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OneLegUpAlex Sports - Terminello's Take Previews USA - Canada Men's Hockey Gold Medal Game recorded 2-21-26 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: Hey everyone, It's Alex S. Garrett, host of One Look
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  Speaker 1: Up with Alex Garrett aka One Look Up.
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  Speaker 2: Alex.
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  Speaker 1: Excited to have you for a year thirteen of this podcast.
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  Speaker 2: We've gotten through.
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  Speaker 1: Twelve amazing years thanks to you. Here's to lucky thirteen.
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  Speaker 1: All right, well back here on Terminello's Take with my friend,
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  Speaker 1: my buddy, lou Terminello. Welcome back. Firstly, how are you feeling.
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  Speaker 1: Are we're gonna set the gold standard this weekend or
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  Speaker 1: what louis?
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  Speaker 2: Hi? Alex, good morning, and thanks for having me as always, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I hope so, I hope we do set the gold
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  Speaker 2: standard this weekend. And obviously what we're talking about is
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  Speaker 2: USA Hockey Team USA VERSUS Team Canada tomorrow morning at
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  Speaker 2: a ten Eastern time. It's going to be a hell
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  Speaker 2: of a game. These are the two best teams in
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  Speaker 2: the tournament. This is the best United States a national
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  Speaker 2: team Olympic team in any international tournament ever. I'm looking
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  Speaker 2: forward to it, I really am, Alex.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about why they're you know, they're at this level.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I almost think they are stronger than they
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  Speaker 1: were fifteen sixteen years ago. I mean, this is the
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  Speaker 1: strongest team USA. I've seen even rather doubt even since
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  Speaker 1: last year. I don't know what improvement they made, but
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  Speaker 1: they added some guys it feels like since last year even.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the one guy who was not there in Four Nations,
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  Speaker 2: who was injured, who got injured just before the tournament.
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  Speaker 2: And in my opinion, you can argue whether it's Austin
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  Speaker 2: Matthews or Quinn Ughes, who's the best American player currently
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  Speaker 2: in the National Hockey League. Quinn News was not in
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  Speaker 2: Four Nations last year. If Quinn News wasn't Four Nations,
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  Speaker 2: they might have won that gold medal game against Canada.
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  Speaker 2: And he's been the best United States player. He controls
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  Speaker 2: the game, as US head coach Mike Sullivan says, he's
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  Speaker 2: a magical player. And he is a magical player, and
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  Speaker 2: that's one of the reasons why this team is better
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  Speaker 2: than last you see, and compared to twenty ten, they're
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  Speaker 2: a level better this team, which.
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  Speaker 1: To me, I'm looking at it as well. See, this
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  Speaker 1: should inspire Drey. If you give Mike Sullivan's team to coach,
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  Speaker 1: he'll actually coach. Well, I mean, look what he's been
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  Speaker 1: doing with Team USA.
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  Speaker 2: There's there's no doubt about it. You need uh. As
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  Speaker 2: great a coach as any in any sport might be.
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  Speaker 2: You do need uh, you do need personnel, and this
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  Speaker 2: is this team is excellent. They have depth, they have speed.
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  Speaker 2: Jack Hughes is playing great. Quinn's brother, he's you know,
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  Speaker 2: he's been a tremendous player for them. Tate Thompson, who
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  Speaker 2: was not.
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  Speaker 1: On that Funny, isn't it funny because we were all
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  Speaker 1: in the traces area. Oh my god, Jack Hugh zac
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  Speaker 1: us yet so by the way, he's Quinn's brother, Like,
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  Speaker 1: it's just funny the way you worded that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he's playing great, obviously, we know obvious when he's healthy,
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  Speaker 2: he's as good as there there is. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: playing on a very effective line with the Detroit Red Wings.
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  Speaker 2: Dylan Larkin, who's been great in this tournament along with you.
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  Speaker 2: They moved to us to to Wane. He's a natural center,
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  Speaker 2: he's played wing and he's played very well. And Cage Thompson,
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  Speaker 2: who got hurt in the second period of the wind
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  Speaker 2: yesterday against Slovakia. Hopefully he's ready to go tomorrow morning.
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  Speaker 2: They they did, of course, as in hockey, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they don't identify most injuries, but hopefully he's he's ready
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  Speaker 2: to go.
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  Speaker 1: But that was about the guy who scored the first
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  Speaker 1: goal at Larkin. I mean, is he because I feel
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  Speaker 1: like he's the guy that we don't really hear about
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  Speaker 1: often in the NHL season.
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  Speaker 2: He's a star. He's part of the rebirth of the
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  Speaker 2: Detroit Red Wings, who look like they're gonna be back
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  Speaker 2: in the playoffs this year. He's fast. The United States
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  Speaker 2: team is fast, and one of the keys tomorrow is
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  Speaker 2: going to be how quickly they move the puck and
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  Speaker 2: get the puck up to their forwards. I think they're
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  Speaker 2: going to be able to do that. They have good
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  Speaker 2: team speed. You have to win every board battle. And
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  Speaker 2: the other thing is yesterday when the game was still
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  Speaker 2: too nothing US over Slovakia, they took four penalties the
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  Speaker 2: United States. You cannot do that against the Canadian Olympic team.
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  Speaker 2: They will bury you. And the game winning goal yesterday
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  Speaker 2: for Canada versus Finland was a power play goal and
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  Speaker 2: with thirty five seconds ago alex Finland when they took
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  Speaker 2: the tow lead. And I'm watching this game and no
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  Speaker 2: team plays better with the lead, whether it's the Olympics,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's the World Championships, whatever international tournament it is.
