The Hockey Show: The Golden Girls (feat. Adnan Virk)

Summary

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz: The Hockey Show – "The Golden Girls" (feat. Adnan Virk)

Date: February 20, 2026
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Episode Overview

This special episode of "The Hockey Show," spun out of The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz, gathers the crew—Roy Bellamy, Dave, Ethan, Rosie, plus guest Adnan Virk—to break down the drama of the Olympic men's and women's hockey tournaments and riff on sports, pop culture, and more. Broadcasting from downtown Miami, they celebrate US women's hockey gold, debate Olympic injuries, joke about hockey snacks, and look forward to a highly anticipated live stream watch-along for the men’s gold medal game. Later, Adnan Virk joins to offer the Canadian (and Variety mag-consuming) perspective and play along with fantasy "Family Guy" hockey teams.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Live-Stream Hype and Olympic Memories

[01:00] – [03:15]

• Announcement: The Hockey Show is covering the men’s Olympic final with a Sunday morning live-stream (8 AM ET).
• Crew warms up with jokes about early wakeups, parenting, and nostalgia for their last tense Stanley Cup live stream.
• Quote:
  “If the US is in the final, I’ll be having beers at my favorite local watering hole.” — Ethan [02:55]

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2. US Women’s Gold Medal Win – Highlights and Emotional Reactions

[03:53] – [07:18]

• Recap of Team USA’s overtime win vs. Canada: Hillary Knight tied it with 2 min left; Megan Keller scored the golden goal.
• Team USA has now won 3 of 8 Olympic golds in women’s hockey, ending with five shutouts and only two goals allowed in the tournament.
• Stats: Knight becomes all-time US Olympic scorer (15 goals, 31 points).
• Crew shares their reactions: Desk-bound jubilation, pets awakened, catharsis after previous heartbreaks.
• Quote:
  “Once they scored the first one, the only thing [Hillary Knight] was thinking was, ‘We’re going to win this game.’” — Ethan [06:00]
• Quote:
  “For right now, it’s the USA’s world and we’re all living in it.” — Ethan [07:09]

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3. Olympic Injuries & Impact on NHL Teams

[09:48] – [17:54]

• Discussion shifts to Olympic men’s games—Canada vs. Finland underway live, Sam Reinhart scoring, Panthers players mixing it up.
• Main concern: Sidney Crosby’s injury after several big hits, missing the Canada game ("not worst case scenario" per reports).
• Debate: Should NHL teams worry more? Are Olympic risks justified with high-profile injuries? Owners vs. player priorities.
• Quote:
  "This is why owners didn’t want their players going to the Olympics ... but the players have made their stance: we’re playing." — Ethan [16:10]

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4. Olympics Format & Double Standards

[17:38] – [18:09]

• They highlight how injuries to stars (Tkachuk, Crosby) are framed differently in media depending on nationality or fame.
• Gentle roast of Canada’s emotional attachment to Crosby and Coach John Cooper's “win for Sid” speeches.
• Quote:
  “Does everything have to be about Sidney Crosby?” — Ethan [13:10]

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5. Hockey Stat of the Week—Wait, That’s Skiing?

[18:00] – [20:46]

• Ethan’s “hockey stat” is about Mikaela Shiffrin’s dominant Olympic slalom win (1.50s margin, unprecedented in 28 years) before pivoting to Hillary Knight’s new scoring record.
• Banter ensues: Is this a hockey stat? “Sliding’s like skating,” “they have sticks,” etc.
• Quote:
  "It's the hockey stat of the week, Roy. I don't know what you want me to tell you." — Ethan [20:06]

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6. Wins & Fails: From Layla Edwards to ‘Happy’ Canadians

[20:46] – [28:52]

• Wins:
  • Dave: ESPN ranks ice hockey as 2nd hardest sport, validates their (and Roy’s) hockey struggles.
  • Roy: Layla Edwards, first Black American to win women’s ice hockey gold.
  • Ethan: Celebrates Shiffrin, Alyssa Liu’s figure skating gold (first since 2002), and the “Blade Angels.”
  • Rosie: Shout-out to a new Mexican movie—a tangent that’s delightfully off-sport.
• Fails:
  • Dave: Post-game trolling of Toronto’s Mitch Marner by Canadian teammates and Panthers legend.
  • Roy: Arena plays “Happy” by Pharrell over footage of devastated Canadian women.
  • Ethan: Team Canada tweets “Silver shines just as bright”—crew agrees, no, gold is better.
• Quote:
  "You don't win silver, you lose gold. Canada lost gold today." — Ethan [28:43]

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7. Adnan Virk Joins: Canadian Lament, Women’s Hockey Parity, and More

[33:07] – [37:36]

• Adnan tells of watching US-Canada women's final in "enemy territory" (MLB/NHL Network), forced to hide from jubilant Americans.
  “America is the better team... It’s now 8 straight. Canada needs to reconfigure what they’ve been doing.” [34:08]
• On the women’s game: Only two true contenders (USA, Canada) is bad for international growth, despite the PWHL slowly helping.
• Shares that the drama/stress of live Olympic hockey is very real for the crew (and Canadian fans).

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8. Women’s Hockey Rivalries: Now with Real-Life Relationship Drama

[37:36] – [39:18]

• News/gossip: US defender Caroline Harvey and Canadian Daryl Watts—both stars—were reportedly a couple, but rumors abound of a breakup just before the gold medal game. Crew wonders, “Is this the real heated rivalry now?”

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9. Canadian Crisis: If Men Don’t Win Gold, What Happens?

[39:18] – [41:04]

• Adnan: Losing in QFs would be a “national crisis.” Losing gold to USA would still be painful but more "understandable.”
• Explains how one-off games (hot goalies, flukes) can lead to surprise results—Canadian hockey anxiety is real.

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10. Olympic 3-on-3 Overtime – Good or Gimmick?

[41:04] – [42:11]

• Crew strongly dislike Olympic overtime mimicking NHL 3-on-3—robs fans of marathon classic possibilities. But...it is exciting.
• Quote:
  "I think it's laughable...that it could be so quickly done." — Adnan [41:27]
• Brief jab at Americans’ “TJ Sochi” (Oshie) mythology—he won a shootout, not gold, against Russia in 2014.

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11. Sidney Crosby’s Injury: NHL and Olympic Stakes

[46:09] – [48:44]

• Crosby’s status is a “coin flip” for gold medal game. Even if not “worst case scenario,” Penguins’ playoff hunt is now in jeopardy.
• The pain of losing a star to Olympics looms large for fans and management.
• “If this was the NHL regular season, I think we all know he’d be out for a week or two. A week or two could doom my team...for that Penguins fanbase, or for Kyle Dubas specifically, he’s irate, he’s outraged. But this is the risk you take.” — Adnan [47:51]

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12. Fantasy Segment: Building a Family Guy Hockey Team

[49:16] – [53:43]

• For comic relief: Dave and Adnan draft Family Guy characters to hockey positions—Peter in goal, Stewie at center or coach, Quagmire as Barkov-like forward, Meg on defense (“Radko Gudas without the beard”). Brian the dog as “goalie’s best friend.”
• Tangent-packed, but a highlight for show fans.

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13. Movie Tangent: Wuthering Heights and Jacob Elordi Fandom

[53:48] – [54:59]

• Before signing off, Rosie asks Adnan about the movie “Wuthering Heights” (starred Margo Robbie/Jacob Elordi). Discussion touches on book vs. film, Emerald Fennell’s directing, and Elordi’s “moment”—with some laughs about whether either star had a nude scene.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “For right now, it's the USA's world and we're all living in it.” — Ethan [07:09]
• “Does everything have to be about Sidney Crosby?” — Ethan [13:10]
• “You don't win silver, you lose gold. Canada lost gold today.” — Ethan [28:43]
• “America is the better team... It’s now 8 straight. Canada needs to reconfigure what they’ve been doing.” — Adnan [34:08]
• “I think it’s laughable…that it could be so quickly done.” (on 3v3 Olympic overtime) — Adnan [41:27]
• (On Peter Griffin as goalie) “As long as he shows up to the game sober, he's actually quite good between the pipes.” — Dave [49:40]

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• [01:00] – Olympic men’s final live-stream announcement
• [03:53] – US women’s hockey gold medal game recap and emotional reactions
• [09:48] – Discussion on Crosby’s injury & Olympic/NHL risk
• [13:10] – “Does everything have to be about Sidney Crosby?” debate
• [18:00] – Ethan’s “hockey” stat of the week (Shiffrin slalom)
• [20:46] – Wins & fails (Layla Edwards, “Happy” song, silver vs. gold)
• [33:07] – Adnan Virk joins; Canadian reactions to gold medal game
• [39:18] – “National crisis” if Canada men lose medal
• [41:27] – Take on the Olympic 3-on-3 OT format
• [46:09] – Impact (and uncertainty) of Crosby’s injury for NHL playoff race
• [49:16] – Family Guy hockey team fantasy draft
• [53:48] – Movie tangent: Wuthering Heights/Elordi chat

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Tone & Style

• Signature blend of earnest sports insight, rapid-fire jokes, pop culture digressions, and affectionate trolling—“The Hockey Show” at its loosened-tie best.
• Frequent interjections, playful soundboard misfires, and listeners included via inside-joke energy.
• Adnan Virk brings Canadian pathos, deep hockey nerdery, and a whiff of showbiz.

