51 is not a prime number

According to territories and hobbies, football is a metaphor of life, boxing is a metaphor of life, baseball is a metaphor of life, chess and even the Supreme. In Canada it is ice hockey, and the Prime Minister of Ontario, Doug Ford, represents the role of the bully, which is not the best player on the track or the one who best skates, but the person in charge of protecting the figures of his team, distributing blows, elbows and puffs if necessary. The one who shows the face and is enforced.

Ford (a conservative who fulfills his third mandate as an Ontario Premier) has won that reputation for his challenge to Trump, the withdrawal of the supermarkets and bars of American beer and whiskey (even the vodka Texano Tito), and the imposition of fees to the electricity on which the inhabitants of Minnesota, Michigan and New York depend. And that until recently was a fan of the president of the neighboring country and its policies to lower taxes, eliminate regulations and end (his words) with the nonsense of inclusion, diversity and protection of the environment.

The best ice hockey player in history is a descendant of Ukrainians and friend of Donald Trump

In the explosion of nationalism that the country is experiencing, Ford has changed the side, and the Canadians wonder why the great national idol Wayne Gretzky, the Messi of the ice hockey, legend of legends, has not also done so. One thing is that he has been seen with the magician cap (Make America Great Again) in the head, that he is a friend of Trump, who has been invited to Mar-a-lago Bro of the White House openly speaks of annexing Canada and turning it into the 51st state. “We are not going to be the 51 of anyone or anything,” he proclaims, instead Ford, more in tune with the feeling of his compatriots.

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The 51 is a compound number, divisible by three, by one and by itself, but not by two (United States and Canada). It is not the one that Gretzky wore in his twenty seasons in the NHL, he dressed the 99th descendant of Ukrainians (another paradox in view of how Trump is treating Zelenski), he was born and grew up in Brantford (Ontario), the town from which Alexander Graham Bell made the first long -distance phone call. From very young, life went on ice, trained by his father, and became the best of all time based on perseverance, intelligence and capacity to anticipate. He was behind the rival goal, which called his “office”, and had an instinct to dodge the blows and guess where he was going to go Puck.

Gretzky has not anticipated that his countrymen were going to accuse him little less than sedition. It is said that he cried when the Edmonton Oilers, with whom he won four Stanley Cups, transferred him to the Kings of Los Angeles (on the Messi line to the PSG), but it soon married an American (Janet, with whom he lives since 1988), get to life Yanqui, announce Nike and Coca-Cola, rub should Hollywood, buy houses in Florida, Wyoming, Misuri and California, and obtain dual nationality. The Canadians considered him a kind of international ambassador and were proud of him, even when he approached Trump. Despite his glory, he was humble in the interviews and always had time to dedicate him to fans. But their current silence cannot understand it.

In Edmonton, where he became famous, there is a street called Gretzky Drive, in honor of him. Now the neighbors have gathered more than twelve thousand signatures to change the name. He represented the Canadian values ​​and Canada considered him his. For many, today is a traitor.

Goals record in the NHL

Russian Alexánder Ovechkin, after the
Estela de ‘The Great One’

Wayne Gretzky (64 years), nicknamed The Great Onehas in its possession all the records of the NHL: more goals (894), more assists (1963), more points (2,857) and more Hat-tricks (50). He won four Stanley Cups with the Edmonton Oilers before his American journey (Kings of Los Angeles, Blues de San Luis and New York Rangers, in addition to co -coyotic coyans of Phoenix). Now, the Russian Alexánder Ovechkin, almost forty and star of the Washington Capital for two decades, is about to break the record of goals (the most important) and be the first in the history of the NHL that exceeds the 900 barrier.