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Welcome to the Empty Netters podcast.
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Can you believe what this has become?
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There's a full 48 hours where I felt like I was like literally Superman.
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Jumbo loves playing Fortnite, so he gets on the sticks. Did TR show you the sauna cycle or was that all? No, I invented that. Almost a year now that I haven't
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taken a body check.
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That's kind of nice. So we are back. We are horned up and we are going deep.
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Finished tonight with some chicken fingers and a few Guinnesses. Ran into you guys and that's where this pod came to life.
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Red is the best.
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Red is being an incredible.
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That sucked for Canada and for Red and he's being an absolute champion. Without you. No comment.
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The amount of pictures Redmond had to take of us. Walk it out. Terrible.
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Absolutely.
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Take this picture. Red's like, cool. Do you have a razor blade? Thank you so much.
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I am 6ft from the edge.
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Oh, my God, boys. Holy. Okay, listen. We rip through.
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We're. We're ripping this live. Of course. We got some stuff to go do, some hangs to get to, so we're going to rip this one. We're going to. We got the episode coming out later. TJ Oshi joins. He just had a great chat with him, so he'll be on the episode. So when this is uploaded as the normal episode, you'll see ocean. The chat with us. It's amazing stuff. Beautiful.
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So much going on.
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CP take me down the road to start.
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8020 Canadian fans.
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Holy.
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USA women's gold medal game 50 or you want that one? 50.
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50.
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8020 Canadian fans. That was crazy. Home game. Somebody said they. You flew 3,000 miles for a home game. That was rattling to me coming into the game because I was like, dude, all the.
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All the chants I got drowned out by the Canada ones are crazy. Drowned out.
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That was funny. In one of the group stage games that we were doing that, like, someone would start like a Denmark chant and it would be immed. Be like, usa, you. And I was like, yeah, we got them in this game. It was like, usa, you, Canada.
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Canada.
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It's crazy. Like, holy.
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So many flags, so many Canadian fans.
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And they were the best. It was.
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It was just great sports, great vibes all around.
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Okay. Also, nothing would load at the rink, so we have so much content we're gonna dump as soon as we get done with the live. We took us a hour to walk home. We recorded with Oshi. So much shit's happening, so it was chaos in the streets.
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Hey, I'm Gonna ask is Boldy Glazer in the chat yet?
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Oh, dude, I don't know if not.
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Baldy Glazer.
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Get your ass in here if you aren't here.
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Dude, baby.
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So dude, to start the game they go. They didn't go Micmac to start the semi final game correct even as a line, let alone just start starting opening lineup McMack line and dude, we pumped them for the first two minutes of agree. I was, I was so nervous coming in and then that Eichel had a great A in like first two minutes. And I was like, holy, are we gonna throttle these guys? I legitimately thought for a second I did. I legitimately was like, no, I was nervous, I think.
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Yeah, I. I just thought it was good back and forth. Don't, don't forget. I mean Canada had four or five shots on that before USA even got one. Yeah, Baldi was the first shot on that. Yep.
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But. But that I got blocked. I guess them because it was right there. But that was insane. That's when I was really fired up. Then Canada settled in and got super physical. There was that one shift where Larks and Wilson collided and Larks held his own. But that was a.
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That was big hit by ball.
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Then quim got run by I think Bennett and then Matthew got. This is the same shift. Oh yeah, he gets his dome popped off.
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It was a heavy hit. Heavy hit. Chuck. I think that stung him a little bit, honestly.
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And then he battled through. You were making that comment because a couple looked not disoriented, but he just kind of looked a little slow. And I was like, he might be hearing things right now. So that actually had me shook at first because I was like, oh, dude. Because I thought at Four Nations, I thought what? We were like, we're gonna punch you guys in the mouth physically.
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Yeah.
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This isn't the game you want to play. And then in this game, can I come up and was like, watch this, dude. How would you like. Would you like to play fast? Would you like to play hard? It doesn't matter where the.
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Eat me. I know.
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So that got in that moment. I was scared. Then you get Matt B. Sheer brilliance.
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Just a moment of sheer brilliance. Last episode, I was stroking him off, wanted to stroke him off. He deserved it. And then he comes through. It's not every day that you see the best D pair in the NHL get split with a little juggle, dipsy doo dah. Knocks it, flips it up, knocks it down, splits the two of them. Forehand, backhand slides at home.
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How Is your mother.
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Holy fuck tits. That was insane.
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It was such a sick fucking celly style. Sick goal. A couple of my buddies texted me, like, that was the most. That was the most disgusting goal of
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the tournament so far. I know. I loved it. We. We got Faber jumping into his arms.
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Couple teammates.
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Couple mini teammates there together. That was awesome. And it was. Listen, that was a huge goal. Huge goal.
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I did think we needed to score first. I agree. I thought that was big first. So actually, that was big.
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I thought that was big. USA goes up one.
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Okay, go.
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I was just gonna say the rest of the first period was very back and forth. I think Cana had the edge a couple times, but USA pulled it back together. They evened up the shot totals. And it just felt like, okay, this is. These are two very even teams.
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Yep. There was a. Late in the first. There was a really scary Brady. Oh, actually, I wanted to say this. Math. Austin Matthews. And you called this out live on the boldy goal. Made an incredible play on the wall.
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Incredible, incredible play. I sure do.
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Because he's not even a wing dude. Like, he's over there. And that's. I always say to you, the hardest play for wing. Wing is not hard. Except for getting P off the wall cleanly. That was an incredible play by Matthews off the wall that got it to Baldi. And then, yes, he did his juggling act, which was incredible. But go back and watch that replay. He doesn't even get the puck. If Austin Matthews doesn't get make that play off the wall. That was unsung legendary.
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I apologize if you have this in the notes, but this is a good time to say Austin Matthews, that game played like Alexander Barov in the Stanley Cup Final this past year. He. Austin Matthews went. If we're gonna win this game, it's not going to be me getting flashy and scoring goals. It's going to be me playing selkie defense and shutting down their best guys. Blocking shots. Getting in the mixer.
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And he did someone. I still don't see Boldy Clayser.
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I'm sorry. If he's here.
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Someone says. I don't know if this is true, but someone says at the. At the first U.S. goal. NBC, pan to the crowd. And it was just Chris yapping at Dan, which I can't believe because we were in the.
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There's no way. My nose. I need someone.
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Dude, I'm pretty tall. I could get the ceiling. Folks. We were.
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CP and I were hanging from the rafters.
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That game. We. We.
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We pulled just so people know We're. We're. We're here on our own dime. We're just having fun. Those tickets were, like, two grand each. We're hanging from the ceiling, folks.
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Worth every penny, boys. Worth every penny.
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Holy.
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Okay, so that shout out Matthews, really scary. Brady Kachuk, turnover to Zuke. Remember, he just. There was a few of those in this.
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I'm sorry, do you mean that? Absolute beauty. Tape to tape pass. Right in the sleep.
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I was like, yo, bro. Clear.
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Like, it was clear that that was what he wanted to do. And he fumbled the puck, and then he got it and he was like,
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I'm still doing it.
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I was like, no.
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Oh, no, no. So that freaked me out. Then this I just loved. With 5 minutes left. I doubt anyone on TV even saw this because it kind of happened after the whistle. Five minutes left, there's a scrum in front and McAvoy gets, like, tangled and he swings his stick and drills Baldy in the face and bolt. And I was like, charlie, relax.
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Every game it's like he's got that. He's got that troll club.
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Jesus Christ, dude. He's on our team. Hit somebody else. I.
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The first period to a couple Canadian fans walking through the concourse, I was like, everyone's drunk out there. The ice must have been a little shitty. And I. I also said this. The puck was bouncing around like someone sitting on their granddad's knee. It was insane.
