime.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addresses the Liberal enactment caucus gathering successful Ottawa, Canada, connected Dec. 16, 2024. (Reuters/Blair Gable/File Photo)

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Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke via telephone connected Monday, hours earlier further 25% tariffs were to instrumentality effect connected Canadian goods coming into the United States. In a station connected X, Trudeau said Canada volition instrumentality a $1.3 cardinal borderline program and name a fentanyl czar.

Trump has long said Canada and Mexico person failed to bash capable to forestall the travel of amerciable migrants and drugs, peculiarly fentanyl, from those nations into the U.S. In addition, Trump claims the U.S. has subsidized Canada to the tune of $200 cardinal annually. 

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, speaks during a Liberal Party fundraiser successful Ottawa, June 10, 2024. (Spencer Colby/The Canadian Press via AP)

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Trump has promised to enforce a 25% tariff connected each Canadian and Mexican goods, arsenic good arsenic a 10% tariff connected Canadian vigor and a 10% tariff connected each goods entering the U.S. from China. The tariffs connected Canada and China were acceptable to spell into effect Tuesday astatine midnight. 

Fox News' Louis Casano contributed to this report.

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