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  Speaker 2: No team plays better with the lead and goes into
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  Speaker 2: a bubble better than Finland. But Finland went into the
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  Speaker 2: bumble way too early in the second period yesterday, and
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  Speaker 2: they were trying to protect the lead. They were not
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  Speaker 2: doing anything offensively and by the time they tried to
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  Speaker 2: it was too late. They went. They went into Katie
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  Speaker 2: bar the door, as the old saying goes protection way
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  Speaker 2: too early, and it basically cost them the game. They
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  Speaker 2: almost got away with it, but.
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  Speaker 1: It really asked you this. So when I record that
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  Speaker 1: little bit about the elite nature of biological brotherhood in
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  Speaker 1: the USA hockey world since nineteen twenty, Philand was up
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  Speaker 1: to nothing and they obviously could not hold Canada and
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  Speaker 1: they lose. Let's say US goes up by that margin.
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  Speaker 1: What do they have to do to hold down Canada
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  Speaker 1: and not let them come back.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the one thing they have to do, Alex is
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  Speaker 2: they have to continue to play smart but aggressively. Because
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  Speaker 2: the one thing watching Canadian national teams over the years,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's in Canada Cup, Four Nations, Olympics, World Championships,
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  Speaker 2: whatever it is, you have to drive a stake through
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  Speaker 2: the Canadian heart to win. They don't give up when
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  Speaker 2: they're behind. That gets them even more motivated. Alex If
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  Speaker 2: the United States is up four to one or five
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  Speaker 2: to one tomorrow with ten minutes to go, the United
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  Speaker 2: States still can't take their foot off the gas pedal. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: they have to be cautious, they can't get caught they
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  Speaker 2: get caught up ice, But they can't just allow Canada
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  Speaker 2: to take to play them because Canada, their will to
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  Speaker 2: win on a scale of one to ten is an
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  Speaker 2: eleven and you really have to play sixty minutes to
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  Speaker 2: beat them. And that's what the United States is going
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  Speaker 2: to have to do tomorrow to beat them. A couple
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  Speaker 2: of things that I've just really caught my eye the
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  Speaker 2: rise of Macklin Celebrini and we talked about it on
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  Speaker 2: the last podcast talking about the skill levels of Cono
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  Speaker 2: McDavid and Nathan McKinnon, and we said that rising to
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  Speaker 2: that level is Macklin Celebrini, and Macklin Celebriny is having,
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  Speaker 2: at the age of nineteen, in his first ever Olympics,
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  Speaker 2: is having a spectacular tournament. Their quality of skill is
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  Speaker 2: off the charts. And yesterday when Finland was up to nothing,
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  Speaker 2: John Cooper the coach of the Tampa Bay Lightning, who
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  Speaker 2: is the coach of the Canadian Olympic team, took McDavid
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  Speaker 2: was playing with Celebate and Tom Wilson. He took Wilson
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  Speaker 2: off that line and he put McKinnon in there. So
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  Speaker 2: he put the three big guns on that line. They
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  Speaker 2: were on that line for the rest of the game.
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  Speaker 2: He put Wilson with Sam Bennett and Brad Marshatt and Uh, Wilson,
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  Speaker 2: Bennon and Marshant were as good as any line on
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  Speaker 2: the ice. The physically helped lead to the tying goal.
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  Speaker 2: I know Finland. UH thought that it was uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: a crease of violation and the goaltender interference. It was close.
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  Speaker 2: I thought. I thought it was a good goal, but
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  Speaker 2: Marshaant being aggressive in front of the net allowed them
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  Speaker 2: to tie the game with McCart tied it with the
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  Speaker 2: with the slap shot. Uh and UH. Then there was
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  Speaker 2: a penalty with two with two thirty five to go,
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  Speaker 2: a high stick on on Amico mcle of the back
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  Speaker 2: to back champion UH Florida Panthers. It I would have it.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't the worst high stick in the world. We've
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  Speaker 2: seen those high sticks get passed up sometimes, but it
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  Speaker 2: was a penalty and you put you put McDavid McKinnon,
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  Speaker 2: s calabreening mccarr all on the power play. Yeah, you
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  Speaker 2: better say your prayers and you cannot you cannot make
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  Speaker 2: penalties against Team Canada. Especially.
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  Speaker 1: Let me ask you about this. I feel like this
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  Speaker 1: tournament more than others, maybe because Kenny Albert and those
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  Speaker 1: are pointing it out, but the the idea of being
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  Speaker 1: teammates going into these world levels, it helps. I mean
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  Speaker 1: Bennett and Marsha and their teammates and then Boldie, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he gave it. He was the first right there with
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  Speaker 1: Quinn Hughes because they're teammates up and I mean, the
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  Speaker 1: the idea of the teammates is really in playing a
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  Speaker 1: role this Olympics, isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: I totally agree. I mean, you look at Team Canada.
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  Speaker 2: They have cal mccarr and they have Delante's they play
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  Speaker 2: regularly with the with the Kyle with the Avalanche, with
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  Speaker 2: the Colorado Avalanche, and they and they're they're lead defensive
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  Speaker 2: pair and they play together, which is which is smart.