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In Summary

The episode encapsulates the week’s Olympic hockey intrigue (with a special focus on the US women’s historic gold), the perpetual border rivalry, and the chaos that only the Le Batard extended family can deliver—equal parts celebration, anxiety, and comic absurdity. Whether you’re invested in how injuries might doom the Penguins or just want to know who plays “Meg” on the all-Family Guy squad, this one’s for you.

Don’t forget: Tune in live this Sunday at 8AM ET for The Hockey Show Olympic men’s final watch-along on the Le Batard Show YouTube page!

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Transcript

[Ethan]

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[Dave]

You said you were over him, but his hoodie is still in your rotation.

[Adnan Burke]

It's time. Grab your phone, snap a few pics

[Dave]

and sell it on Depop.

[Ethan]

Listed in minutes with no selling fees. And just like that, a guy 500

[Adnan Burke]

miles away just paid full price for your closure.

[Dave]

And right on cue.

[Roy Bellamy]

Hey, still got my hoodie?

[Adnan Burke]

Nope.

[Dave]

But I've got tonight's dinner paid for.

[Adnan Burke]

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[Dave]

fees and boosting fees still apply. See website for details.

[Roy Bellamy]

Silver may still shine bright, but gold is definitely better. This is the Hockey Show. That's David Troika, the Hockey News. We got Rose and Ethan in the shipping container. My name is Roy Bellamy. You can check us out on our YouTube page, the Hockey Show DLS on TikTok. The Hockey Show 7 Instagram threads. Hockey Show DLS. This Sunday, the Hockey show will be doing a live stream of the Olympic men's ice hockey gold medal game. We will start at 8. Around 8. 10 is puck drop. That's going to be eastern time. And you can find us on the Levitard YouTube page at Levitard Show. It will be the four of us. And maybe some surprises that I will have no control over. So check that out. That's on Sunday during the gold medal game. And the last time we did a live stream was at the Dead Flamingo. That was for game two of the Stanley cup final. And that one, Rose almost. Her head almost exploded.

[Dave]

Yeah, well, I don't think this one's going double over time.

[Ethan]

I think all of our heads almost exploded during that.

[Roy Bellamy]

Yeah. That was not. That was not a good feeling last second.

[Rosie]

This one is going to explode if it's Finland, but just because of Barky. But Barki is not there, so it might not expose that much. But if Finland wins. Wow.

[Adnan Burke]

Yeah.

[Roy Bellamy]

You won't have to worry about that.

[Dave]

Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah.

[Ethan]

I just remember people in the comments being like, ethan, stop freaking out. And I'm like, you watched a live stream with me watching a Panther game in the Stanley cup final. Well, I don't know what else he expected so if. If the US Is in the final, it might be similar. Probably not the same levels because I don't have quite the same investment as the Florida Panthers. But, man, I'm going to be nervous if the US Is in that final.

[Roy Bellamy]

For sure. Early in the morning, man. Too early in the morning. I know it's Italy, but it's very

[Ethan]

early in the morning.

[Roy Bellamy]

Yeah.

[Ethan]

8:00 o' clock starts. But if the US is in the final, I'll be having. I'll be having beers at my favorite local watering hole.

[Dave]

So.

[Roy Bellamy]

Yeah.

[Ethan]

Play that again with me.

[Roy Bellamy]

Play again. No, see, that's going to be me waking up in the morning and like 6:30, 7 o'. Clock.

[Dave]

You're the first one awake. Always.

[Roy Bellamy]

I am a thought. I'm a dad. I can't sleep past 8 o' clock now. I got to wake up earlier than that just to do this live stream. I'm going to be very happy doing it because it's a live stream. But still.

[Ethan]

Did you just say you're a thought?

[Roy Bellamy]

No, no.

[Ethan]

T H O T. Father.

[Roy Bellamy]

I was gonna say father, but I decided to go with dad in that situation. But yes, I'm a dad and this child is waking me up early. So, I mean, you know about that, Dave.

[Dave]

A little bit.

[Roy Bellamy]

Yeah.

[Dave]

So is Claire gonna be watching the game?

[Roy Bellamy]

No, I. I don't. Well, she might barge in. Actually, think of it.

[Dave]

That could be a surprise guest.

[Roy Bellamy]

Okay, I'll.

[Dave]

I'll torture everybody and just put our kids on there and let them talk to each other for a minute.

[Roy Bellamy]

Yeah. No. Oh, Jesus. Yeah, that. That'll bring the viewers. Yeah. Talent, Claire. Everybody's a talent.

[Adnan Burke]

Clear.

[Roy Bellamy]

The American women defeated the Canadian ladies 21 in overtime yesterday. Christian O' Neill started the scoring for Canada, but in the lateness of regulation. I'm talking about what, two minutes left.

[Dave]

Goalie on the bench.

[Roy Bellamy]

Yep. Six women out there. Hillary Knight deflected a. A Layla Edwards shot from the blue line. That tied the game. And so cool. Yeah. And Megan Keller, I mean, that talent, that Taylor Hisy. Thank you.

[Dave]

Thank you.

[Ethan]

We cannot let this Taylor Heisey pass get lost in the moment. That pass was incredible.

[Roy Bellamy]

That doesn't happen, by the way, if it was five on five.

[Dave]

Nope. Yep.

[Roy Bellamy]

Yeah. So over time, Megan Keller ended up making a spectacular move. I mean, this is reminiscent of. Of game two of the cup final.

[Ethan]

Looked exactly like that game.

[Roy Bellamy]

Yeah. And she scored on her backhand and it was a golden goal. And the United States won the third

[Dave]

gold, the one that we were there to see. I think in game five is what it reminded me most of. Yeah, when Marchand did that, it was almost like the same dangle through the. He didn't make the same move. He didn't go between the arm. He went the long way. But I mean the biggest games, biggest players show up and score the biggest goals. And Hillary Knight tying the game late. That ridiculous deflection. Oh, that was so exciting.

[Ethan]

Yes.

[Dave]

Sorry.

[Roy Bellamy]

I was going to say I was going to bring up some stats here as far as all time games. It's the eighth ice competition for the women. They started in 1998. The United States won that year. It's Cammy G. It's been only Canada and the United States who have won gold medals. It's five for Canada and three for the United States. Now everybody, you've all saw the game. How was your reactions? I mean I, I know what your reactions were to the goal. Why don't you go over your feelings?

[Dave]

I was in the newsroom at my day job. I was at channel 10. So I was. Couldn't really like get out and be as like fun and excited as usual. But like the. I did wake up the news for him a little bit.

[Ethan]

I woke up Percy. Percy and I were watching on the couch and Percy's in here somewhere and, and we were watching on the couch and I jumped up. When Hillary Knight scored and or celebrated woke Percy up. She went right back to her nap. She's been, she had been in the office all day. She's a tired girl, man. She's been in the office all week. She's working hard. She's doing a lot, you know. Newest employee of Metal Arc media. But then, then when the, the Megan Keller goal happened, I stood up as Megan Keller was on a breakaway and I jumped around and started screaming. It was amazing. I mean just. Rose that soundboard. How's he. That guy? It was, it was just amazing, Ryan. This team was. It would have been wrong for them not to win the gold medal. And looking back on it now, they were never not going to win. That team fought, they dug deep, they scored the goal that they needed with two minutes left. And once it got to overtime, Hillary Knight said once they scored the first one, the only thing she was thinking was we're going to win this game. And they knew they were going to win because they knew they were the better team. They've now beaten Canada eight times in a row. They're defending world champions and now the defending Olympic champions as well. They have cemented themselves as the dominant team in international women's hockey. And this gold medal seals that. And for right now, obviously, Canada all time is still the better, you know, the more dominant country. They're five to three in gold medals. But for right now, it's the USA's world and we're all living in it.

[Roy Bellamy]

I mean, goals allowed. So thank you.

[Adnan Burke]

And that.

[Roy Bellamy]

That's the man that you missed the most right there. That's us. And that's Alexander Barkov. Why don't you play that again? Play it again, Rosie. Play it again. Come on. Thank you.

[Dave]

Thank you, Rosie.

[Roy Bellamy]

Thank you.

[Mike Ryan]

Thank you.

[Roy Bellamy]

Thank you. All right, so as I was saying, how many goals during this tournament did the United States women draw?

[Dave]

I know the answer.

[Roy Bellamy]

What's that?

