From Heated Rivalry to the White House, hockey is having a strange American moment | Dave Schilling

Kash Patel’s partying went viral and the US men’s team came to Washington. Now it’s all part of the culture war Ah, hockey. The most impish of sports. A bunch of blissfully beefy individuals wearing colorful sweaters zoom around in skates chasing a wee little object called, of all things, a “puck”. It’s adorable. It’s like A Midsummer Night’s Dream for people missing teeth. These days, if you’re talking about hockey, you probably are thinking about HBO Max’s gay sex-capade romance, Heated Riv...

By Dave Schilling