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It was sloppy out there.
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So many turnovers. I'm sure. Obviously the nerves are. Are going. Are firing, but the. The puck was just bouncing around like crazy.
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I also love that if Charlie. I think players on the US are, are volunteering as tribute because he's got a high stick. Someone. Yeah, yeah, just hit me.
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Baldi was like, we can't take.
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Then it's not hit. Then incredible play from Brock to draw the. The penalty. Remember he was taking it in and we were like, just go yourself.
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Go yourself.
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We almost fucking McCard through the whole team. Truly draws the penalty. And then I. That was the first time I got greedy as a fan where I was like, dude, Canada kind of flipped the momentum. I was just trying to get to the period break, and if we grabbed a second right there, I was going to be like, we're going to win.
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Can we also talk about quickly? Because I just pumped his tires and he deserves it. The Austin Matthews unwillingness to shoot the puck.
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This was my next.
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Tonight was crazy. And he had that Ben Simmons moment.
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Okay. Part of my take posted that it was so funny.
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Everyone did. Yeah, he got the puck right in the slot. And yeah, PMT was like, I'm sorry, but this is literally Ben Simmons.
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I don't remember it.
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Oh, I. That bad. Was sitting next to me and he goes, oh, my God. Like, what the Was that backdoor? You know what it is?
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And this is. Look at. That's how I play.
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This is, this is sharp action by me, clearly. And. Oh, this is going to sound like such bullshit because Osh just said it too. Binner is a, is a very aggressive goaltender when he.
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Yeah, yeah.
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And if you, if you watch any of these games, if you watch any Blues games, you can see it. Binner comes out, he gets big, he fronts shots. Clearly the US Team sees that and has been taking notes on that. Checking, checking and watching the game notes because they were going for the backdoor pass all, all day. They were just trying to get dinner to come out, get, you know, front the puck and then leave the back door open because they were looking for that extra pass all day. And on that one, Austin, I'm like, buddy, let it rip.
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So. And dude, you said it best. You said it live to us. It's not just that it's wide open, it's that you're Auston Matthews. Like, you got a pretty good shot on you. Else I'm like, well, you know, he tried to get it, tried to get it done.
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69.
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You are a 69 goal scorer in the National. Give me that curl and drag J shot, baby. Like, give me a little J shot for the boys. That was insane not getting one dagger. Matthew needs to shoot more. Then we go to the second period. We go to break. I feel like, okay, I feel weirdly fine.
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Yeah.
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And they come out with McKinnon centering Marner and Stone. And I was like, interesting to go away from them. And they kind of ended up just putting them back out there. But it was interesting to see them like, oh, let's mix it up now.
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Yeah, but boy, did it work.
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The second period. My note here is the US Just got massacred for the first six minutes of the second period.
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It was, it was truly a beat down. And it was like, I was like, dude, we are in trouble here. Like, it is insane how efficient that. And this is Coop, man.
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Ready?
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This guy is the best coach I've ever seen. To break up the Mic Mac line, which has been the best line in all in the entire tournament to spread those boys out. And then the way that it just kept the US Hemmed in, we felt, it felt like the Finland game. It felt like the checky game. I, I we put that on Twitter. I was like, this is, this is brutal because this is exactly how Finland lost.
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Y.
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You're just getting hemmed in for 30 seconds, then you get the puck and you think you're. You have any gas? It's like what Ran said. You think you have any gas to try to get on offense? No. That's why you just kept seeing them spooning the puck out. Like these little flips out to center ice just to get a line change. And it just felt all period. It was like, this is a joke, dude. You are slowly dying.
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Way later in my notes here and someone in the comments, I don't know if I can find it was like, I gotta see Chris's notes app. You do not wanna, you don't wanna live there, serial killer. You don't want to live in that notes app at all. But later in this, I had us looks like Finland just flipping it out. Every chance we get ran and you have no energy for off. That was my lowest. The end of the second period, even before the goal was my lowest moment where I was like, yeah, this is a joke. Taking a quick break. He talked to you about our sponsors from BetMGM. I hope you all enjoyed that epic Olympic hockey showdown. USA gold all the way, baby. And I hope you were hitting that odds boost. But now NHL is coming back and it's in full swing and BetMGM's Hat Trick Jackpot. You have a chance to win your share of 10 GS and bonus bets. You log into your BETMGM account and place an anytime goal scorer wager. If your player scores, you cash your bet. Your player scores three or more goals during that game, you win your bet and you win a share of 10 GS in bonus bets. If you haven't joined the BETMGM family yet, now is the time. Use bonus code netters. That's N E T T E R S. And you'll Enjoy up to $1,500 in a new player offer on your first wager. BetMGN. Make it legendary and go USA. Okay, so we were getting killed and so sloppy. I don't know if the ice was bad or nervy, but it was like chances to get the puck out or start a rush. And it would just be like they'd look up and a puck. It happened both ways, but pucks were just like bouncing over sticks and it would turn around and now it's a nightmare the other way.
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It was really ugly. Both teams too.
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Look Drunk. They looked drunk during that chaos. Taze had a Brady Chuck level turnover on Brock's tape.
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Yeah, he sure did.
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Slot. And Binner made that nice toe save. Brock, like, delayed shot back across his body. Just wanted to shout out Benner there because those are the moments where I'm like, that's a massive save.
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Six saver. It's also. I think it's one of the sexiest saves in hockey because he did the, like, his leg swung out in the butterfly and it, like, booted the puck out.
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Yeah, yeah.
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It looks like a pinball.
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Yeah, it does.
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Yeah.
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Hey, that's exactly what it looks like.
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Nice. Then in this onslaught, McDavid breakaway. McDavid, of all people. McDavid sprung on a breakaway. Whole crowds on their feet, Everybody going nuts.
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Someone.
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He tried to hold it almost too long.
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Yeah, he might have. But I also want to give a shout out. I believe it was Faber. Someone in the chat checked me on that. If it wasn't, that was a phenomenal back check. Just.
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Just to even put pressure on the
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fastest man to make him feel it. Yep. And what Just Connor Hellebuck, man. The way he just stood tall. Unbelievable.
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Oh, my God.
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So nothing too. He got too close and he didn't barely got anything off. He really barely got a shot off. You're absolutely right.
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That's completely correct, Red, because I was waiting for him to almost, like, reach back around something and just got, like, ran out of real estate. But that's a huge moment. Then right after that, and we are not chirping anybody tonight because everyone played the games of their lives but Jake Gensel with the craziest just fall down I've ever seen and then get back up and then hold a guy. I was like, dude, it was a true melt. Why?
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Why? That was a truth.
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That a true.
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That was a true your pants moment. I was like, jake, no. When he fell, I was like, oh, Jesus, Jake. And then he held the. And I was like, jake, Jake, stop.
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I remember thinking, we can't take any penalties tonight. We just can't. And I was like, how do you even take a penalty? Because just don't do it. And then that happened. And I was like, that's how all panic sets in.
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You're drowning.
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So I'm thinking to myself, just make sure we get this kill penalty. Kill has been amazing. Boom. Macavoy immediate hold on Kale, which I thought was a hold. I know you thought was soft, but I was with Red because. Because Charlie stick up between Kale's eyes. It's a.
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It's. Oh, it.
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Yeah. In the replay, if you watch, he doesn't trip him, but his stick is literally like this.
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And you read. You said it was a hold and they called it. I thought it was a hook. I thought it was. I thought his arm was around him.
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Yeah.
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Like he was taking him to prom.
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Because it was. Because it was. Stick was between his legs. It was getting stuck. It was just a mess. It was a mess. And like, I just. I can't believe you call it.
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I always hate those one armed calls because I. I'm always like, there's just like. It's not that much of a. But it was a penalty.