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  Speaker 2: So one hundred right, the familiarity definitely makes a difference
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  Speaker 2: the other thing is there was a play and there
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  Speaker 2: wasn't a goal scoring play. It was happened. It happened,
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  Speaker 2: uh in the first period where Marshant bowled over his
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  Speaker 2: teammate Nico mcla going into uh jurisorrows in the uh
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  Speaker 2: finished net. So there's it. They're looking at these, whether
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  Speaker 2: your teammate or not, for this. For these two weeks,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's the enemy. You might next week you might
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  Speaker 2: be going out to dinner with them when you're backup
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  Speaker 2: playing for your team or whatever you do off ice,
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  Speaker 2: but this week they're they're the enemy. And uh yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean Nicol was playing up against you know, jt
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  Speaker 1: and and Trocheck and I heard from Eli Walker that
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  Speaker 1: he was crying after Sweden got knocked out of this Olympics.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of these guys got emotional. I mean, this
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  Speaker 1: is a very big deal.
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  Speaker 2: It's a big deal. Now that being said, yes, it
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  Speaker 2: is a big deal. And I remember some of the
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  Speaker 2: Americans who were crying after they lost that overtime game
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  Speaker 2: in twenty ten in Vancouver to the Sydney carsby golden goal.
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  Speaker 2: The thing is, even though they want to they want
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  Speaker 2: to win this gold medal. Every player wants to win
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  Speaker 2: this skull medal that's in this tournament. And you know
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  Speaker 2: eighty five percent of them are NHL players, no matter
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  Speaker 2: what what nation is.
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  Speaker 1: That's why medaling in general is going to be so
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  Speaker 1: important to me. It's like, you want to get the gold,
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  Speaker 1: but we're getting medaled. I mean, that's a big deal
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  Speaker 1: that the US with this caliber. But we should go
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  Speaker 1: for gold obviously. But I think I know where you're
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  Speaker 1: going with this is to medal are important.
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  Speaker 2: It is important. But if you if you go to
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  Speaker 2: June and you ask any of these players that when
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  Speaker 2: they're playing for this in the Stanley Cup playoffs and
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  Speaker 2: they have a chance to win the Stanley Cup, Olympic
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  Speaker 2: Medal or Stanley cuper of them are gonna say Stanley Cup. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: they want to win. They want to win tomorrow. The
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  Speaker 2: United States does not expect to lose tomorrow. They do not,
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  Speaker 2: and it will be heartbreaking if they lose.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's say about that because you mentioned Cinda kid
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  Speaker 1: and this year has been weird, right, So we had
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  Speaker 1: that injury and they weren't sure he was going to play,
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  Speaker 1: it didn't play yesterday, or it just it was kind
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  Speaker 1: of a mess with him now they say he might
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  Speaker 1: play tomorrow. I think he will. But to me and
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  Speaker 1: maybe because of the twenty ten goal, that guy's the
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  Speaker 1: vetterman of the team Canada. And if he's not locked
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  Speaker 1: in one hundred percent or health one hundred percent, that
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  Speaker 1: does favor the US a little bit more than the
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  Speaker 1: other years.
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  Speaker 2: Well, this Canadian team is so so so stacked. It's
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  Speaker 2: so stacked. I mean, yeah, they probably they want to
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  Speaker 2: have him just because of his the legacy of his
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  Speaker 2: of his international and national hockey league career. But this
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  Speaker 2: team is so is so stacked, this team Canada, it's it's.
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  Speaker 1: Unbelievabviously McDavid took the reins yesterday and was able to
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  Speaker 1: lock in, as they say, and and get this team
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  Speaker 1: to win against Finland.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, but they did a great job. But they
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  Speaker 2: would not have been out. They would not be playing
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  Speaker 2: tomorrow if it wasn't for Tom Wilson, Sam Bennett and
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  Speaker 2: Brad Marshawn. I mean that line was just as effective
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  Speaker 2: as the McDavid McKinnon, the Celebrinian line. I can't believe
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  Speaker 2: how good, how good celebrin he is this quickly. I
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  Speaker 2: mean I saw him play live in college. I know
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  Speaker 2: he was gonna be good, but in his second year
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  Speaker 2: he's blossomed. Alex These young players in the National Hockey League,
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  Speaker 2: whether they're from North America or from Europe, the future
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  Speaker 2: of the NHL, as far as he's skill level young
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  Speaker 2: guys is off the charts. There's this is just me speaking,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, I have been watch in hockey for
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  Speaker 2: sixty years plus. The skill level at the National Hockey
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  Speaker 2: League level right now is the best in the history
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  Speaker 2: of the league. There's no doubt in my mind.
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  Speaker 1: You know. And I also think about how in eighty
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  Speaker 1: they were not these six foot seven guys. They were
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  Speaker 1: like smaller kids, and they were college kids, and they's
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  Speaker 1: a bit more scrawny, I feel like. And now maybe
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  Speaker 1: that's the evolution of Team USA from then to now,
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  Speaker 1: but it just seems like a very different makeup than
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  Speaker 1: the team that won in eighty. Yet somehow there is
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  Speaker 1: an underdog spirit in both teams that I feel like
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  Speaker 1: we're coming into it as tomorrow is we you know,
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  Speaker 1: might be we're expected to win, but we got to
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  Speaker 1: do it. And there's that sort of miracle, a nice
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  Speaker 1: kind of energy I'm feeling going into tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Well, if the United States wins tomorrow. It's no miracle. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: it's ironically on the anniversary of the Miracle on Ice,
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  Speaker 2: when the United States beat the Soviet Union four to
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  Speaker 2: three February twenty second, nineteen eighty soul.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, would be amazing on America to fifty
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  Speaker 1: to win it on America's first presidents birthday, George Washington, Alex, the.
