Bruce Arthur: Canada vs. USA at the 4 Nations is more than a game. And more political than the Summit Series ever was

Bruce Arthur: Canada vs. USA at the 4 Nations is more than a game. And more political than the Summit Series ever was

The booing at Montreal's Bell Centre isn’t about the players, Maple Leafs perhaps aside.

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This is not just a hockey game. When Canada plays the United States at the 4 Nations tournament in Montreal Saturday night, yes, it’ll be a clash — true best-on-best international hockey was shamefully shuttered for over a decade and this tournament, however imperfect, shows what we missed. When American star Matthew Tkachuk says he has been thinking about this game for nine years, it means something. But Saturday night cannot just be about hock…