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Honestly, he. I think if he had. His stick was stuck, which is why his arm was still there. Honestly, I think if Charlie had gone like this, he could have moved and they would have been like, you're good. But that would have been the 1 billionth stick that was dropped tonight. I have never seen more sticks on the ice. Shout out, Sully. I don't know if he's in here. I've never seen more sticks on the ice in a game in my life. Yeah. So stressful. But now we go five on three for damn near two minutes against Canada.
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Yeah.
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And we said out loud, in the moment, you pray they only score one time here. Pray.
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It was so. It was such an early five on three and I was just like, you're kidding me. And it did feel like they were going to get two goals. And then, boom, you take care of business and you kill that penalty.
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And it.
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What this is. This was the craziest thing I. You kill a five on three against this Canada team. I thought that the momentum after that was going to be so visceral. It was going to be shooting out of your. And I thought they were going to score immediately. And then literally all that happened was Canada kept throat them for the next 10 minutes. And I was like, dude, holy, man. Like, this is. You are getting ragdolled by this team.
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Legit, bro. I thought too. You thought we were jacking off last night. I thought the jack off session, the bukkake that was about to be coming from the usa. And then instead, the gang bang continued in the other direction. There was literally zero. We were just watching the big short zero, zero momentum swing from that kill less than.
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I was like, oh, zero.
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Here we go. Come on, boys. And it was like, no. It felt like Canada was still on the power play.
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Correct.
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Like, literally we killed it off and just like, anyway, we will continue to pass it around you. It was Ram it down your throat. That was a nightmare. And then I would say very. If you're a US fan, a very stressful 10 to 3 minutes left in the second where it just was inevitable a goal was about to come.
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Yeah.
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Every loose shot that was like Heli couldn't see. And, dude, we're gonna get to Heli, obviously, but he's picking. Picking pucks out of the trees. And then. But you just knew one of them was gonna go, one of them was gonna sneak through. And then Kale Maar walks down. Not quite main.
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No, no. But just a good swing up to the point. Good step in. And just such a sick shot. I. I love a low shot. Obviously, everyone's disgusting. Everyone loves bar down. But that shot, that's just high enough to get over the pad and just low enough to sneak under the block. Yeah, it's just a beautiful shot. You know exactly what you're doing with that.
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Exactly like that.
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That is. That is a all star shot. And it was also nice because I've been waiting for Kale to show up. Yeah, I really have been waiting in this tournament.
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He drew that penalty, too. Yeah.
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I've been waiting for Kale to have his like. Like, you are Kale moment. And that was it. I said it on the video that you'll see. I was like, there's Kale, you know, there he is, shows up.
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And I really, like I said this to you, I think, or somebody after. I really like these. These tournaments, Stanley cup finals, things like that are such legacy things for these players where people fairly or unfairly judge you big time. Austin Matthews, Jack Hughes took a lot of heat for Four nations. I love. I love. I love an unsung hero story, but that I actually like more when guys like Kale and Mac and Nate and Connor and Sid, even before I got hurt back on these tournaments and go. I played great.
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Yep.
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I hate when mega stars go, oh, I really. I fumbled the bag at the tournament. I'm like, no, dude, Kale was money. That goal goes in. It's probably 2 minutes ish left. That was bad. We were like, we're. We're like, we're absolutely can. Hell. He's playing so well, but it just felt like this is. Here comes the onslaught.
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I thought I. I thought there was a high chance that Canada was going to take the lead in second period, but, yeah, it was.
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Whatever it was. That last two minutes was a total US Flurry. Whether the goal. Snap them out of this. Like, flip it out. Flip it out. Matthew Kachuk had a huge chance and God, I, he played so great, but I feel, I just thought he should have had one tonight. There were so many right there. I know, but Matthew, huge chance. And then Faber. I thought it rang both posts, but it actually hit someone's head. Stick, then post.
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Felt like a double doink, but it was a double doink, but just not a double post.
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Yeah, it was, it was a dud doink.
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Yeah,
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Clunk doink.
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That one actually, dud doink is way better.
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Thank you. That one to me, and I'm being over overreactionary right now, but that one to me made me sick to my stomach because it just felt like if that had gone, we, we were going to win because I was going to be like, see, it's fine. Like, we got the lead back and like, that was a freebie, but we got it. And when that didn't go, I was like, oh, no, we will never score again.
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I actually think if that had gone, I actually think this game might have, like, I don't want to say blown open, but it might have been like, all of a sudden we had some more goals in the third.
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Yeah.
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The fact that it stayed 1:1, I was like, this is electric.
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Yes. Oh, my God. Okay. So brutal ending second period. We're intermission. We're miserable, tweaking. We sprinted outside the rink to pee.
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Yeah.
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Because we were like, we gotta pee. The lines are insane. There's like porta Potties outside. We sprint outside. People are USA fans outside were actually pretty confident, which I thought was delusional, but I was like, yeah, okay, here we go.
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But it was, it was, it was drunk confidence, though. That's what we needed.
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That's.
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And I'm over here, the little coward that I am, being like, we're dead. Like, we're there. They're all over us. They're too much. They're bigger, they're faster. They have more facial hair. That's genuinely how I felt. But that's what it takes. Your super, your superstitions are what it takes. And my superstitions helped us win.
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B
So we come back into the third and you go first five. Because we can't play. We can't play scared. You cannot play scared. You gotta try to go score.
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I, I, I, I'm telling you, I was talking to people. Shout out Aaron Ambrose, our homie. I was talking to her and I was like, USA feels dead. This is like, this is, this has been an onslaught. And I was like, the first five minutes are going to tell us everything. And it wasn't as bad. Yeah, but it was still. The. The shots were just terrifying. And I was like, got to get same story.
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B
It's the check game. It's the Finland game. Like, they are murdering.
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A
We've got to get something. And I want to jump ahead in your notes, but it really. It felt like there was nothing going in that period until the penalties disagree.
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B
Because you mean in the third period. Yeah, yeah, because you're gonna remember this. Connor Helbuk with the save.
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A
Oh, hey, guys. Everyone forget what I just said. Rewind.
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B
There's actually a couple things that you forgot about, so I'm gonna. I'll take you through them. But Connor Helbuk with these same.
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A
That paddle saves on devontaves. I think a lot of people immediately were like, devontaves, you clown. You whiffed it.
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B
You.
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A
You biffed it. Whatever. Chris, get me one of those. And you see the replay and you've. Yeah, that's pretty cheeky. That's a classic. It's a Uber pack is what they call it. A lot of people were calling out Devon Taves. And then you've seen the photo. Now that puck gets behind Heli. It's sitting right there in the crease. Devon Taves comes in to just try to pool cue it in. And Heli throws down that paddle. And you'll. You'll hear it when you listen to this episode back with osh. That was the Braden Holtby save in the Caps cup cup year. Like that is. That is one of the all time saves you will ever see in your entire life. And it absolutely saved the US as he did multiple times. Multiple times. That was just truly.
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B
Put that save on a postage stamp. Put it on a Wheaties box, put it on a Wheaties box. Tattoo it to my forehead. That was absolutely incredible. And actually, there's.
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A
I'm gonna interrupt you. There are a couple of heartbreaking Canada US Photos that have come from both the men's and women's game.
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B
Great. Great point, Dan. Great point, Dan. And I will say this too, Taze. I feel bad for Taze because it's like he was kind of there on the Bold eagle and he's gonna have that memory. And I just don't think it was his fault. Like in that play. It's hard to describe, but what happened is the puck squirts right to him and he just shoots it in the open net. And he reacts immediately. He doesn't hesitate. It's just a crazy play. It's just A crazy play that happened to hit Hellabuck's paddle and like, all hell breaks loose. People remember it forever, but not much more he can do there. No, but it was insane. And not that he needed any confidence, but, man, hella buck after that must
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A
have been like, oh, dude, I. I don't even know.