[Dave]

2.

[Roy Bellamy]

2 goals.

[Dave]

2 goals.

[Roy Bellamy]

2 goals.

[Ethan]

So 2 goals, 7 goals.

[Rosie]

What was the question?

[Roy Bellamy]

The question was how many goals did the United States women give up so far. So far in this tournament? And the answer was two.

[Dave]

One in the first game, one in the last game. That's it.

[Roy Bellamy]

Yeah.

[Ethan]

Five shutouts. And all three goalies contributed to that as well. It wasn't just Aaron Frankel. Aaron Frankel stopped 97 of 99 shots

[Dave]

that she faced in something about us Jewish goalies, man. I don't know. Something about us.

[Roy Bellamy]

You guys good?

[Ethan]

Yeah. Showing out for all of our members of the tribe. That was amazing.

[Roy Bellamy]

Aaron Frankel, she was incredible.

[Dave]

Potato pancake before the game does you good, man. I'm telling you. You see they're eating the applesauce already on the bench. You just need a little potato pancake.

[Roy Bellamy]

Go, go. Sweet squeeze. That's. Yeah, that's.

[Dave]

My wife got very excited when she saw the girls chugging applesauce on the bench.

[Roy Bellamy]

Yeah, you need that quick energy, man. That quick sugar, that natural sugar, that fructose.

[Adnan Burke]

Yeah.

[Dave]

I was like, wait till you see them ripping. Was it packets of mustard and relish on the bench?

[Roy Bellamy]

Yeah, well, the mustard. Yeah.

[Ethan]

That's whatever it takes, man.

[Roy Bellamy]

They did. That was Germany, right? That was dry cider to had that. Yeah, yeah. He's no longer in.

[Dave]

I just want like a fruit rollup. Oh, like, what would your, like, go to? Bench energy snack be gushers. O you see, I like that. The explosive element.

[Ethan]

I love gushers.

[Dave]

What about you, Ethan? What would your. Your snack on the bench be if you needed something to jack up your.

[Ethan]

I was kind of thinking Gushers as well.

[Dave]

That's a. Yeah, that's a really good one.

[Roy Bellamy]

Yeah.

[Ethan]

Just loves that explode in his.

[Dave]

What, Random psychotic Mexican candy. Literally Guatemalan candy.

[Rosie]

Something like spicy or sour.

[Dave]

Something with what's like a mango. Tastes like fire.

[Rosie]

Yeah, yeah. Sour or. Or spicy like. Yeah. Mangoes with chili already there.

[Dave]

Rose would find, like, edible smelling salts, and that would be her thing.

[Roy Bellamy]

Oh, gosh.

[Rosie]

I don't know. But delicious. I did. This guy didn't like my candy.

[Roy Bellamy]

No. He almost choked.

[Dave]

I wasn't prepared.

[Roy Bellamy]

You didn't know how to take it.

[Dave]

I even told you.

[Ethan]

I forgot about that.

[Roy Bellamy]

God, I even told you how that.

[Adnan Burke]

Yes, Yes.

[Dave]

I mean, are we done?

[Roy Bellamy]

Yes, we are done. Let's move on to. Let's move on to. On the injury front, as we are speaking right now. There are Olympic games going on right now. It's Canada and Finland. Finland, as we speak, is leading 2 to 1. And obviously that won't be the case once you guys listen and watch this show. In fact, there was. Because Sam Reinhardt's the 13th forward. There was a point where Reinhardt, Sam Bennett and Brant Marshan were on the same line. In fact, it was at that point where Sam Bennett ran UC Sorrels. So that was. That was really funny, actually.

[Dave]

That's Bennett doing Bennett things, right?

[Roy Bellamy]

Yeah.

[Ethan]

By the way, Sam Reinhart, he got elbow. By the way, by two, one Finland.

[Roy Bellamy]

Yes. Oh, so. So Sam Reinhardt scored the goal to

[Ethan]

make it to one Finland. Yeah, he deflected the shot from the point from Kale McCarthy for the. For the goal.

[Roy Bellamy]

I'm going to update my little stat package because that's the only thing we could talk about right now is how the Panthers are doing. But we'll get to that in a second.

[Dave]

A little bit more that we'll get into, I think. Yeah, a little bit of Panthers hockey. They're going to be back on the ice. We're going to get to that.

[Roy Bellamy]

Yes, absolutely. The big story, though, was Sidney Crosby because he got hurt. Yes. I'm bringing up Cindy Crosby. Oh, he got hurt because he got hurt. Yeah, he got hurt versus the checks. He got hit three times in one shift, basically. And Racco Guta's old friend put a number on him. I guess he ended up getting sandwiched in one instance, and then that's when he ended up going to the bench and he left that game early.

[Dave]

You know who to blame for that?

[Roy Bellamy]

And who's that?

[Dave]

The. The ice makers in Italy for making such small, compact ice. Everybody's on top of each other. It's a physical game. We're loving it. But poor Sidney Crosby.

[Adnan Burke]

Thank you.

[Dave]

He got sandwiched with a Radko Budis in the boards and God, Knows who else? And we know Radko Budis. His beard is made of concrete.

[Roy Bellamy]

Yeah, yeah. Teflon. Not Teflon.

[Dave]

Like Doomsday from Superman.

[Roy Bellamy]

Yeah, yeah. So Crosby skated this morning. He tried it out in a private session. Did not go well. I mean, it didn't work for them. I'm sure that holding. I mean, it was a risk as a score.

[Dave]

Right now it's a do or die game. So you think if he was good to go, he'd be good to go?

[Roy Bellamy]

Yeah, they tried custom. They tried to find custom braces for him, but it didn't work.

[Dave]

Like, braces for his legs. Like a little forest.

[Roy Bellamy]

Yeah. Just rolled under his socks. And it was a no go for him, so they ended up scratching him. That report, by the way, was according to Elliot Friedman. Emily Kaplan said it's not the worst case scenario. So that led me to believe that Canada is holding out Sidney Crosby for the whole. For the gold medal game. But again, as we speak, it's 2:1 Finland.

[Ethan]

And I don't know, I think if Sidney Crosby could play, he would be playing right now. Especially considering John Cooper in the locker room before overtime. His speech was basically, don't let this be Sidney Crosby's last Olympic games, which. Come on, guys. Like, it's enough with the Sidney Crosby thing. Like, do it for yourself. You don't have to do it for Sidney Cross. Like, it doesn't have to be their la. Like, don't.

[Dave]

That's what you have a problem with

[Ethan]

John Cooper leaning into that. I have a lot of problems with John Cooper as well. Let's talk about. We can.

[Dave]

Well, no, but hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. You can get up to John Cooper,

[Ethan]

but real quick, real quick.

[Dave]

Wait, wait, wait.

[Ethan]

About Sidney Crosby. Does everything have to be about Sydney Cross?

[Dave]

No, it does not sound like specifically.

[Ethan]

I'm saying you're right.

[Dave]

John Cooper rallying his team before overtime. That their injured captain does not want to go out a loser. Of all the things to complain about, that one strikes me as a little odd, I guess. The Crosby derangement syndrome. I'm with you on that one.

[Roy Bellamy]

Oh, no, it's just.

[Ethan]

It's just like. Like when you see. Yeah. When you put it like, our captain. Don't let this be our captain's last game.

[Dave]

That's like the one redeemable thing that has happened.

[Ethan]

Sidney Crosby. It's like, oh, like, we're gonna make this about. We're gonna make this about Sidney Crosby. We make everything about.

[Dave]

It's the most predictable thing they could have done though.

[Ethan]

Crosby,

[Roy Bellamy]

low CDS for you. All right, so for a second here. Sorry, so ridiculous. I take that word away. Take the shut up part away. All right, so beyond, beyond the Olympics. I'm sure the Pittsburgh Penguins are not happy right now because as the standings look the second in the metro.

[Rosie]

Yeah.

[Dave]

Yep.

[Roy Bellamy]

But they'll point up no point ahead of the Islanders. They have the same amount of points as Buffalo in the wild card. They'll point ahead of Boston in the second wild card.

[Dave]

So not exactly comfortable in that playoff race.

[Ethan]

No, I forgot the initial existed.

[Roy Bellamy]

It's been a couple of weeks.

[Dave]

Bringing it back, reeling it in, boys.

[Roy Bellamy]

Back next week, everybody. But it's not, I mean, pit the Penguins right now. They are in the middle of a playoff chase and then the captain basically goes down. So again, Emily Kaplan said it's not a worst case scenario for Canada. But what about Pittsburgh?