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  Speaker 2: Symmetry is is pretty amazing. For sure. I hope they win. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: I'm rooting for them. I think they have a great
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  Speaker 2: chance of winning. I think they have to stay out
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  Speaker 2: of the box. They have to obviously take advantage of
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  Speaker 2: any power play they get. They cannot be timid and
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  Speaker 2: they cannot take as I said earlier, they cannot take
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  Speaker 2: their foot off the gas pedal if they're leading in
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  Speaker 2: the third period. They gotta play smart. But Canada will
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  Speaker 2: not die. They will not die, Alex. They're like Dracula.
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  Speaker 2: You gotta drive the stake through the heart to kill them.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, I think I'm going to add
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  Speaker 1: a team USA Jersey to my fanatics. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if you saw this. The storefront I've created like a marketplace,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm gonna add that to my collection and maybe
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  Speaker 1: sell some Team USA stuff because they deserve it. This
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  Speaker 1: year obviously you always want to rep Team USA. May
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  Speaker 1: I'll throw a jersey up there and you can find
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  Speaker 1: them linked below, because you know, hey, they've been at Finax,
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  Speaker 1: has been truly supportive Team USA and they've been talking
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  Speaker 1: about them all all tournament long. By the way, So.
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  Speaker 2: Which color are you gonna get? There's a bunch of
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  Speaker 2: colors I saw.
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  Speaker 1: I really I do like the white one. I do?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I actually I like the white one.
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  Speaker 1: I do because I have a blue USA jersey, might
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  Speaker 1: as well get a white one too, so you know,
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  Speaker 1: even it out a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: So so uh, Austin Matthews, Yeah, I know, statistically his
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  Speaker 2: status looked.
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  Speaker 1: And remember he's a guy that's coming off of this well,
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  Speaker 1: he missed a few big shots last year in the
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  Speaker 1: Four Nations, but he looks on this tournament. Am I right?
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  Speaker 2: Well he has to, yes, and no, he's not been
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  Speaker 2: the dominant player that he needs to be. I think
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  Speaker 2: tomorrow is a big game for Austin Matthews, not only
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  Speaker 2: for the South of the border, but he plays for
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  Speaker 2: the Toronto Maple Leafs, Canada's most popular team because they
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  Speaker 2: play in the biggest metropolitan area and they are a
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  Speaker 2: national team in Canada, just like the Canadians. But the
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  Speaker 2: Greater Toronto metropolitan area is the fifth largest market in
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  Speaker 2: North America. And there's a lot of pressure I think
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  Speaker 2: on Austin Matthews from both sides of the border because
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  Speaker 2: he plays for Toronto and Toronto has failed in the playoffs,
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  Speaker 2: and they have a lot of superstars, you know, Taveris
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  Speaker 2: and Neilander, and you know I got rid of Marner
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  Speaker 2: who won the game for Canada the other day in
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  Speaker 2: overtime with a brilliant goal. I think tomorrow tomorrow is
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  Speaker 2: a big pressure game for Austin Matthews. Watch Austin Matthews tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: He he needs to be a difference maker for the
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  Speaker 2: United States and for himself. That's that's my observation.
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  Speaker 1: I you know, all right now talking about performances, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, he gets roasted for the way he it
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  Speaker 1: was sort of a quicker exit I think for Winnipeg
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  Speaker 1: last year. But Hella Buck, I mean, what a changing goal.
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  Speaker 1: That was the difference maker. And you said that way
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  Speaker 1: early on in the preliminaries loop.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's a great goaltender. He'll be under pressure tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Remember he won the Vesno Trophy and MVP last year,
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  Speaker 2: and really in the last thirty years, only two or
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: three goaltenders have one MVP. Jose Theodore Domi, Kashik carry Price,
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  Speaker 2: I believe also won one year. But I think that's
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  Speaker 2: it and there's gonna be there's gonna be pressure on him, but.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's being a managed I always thought it.
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  Speaker 1: The way he spells is the name Austin, I always
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  Speaker 1: thought was a Canadian spelling, not the American. That's why
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  Speaker 1: I was like, Oh he's American. That's so interesting.
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  Speaker 2: He's from Scottsdale, Arizona, the first superstar from Arizona. He's
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  Speaker 2: a great player, but tomorrow has got to be He's
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  Speaker 2: got to make an imprint on that game. You know,
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: the Jack Hughes and Larkin quin Us, they all have
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: to be as good as they've been throughout the tournament.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: And it's gonna be a close I think it's gonna
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: be a close game. I hope there's no controversy in it.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: I hope there's no crappy penalties down the stretch. I
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: hope the game is officiated correctly and at a level
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: for a gold medal game like this. And I'm telling you, Alex,
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: if this game was on at three o'clock like the
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: game in twenty ten one, because they was in Vancouver
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: and they had over twenty seven million viewers, which is
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: like NFL type numbers, I think they might have hit
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: between thirty five and forty million viewers tomorrow.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: So listen of it. It's eight am because they want
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: to do the game earlier in Milan because of the
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: closing ceremony that night. I'm trying to figure it out.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: Well, the uh puck drop is at two ten, you know, uh,
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: Milan time, and I believe the closing ceremonies I believe
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: are at two thirty New York time, so you know
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: they're gonna bump into each other.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: So uh, you know they want to do that, so
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: you know, there'll be a little bit of a separation
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: between the last event, which is the Olympic Hockey Game
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: gold medal game, and the uh closing ceremonies.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: But that's the reason. And then yeah, you got to
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: stick it out with time difference. So it's starting at
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: you know, at five town on the West coast, so
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: they're not going to get anywhere near the numbers that
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: they would get if the game was at two o'clock,
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: three o'clock or in prime time.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: But I want to get to the other events because
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: obviously hockey's on our minds, and we got to talk
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: about Aaron Frankles Ryan miller est performance. I mean, that
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: was what I want to get to the other events
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: real quick. I thought I'd want to do adaptive skiing,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: and I still might, but not at the level these
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: guys are doing it. I mean, I have never seen
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: so many crashes on a slope like I've seen almost
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: every day with these uh with these runs. Here are
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: you seeing that too?
