Western Standard - November 10, 2026


Let the Kids Play Hockey, Keep Politics Off the Ice

Hannaford Warns Conservatives About Walking Away Harper, Trump and the Problem With Political Legacies

Episode Stats


Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

164.95

Word count

385

Sentence count

29


Transcript

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00:00:00.000 You know, I was a little upset that Kearney is not allowing the Russian junior team to come play hockey, right?
00:00:11.060 So the World Juniors are in Alberta again this year.
00:00:16.580 They were here during COVID.
00:00:18.300 You know, they tried to do the Edmonton Red Deer.
00:00:20.500 Kind of didn't work out very well during COVID.
00:00:22.600 So they're doing it again.
00:00:24.060 It's great hockey, man.
00:00:25.460 It's great hockey.
00:00:26.300 and um it's kids that are like 18 17 18 19 i i don't even think he can be 20 at the world juniors
00:00:33.840 maybe he can be up to 21 but he's he's using politics and uh yeah there's been there's been
00:00:41.720 um you know the sports has been used in the past as kind of uh as a political tool and i i disagree
00:00:51.380 I mean, you can do business embargoes and trade embargoes and you can do boycotts and stuff like that. But, you know, when the Olympics were first conceived of, like, whatever, in 1890, like, you know, it was a Frenchman. It was, I can't remember his name, Coubertin or somebody like that. And he had thought of, you know, he brought back the Olympics. I mean, the Olympics had happened in ancient Greece.
00:01:20.140 And so he brought him back. And the spirit of the Olympics that that he brought back was that nations don't know each other very well. And and and we fight and often we fight because we just have these misunderstandings and we don't understand each other. So he had the idea that let's do sports, let's do the Olympic sports and let's set aside those differences and let's compete in sports instead of wars.
00:01:43.520 And I get it. It's not the same. Hockey is not the Olympics. But even the Olympics started having boycotts. And now boycott is one thing. If you choose not to go to the Olympic, that's one thing. But if the Olympic committee says, no, you can't come, I think that's different.
00:01:59.300 And I see a similarity here. These are young kids that play hockey, okay? So don't punish the kids who play hockey because of the stupid decisions of Putin and Zelensky and Carney and others. Let the kids come and play hockey. I want the best to come and play hockey.