U.S. anthem gets upstaged at Rangers-Sens game
It's a good thing Ryan Callahan was looking at the American flag, not at the scoreboard video screen, during the singing of the "Star Spangled Banner'' before Wednesday night's hockey game between the New York Rangers and Ottawa Senators.
The Team USA and Rangers winger had no idea that the scoreboard was playing a video of every Canadian gold-medal winner, plus Sidney Crosby's golden goal against the Americans, as the U.S. national anthem rang through the air.
The Canadian national anthem that followed was not accompanied by images from the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games.
"I didn't have any idea,'' said Callahan, who scored twice in the Rangers' 4-1 victory over the Senators, including one off a brilliant dash down the left side at 0:22 in the second period. "I don't look at the scoreboard during the anthem. I look at the flag."
Chris Drury, who also earned silver in Vancouver, sniffed when informed of the display, for which the Senators later apologized while protesting it had been done inadvertently, in error.
"The scoreboard?'' Drury asked rhetorically. "I'm not too worried about that."
The Rangers, who won their final two games before the Olympic break, have won three straight for the first time since winning four in a row from Dec. 17-23.
