Tue Jun 7, 2022 – 8:48 pm EDT
TORONTO (LifeSiteNews) – A former National Hockey League (NHL) player turned popular podcaster eviscerated the travel chaos he experienced at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport, calling it a “hellhole” after being stranded there for hours due to a canceled flight.
In a video posted to Twitter that has since gone viral, exploding to nearly two million views in just a day, former Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Ryan Whitney pulled no punches in blasting Canada’s largest airport.
“I don’t even really know how to explain it,” began Whitney, saying that he had come from Edmonton the day before to Toronto, where he was supposed to take a connecting flight to Boston.
“Customs was about three hours. Got through – flight canceled from Toronto to Boston. At this point now, I go and I see there is a 400-person line with two Air Canada workers. There’s a million canceled flights,” Whitney added.
“Everyone’s just panicking so I wait in that line about six hours. Near the end of the line, they close them. They just said, ‘you have to go somewhere else.’ We had to re-enter Canada, we had to go to Canadian customs,
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