[Dave]

If I'm Pittsburgh and I hear it's not worst case scenario, I'm like loving that because that means that tells me hopefully if he's even in consideration to possibly play in any of Canada's remaining games, that would mean that when he gets back for NHL, at least he'll be close. You would think if he can possibly play for Canada, okay, he can probably play maybe a week or whatever it might be. I have no idea. But if it was worst case, like this is a team in Pittsburgh, that was it. They have points in 11 of 12 going into the break or something like that. Like they were hot. So this could be a huge thing for them. If it's anything long term for Crosby

[Ethan]

to go continue the Crosby derangement syndrome. The jokes that were flying afterwards were, oh, NHL players are never going back to the Olympics now that Sidney Crosby has gotten hurt in the Olympics. But yeah, I mean, this is what happens in a tournament like this. Like Matthew Tkachuk got hurt at the Four nations last year and the Panthers. Luckily he was able to return for the playoffs. However hurt he may have been. He was fantastic in the playoffs. They're tied as their top scorer, helped them win a second straight Stanley Cup. But you know what you're getting into with these games and the players. They asked for this. This is what they wanted. This is their thing in the cba. This better be in there and they're not going to get rid of it anytime soon.

[Roy Bellamy]

Are you saying that the team should be compensated if they get injured and

[Ethan]

you know, necessarily saying they should be compensated, but this is the deal, like, they know what they're getting into. And this is why owners didn't want their players going to the Olympics because it might affect their chances coming back from the Olympics. But the players have made their stance on this. Their stance is, we're playing in the Olympics. You're not going to stop us, and this is going to happen. Sometimes it just so happens that it happened to be Sidney Crosby.

[Dave]

And to your point, nobody batted an eye even after what happened to Matthew Tkachuk, even after, you know, he didn't play for the Panthers till the playoffs. Nobody was bitching about Four nations at all.

[Ethan]

Well, you should talk to Mike Fuentes because he still is mad at Four Nations.

[Dave]

Nobody in the hockey, no disrespect to Fuentes, but nobody in the hockey sphere.

[Roy Bellamy]

Yeah, well, I said, I said this going into Four Nations. I said this before, probably a couple of weeks before Four nations, that all these general managers are going to be worried about injuries because they are not going to half ass this. It's an international competition. I said that about also. And now the Olympics is even ratcheted up tenfold.

[Ethan]

I was going to say, let's be clear, like, as great as Four nations was, it was an awesome tournament. I had a great time. The whole thing was a great spectacle to kind of set up the Olympics shot.

[Dave]

You didn't say the name.

[Ethan]

The Olympics are. The Olympics are that much more important and they're so intrabell. The Olympics are that much more important central. And they're not going to ever, like, they're going to all the way out, balls to the wall. And they're not going to be stopped from playing in the Olympics if they have the opportunity.

[Dave]

I just think it's a funny double standard if that, if it is, in fact how it plays out that, you know, Matthew Tkachuk gets hurt, misses a chunk, a big chunk of the season, whatever. Sidney Crosby gets hurt, maybe misses a game. And it's a much bigger conversation.

[Roy Bellamy]

Let's go with the hockey stat of the week. Rosie, can you find the actual sound instead of whatever it is that you're doing?

[Dave]

Oh, there we go.

[Adnan Burke]

Rosie's on the ball.

[Roy Bellamy]

I can't believe it.

[Dave]

I'm enjoying Rose kind of driving these random sounds.

[Ethan]

Hey, guys.

[Dave]

Hi.

[Ethan]

Hi.

[Roy Bellamy]

I was just talking to you, like a couple seconds ago.

[Dave]

I kind of hate myself with how much I've embraced this, this greeting element of the week.

[Roy Bellamy]

I'm not.

[Dave]

No.

[Ethan]

Kayla Schiff.

[Dave]

It's like annoyingly, like, welcoming Mikaela Shifrin.

[Ethan]

We all know Mikaela Shiffrin, right?

[Roy Bellamy]

Yeah.

[Ethan]

All Time. Greatest skier.

[Rosie]

Tell me who she is.

[Ethan]

She's the greatest skier of all time, at least on the female side.

[Roy Bellamy]

What does that have to do with hockey?

[Ethan]

She had been shut out. She was over her last eight at the Olympic Games. It's just. It's the hockey stat of the week.

[Roy Bellamy]

Okay. Was it.

[Ethan]

Michaela Shifford had been shut out for her last eight Olympic races until she won the slalom. Finally, she won gold, cementing herself as the greatest skier of all time. That was a great race.

[Roy Bellamy]

Is there a transition?

[Ethan]

No, there's not. The hockey stat of the week is that Chiffrin won the slalom by 1.50 seconds. It was the largest margin of victory in 28 years in a skiing race at the Olympics. If you add up the winning margins of the winners at the 1998-2002-2006-2010, 2014, 2018 and 2022 women's slalom, you get 1.51 seconds. So her margin of victory was bigger. Almost as big as the margin of victory combined from every Olympics since Nagano in 98.

[Roy Bellamy]

Did you not have a stat that was hockey related? You just decided.

[Ethan]

I don't know what you want me to tell you. Dude, that's the hockey stat of the week. I could have had a hockey. I could have had the hockey stat. My other hockey stat could have been Rose. Hillary Knight became the all time leading scorer for the United States by scoring her 15th goal and her 31st point with that deflected goal.

[Roy Bellamy]

That guy.

[Ethan]

But instead, I wanted to celebrate Mikaela Shifrin. So, Michaela Shiffrin, you are the recipient of the hockey stat of the week.

[Roy Bellamy]

It's not hockey. It's not.

[Ethan]

It's the hockey stat of the week, Roy. I don't know what you want me to tell you.

[Roy Bellamy]

Hockey. There is no skate. There's no skates.

[Ethan]

There's definitely some kind of skating.

[Roy Bellamy]

I mean sliding. I mean, there is no stick.

[Ethan]

Skating slide.

[Dave]

No, they have sticks.

[Ethan]

Roy, you asked for the hockey stat of the week and you got the hockey stat of the week. You got. You didn't get a hockey stat of the week. You got the hockey stat of the week. You asked for the hockey stat of the week. I gave you to the hockey stat of the week. Michaela Shiffrin, 1.50 seconds.

[Dave]

I mean, this is his thing. So you know. Yeah, you gave Ethan the stat of the week, so you got to let him stat it up.

[Ethan]

He got the hockey stat of the week.

[Roy Bellamy]

All right. That's your thing. Thank you. Thank you. That's the correct sound. Thank you. All right, it's time for wins and fails. Dave, what did you win?

[Dave]

My God, Rose. Right now. Rose is killing it.

[Roy Bellamy]

The win this week.

[Ethan]

She's figuring it out.

[Mike Ryan]

She's figuring it out.

[Ethan]

All right.

[Dave]

ESPN put out a poll last week ranking every single sport that you can play on its degree of difficulty. It ranked 60 different sports coming in last or easiest. Can you guess, Roy?

[Roy Bellamy]

No, I don't even want to. Go ahead.

[Dave]

Ethan, what do you think was the easiest sport?

[Ethan]

Is it in the Olympics, Summer or winter?

[Dave]

No, I don't think so.

[Ethan]

Baseball?

[Roy Bellamy]

No.

[Dave]

No. You're thinking sitting on your ass and

[Ethan]

doing very little E. Gaming.

[Roy Bellamy]

Racing.

[Dave]

Good. Good guess, but no. Outdoors. Sitting on your ass and doing very little outdoors.

[Ethan]

Fishing.

[Dave]

There you go.

[Roy Bellamy]

Fishing.

[Dave]

Fishing came in dead last. Followed by billiards, shooting and bowling. And curling. Fifth. Fifth. Easiest.

[Ethan]

Curling is not easy. Yeah, it's not easy. Curling is extremely difficult.

[Dave]

I disagree.

[Adnan Burke]

Show some respect to curling, but.

[Dave]

All right. So the number one hardest sport was boxing, which I totally can get. Number two. Number two, ice hockey, which is.

[Roy Bellamy]

Yeah, the hockey component, which is something that you failed.

[Ethan]

You asked for the hockey stat of the week. I gave you the hockey.

[Dave]

Rounding out the top five, football, basketball, and wrestling. Volleyball looks to be Danny in the back 16th. But, Roy, I think you can attest to somebody who went to school for hockey and learned how to play hockey over the course of a year or so how difficult that game is to play.

[Roy Bellamy]

Yeah, it's very difficult. First of all, you need to learn how to skate. That's the basic element of ice hockey. And then you have to learn how to do things while skating. So that's the other basic element. I'm not even talking about goaltending. And that's a whole different element to the. To that sport. And you absolutely know about that.

[Dave]

Especially now. Yeah, it's a lot harder now than it used to be.

[Roy Bellamy]

Especially now. My win goes to Layla Edwards again, and this is the completion of her journey in the Olympics. Disco around. It was Layla Edwards initial shot from the blue line. As I said earlier, that was deflected by Hillary Knight. That tied the game with a little over a minute left in regulation in the gold medal game. She finishes the tournament with two goals and six assists for eight points and becomes the first black American to win gold in ice hockey. So right now she has to worry about the pwhl. That is her next phase as she exits Wisconsin. So good for her. Good for you, Layla. And congratulations on your gold medal, Ethan.