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: It seems like every time I put on either USA
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: A Network, NBC or peacock, uh yeah, somebody is uh
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: uh crashing into uh into a bank of.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Snow vons down anomaly. It's been happening a lot.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: And also it's been happening a lot.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm like, is this lim gonna fly off? This
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: guy the way he's just unbelievable. And then they bank
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: off the one of these other guys in the snowboard
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: or whatever hit off the one of the edges, and
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: I'm like what's going on with these sports like I
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: don't understand.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: It shows you how fearless these athletes are.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: And then by Eric Frangle, but I have to cover
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: a Lissa loop. So as you know, Sarah Hughes when
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: she won her gold medal twenty four years ago, went
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: and supported the Viscardi Center right after because she's a
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Long Island girl. So she came to Sportsnight that year
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: she won gold. And I have to say that story
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: real quick. I hope Alisa Lou does the same. But
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: she's the most jobial medal winner of all these people.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: I mean, she's just the most happiest girl that won.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: I'm sure you saw some of that.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and obviously, you know, almost a quarter century between
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: gold medals for the United States, so it was very
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: big for her to break that streak, and she did.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: She did. She did a great job, as did the
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: American women's hockey team. Yes, they were heavily favored, even
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: over Canada, and they needed heroics, you know, from from
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: Hillary Knight, who might who said this might be your
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: last in an interview with Kristin Tapman after what she
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: didn't make it sound for sure she might be back.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Who knows and the game winning goal was amazing. That
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: pass from behind it behind the goal line was about
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: the one hundred and one hundred and twenty feet and
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: Megan Keller courted in stride, went down that left side,
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: put the fake on defenseman, and then went to the
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: back end and win the game. A brilliant goal. A
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: goal maybe again, I am not a women's hockey expert
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: and historian, but that has to be as good a
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: goal has been scored in American history, and the Americans
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: deserved to win the gold medal they did about.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: The Keller and I'm like, there's are saying Megan Kelly,
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: aren't they like I was just waiting for.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: That good But their opponents thirty three to two over that.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: But over the two weeks.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: How about the two hundred and fifty two minutes of
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: shutout play. I mean, that's really a remarkable, remarkable statue.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: I mean remarkable. It is remarkable. And again, women's hockey
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: has to get better with the depth of their teams.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: I think I heard this on Series. I didn't research
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: this myself, but I heard this on Series satellite radio
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: that at the last thirty two tournaments internationally, whether it's
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: a world championship we're talking about the women or Olympics
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: or whatever international tournament is a thirty out of the
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: last thirty two. The championship slash gold medal game was
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: the United States versus. They gotta get more competition, they
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: gotta get more parody at the women's international level. Uh.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: And and I think.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: P WHL is gonna be very interesting too, adding to
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: all of this, so that by four years from now,
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: you'll see more stars in the p WHL, be in
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: the Olympics, and it will be sort of similar and
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: parallel to the way that the NHL guys are allowed. I
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: have to say, I'm very happy Gary Beman left the
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: NHLers play this year. I mean, I didn't realize it
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: was two Olympics since removed since they played. And we
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: all know JT's injury was the reason why. Uh the Olympics. Yes,
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: they did not bring them back ripped.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: That wasn't good. I mean the Islanders were out of
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: playoffs at that point, but they were still I thinking, uh,
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: you know, in distance to make the playoffs. To lose
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: their best player wasn't good. But Alex, that's the thing.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: Kevin Fiala, he's out for the year, the Kings are
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: two three points out of a playoff spot. Kevin Fiala
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: has forty has scored forty points for them, and they
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: just got Pinaron to help supplement a guy like Kevin Fiala.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: Fiale's out for the year with a very bad leg
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: injury and that needed an operation. So moving forward will
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: and the player is always going to want to play.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: But as fans, sometimes do you say, is it worth it?
