CALGARY– During Blake Coleman’s media scrum after Calgary Flames practice on Thursday, fellow American Dustin Wolf strolled by and loudly chanted, “USA! USA! USA!”

Canada and the U.S. meet in the 4 Nations Face-Off final tonight, and the Flames will be watching as a group. They were trash-talking one another on Thursday morning, and the Texas-born Coleman wasn’t shy about his patriotism.

“The tournament in general is really good for the game of hockey. You got the president chiming in,” Coleman said. “You got a lot of different athletes around the world really talking about it…I'm excited to watch a good hockey game, and obviously I got some U.S. pride in me, so hopefully they can get a win.”

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