[Ethan]

Guys, My win of the week. I have loved these Olympic Games as I always love the Olympic Games. I want to celebrate a couple of the stars of the Games. First of all, Michaela Shiffrin, who we just talked about again. She had been over her last eight at the Olympic Games until she won that slalom race. Turned it all around, came back kind of a. A fantastic redemption shifra after a really tough Olympic Games in Beijing. And then the other one I want to celebrate as well. Last night, within an hour of each other, actually, of. Of the women winning gold. Alyssa Liu won gold in figure skating. She became the first American to win

[Dave]

gold figure skating since 2002. We're. We're in a ring, we're on skates, and we're in a rink.

[Ethan]

She became the first US Woman to win gold in the Olympics.

[Adnan Burke]

What a performance.

[Ethan]

2002.

[Dave]

Watching that one.

[Ethan]

To win a medal since Torino in 06. She's fantastic skating to Donna Summer. And she just brings joy back to figure skating in a way that I haven't seen in a long time.

[Dave]

Her.

[Ethan]

And it's a Bolivito. And Amber Glenn as well. The three Blade Angels for the Americans

[Dave]

believe Amber Glenn almost.

[Ethan]

I know she almost did it. She was fantastic.

[Roy Bellamy]

But Bladed angels, That's what they call.

[Ethan]

They call them the Blade Angels. Yep. The three of them. Isabel Levito, Amber Glenn, and Alyssa Lou. So shout out to them. Shout out to all the athletes competing in Milan. The US Is on pace for one of their best finishes at a Winter Olympics ever. And it's been fantastic.

[Dave]

What's been really cool about Alyssa Liu, real quick, while we're on the subject, I apologize. Roy, sorry to me for watching her story. Ethan, like, amazing. Quitting at 16, retiring at 16.

[Ethan]

Retired after the Olympics.

[Dave]

Just saying, you know what? This seems like fun. I want to try it again. And literally zero pressure. She says, I just want to share my art with the world. Like, I was so inspired just listening to her story.

[Ethan]

She's incredible.

[Dave]

She's like a hero right now. Somebody that could go into something that crazy. I'm getting there, Rose.

[Ethan]

And that that hairstyle is going to

[Roy Bellamy]

go all on super viral.

[Ethan]

That's going to be the most popular hairstyle around the United.

[Dave]

I don't like the nose ring on her teeth. Like, I don't know what the hell that is, but it's cool.

[Ethan]

She is fantastic.

[Roy Bellamy]

All right, Rosie, take that lollipop out of your mouth and give us your win. That's a good question. That was not a question. That was a command.

[Rosie]

My Win of the week goes to two Mexicans. There's going to be a new movie called accientes porciente. There's a. There's a photo there.

[Mike Ryan]

Oh, look.

[Roy Bellamy]

This is not hockey.

[Dave]

Socias por accidente.

[Roy Bellamy]

Accidentally social.

[Rosie]

No, socia sport Accident.

[Roy Bellamy]

Translate that.

[Rosie]

They are partners.

[Roy Bellamy]

Translate the title.

[Rosie]

Yeah, that's what I'm trying to do. They are business partners by accident.

[Roy Bellamy]

Business partners by accident. That's the translation.

[Rosie]

Yeah, but it's the translation. Translation, translation.

[Dave]

So it's like trading Spaces. Yeah.

[Rosie]

I don't know.

[Roy Bellamy]

How do you say sociable, social society.

[Dave]

They say trading spaces.

[Ethan]

You're the only places.

[Roy Bellamy]

How's it. I don't get this.

[Dave]

No, we don't get that show because we don't speak the language.

[Roy Bellamy]

This is the hockey show.

[Dave]

Yo no compriendo.

[Ethan]

Rose is so satisfied with herself.

[Roy Bellamy]

All right, let's go to fails. And that might be my fail, but whatever. Dave, what's your fail?

[Dave]

My fail. Going north of the border the other day, Mitch Marner scored a huge goal for team Canada in the quarterfinals. The overtime goal against Chechnya. Gorgeous backhand, all that. Canada rejoiced after they were losing. A couple tweets had me laughing. The first one came from Florida Panthers goaltending legend Roberto Luongo, who also did a little gold medal winning with Team Canada. Marner was born to wear that maple leaf on his chest, says Roberto Luando.

[Adnan Burke]

You know what?

[Roy Bellamy]

I.

[Ethan]

He knows exactly what he's doing.

[Dave]

I feel like he might have worn the maple leaf on his chest once or twice before.

[Roy Bellamy]

Yeah, a red maple leaf. Not. Not.

[Dave]

So that was trolling job number one. Trolling job number two. Mark Stone, Mitch Marner's teammate for Team Canada. He was being interviewed after the game, and he said, as a teammate, I haven't experienced Mitch Marner not coming up big. Four nations got a huge overtime goal, Made a huge play for the winner. Then tonight, when we need him the most, he makes the play. So I think that's a Toronto thing.

[Roy Bellamy]

Oh, boy.

[Ethan]

Brad Marchand would be so proud of these, right?

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[Dave]

Brad Marchand was standing up to the

[Ethan]

side of the locker room.

[Roy Bellamy]

He's saving it for after. After the gold medal game or bronze medal game, depending on what happens today. My fail of the week comes after the United States won gold. As everybody was waiting around mil and about and the United States was celebrating, they played the song Happy by Pharrell. It was over. It was over. The loudspeaker in the arena. So as Happy was playing, the broadcast switched to a shot of the very, very sad Canadian women who were looking downtrodden and disgusted and very depressed. So that is my fail of the week. It was damn funny though, Ethan.

[Ethan]

I was really close to not having a fail of the week because I only want to celebrate our Olympians this week. But then Team Canada did the work for me and tweeted this image. Silver sign shines just as bright. Guys, I'm pretty sure that is factually incorrect. And of course, everybody knows gold is better than silver. You don't win silver, you lose gold. Canada lost gold today.

[Roy Bellamy]

Rosie, what's your fail?

[Rosie]

My fail of the week. I don't have a fail of the week. But you.

[Roy Bellamy]

Searching for sound.

[Dave]

Are we done? I think so.

[Ethan]

Almost.

[Roy Bellamy]

We are almost done.

[Ethan]

There's a week.

[Rosie]

I wish I had a felt a week. But actually, my fellow week.

[Mike Ryan]

You know what?

[Rosie]

I'm a little bit tired.

[Roy Bellamy]

You fellow. The weakest. You're exhausted. Yeah. All right, let me promote. Let me, let me promote our next guest because she's too tired to do anything other than search for sound. That doesn't make any sense during the show. For those of you who are watching on DraftKings Network, please channel as she continues to play sounds because coming up next we have Adnan Burke. You don't get this show from prime Monday night hockey. We're gonna get the Canadian perspective of what's happening in the women. And we are not going to talk about the men because games are currently playing. Stop playing sounds because I'm saying that Adnan Burke is coming up next.

[Adnan Burke]

We have to rap.

[Roy Bellamy]

I just did.

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[Roy Bellamy]

It is time for our muffin. We check in with Adnan Burke of Prime Monday Night Hockey. And he has not had a single game for the past two weeks because the guys and the women decided to go over to Italy and play hockey there for international fame and gold and silver and that other medal. So, Adnan, you watched yesterday's game with the women. The gold medal between the United States and Canada. Obviously you were not rooting for the same team that we were rooting for because you are Canadian. As we mentioned earlier, it's only been the United States or Canada winning gold medals for the women. It's 1998 was the first Games. It's been eight instances. Canada has won five. The United States had won three. So as a Canadian. Not as a Canadian, as hockey. That's an actual hockey team. As a Canadian. When you saw Megyn Keller score on that Deke, what were your feelings?

[Adnan Burke]

I was incredibly frustrated and dismayed. And of course, I'm in enemy territory. I was at mlb, NHL Network, and Tony Loftman, one of our great hosts, was wearing his USA jersey. So when Canada was leading 1 nothing after 2 win for much of the game, I said, better take that jersey off. And then once, once Hillary Knight scored, I made sure I was cowering in my office, trying to drown out the noise of the cheers and exaltation. And I didn't have a good feeling about it. I said, this is not going to end the way we want it to, at least for me and my brethren. So, yeah, USA won. And I said, well, this was expected for somebody who has not been paying attention to hockey. Obviously, we're avid fans, but those who have not been paying attention, women's hockey USA has been the better team. They have been for a while. This is now eight straight, clearly candidates to reconfigure what they've been doing. The American women have been the bully and pushed them around in the round robin. It was a definitive win, which is why I was so pleasantly surprised, quite frankly. I knew we were vast underdogs going to the final. I thought maybe it could pull off an upset, maybe. And when it was one nothing, I was clinging to all hope. But America is the better team. They have been for a year plus. And I will say on a greater level, Roy, I do think it's frustrating for the women's game. That there's really only two great countries. Like, I think that at least in the men's, you know, you can see upsets, you can see potential surprises. And with the. What Slovakia has done so far, how great they've been, Finland giving Canada great test in the semi, etc. With the women's, it's either Canada or USA. And I don't think that's great for the women's game. I think it's great if you're an American hockey fan or Canadian hockey fan, but I don't think it's grown to really kind of grow the game because it's really just two teams that are great. Everybody else is okay.