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B
I will never be scored.
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A
I think he was genuinely so. He was Patrick Bateman brain.
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B
Yeah.
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A
And if anyone can say that, it's me. I don't even think he was, like, jacked up. He was. He was kind of, like, hyping the crowd up when he got his gold medal. But I think during the game, he was just.
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B
He was serial killer focused. Yeah. Yeah. Totally unbelievable. Totally.
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A
All the pucks that were bouncing around, though, like, in the crease all game. How many? Dude, he went full seven, eight. Like, hella Buck. Might just be like, this is going great. Pretty great for me. I'm having a good time.
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B
Not a care in the world.
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A
He went full Jimmy Craig in that. That game. It was insane.
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B
He was all. The first period, he was do.
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A
He. He had the. It felt like he had the X ray vision shots were coming through like this, seeing everything. And then he had that one in the second. Remember that? It was after the Kale goal. Full split glove save when he was, like, falling.
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B
Oh, yeah, that was sick.
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A
Like, oh, my God. Y.
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B
Someone in the chat called.
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A
McDavid. McSilver.
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B
And listen.
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A
Yeah, we will. We will have none of that. All right? I want to get ahead of this right now. Before you jump to the next bullet point. We're going to get ahead of this right now. USA fans. Peacock all you want. Dance all you want. Enjoy this moment. Celebrate this moment. This is what hockey's all about. This is what sports are all about. This is what patriotism is all about. It's amazing. America is the. It's an amazing country. We're pumped to be American. We're pumped to have a gold medal. We're pumped for these boys representing USA and winning a gold medal. But we love Canada and we love these boys.
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B
Yes.
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A
And they played a great game. It was an incredible hockey game. And. And again, celebrate all you want, but do it in good fun, because those neighbors to the north are exactly that. There are neighbors, there are brothers and our sisters, and we love them. And they played an amaz game. They fought an amazing battle. And I will not sit here and hear a single morsel of Talk about Connor McDavid. Can't show up in the big game. We've seen a couple Tweets a couple things people have said. It's like, oh, you know, Stanley cup game seven and then this past year, game six, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I'm done. I'm tired of it. I don't care about it. He's the greatest player on earth. He constantly shows up in a loss.
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B
Olympics MVP in a loss.
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A
Like, like game winning, overtime goal in four nations. He constantly knows how to show up. And he's the best player alive. We will not even, we will not even hear a whisper of any of the clickbait of. Can Connor McDavid not get the job done. You also forget how he's playing. We're done, dude.
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B
Also, also, Laura, as in our hat, Laura just said this, which I forgot about. We can never play in the Olympics without a member of Brock Nelson's family ever again. I forgot that Brock Laura has now completed the literal like, like 60, 80, 26. Only Nelson legitimately correct.
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I, I also. This is going to be one of two Alice shout outs today because we're going to get to one later. But Alice, in the beginning of the game was like, I don't know if I love the jersey situation, but I was like, we wore white.
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B
Yep.
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A
Against the Soviets and the Soviets wore red. So I loved that. Canada was in red and we were in white today.
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B
Okay. Same. All right. Second thing before the penalties, Macklin, breakaway. Mac got sprung. I thought he shot it a bit early than he needed to. Maybe he wanted that shot because like he, I think he was. I don't know who was chasing him, but I thought he had a step, but I think he felt the footsteps.
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A
Not in a bad way.
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B
Yeah.
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A
He was like, I gotta get a shot.
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B
God, this is such an in the weeds thing. But it's like if you are, I, I welcome everyone to go watch Zuccarello's penalty shots. If you see a goalie without with his plant foot not like dug in, you can kind of beat him under the pad right here because they can't just get down in time.
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A
Yeah.
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B
And Max shot like, he's just shot it right there. And Helly just like slammed the door. And then he almost got the rebound. But that's. You've now survived the McDavid and Celebrini, the two leading point scorer. Break. Insane nuts. And then I'm gonna have to watch the replay because I don't even know how this turnover happened because it was like a loose puck. Quinn Hughes kicked it to himself and then somehow didn't have it. Excuse me. Didn't have it. And then he. It goes back door to Nathan McKinnon with a literal gaping net.
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A
This is the other one that.
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B
Gaping, gaping that.
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A
This is the other one that kills me because I know Nate is going to be seeing that shot in his nightmares for the next four years, and I hate that because Nate has played in incredibly well. Obviously, he had the power play goal against Finland to seal the win there.
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B
Yep.
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A
Nate has no. No one to answer to, but he. That one will haunt him. And. But I said, yeah, it was a weird.
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B
I thought this was good.
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A
It was a weird play there. It was like the US Seemed like they had it for a second. It was like a turnover. But then it went back to Canada, and then the pass got thrown across. I think Nate was straight up getting ready to back check. Like he wasn't ready for it.
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B
Yes.
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A
It came to him, and it almost surprised him. And he's just like, get the shot off. And it hit the post. Like, it was, like, outside of the post and. And. And out. Like it was.
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B
I thought it missed by a lot.
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A
No, no play.
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B
There's a screenshot. It's actually devastating, but there's a screenshot me. But man. And. And I said to you guys, I'm legitimately worried about Nate because he takes this in the good way so seriously. I'm sure. Yeah, so. Yeah, good point. So I'm sure he's.
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A
Because he has a gold medal winner, Brock Nelson, on his team. Yes.
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B
Dude, that's actually gonna be so funny. Brock showed up to Kale and Nate
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A
like, yo, I hope he wears the golden.
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B
Okay, then. Remember this play? There was that weird Matthews near Too Many Men where it's like he flipped it near the boards and everyone lost their. But then the US Bench got so confused that we had three guys on the. And then that was the one where Marshy. It was like Marshy and Tom Wilson were, like, doorstep. And somehow, like, Hellbuck saved the Wilson first one and the second one. Like, I think a defenseman maybe blocked it, but that was another one like, you were talking about red, where it was just chaos in the crease. This has to go in and just somehow didn't. Absolutely nuts. Then Sam Bennett, high stick, 634 left.
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A
Okay, so let's get into the penalties. Number one doesn't like high staking penalties. I hate high sticking penalties. I think they're. I think they're sold too much. But red is right at the end of the. A high stick is a high stick. And that is correct. Sometimes I think they're just like sticks that get up high that I'm like, that wasn't really a high stick, but it's a high stick. That was an obvious penalty. Look at Jack Hughes's face. Us gets four minutes and then 6:34 left.
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B
Yep. In a.
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A
And I swear to God this is not retroactive because US still won in that moment. I did not celebrate because it goes against all of my beliefs and everything that I've said. I don't like when these games get determined by special team.
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B
We said it. We said it all the same time. And by the way, I would have said it if it was a complete stranger.
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A
Exactly.
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B
But I love Sam Bennett.
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A
Yeah.
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B
And I was like, I don't want to live in a world where he has to. The same thing I said about Mikaela. And it's. Yeah, yeah.
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A
It's not even the fact that it's anyone in the box. And I feel bad for them. It's just I. I want you to win five on five. I want you to win and be by being the best even hockey team. So US gets a double or Canada gets a double. Minor US with a four minute power play and then proceeded to in their diaper like nothing I've ever seen.
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B
Dude. It was.
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A
There was one flurry where they had a. Matthew.
- [29:34]
B
It was Mat Matthew Kachuk, not Matthews. Again. Where I swear, if he could have just found it. It was an open neck.
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A
They had one little flurry but other than that it was like pretty sloppy. They couldn't really get in the zone. And then Jack Hughes, the man who just got his jibs knocked out, crack someone in the face and he takes a high sticking pound.