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: If you're a fan of the Edmonton Oilers, is it
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: worth it if say Gotha bid conor McDavid tears his
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: ACL tomorrow, or if you're the Minnesota Wild if if
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: quinn Ues gets injured and is out for an extended period.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: I love Olympic hockey, I love international hockey with NHL players,
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: so it would be hard for me to vote against it.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: Just throwing an out there, you know. I mean, it
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: doesn't look like Crosby's injury is serious. But the Penguins,
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: who are supposed to be in the running for the
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: number one draft pick this year, have a real chance
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: to make the playoffs, which and they haven't made the
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: playoffs for the last three years. I mean, the.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: Whole team, and I guess Malcolinn retiring was part of that.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: But uh, it's just well.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: He's he's I mean, he's he might retire at the
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: end of this year, but he's having the tremendous he's
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: having a very good year, so he may not.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: One of those other guys retired. I thought from the Penguins.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: Maybe it was somebody else then, but no, it's been
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: It's been weird because I'm always used to the Penguins
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: being up at the top of this thing, and hey,
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: even competing against the Rangers in the playoffs a lot
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: of years.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: But well, the weird thing is the assistant coach at
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: the Rangers fired, Don Muse is the head coach of
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: the Penguins, and the old Penguin coach is the coach
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: of the Arrange are going to make the playoffs, so
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: that is just stress.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: And Sullivan's son in law is Charlie McAvoy. I learned that.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: How crazy is that?
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: So that that's interesting stuff. All right, Well, we'll have
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: to see how it all plays out. And yes, I
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: almost said they were playing for the Stanley Cup, but
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: I meant the goal.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: It's just yeah, no, I would know what you man.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: A lot of these guys though, are Stanley Cup minded,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: so we'll have to see. And yeah, there's a lot
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: more hockey to go after this tournament, uh for sure.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: But this has been fun and I got to give
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: kudos to our buddy Kenny Albert. I mean to not
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: only do one gender, to do both genders and at
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: the same excellent level of excellency night and night out.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: That's freaking impressive.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: Louie Well, I watched all games, just about. I watched
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: nine every game, no matter who's playing. And I have
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: to Noie, as I said to you all fair yesterday,
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: I think Kenny Albert is a betterannouncer now that he
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: was three years ago. If that's possible, that's how that's
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: how good he's been. But all the entire NBC broadcast team,
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: as far as the hockey goes, they have been outstanding.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: And it was a couple of them even they didn't
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: identify themselves when I was watching on Peacock and whether
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: it's Brendan Burg, who's great, AJ Molesco, who's who's a
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: great commentator, Eddie oldchuk Tjo she very impressive. I you know,
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: it was his first time I really heard him do
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: do game. Ana analyzing. Usually he's in studio. I like
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: him very much. I think he's going to end up
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: as a game analyst Anson Carter, like I said Brian Bouche.
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: Jen Barderall who used to do some work for the Islanders.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: Now she's on Hockey Night in Canada and she's a former,
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: a former Hall of Famer as is Aj Molesco. She's
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: an American Gold medalist in nineteen ninety and the Hall
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: of Famer, uh, the uh, the play by play and
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: the analysts for all these hockey games. I give him
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: an a. I give him an a that it's been tremendous.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: It really has been.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: It's been. It's been quite a run. And they did
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: use the NBA, NHL, NBC theme a couple of times
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: during intermission at points, and that was really a throwback.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: But no, they did. They've done a great job.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I wish the I wish the NHL. I love
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: I love the fact that they went to ABC ESPN
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: with the with the new deal, and I knew they're
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: going to add a second network. Just me, I would
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: have preferred NBC, you know, and they would use obviously
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: they would use U s A and Peacock and Uh,
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: you know NBCs centers back. Uh, yeah, I would do.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: To me, that would have been the combination. T N
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: T is a cable channel exclusively, so you know.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: M T and T. I don't know if you saw
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: an ESPN because they're both on the networks respectively. Did
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: you see Royalty sitting next to each other Wayne Gretzky
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: and Mark Messier in the booth during the Canada game
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: And there's a moment where they panned in and and
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: Gretzky's like making a point about something. And I'm like,
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: because they've talked about how they could fix the Rangers.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: I made a meme about this, I'm like, maybe they're
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: not about how bad the Rangers are because they used
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: to be Ranger Royalty for quite a few years. Maybe
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: they can fix the team for Tory. Why not?
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: Who knows? Who knows? I think I think that Gretzky
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: is on that's something for the Oilers. I don't he might,
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure I think he did. I'm I'm I'm
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: not sure. But who knows? You know, Uh, what's what's
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: what's what's gonna happen? Uh with the Rangers at the
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: end of the ship. But I don't think, Alex. I
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: don't think Chris Drewy is going anywhere.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: No, they're they're settled with him, even as they're trying
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: to make the Rangers and Nicks are publicly traded team.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: Did you hear about this?
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: Yes? I did. I did see that.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: So maybe we own stakes, we can have a say
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: in these teams.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: Let our voices be hurt and and and the Giants
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: already gave ten percent of their steak to somebody else.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: I mean, maybe these are Maybe Theanks are going to
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: be next, although they have had other minority owners in
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: the Yankee world, so maybe we're gonna see more of
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: this divesting and and allowing more people to have a steak.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: That would be kind of interesting if that was the
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: case with all our teams. So we'll have to see,
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: all right, I have to. I have to figure this
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: out with you because I got to learn from vivid seats.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: And it's a little off topic. But the soccer team
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: is now the New York City Pigeons. Is this correct?
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: Are we really the Pigeons in New York?
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: Wait? Wait, wait, wait wait, I did not see this.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Apparently in the New York City Football club are now
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: called the New York City Pigeons, And I'm a little
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: perturbed by this.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: You mean the team that's going to play in a
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: new stadium across the way from City Field. Yes, they
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: changed there, and I did, Alex, you have breaks, you
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: have you have breaking news because I did not hear that.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: And if that's the truth, if that story is accurate,
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: that's that's probably the worst, the worst nickname.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: The Pigeons has been the club's unofficial nickname for as
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: long as any of us can remember. Now I remember
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: ever them calling themselves the Pigeons, do.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: I And I know soccer teams internationally have unofficial nicknames
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: besides the.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: Pigeon, a mascot called Skyscraper. So that's really where we're
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: at right now with them.