[Roy Bellamy]

Wow, you actually do sound sad. Jesus. But he's also focused.

[Ethan]

Roy, let's be very clear. We're all kind of like, I love watching everybody right here. Like, your eyes are on the tv. I imagine Adnan's eyes are over his computer on the tv. My eyes are on the computer. Like, this is getting intense, Adnan. It's 2:1 in the second period, in the third period right now.

[Adnan Burke]

I mean, stress. Go ahead.

[Roy Bellamy]

You did mention the women and not seeing enough international. I mean, not seeing enough players internationally. But we do have the pwhl and it seems to be shining more of a light on players from other countries. I think there is a recent push now, now that the league is here now. So do you agree with me that there's now, in recent years, at least the past two years, that there's been more of a push for women's hockey?

[Adnan Burke]

Yeah, I think definitely the rise, the PWHA that there are, is an actual. I mean, the fact it even exists, Roy, is a good thing, right? To actually have professional women's hockey league is great, and it certainly is an improvement over years past. You know, obviously they've got a long way to go in terms of getting attention and media reach and money and all that kind of thing. But, yeah, I mean, listen, our friend Blake Bolden is a big part of our coverage on Amazon Prime. The fact that they've got a game every week is great news. I think they're looking to expand. They're looking to do more things. You know, we've seen the improvement of wnb. Obviously, they've got their own issues right now with regards to labor. But, yeah, I think it's helping women's hockey that the PWHL exists. I'm just saying, on an international level, there's only two teams that are great, USA and Canada. So it's. It's Kind of a criticism in some ways, the men's tournament, that the. It's like a glorified exhibition tournament, the round robin. And all of a sudden, in single elimination, if anything can happen, you know, one hot goal, Lucas Dostal stands on his head and that team can win. It doesn't mean that Canada or USA aren't great teams, but, like, in one game, that can happen. So kind of feels more like a coin flip. So my point is that in an international tournament on international hockey, in the men's game, you can point to different teams that are really good. In women's hockey, there's only two teams. I don't think that's great for the sport.

[Dave]

No, I know the. The Swedish women are kind of picking it up of late. And Chechnyans as well. I. I wanted to build on what you're talking about, Adnan. But there's something else I wanted to ask you about before we move on from women's hockey, and it kind of ties into our last conversation. When you were on the show, we were talking about heated rivalry. I don't know if you've heard, but there was a Canadian or not a Canadian, excuse me, a women's hockey power couple. One Canadian woman, one American woman. And that power couple may have called it quits before the gold medal game. Carolyn Harvey of the U.S. daryl Watts of Team Canada.

[Roy Bellamy]

Wow.

[Dave]

No longer a couple, apparently. This is all over Twitter. The rumors are all over the Internet. Excuse me. I believe started on Tick Tock made its way down. They're trying to confirm this would be fairly significant. Adnan, do we have a real life heated rivalry situation going on here?

[Adnan Burke]

It's amazing, David, just how much heated rivalry has taken a life of its own. I subscribe to Variety magazine, which gets me all my Hollywood gossip and stories and film reviews, etc.

[Roy Bellamy]

Oh, that rag.

[Adnan Burke]

Yeah, that rag. I gotta read the rags every week, right? I got Variety, I got the Hollywood Reporter, and there was a whole big write up on the heated rivalry and the success of this little plucky Canadian show and how it's been so successful despite the fact nobody thought it would be a success, and how only it could be made in Canada and the budget they had for it. Now people are spawning imitators. Now, what could be the next heat of rivalry? What kind of unparalleled success could it be? And all the changes they wanted to make, they didn't want it to be too graphic and all that kind of stuff. So listen, heated rivalry has taken on a life of its Own. I hope it's not impacting real life couples, but anytime you have a Canadian and American couple, I imagine they get along fairly well. Our countries are fairly similar. Just when it comes to hockey, there can always be a bit of a split, so hopefully cooler heads prevail.

[Ethan]

Adnan, help us understand just how much of a national crisis would go down if Canada does not win gold. Whether it be they lose, they bow out to finland here with 950 left still down 2:1. Or if they go on, come back, win and then get to the gold medal game and lose. Like, is it still a national crisis even if they get to the gold medal game and lose?

[Adnan Burke]

No, the bigger the crisis is, the worst the result. So if they lost in the quarters against checking, I'm like, oh my God. Like then I would have been like, thank God I don't live in Canada because for the next four years there would have been a hockey summit. What's wrong with getting a hockey? How can you prove this? And again, like one game, man, anything can happen. Like, could there be second guessing? Of course you could say, well, they should add Matthew Schaefer from the team. They should have Conor Bedard, should add some more offense. You can argue that point right now because it's a struggle to score goals against Finland. Finland should not beat Canada, right? Period. Canada's a better hockey team. The talent they have up and down this roster could have sent two Canadian teams. But it happens. That's why we love hockey, right? Could be a hot goalie, could be a team playing well. It could be a team playing poorly. You want to use the Sidney Crosby excuse.

[Ethan]

I wouldn't.

[Adnan Burke]

I mean he's a great player. He's had a good tournament with the all time great players. But he's 38 years of age. He's not Connor McDavid. They've got Nathan McKinnon, they got Macklin style, brain. There's enough horses to carry that. So I'm not going to use a Crosby. Excuse me. So honestly, it would be worse. The different way would be meaning if it's in the quarterfinals, it's like, oh my God, it's all we're going to hear for four years. Finland's pretty bad. If they lose in the semis of Finland, this is going to be, if not quite crisis. It's definitely going to be a cause for concern. And lots of articles written in these guys taking on the chin. If you lose in the gold medal game to America again, it's painful, but everyone knows that USA is a Great team. I mean, if you lose to Slovakia in the gold medal final, again, looking ahead, that would also be painful. So it's. It's varying shades, to be honest with you, but avoiding a quarterfinal loss to check it was at least a sigh of relief.

[Roy Bellamy]

We'll get to Sidney Crosby in a second because that's going to be a major issue for the Penguins after the Olympics. But how do you feel about the 3 on 3 overtime format? They're going with NHL rules on that situation, but with a full period. I honestly yesterday do not think that that goal happens for the United States if it was 5 on 5. So what say you?

[Adnan Burke]

I think it's ridiculous. And I mean, it's been very entertaining, I will say. But, Roy, I was shocked, like, when I watched the Kanacheki. Wait, we're doing three on three. Like, I, I was ready for like, settle in. This is going to be a classic, you know, NHL playoff overtimes. This could be triple overtime. Keith Primo, marathon man, Flyers, Penguins. The fact he was 3 3, and I'm like, oh, my God. And right away, you know, Marty Natures is a big opportunity. Bington's able to stop him. Like, man, one shot, one play. This thing could be over. So I think it's laughable, to be quite honest with you, that it could be so quickly done. But the good news is the Overtons have been quick because three on three are going to get a quick result as we see in the regular season. And we definitely saw that yesterday for USA and Canada.

[Roy Bellamy]

Well, keep in mind, that's not how TJ Oshi won the gold medal. I mean, he didn't win it 5 on 5 continuously won a shootout, but

[Ethan]

he also didn't win a gold medal.

[Roy Bellamy]

That was.

[Dave]

He won a shootout. Okay. He was TJ Sochi. Let's just chill.

[Roy Bellamy]

Yeah. All right.

[Dave]

Well, he should have won a gold medal.

[Ethan]

Okay, agreed. Except that Canada team was like the best team ever.

[Roy Bellamy]

Yeah, yeah. But whatever, man. I don't want to even talk about Canada. Go ahead, Dave.

[Dave]

All right, Adnan, let's talk about Canada for a second. You mentioned, you mentioned somebody who's just been knocking my socks off this entire tournament, who I'm very excited to watch for the next 20 years. And that's Macklin Celebrini. Oh, no.

[Roy Bellamy]

Oh, there it is.

[Dave]

Speak to the. Did he. Who just scored? Canada just scored. That's why everybody's droning. And Adnan just.

[Ethan]

There it is.

[Adnan Burke]

Are Badowski and Roy being like, oh, Canada score. Like they're happy for Me. Or they're like, oh, Canada.

[Ethan]

Two, two. Shea. Theodore.

[Adnan Burke]

Thank God. Shea Theater coming through.

[Dave]

All right.

[Ethan]

With Marcand and Bennett on the ice. Look what happens, John Cooper, when you play the Florida Panthers.