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B
Dude. Well, we were laughing first. Where we go. We were all sitting there when the penalty. Because Jack was down for a while.
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A
Yeah.
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B
And we go. I'm not saying he did this, but I would be biting my lip if I was laying there. And then he gets up and he's just mangled. Yeah. Oh, okay. Never mind.
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A
Red. Red Ghost. Don't think you can fake that punching himself.
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B
Everyone's got the. Everyone's got pliers in their pants.
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A
There is nothing gnarlier. And it's. It's happened to me, so I know the feeling. There's nothing gnarlier than when you get a stick or a puck and then the teeth break.
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B
Oh.
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A
Like when they get knocked out clean. Fine. But like his. One of his front gyms is like snapped.
- [30:20]
B
Dude. And I, I. It got, I chipped my.
- [30:24]
A
Those mini Coronas in the locker room were stinging I was gonna say the nerves.
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B
It explodes these nerves in your teeth and it's like a nightmare in hell. So anyway, yes, everything you said is correct. Brutal. L. Brutal power play with the gold medal on the line. And I'm glad we didn't score. I didn't want to win that way. But get your together. Think about the power play Canada had against Finland. Even if they didn't score him that when they were snapping it for two minutes.
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A
So then Canada has about minute 20 of their power play gets killed off. And that's a great point to talk about.
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B
Yes.
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A
That the US team went 18 for 18 on the PK and I almost. Yeah, no, do you know it's 18.
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B
I don't know if it was 18 right now.
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A
18 on the PK in this tournament. And I want to say this on Twitter. We said before the game, hope the refs swallow the whistles tonight. No, no, no power plays. Let's just play a clean game. Yep. Most people were like, yeah, agree. And some people were like, no, if it's a penalty, call a penalty, blah, blah, blah. And one Canadian fan said, I would feel that way too if the other team had a 43 power play. And I wanted to go, have you seen USS penalty?
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B
What if one team has a 100?
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A
But I just felt like that was playing with fire to say that. Yep. And I'm so glad I didn't because the US Then killed every penalty, but so did Canada. Yep. And I am just so happy that we can all look back at this game and see that neither team capitalized on those power plays. And this game was one straight up.
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B
I was so happy because they were completely unintentional, high stakes as they always are. And it was. I didn't want. Yeah, not always, but most of the time. And I didn't want either of those guys in the box. I didn't want overtime at all. But I said to you both, good, clean slate. Let's just decide this. Fair. Fair, sure. On three, you know, whatever. But fair is fair. That was a massive kill. And go back and watch the. I must have been the. After the semis pod when I was like, all right, we're doing finals prediction. The last thing I said was keys to the game will be the US Perfect PK against the Canadian power plan. I even looked at you, right, and said, if the US doesn't give a power play goal, I think there's a chance we could win. If we give up power play goals, we will lose. Yeah. You know, easy to say now. That I was right. But I was right.
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A
Yeah, you were.
- [32:38]
B
Okay. So we finished regulation at this point. Conor Hellbach has already generated Jimmy Craig. He's already. Jimmy Craig.
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A
He had already made 40 saves in that.
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B
Yep. Two observations going into OT because I couldn't even type. I have, I have no notes over time. Two observations. One, I find it weird that Canada against Czechs, Finland and U. S. Dominated from large portions of those games. And all three of them were absolute barn burners. It's just kind of weird. Maybe it's just because every team is good at this level.
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A
I, I. There's part of me because I want to give a shout out to Dostal.
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B
Yep.
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A
Yep. Part of me is like, did they run into three nuclear goaltenders? Because Soros was great in that Finland game. Yep. And obviously Hellebuck was the player of the game tonight. But I agree, it was weird.
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B
How are you not winning?
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A
You're killing. And. And while they had 40 plus shots watching the game, other than like the crazy missed nets, I didn't feel like that many of the shots were like, Jesus Christ. He's standing on it. Obviously he stood on his head.
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B
Connor, breakaway. And Mac breakaway. And Nate open.
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A
Yeah. What the am I talking about? There was like at least 10.
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B
I'm like.
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A
And like, that's enough. Like, that's 10 goals. So.
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B
Yeah.
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A
Yeah, man. I mean, he was just. That would. That was the best goaltending performance I have ever seen in my entire life.
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B
I think certainly without question lies life. I think some of those jigare that
- [34:08]
A
that was the best goal. I am telling you, that is the best goaltending performance you have ever witnessed in your entire life either. Even on tv.
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B
I gotta go back to the tape. I gotta go back to the tape. But that was incredible, dude. That was incredible. Okay, we'll get to him. And then the other one. You said this, but I agree with you. Take notes. Why are we flipping the ice in overtime in the NHL?
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A
Yeah. It's so dumb.
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B
Like, just play. I don't need the long change in overtime. Thank you, ioc. There's some things you do that I think are weird. This is one that I'm like, correct. Just go, dude. Like, it's so moronic. So we go again. I have no notes. Absolute edge of ours. I think it was only a minute 40. I looked at you.
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A
Yeah.
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B
I said, enjoy the last six minutes maximum of Olympic because this will be over very soon. Soon.
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A
Canada didn't really have any chances.
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B
David had a steam twice. Yep.
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A
But broken up quickly. So like wasn't a chance but good call him skating.
- [35:07]
B
Yeah, is scary. I actually never seen anything more scary. It is going gallop, gallop, gallop. But he had one good shot. No T. Just like a curl and drag high slot. Made a good say or maybe missed the net. He missed the net. We wired it.
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A
So we get the one play. And here's my second Alice shout out before overtime. She sends a text and goes, Jack Hughes is going to score the game.
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B
Game win, goal. You know what's crazy? Two ots for the US Quinn Hughes, Jack Hughes and the before the Queen Hughes one. I said I have the text from Sandra that goes, Quinn Hughes is going to score an ot. And then in this one it was your girlfriend who said the other.
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A
That's electric. Well done, ladies.
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B
Gas that play.
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A
I think people need to rewind and watch. Yep. Jack Hughes continues to just make me look like a fucking big brain.
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B
Oh man.
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A
Because boy, oh boy. Did. Did my. Did my man show up in this tournament and today no one other than Hellebuck was really shining that bright. Everyone was playing great tight Dylan Larkin, though.
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B
Dylan, Jesus Christ. He was savage.
- [36:08]
A
But Jack Hughes was going for it. He was taking chances tonight. He was getting in the dirty areas, the mucky areas. Tonight on that goal, Jack Hughes makes a very risky poke check against Kale McCarr.
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B
Because I was screaming, if that doesn't get out, we lose.
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A
If you look at the freeze frame of that.
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B
God damn it.
- [36:28]
A
If Jack Hughes does not get that puck poked out to Zach Warrenski, that is a two on zero going the other way for Canada. Yeah, so he does that. It gets to Orinski and then Warrenski, like a beast with, with Johnny Goudreau's spirit on his shoulders, gets that puck, pulls up on the brakes and then finds Jack the last man trailer and puts it on a stick and the. Dude. There was a moment where everyone in that arena went like this. Yep, yep. There was a. There was a true millisecond of silence in that arena. And I know that because when it went in, there was no reaction for a quick second because it went in weird.
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B
It.
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A
Yeah, kind of five hole.
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B
It was fine.
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A
Yeah, it was like five hole under his leg. Felt like a change up shot almost. But he waited for Benner to make a move and then he slid it and I. Dude, we're up in the stands and I just went, Jack.
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B
Yeah.
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A
And then I was silent. I couldn't speak well, dude.
- [37:25]
B
So I had such the same reaction because when he swung at it and someone Says here I'm playing my car. He was trying to win the game too. Correct. Because if he keeps. Oh, no.
- [37:32]
A
Oh my gosh. Please no one think that I'm saying anything about my car there. That was.