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: Oh my god, Well, that's a terrible nickname. There's some
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: horrible nicknames in my opinion, the Toronto Raptors, the Nationale Predators.
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: Just to name two off the top of my head,
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: terrible nicknames, the utah Madmoth. It's not as bad as
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: the Raptors are the Predators, but there's some terrible nicknames
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: out there. In my opinion, I'm more traditional. It's when
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: it comes to sports nicknames.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: I could tell well, I'll always love the Blackhawks because
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: my dad loved that team.
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: Well, that's a great nickname. I would never put put
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: the Blackhawks in the category of the Toronto right.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: And they're the most striking logo to me, I've always
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: loved their logo.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: It's a beautiful logo.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: Anyway. So there's that little nugget that they apparently are
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: calling themselves the Pigeons now so and and I don't
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: I don't know. It doesn't make us like a strong
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: force going into a game. I'm sorry. It just did
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: not give me a fear of that.
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: No, I mean the difference between the nickname the Pigeons
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: and say the Eagles or the Seahawks. Yeah, that sounds
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: more intimidating than And.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: By the way, the Seahawks got sold this week after winning.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: That is just talk about turn of events with that.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: I mean, they win the Super Bowl and now they're.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: Sold sell at the top of their value. I don't
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: know if the sale is official yet, but I heard
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: that at they might go for eleven bill who knows.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: Man, that's why and that's why this guy wants the
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: wide receiver, wants to raise now, so we'll have to
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: get it. Well. Look, as Ryan pointed out packs perspective,
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: pointed out, you know, the Jayson was not really well
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: the running back. But these guys, you know, they weren't
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: really under the They were under their radar a little
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: bit till this Super Bowl. Now they're all won money,
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: I guess, so we'll have to see, well.
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: JS Sam will get his money. Kenneth Walker may not,
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: because you can replace running backs probably better than and
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: quicker than any position, uh in in football. But Jackson
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: last note, but he is getting his money.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: One last note, Rick Patino today at the Garden. I
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: mean it's about an hour away from tip off when
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: we're recording this. They should beat Creighton. I mean they
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: look like they're steam rolling the whole league at this point.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: So we'll have to see. But the other note I
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: want to mention is as we hit more snow down
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: in Florida, Pete Alonso, first game as an Oreo, making
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: the Mets miss him already.
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: I mean, there was some shot, buddy move.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: It's a statement home run. It's like I'm in Baltimore now,
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: so he is and he is.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: And again we talked about a million times we don't
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: understand why he's not with the Mets, but I guess, uh,
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: you gotta ask David Sterns that behind Cloges doors.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, man, it's just it's it's as I say,
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: that was the sports story of twenty twenty five. I
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: don't care anybody says losing Alonzo was the story in
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: New York in sports, just well, the.
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: Thing is losing Alonzo if they were in a battle
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: for him, but they didn't even battle for him. They
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: just let him go.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: That's the more shocking part.
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the more shocking part.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: It really is your your franchise home run winner, and
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: it just that you let them go. I don't know
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: what that is. But I don't know. I feel like
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: it's too early to get any takes from spring training
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: because they just started a Bowl yesterday, so it's too
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: early to figure it out. Plus half these guys are
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: now leaving for the World Baseball Classic, so it's gonna
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: be uh. But look, if we win gold tomorrow, I
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: hope to see you watching the World Baseball Classic because
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: then another team to root for in the USA. I mean,
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: I'll be rooting for USA. I hope you watch. I
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: hope that inspires you to watch next month too.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: Well, Alex, Alex, you know when I think about the
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: World Baseball Classic, and it's not on the level.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: With America to fifty. Everything's in that now again.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: Alex Alex, I want to see America win. I am
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: not rooting against the USA. If I turn on Fox
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: or Fox Sports One or I think, well, I think
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: has the broadcast rights to tournament. I want to see
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: the USA win. To me, it's a semi legitimate tournament
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: because the pit there's pitch counts pitch. It can only
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: go so far. You know, it's well, it's sixty five.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: The big difference is Otani's not pitching this year, I
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: don't believe.
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: So there's that again. Do I want to see USA win?
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: But I just want to see all the players, whether
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: they play for the Mets or not, get through this.
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: We're Nott being injured.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: Yes, Well one more thing, and it's a little poltical,
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: but I have to say. My joke was if the
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: US plays Canada tomorrow, then all tariffs will be removed
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: from Canada. Now, obviously Supreme Court did that job yesterday,
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: so we are day early than that. But yeah, I
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: kind of called the tariffs will be off the table
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: if we'd beat Canada, And I was right for one part.
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: Now let's do another play tomorrow.
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: Yes, well we'll see what happened.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: We'll come you know. And maybe because I was nineteen
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: in twenty ten or whatever eighteen, so I didn't really
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: know the whole roster. But I just feel more confident
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: this year than I did sixteen years ago. And I mean,
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: I'm just I'm ready. I'm ready to watch this thing
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: at eight am tomorrow, Alex.