[Roy Bellamy]

Good things, plus one.

[Adnan Burke]

There you go. See Ethan swings. A positive sense. By the way, David, before you wait,

[Dave]

is that going to get looked at? His marsh kind of rolled over his back.

[Roy Bellamy]

Are they going to review this?

[Dave]

Well, we're real time reacting to this, folks.

[Roy Bellamy]

Oh, my goodness.

[Dave]

And you know, like, they're way more sensitive about goalie interference and CRE stuff.

[Roy Bellamy]

Oh, no. He got pushed in. You got pushed in.

[Dave]

That they're going to look at it. Anyway, back on topic as we wait to see what happens here. Adnan, the floor is yours. Josh, about Macklin Celebrini, please.

[Adnan Burke]

But to say my. I was just about to relax and my heartbeat returned to normal. Now my heart's back in my throat while I have to wait for Badowski Roy to give me a replay update.

[Ethan]

I think you're good. I think you're good.

[Adnan Burke]

Thank God I gave a proper answer now.

[Roy Bellamy]

Yeah.

[Adnan Burke]

Celebrity has been amazing, David. It makes you laugh. Like, how is this even a conversation? Like, how is there even a chance that this guy wasn't going to be a part of this tournament? Right. He's been so vital to the team. I would argue he's been their second best player after Connor McDavid. Connor McDavid coming in this tournament game, excuse me, 12 points with a couple of goals, but celebrating, has been leading with five goals. And he's been amazing. And Nate Thompson was making the point on our podcast, NHL Unscripted, that, you know, it's kind of like what Ethan was just saying as far as putting Panthers together, you need to have guys who know how to play with each other. And to Celebrini, he's been great. He's willing to acclimate himself. He can go on the wing, he can play different positions, he can take the power play, like whatever he needs. So, like, it's not as easy as you think just to throw a bunch of collection of talent together. It's not only celebrating his skill set, but also his ability to mold that skill set to whoever he's playing with. He's been awesome, a revelation. And as you said, for the next 20 years, we're going to be watching him play for Team Canada.

[Dave]

What I love about him, Madman, is obviously he's super skilled and we've got plenty of young, super skilled guys in the lead right now. And it's very, very Exciting, you know, with Connor Bedard, his teammate, Will Smith, the guys up in Anaheim. But what I love about Macklin, what we're seeing, like, bits and pieces of throughout the season, it's not just his skill set, it's his hockey iq, it's his maturity. And I think back to that play, like right before the Olympic break where he got clipped, the ref called a high stick penalty, and he's like, no, no, no. It didn't actually hit me. Don't call a penalty. That didn't happen. Which you never, ever see at this level, like, the kind of integrity that that young man is showing, and he still got so much more growing and maturity to do. That gives me hope, not just as a hockey fan, but as a human being that there's still some nice, youthful people in the world. Yeah.

[Adnan Burke]

And as we said before, David, like, when it comes to the trophy, like, it's interesting conversation because you think, well, it's McDavid, that stretch they went on, he'll be the guy. Or maybe it's McKinnon, because the Avalanche will probably be the number one seed. Maybe it's Kucherov, who's perennially overlooked, but he's always going to be in contention for the Art Ross. But then you look at Celebrity, you go, if the Sharks make the playoffs, you can make a legit vote that Macklin Celebrity should be the hard trophy winner. I mean, in terms of percentage of points that he's been a part of, he's over 50% of his team's points, more than any other player. For McDavid, you can say he's got dry sell. For McKinney, you can say he's got Makar. With regards to celebrating, he is the San Jose Sharks. You look at that team with respect to Will Smith and others, he's been the guy carrying them. So you're right. Not only is he great right now, but he could be a hard trophy winner. It's crazy.

[Dave]

Well, that's the definition of the heart trophy. It's the most valuable player to his team. So I completely agree with you. When you look at it in the context of that specific term, it's got to be Macklin Celebrini, because if you pluck him off that Shark seam, they are who we thought they were.

[Adnan Burke]

Yeah.

[Roy Bellamy]

All right.

[Adnan Burke]

Good reference. Yeah.

[Roy Bellamy]

All right. Cindy Crosby. This injury apparently was not worst case scenario for Team Canada, according to Emily Kaplan. And they were trying to find a custom brace for him to skate on, according to Elliot Friedman.

[Dave]

So skate, Sydney, skate.

[Roy Bellamy]

So that didn't work for Canada. So they held him out in this game. He's going to play in the gold medal game. If they get past Finland today.

[Dave]

You heard it here.

[Roy Bellamy]

They're getting closer, they're getting down. What you.

[Rosie]

You.

[Roy Bellamy]

I mean, you don't think he's going to play the gold medal game? I think he's going to play the gold medal game. You heard here first.

[Adnan Burke]

I think it's a coin flip, Roy. I mean, for them to say, initially, as you said, the MRI was not the worst case scenario, but then to rule him out, but saying, well, he's not necessarily out of the tournament. I don't think that means he's in for the gold medal game. I just means, like, they're keeping the door ajar. You're taking that to be like 90% he's in. I'm like, no, I think it means he's like 20% he's in.

[Dave]

Paul Maurici in this situation, they had him at 30%. We'll find out tomorrow. Then tomorrow comes around. Always week to week.

[Roy Bellamy]

And, you know, I mean, there is

[Ethan]

no week to week at these Olympics. If you're weak to week, it's over.

[Adnan Burke]

Like the NHL, he'd be out for a week or two. That we definitely know. But the Olympics are trying to say, okay, 10% chance. Willis Reed, can he give us a couple of shifts? Is there any point to this? That's, I think, what they're doing.

[Dave]

And Matthew Tachuk in the Four nations final, what do you play, like, five minutes?

[Roy Bellamy]

Yeah, it'll probably be 13 forward, just like Sam Reinhart was today. But that.

[Ethan]

Don't get me started on that.

[Roy Bellamy]

All right, so that leads me to as. As we said, week to week, that leads me to the National Hockey League and what Pittsburgh is going to have to do if he is significantly injured. What say you at now? What's going to happen here? Because they're on a playoff chase.

[Dave]

Yeah.

[Adnan Burke]

I mean, listen, for Pittsburgh, it would be absolutely brutal, right? Because as you said, no one's expecting this team really to be a playoff team, and they're in that hunt. So if Crosby's out for an extended period of time, and again, if this was the NHL regular season, I think we all know he'd be out for a week or two. A week or two can do my team. Like, it was so incredibly tight for much of this regular season, and then finally we saw some separation a week or two before the Olympic break. But all of a sudden now, if you go like an 031 stretch like Pittsburgh would be in real trouble. And Crosby's been so vital to this team. So this is truly that worst case scenario. You say, okay, it's so much fun. All we get to watch Olympic hockey at a national level, but there's only seven of 32 teams that are really being accounted for. Right. If you look at the number of players playing in the Olympics versus everybody staying at home, 25 of the 32 are just hanging out. Right. Go get some sun. Relax. Do what you got to do. Those players took that risk by going there. And I can imagine for that Penguins fan base, or for Kyle Dubas specifically, he's irate, he's outraged. But this is the risk that you take.

[Dave]

Fun fact, Roy. Pittsburgh is the worst shootout team in the NHL at 1 and 7.

[Roy Bellamy]

Yeah, he's not exactly open things. I guess he's trying to give you

[Dave]

something, to give you a little something before you move on. That's all.

[Roy Bellamy]

Well, I appreciate you. I appreciate doing you doing that set. We had this idea of creating a hockey team and rostering characters from TV shows and movies, and this week's choice was Family Guy. And right now it's gonna be David and Adnan doing the teams because I know I actually don't watch Family Guy

[Ethan]

and nobody included me on the joke.

[Dave]

As we get more into this, I think we should. Maybe the communication will be a little bit better. The idea was fun. We talked about doing it with Sopranos characters, so there's something good there. But this week, we. It's just me and Adnan.

[Roy Bellamy]

All right, so let's start. I mean, we're going to do the starters here, the five position players, and goaltender. Why don't you start there, David?

[Dave]

What position would you like me to start with?

[Roy Bellamy]

I mean, you're a goaltender. Might as well go with the guy in the net.

[Dave]

Lead with net. Fine. I'm putting Peter Griffin in goal. Adnan. As long as he shows up to the game sober, he's actually quite good between the pipes. Granted, much of that space he's taking up with his massive frame. But every so often a Greg Goldberg comes along and defies the laws of gravity by being a chubby goalie with ridiculous reflexes that can stop the puck. That's my Peter Griffin to put the

[Ethan]

sumo wrestler in goal strategy.

[Roy Bellamy]

Yeah.

[Dave]

What was the. Was it the giant Sea lion from that commercial?

[Ethan]

The walrus?

[Roy Bellamy]

Yeah.