- [37:36]
B
Yeah. I was actually mad at Jack back for the. The swordsman. Yeah. It's because I was like, bro, just go body on body there. Because then the worst case scenario, we're fine. Yeah. So he goes like this. And I was like, no. And then it got by him and I was like, oh, go, go, go. But then it looked like Barentsky wasn't quite gonna get there. And I was like, no, dude.
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A
He was like reaching. That's.
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B
What are you doing? Get the buck. And then he did get it. Curled it. But it looked like there were no lanes left to be. Zacharynski. There's always a lane if you're Zachary. True hits Jackson. But Jack almost smartly also wasn't net driving because then we would have been too exposed. So I was like, oh, Jack's too far. But then he was like kind of cruising in. I was like, wait, score.
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A
Yeah.
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B
And then from our view, it just. I couldn't. I was kind of looking high glove because I was like, just look for the net, look for the net. But then it went fiver and I was like, I looked. I didn't even celebrate properly because I was like, did that go the happened and he kind of doesn't see it. Like he shoots and he's doing the like look over your shoulder thing. Like, does that go in, dude? I wonder.
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A
So awesome.
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B
I really want to watch that replay. I know this is like the golden goal all time moment. I remember this his whole life. I need to know if he was shooting there or if. Or if it came off weird. The replay looks.
- [38:41]
A
The replay kind of like it looks weird because I think he's. I think he was waiting for Benner.
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B
Yeah.
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A
Like, I don't think he put all of himself behind it because he was like, make a move, Benner. Like, he's got it on a stick for a minute.
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B
Yes, he does.
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A
Like, he. He was like, you make a move. He waited for Benner to front. Like, you know, show his. Show his angle. And then he. I think he just like Nick went
- [38:59]
B
to school on Binner getting so big. Honestly, dude, like, that's the way to.
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A
Man, man, we. We've got a little over five minutes left here, but a few things I want to say. Jack Hughes scoring that goal. When I see Jack, I can't wait to ask him if he Meant to
- [39:11]
B
throw his helmet in the stands, dude.
- [39:12]
A
That was because he pulled it off and he windmilled his helmet. And I was like, this is gonna be so sick when he tosses the
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B
bucket in the stands.
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A
And then it just went straight backwards.
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B
Yeah.
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A
And I was like, I think it got caught on the finger.
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B
I literally. I saw him going like this and I was like, what a souvenir this is about to be. And he goes. But still all time selling.
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A
The last minute, he was like, I want.
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B
I want this.
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A
Yeah, yeah.
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B
Still alltime Selly epic moment.
- [39:33]
A
Watching him and Quinner get their moment together. Like both with. With American flags on their shoulders hugging. Yep. Brady and Matthew doing the same thing. I look a lot of these boys, like Rensky and Larks grabbing Johnny's kids.
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B
Okay. That was going next.
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A
There was just like watching the boys skate around with Johnny's jersey was so special. What? Yeah, chills. Chills. The. The words that they were saying after about, you know, his spirit being in there in the locker with them, getting them that win. I think Lark said something like, Johnny, Johnny spirit was keeping all of the pucks out of the net around heli. Which is funny because it's. That's in the defensive zone and he would never be back there.
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B
Yes, correct.
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A
But it's just like the love that the Goudreau family has. Has showed all these boys and the. The U. S. Hockey program and. And vice versa is just so amazing to see. That was just so fun, dude.
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B
Absolutely. Emotions pouring out of me. Moment. I didn't know I was gonna.
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A
Crying.
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B
Yeah. Just seeing the Goodreau stuff. Seeing just the boys draping American flags on their back and cruising around. Seeing on a personal level, like seeing Brady and Matthew, Jack and Quinn going up to their parents and, you know, like touching glass, waving at him. Charlie McAvoy, I have an incredible video of him with his family. I have an incredible video of Sway with Ken Bone and Ally and like, Sway's like touching the. You know, touching the baby. Like, it's just. It means so the baby. The soon to be baby. Oh. I was like, you know, doing the. Doing the, like. Yeah. Doing the basketball pop just in. This means so much and, you know, you won't.
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A
Dude, it's everything. Yeah. Well, so when you guys want. If you watch the episode back as we post this live again, we have. Osh joins us and is in there. There. And we talked about this before the game. We. The three of us here, me, CP And Red were talking about how if you go down Canada's roster. More than half those guys have won a Stanley cup.
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B
Yep.
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A
Yep. Three guys on the U.S. matthew Kachuk, Jake Gensel and Jack Eichel have won Stanley Cups. This is a Stanley Cup. Winning a gold medal. The NHL players in the tournament against Canada, against this Canada team, that is a Stanley Cup. They'll tell you it's. It's better.
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B
It's bigger.
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A
Yeah, 100%. And this is a monumental moment for these players, for these guys. The. The that this is. Again, I'm kind of repeating myself here, but the that this is for a guy like Connor Helbuck who listens to all this flack, a guy like Auston Matthews, a guy like Jack Hughes, who heard all the criticism. This is a massive moment of these guys now coming into the biggest game of their life on the biggest stage against the best competition, and winning this is going to translate into the NHL Go correct in a big way.
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B
Yes. It's such a good moment too, to. And even like the. I think four nations of this too. But just this season, let alone your whole career. But just like this season coming back being like, yo, I'm ready to go correct, man.
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A
Yep. This is like this. It's. It's so awesome what this moment and. And knowing what this was and what it took does for players. And that will go into their teams. It will go into the way they prepare and the way they approach big games like this, knowing that they've done it. The leafs might win 10 straight family cups. I'm telling you, this is a big deal.
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B
I was really happy for Austin Matthews. Me too. He did a couple flag. He was happy. Crazy. Going crazy for him in the crowd and that pumped me up.
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A
He and Jack Hughes. Jack Hughes is amazing interview. If you haven't seen it, go check our Twitter page or TJ Oshi's page. We both posted this. The interview with Jack Hughes where he's just so selfless. He's talking about everyone else.
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B
Yeah.
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A
But the big thing was Jack. Jack and Austin are very similar in that they're. They're. They're very cheeky in their interviews. They're. They're funny. They don't show too much emotion. They. They were both just so happy. Childlike. Yes to this. And if that's not what it's all
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B
about, I don't know what. Yeah, agree, bro. I. I can't wait to talk to them and just hear about the experience in locker room and everything. Because it's like this is. This hasn't happened in. In 46. This is not like we feel that we're the getting close to level. Because I do want to give. We had talked about, I want to give Canada some flowers. Where I'm like, oh, there was a stretch in that game where I was like, we are not level. They are murdering us.
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A
They're amazing.
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B
But there's. This doesn't happen often. Even though we think we're just as good now, this is a very unique thing.
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A
100.
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B
You just want a gold.
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A
I'll say it again. We were one more Olympics away from being a half century from winning a gold medal in the men's. This is awesome. Now, we've got about two minutes left. I want you to say whatever you got next, but I do just. I want to just give another quick tire pump to the Canadian boys. I mean, they're. They're one of the best teams I've ever seen in my entire life. They played so well. They made it as hard as humanly possible for this USA team. And any Canada fan, if you're licking your wounds right now, you got nothing to feel but pride for that, for that group and the way they played. That was.
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B
I feel for Sid, Nate, or excuse me, I feel for Connor, Nate, Max, because I'm like, you guys are superstars. I really feel for Sid, Drew and Marshy. I thought all of them played incredible. I'm so gutted. Yeah, true.
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A
This is probably going to be better's life.
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B
I'm so gutted for Sid. Seeing him out on the. I. I spent most of my time in the. In the celebration filming Sid coming out there because I was just like, God. And honestly, like, weird legacy game for him where he's like, I. I bet it goes differently if he's on the ice. Yeah, I bet it goes.