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: This is a better team and has more firepower, has
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: more depth of scoring, has more two way players. I
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: can't say that's better goaltending because Ryan Miller had a
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: great career in the NHL and he was great in
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: that series, winning MVP in twenty ten. So I mean,
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: this is US has a great chance tomorrow, and I
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: hope they take the lead. You don't want to be
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: chasing because that puts pressure on you. Let Canada chase,
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: because Canada, Canada knows they know how to, they know
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: how to come back. But you want to play with
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: the lead. You want to play with the lead. You
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: want to get in front of Bennington and create all
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: kinds of havoc in front of the net. I think
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: it's going to be the most physical game of the
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: of the.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: Of the billion Bennington. I think we talked about this before.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: I think last year's Nation's Classic, he came back alive
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: because he was not at his peak for a while,
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: but then that Four Nations Cup happened. He was back
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: in his usual self. And now he's done it again
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: in the Olympic stage.
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: Alex He is not having him good year for the Blues,
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: but Team Canada selected him anyway, which was controversial in
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: Canadian among Canadian fans and media that they picked Bennington.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: Now Bennington has made some big saves. He really got
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: to try to knock him off his game, which is
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: very hard to do. He has great concentration, but and
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: he's got great poise. I just hope they I hope
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: they score early. I just hope they can. Can not
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: the US does not fall behind by a couple of
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: goals early. That's gonna make it tough. But again, remember
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: in twenty ten, the United States was losing too nothing
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: in the second period, you know, scored to make it
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: two to one, and then the Devil's JP Parisi scored
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: with the net empty for the United States with twenty
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: four seconds ago to force the overtime period.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: So parsee wow, wow, wow, Wow, what a Nate. What
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: a blash from the past. Yeah, I say, did I
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: say JP?
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: I mean Zach that JP was.
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: His dad, Dak Fares Yep, Wow, that's that's a blast
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: from the past.
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm just retired last year.
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: We'll see what happens tomorrow. I'm excited and I'm trying
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: to remember what was on that roster in twenty ten.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: Now they talk about it because I feel like there
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: wasn't as much star power as there is now.
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: Am I right, there's more. There's more star power now
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: because the development of American hockey is is uh so
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: far advanced. A it's my first all watching hockey. Like
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: I said, you know, in nineteen sixty fourish, there was
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: no Americans in the National Hockey League. There was one
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: Tommy Williams who played for the Bruins and American, but
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: he was a third liner. They were all Canadian and
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: that then the Summit Series of seventy two.
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: I would say the speed is faster than twenty ten. Also,
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: I think as well, so it's gonna be a lot
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: of differences, but here we are lou Usa, Canada, just
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: like we drew it up in a sense. So yeah,
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: well to see, I know our hockey fans that listen
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: to the show, we're gonna love this episode because we
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: basically covered all hockey there. It was wall to wall today,
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: or say board to board.
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: It was, and uh it it deserves, it deserves to
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: be the dominant subject today. So everybody go to bed
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: early tonight, wake up, have you bring it right away
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: in the borrow morning and turn on NBC at eight o'clock.
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: Watch watch Kenyan and Eddie Oldruck and Bouchet between the glasses,
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: between the glass and uh the Usa.
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: Oh man, those uh just this NBC production is bringing
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: me back to when Darren when of Darren Pang between
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: the glasses for many years?
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the glass.
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: And one last thing, I have to tell you a
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: quick story about Eddie Oldschik. As you know, he covered
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: the Belmont Stakes for NBC for many years. And by
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: the way, he's got quite a story because he battled
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: cancer too, and he was he was and it was
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: a black Hawk. So my dad immediately was drawn to
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: him because of the Blackhawk connection. But you know, I
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: asked him once. I said to Belmont because it was
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: Stanley Cup night that night, I said, where would you
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: rather be? What do you think the answer is? I
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: remember that very vividly, so he had a bit of
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: a dry sense of humor. But hey, if they're back
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: at Belmont, I'll definitely hang out with him next time
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: they're there. I don't think NBC has them now for
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: a while though, Belmont Stakes.
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: But yeah, I think I think ABC went it right.
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: I think you're right. But you remember all those years
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: it'd be Championship Saturday. You have that, and then you
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: have Stanley Cup right after. Like, yeah, I was the
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: lead in that was the leading to the Stanley Cup game,
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: and it was special because twenty eighteen was that year
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: they won. Bob Effort one went justified and they went
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: right to the NHL playoff Stanley Cup. We could talk
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: for hours on this, man. It's just so many memories.
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: There really are, Alex, They really are.
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: Because these networks. I mean, look NBA on NBC. I
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: grew up with that too. When I was a kid,
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: all Sundays were basically the Bulls on Sunday by NBC.
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: I grew up on the serious intro for the bulls.
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: That's how how far back I go with this, And
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: Bob Cossis I always love seeing his content, by the way,
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: you know why because I interviewed him also, and I
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: known him for like twenty years. So it's cool to
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: see these guys still on the You've.
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: Been You've interviewed him a couple of times, right, Alex.
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: At least well, no ones at the Guinness at the
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: Guinness Book of Records, longest catch or whatever it was,
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: yes last year with Yogi Bear's museum.
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: Okay, I thought you had interviewed him before that also,
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: but you interviewed everybody.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: But anyway, that's our terminal's take this week. Enjoy your
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: Saturday rest up, wake up in red, white and blue tomorrow,
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: because we, as Mel Gibson would say in Brave Heart,
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: we ride at dawn. It feels like.
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: So that's right.
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: Here we go, loop.
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Alex, always pleasure being with you.
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: Thanks so much again for joining on one log up
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: Alex Sports Termino's take