[Adnan Burke]

I think it's almost like he's deceptively athletic. Like, at the very least, he's a big guy. Should think he stopped the Fuck. But I'm with you. If you've watched enough Family Guy, he's pretty nimble at times. Peter Griffin can get around a little bit. Kick saving a beauty. I think he can stop the fivefold. And quite honestly, I'm not going to put him anywhere else. Maybe he's a lumbering defenseman, but I think a goalie is the right choice for Peter Griffin.

[Dave]

Is that also your goalie?

[Adnan Burke]

He's my goalie as well.

[Ethan]

I did not have Adnan down as a family guy.

[Dave]

Oh, come on, Mark.

[Roy Bellamy]

Stall.

[Adnan Burke]

I'm not, to be honest with you, but I just throw it out there. When he said to me a show. I'm not a family guy. But I don't actually.

[Ethan]

That's perfect.

[Roy Bellamy]

All right, go ahead.

[Adnan Burke]

The same with the rest of the way. Because really, all I know about the next one is Stewie, because I love Stewie. He's unbelievable anybody who's a homicidal baby. So to me, he's my sentiment. Like, I want him taking. I think he's great in the opposition. I think he's a kamikaze in there. I think he goes in the corners that he fights. I think he's gonna play me 30 minutes tonight. I'll double shift him late. His energy is off the charts by center.

[Dave]

See, I got Stewie as my coach. Yeah, well, you know, because he's a. He's a. He's a WAR general. He knows how to direct players. He knows how to conquer things. So I had Stewie coaching. But my top line center, it's Glenn Quagmire. Plays like Barkov, looks like Tom Wilson. He's fast. He's got hands like a magician. He can take off a woman's bra in less than a half a second. He's got this sneaky acceleration right there. Defenders never see him coming. Sneaks up behind streaking forwards. Glenn Clydmire is my guy.

[Ethan]

Charlie McAvoy, with his chin all beat up, kind of looks like Quagmire right now.

[Dave]

But Tom Wilson has those cheeks. He looks like a chipmunk.

[Adnan Burke]

That's a tremendous Quagmire reference I want to mention. On defense, I've got Brian. I think. Listen, we all know that a dog is a man's best friend, and in this case, a goalie's best friend. Peter Griffin's best friend is Brian. If you get a dog back there ready to go, there's a dog in the fight. He's the guy. Ethan's holding his hand up.

[Ethan]

No, I just love it.

[Roy Bellamy]

I just. Amazing.

[Ethan]

Analysis. Dog's best dog is man's best friend. He's a goalie's best friend. Just amazing.

[Dave]

Solid logic.

[Roy Bellamy]

Yeah, but he's not a fighter because Stewie.

[Dave]

So, yeah, rounding out my forwards, I got on the left side, I got grease stuff. Def guy, easy choice, impossible to cover, slimy on the boards, just real good around the net. On the right side, I wanted a Matthew Tachuk type from my right wing. A sweetheart off the ice, but a nightmare inside the boards. That's Cleveland Brown. There's a reason that he's the low key tough guy in Peter Peter Griffin's friends group, and that's because it's Cleveland.

[Adnan Burke]

I mean, Cleveland's a great choice. I mean, to me, I want a 4. I want Megan there. I think you're gonna go, like, sweet. Like, you know, on sweet off the ice, tough on the ice. I think I've got Meg as my left winger. I think she's in there. She's willing to get dirty if need be. I think Meg is. Again, women's hockey. I want some representation of my team. So I'm putting Meg as my. One of my forwards.

[Dave]

I got. Meg is my right D. Basically, Radko Dudas without the beard. On the ice, decent skater, impossible to get around. Heavy shot, surprisingly physical, but that's definitely one of the female representation. And then as my Lefty, I've got Mr. Herbert. Is there anyone better at tracking their prey? Or anyone with a sneakier quickness than that old pervert? Mr. Herbert plays through injuries, and he's like the Terminator when he's got his eyes on you and he's pursuing you.

[Adnan Burke]

I mean, no one's going to top that. I'll just mention that Lois is Brian's D partner. I'll just leave it at that. I just need to round out my rest of my starting five. I said ultimately, Quagmire was your best choice. I want to make Quagmire now my coach. That's pretty funny.

[Ethan]

Oh, my God.

[Roy Bellamy]

So is that your entire roster?

[Ethan]

That's it.

[Dave]

That's. That's our Family Guy hockey roster.

[Roy Bellamy]

Oh, my God. Roster. All right, Rosie.

[Dave]

Mine might end up in jail.

[Roy Bellamy]

Rosie, you have a movie question before we get out of here?

[Rosie]

Before you go, have you watched Wuthering Heights?

[Adnan Burke]

I haven't. My wife went and saw it with her girlfriends. It was a huge hit at the box office. Rosie. $84 million, which is massive.

[Dave]

Is that the one with Margot Robbie?

[Adnan Burke]

Margot Robbie? Jacob Elordi. I love the book, Rosie. I read it. Years ago, when I was in college, we had to read it in American literature. Heathcliff, the tortured hero with bays, headbutting trees and stuff. It's great. I did. I did really enjoy the book, but honestly, I wasn't. I wasn't upset that she went with her girlfriends. I wasn't, like, rushing it to see Wuthering Heights. I'll see it at some point. I'm not crazy about Emerald Fennel. I like the cast. I like both those actors. But I really didn't like Saltburn. I was really opinion.

[Rosie]

I hated Saltburn.

[Dave]

Yeah.

[Adnan Burke]

So it's the same director, right? Emerald Fennel. So I'm not really crazy about her stuff.

[Rosie]

Yeah. When people were like, hey, I read the book and everything. I read the book. I don't care about the book. I don't care about the story. I just want to go see Jacob. Lordy. And when I saw that it was Jacob out loud.

[Ethan]

Is having a moment.

[Adnan Burke]

Royce.

[Ethan]

What is having a moment? Listen, he did Rivalry. Wuthering Heights.

[Adnan Burke]

No, it's funny. A friend of mine saw it, Rosie, and I just said, hey, is Margot Robbie? We're getting any of that? And he goes, no. And nor from Jacob Elordi. And I started laughing. I go, I'm glad you pointed. Yes, because neither of them were naked at any point in the movie. He goes, there's quite a bit of filth in there. But neither Elordi or Margot Ross.

[Dave]

That's an important question. Adnan, I appreciate you asking those.

[Rosie]

No, but just watching him in the. In his white shirt under the rain, I was like, oh, yeah, I'm in.

[Ethan]

I mean, can we let Adnan go? There's under four minutes left in a tie game in the semifinals of the Olympics. Like, let's let Adnan go. Go watch the game, Adnan.

[Roy Bellamy]

We love you. Adnan, before you leave, what's your next assignment in, I guess, what weeks?

[Adnan Burke]

Yeah, Amazon prime returns March 2. That's right. Flyers and Leafs. I look forward to that game. Although unfortunately, both those teams. Look at the. Probably not going to make the playoffs. We thought it'd be a good game at the start of the season, but it'll be a chance to see, hopefully Travis Sanheim, gold medalist for Team Canada, back playing in Toronto.

[Roy Bellamy]

We'll see. So there you go. That's Anan's next assignment. He works for Prime Monday Night Hockey. Adnan Burke, thank you for joining us.

[Adnan Burke]

All right, thank you, guys. Jacob Elordi, by the way, nominated for best supporting actor. So I'm sure that Rosie's Oliver Frankenstein as well. Available on Netflix.

[Rosie]

Yeah, I haven't watched it. Jacob Authority. Woo.

[Dave]

Deep breaths, brother.

[Roy Bellamy]

All right, thanks again for Adam and Evric for joining us. The hockey show has a live stream on Sunday for the gold medal game and right now it's a toss up because we don't know if Canada is going to make it and we don't know if the United States are going to make it. But whoever makes it, we're going to watch them on a live stream on Sunday at 8am Eastern. That's going to be on the Levitage Show YouTube page. So please everybody join us there. All four of us will be there.

[Dave]

Gotta figure out how I'm gonna get some cafecito at 8:00am in Davey.

[Roy Bellamy]

Yeah, I'm gonna have to have. Yeah, I'm going to end the show so I don't have to listen to any more sounds.

[Ethan]

I mean, I want to watch the

[Adnan Burke]

end of this game.

[Roy Bellamy]

All right, 308 left. Yeah, I'm not going to end it because you need to watch this game. That's not a priority for me. But anyway, thank you for the guys in the back, Gino and Jason. Thank you.

[Dave]

Danny's back there too.

[Roy Bellamy]

Thank you, Rosie.

[Ethan]

You missed somebody.

[Roy Bellamy]

Alexander Barkov. Thank you for. Thank you. David Dwarker for Hockey News. My name is and. And the show is. Thank you to Percy next week. Thank you.

[Rosie]

Thank you, Percy.

[Adnan Burke]

Thank you.

[Rosie]

Percy.

[Dave]

Percy.

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