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A
Hard to say. It doesn't.
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B
So just as such a killer for him, I crossing every finger in toe that he still in the league and comes back for one more Olympics. Absolute legend. Kind of crazy. Finland didn't hum like we were at the women's gold. They bounced. Yeah. I was like, where is Finland? They put the carpet out for them, like, and here's the third place.
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A
They're like not playing in two days. I bet a ton of them are just gone.
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B
I was like, that was crazy. But yeah, a very emotional metal moment for everybody. You could see on Max face, like, just devastated.
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A
It was actually a little rattling. Not many of them were crying. They just looked so pissed off. Oh, yeah. So dejected. And that's just heartbreaking. I think it was disbelief.
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B
Dude. Yes.
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A
I genuinely think that they're going, are you kidding me? We lost.
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B
Perfect word, Red. Perfect word.
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A
Because they know how good they are, dude. They know they're the best team in this tournament. We were walking back and I said. We were walking back and I said out loud, if I were on that Canada team, I would be going, are you. You kidding me? They right now are going, that was one in a 100 that they. That they won that game.
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B
Yes. And actually felt like that there was a long stretch where I was like, this is insane.
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A
And.
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B
And the chan we had said all the chances start adding up. Then it starts feeling like. Yeah, Actually, our boy Jake said I was talking in between periods, and he goes. I was like, I don't feel good in between the second intermission. And he goes, dude, sometimes you just see God and like, Heluck, that might be happening right now.
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A
We see performances that are touched, that are touched by the gods. And that Connor hel book performance was.
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B
And that was insane. And. And oh, Oh, I did want to say this, too. I said it with Osh, I guess, but all the boys going when they were doing the medals and they, you know, they say everyone's name and they get to helu every dude on the USA team. When Heluck's name got called, they were
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A
like, oh, this guy.
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B
Yeah, because, I mean. And dude, I haven't seen him that fire that you said this, but I haven't. He was doing, like, selfies. He was going. The crowd.
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A
It's amazing.
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B
That was awesome.
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A
All right, closing thoughts. We got to wrap up here.
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B
Closing thoughts. Man, what a tournament. Other than the USA Slovakia game, go back into the quarterfinals and on. What else can you ask for? We've been clamoring for NHL players in best on best Olympics. We got nail biters, golden goals, ots, you know, some upsets, some near upsets.
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A
We got to shoot penalty shot. We. We got missing teeth.
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B
What's in every tournament?
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A
End of the day, USA wins gold twice.
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B
Yes.
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A
We were at both games. This has been. This has been one of the greatest experiences of my life. And truly, it is all because of you guys. And we can't tell you how much we love you enough. It's so fun. Thank you for joining on the ride. And there's going to be plenty more content about these games coming out. We're going to keep everything ripping as usual, but let's go get up and celebrate the fact that USA just won gold medal in both the women's and men's hockey tournament here. At the Olympics in Milano. Greatest country in the world. Let's go.
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B
The miracle in Milan, USA all the way.
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We love you guys. Can't wait to see you soon. More content will be coming out. CP as we go. Rip it up. Tell them what to do.
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B
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I was, I, I just, we're, we're official boys. All three of us right now are gold medalists as far as I'm concerned. And we called in the big guns. The third Empty Netter TJ Ocean. Holy. We did it. They did it. I can't believe it.
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C
I, I, I can't, like I've never felt so a part of something that I'm not a part of. You know what I mean? Like, I'm not on the team. Like I, I feel like, yeah, I feel like I just won a gold medal and clearly I'm not on the ice. But it's, I'm so happy for those guys and like the way they handle themselves after in, like, the interviews, Like. Like, man, what a squad,
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dude. I say. I got to say, it's like there's. There's been a number of things that have happened that have been funny. Just like you said, we're, like, walking around Milan here, and people are congratulating us, and I'm like, guys, we're morons. What? Like, but I. It is how I feel. I'm like, I. Yeah, I'm a part of this. But, dude, I. I said to Chris right before you hopped on watching Jack. Jack's interview at the end there, where he's got the. The flag draped around his shoulders, and he's just talking about USA Hockey. Me. It's shit like this, man. I. It's just. Being patriotic is so awesome. It feels incredible. And. And I love seeing it from the boys. It just fires me up so much.
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C
Yeah. Honestly, I. So I watched that in my living room, and the second the interview ended, I'm going on X Instagram. I'm, like, refreshing. I'm like, someone has to have that so I can repost it. And nothing was coming through. And so I just. I just paused it, rewound it, replayed it, took a video and posted it. What? Like, that's. It's a perfect interview. His emotion, like, you could tell he was on cloud nine. And, like, he couldn't even. He wasn't necessarily answering the questions, really, but, like, just, like, almost pouring his heart out, like. And, like, the first thing he says is, like, like, I'm so proud to be an American. We did this for the country. And then they asked him. KT asked him, what does it mean, like, for you to win a gold medal? And he immediately goes, connor Hellebuck. Hellebuck was our best player out there. He was unbelievable. You know what I mean? Said nothing about himself, not one thing about him, his family, his brother. Like, oh, man, what an American. Like that.
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A
That's.
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C
I. I love that.
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A
Like, I have.
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C
I have chills right now, dude.
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A
Oh, sit.
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C
Sitting in my car.
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B
Yes. It was so sick, man. And the. I don't know if you could see on tv, but when. When they were doing the medal presentation, when they got to Connor Heluk, all the boys on the US Team started going nuts, like, pointing at him and everything, because they were like, dude, he was. That paddle save on Tae Will Live Forever, dude. Like, that was insane.
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C
And I've. I've seen a save like that. Change. Change. That was how he became Braden Holpe. The exact same. Like, almost the same. Yeah, buddy Holtz is like out of midair. But dude, like Connor Hallebuck for like all the grief he's been getting like MVP last year and now like everyone's talking about Bington. Rightfully so. Like absolute gamer. Like some of the saves he was making. Absolute gamer. But now Hellebuck, like, he almost like showed up like, I'm the guy and he's not, he's not cocky like that. But like, I'm so happy for him. I did yesterday we, I was on with Lindsay and, and Ace at NBC and they're like, what are your keys to the game? Ace's key to the game was penalty kill. I, I don't think they scored a power play goal today. Right. So they went 100% the whole tournament on the penalty kill.
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A
100%.
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B
How is that?
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C
That's like, I think. How many penalties were there? Three or four. That that means they're. They were 14 for 14 going into the game. So they're 18 for 18 or something. That's unbelievable. That has a lot to do with your goalie, but the players do. And my point was the goalies. I was like, it's going to come down to the goalies. It's going to be a tight game. All these games that they play each other are one goal games or OT games. And I just pointed out like Bingnington, he is like a gamer. He adjusts his style of play based on like the danger around him. If there's danger, he'll stay back so he can recover. If there's not, he's aggressive. Hellebuck. Not like that. He's consistent. That's like his superpower. He is, he will all. He's a blocker. He's big. He stays in his net. He's very technical. And I mentioned, I was like with the type of D the US have right now, I think the best D core in the whole Olympic fix. Like he can play that way because they can help around the net. Man, I'm so happy for him. Sorry, that was long winded. I'm jacked up. Like, I'm on cloud nine.
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A
No, I'm, I'm, I'm absolutely juiced, dude. So I feel you. And, and I, I, you're so right about hella buck. I, I feel like this, this win for the US Boys is so validating and it's such a. To so many people, for so many guys. Guys. Hellebuck being one of them, Jack Hughes being another. The people being like, oh, he was so bad in four nations and all tournament. He's Been unbelievable. Then he goes and gets the golden goal. The two golden goals for the US Were both Hughes brothers. Fucking insane. Auston Matthews, a guy who everyone is like, oh, he can't get the big win. He can't lock in. He was playing fucking selkie winning defense in that game. All fucking game for 60 plus minutes. It was just, I mean that. That was obviously a massive victory for USA and for USA Hockey, but that was. Was such a huge victory for so many of those players. And you just love to see it. It's unbelievable.
