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Emma Teitel: U.S. women's hockey team deserves better than to be mocked

Nothing wrong with going to the State of the Union address, but men's hockey team owes fellow Olympians respect

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I don’t need another reason to bemoan my long-suffering Toronto Maple Leafs; nor does anyone need a reason to dislike the Ottawa Senators. But thanks to the U.S. men’s Olympic hockey team, I am as awash in reasons to shun Auston Matthews (captain of the Leafs) and Brady Tkachuk (captain of the Senators) as their FBI pal Kash Patel was awash in beer with them on Sunday. 

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There’s no sophisticated way to say it: the U.S. men’s team behaved like jerks.

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