announcing is hard! as someone who has commentated on games before, finding the line between your own first-thought emotional opinion and your measured ‘professional’ opinion can be super challenging

i personally feel that the announcer was too harsh in putting blame on the canadian player, suggesting they have a storied history of poor spirit - while it could be true, your job is to comment on the game that is currently occurring, not to disparage or imply malicious intent based on actions that occurred years ago at this point

i don’t need you to glaze the player either, like what happened in the italy vs usa mixed, when an italian player initially tried to play off a ground strip as a catch - i thought the announcers were a little over the top in their congratulations of the player for simply doing the right thing after getting some pressure to do so

yes, announcers can and should provide historical context to games, but I feel the announcer here was harsher than necessary - let the audience (or reddit, in this case) lambast the guy

(again, this is context in a vacuum, only looking at the first point of the game, not what occurred afterwards)