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C
Absolutely. Yeah. Well, even like you can go down the line. Dylan Larkin was one of the best players for us in the tournament. I think he's played five last three games.
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A
Osh.
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C
He's played five playoff games in his career. So like, wow, like for him, like caged lion, right? A caged lion.
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A
Yep.
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C
To like, he's. He's been wanting to play for this. And I spoke to him when he was in Minnesota after the game probably a little under a month ago, three weeks ago maybe. And like, you could just see like he was like, just so fired up to be on this team, to like be able to represent America. Like, I'm so happy for these guys. And like, I. I sent them a bunch of the. The old Olympians. Americans sent them letters that they kind of hung on the wall in the locker room. And they asked me for one probably about six days ago, five, six days ago maybe. And I wrote one and I said a bunch of stuff, you know, inspirational, whatever, that we support them. And one of the things I said was I'm so excited for the, like, that this could be a new era in USA Hockey. And I'm so excited that they get to embrace that challenge and they've embraced the living hell out of it, man.
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A
It's just like, I can't stop thinking about the fact that it's. It was all, we're. We're about to hit half a century, half a century without the U. S. Men winning gold. So this. There was just. You can say all you want about, you know, the, the. I'm not saying it's a passing of the torch. Canada is still obviously incredible. Those boys played so, so well done. That team's a wagon. But this is more just the, the.
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B
The.
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A
This is just as good of a program. It's just as good of a nation at hockey. I mean, we can play with those guys and to. To be able to finish the job and get that win. Good lord. Connor Helbuk put a goddamn statue of this in, in, in, in Milan. I mean that was one of the most insane performances. That was full Jim Craig. That was full Jimmy Craig right there, there. And, and you're right, just like guys like Larks and guys like Vinnie Trocheck and J.T. miller who are getting dogged on a ton who just go out and play defensive specialist hockey and it, it was crazy. And second period, it was like, oh my God, this looks like the Finland game, the Czechia game. Canada's just ramming it down their throat. But it was almost like the boys were ready for that. They were like, yeah, listen, like we might get rag dolled here for a bit, but we can just survive. And did they do it? That was unbelievable.
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C
It really just like what a. You know, it was kind of like it's. It was similar to the games. Like even in 2014 social, we played them in the semis. It was a one nothing game. And so like you just. Yeah, we needed someone to step up in that moment and score a 5 on 5 goal like or a OT goal. And this team just has it. But I think one thing that this, I, I think this has been coming because unlike my era, this era, this era of American players, they won. They were winning U18 Worlds. They were winning world junior championships.
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B
Ooh, great call.
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C
So this has, I think this has been coming. They don't have, I don't think they have. Maybe the, I don't want to say fear, but like they don't look at Canada. I don't think as my era looked at them because they've been beating them when they were younger, we weren't. I never beat Canada one game, even round robin, my entire career. Ever. Not one time. Wow, that's nuts. And these guys. But these guys did. They have been beating them since they were 18. And so I think, I think it's. I think they went into this like with a completely different mindset than we would have in sochi. I know 2010, obviously one goal away from being right there, but still we didn't get it done. These guys. These guys did.
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A
Yeah, dude. Osh, you.
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B
We have a co. I know you sent another letter recently with inspirational stuff, but we have a copy of the one you sent to the boys with the care package with all the gear, the hat and everything. And we've been playing with the war road cards getting going in our, in our Airbnb all trip. All trip. Because you were like, that's. Those are some of my favorite memories. And you've said on a million times, but on Our show too, about what the Olympic experience did for you as a, as a player and your career and everything. What do you think this moment is going to mean to these guys moving forward and, and the way it'll shape their careers and the national spotlight they're going to get and all that stuff?
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C
I think in a lot, a lot of different ways, I think some of it they probably won't realize it's going to be a whirlwind here for a little bit. It was for me for the, until the next hockey season started. Until that. The next season after 2014.
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A
Yeah, yeah.
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C
But they're gonna get, you know, it's everything. Like they're gonna get so many opportunities to, for partnerships. They're gonna get so many people coming up to them doing what people do. For me, even to this day, saying, this is where I was when we watched you win the gold medal. This is what the bar looked like. These are the USA chants. These are the things that like, still make my, like, give me goosebumps right now talking about it. These guys are going to have that for the rest of their lives.
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A
Lives.
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C
People coming up to them for the next 30, 40 years. Like, who knows where USA Hockey is at that point, but everyone's gonna remember this one. They'll remember where they were, who they were with, how drunk they were or how if they were with their kids or like me, I was at my kids hockey game, like watching in the lobby with all the, you know, I'm in. I'm probably gonna be in one of those videos cheering, you know, just like, yeah, fans were in 2014 for me. So it's gonna change their lives. But I think also they're a lot of Americans on this team that haven't won a Stanley cup. Canada has 20 plus Stanley Cups on that roster. U.S. doesn't. And so these kids now can take this experience to the playoffs, to their teams now. They're a champion. They're a champion. They know what it takes. They know what it's like to play for the guy next to him to go further than they thought they could. And so I'm so excited for these guys. I'm getting so jacked up right now,
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B
but dude, you just fired me up so much.
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A
Holy. Dude, I'm pissed because I'm like, oh, this is, is why you have to join the show. Because you just took the words out of my mouth. I was, I was really right about to say before the game, I was looking at both rosters sitting here with Chris and Red and I Ran down team Canada and more than half that team has won a Stanley Cup. Three guys, Jack Eel, Jake Genel and who is the. The one other one. And Chucky obviously.
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B
Oh, Chucky. Yeah.
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A
Those are the only guys who have won Stanley Cups. So like this, this is a Stanley cup dude winning an Olympic gold fucking medal. Go against Canada against Canada Cup. So like all of these guys, this new age, these like mid 20s superstars in the league for the USA like they now have a massive, massive championship under their belt and that is huge. It's going to be huge for them playing for their club teams. This is so exciting. Yep.
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B
It's.
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C
It's different when you get in that moment in playoffs when you've been there before and you know what it takes. These guys have it now and I think playoffs this year for these guys are going to look different. Especially some of these top players having to play certain roles. You have to play a full 200 foot game in playoffs. Some of these top players were required. You have to do that to beat Canada. And now they got a taste of it. Not only did they get a taste of it, they got a taste of it and they succeeded. So man, I'm so happy for these. I'm just so happy for these guys and the Americans in USA hockey. My kids play hockey now. No, My kids are going to be able to say they watched the gold medal game. They saw when the US won, when Jack Hughes threw it five hole to. To win the. A gold medal. So. Oh my God.
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B
I can't even believe just hearing that out loud.
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C
So proud of them. Yeah, I'm just so, I'm so incredibly proud of these guys.
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A
It's like the, it's. You said it all. It's just the resiliency, the way to dig deep and battle through a game like that and win USA Men's. Have a fucking gold medal again. That feels incredible.
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B
Me so sick.
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A
Oh, you're the best. We'll let you run. I know, I know you're. You're on babysitting dad duty right now, but we'll get, we'll get you soon so we can have, you know. Yeah, right now, but we'll get you back on soon for, for a full proper epi. But dude, go, go have a few pops after you leave Lava island and let's celebrate this one. This is unbelievable.
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C
Absolutely, boys. Love you. Love, love America. It's a good day to be an American, boys.
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B
Sure is, buddy.
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A
Love you too, brother. We'll talk soon.
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C
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