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It's going to be crazy. It's going to be great.
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But March Madness is but a fleeting thought compared
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to what happened this weekend, which was the
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USA sweeping hockey in the Olympics. Just a fantastic
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moment in just in sports in general, honestly,
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not just hockey, but like Haven't done it since
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in 46 years We'll get into that more here in
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a minute. Let's go around the table Chris. How
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are you? Well, well, I'm glad you asked because
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as you said on Sunday we got to witness probably
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the biggest American sporting event One of the
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biggest ever So I answer your question. I mean
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God damn it just feels good to be a winner I
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mean, I've been riding a high like I haven't
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felt ever since that Sunday morning. It's pretty
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fucking good. So I know we're going to get into
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it. I don't want to take up too much time, but
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the boys are buzzing. I think everyone's buzzing.
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So Sean, I assume you feel the same. Absolutely.
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I still feel golden. Like this was just such
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an amazing moment to witness. I feel very fortunate.
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to have witnessed something like this. So, uh,
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yeah, we'll, we'll get into it. Uh, but I've
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been on cloud nine for days. I'm not gonna lie.
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Like I just feel fantastic. Um, yeah. So I think
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we should just get into it. Yes. Let's get into
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it. I am, I'm mentally amped, but physically
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my allergies are killing me. So that's just,
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that's, that's my issue though. uh just to give
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y 'all a a state of where i'm at um but like
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holy shit i i i can't believe this happened like
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like it happened and i i just i couldn't believe
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it like it was it was incredible like holy shit
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like i know i just keep I mean, that's the only
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way you can describe it because I have no words.
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I am speechless. But still, like I've seen so
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many clips of, I mean, the entire game in general,
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but also just the game winner. And I still am
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like, I don't really believe that happened. It
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is just like, it's holy shit. Like what, I don't,
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what else can you say other than fucking fuck
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you, Canada? Yeah, did I, unfortunately, we were
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unable to watch it together, which would have
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been awesome, but hindsight is 2020. Did you
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guys have a delayed response? Like, I thought
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that like he missed the net. I never saw the
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puck. I never saw the puck like leave his stick.
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I was like, and then like they started celebrating
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and I was just like, I immediately just like
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sprung up from the couch and just started like
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running around the room like I've never felt
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joy like that honestly like that's not true but
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like I mean you know what I mean like just yeah
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such a just like spur of the moment just so fast
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like just the way that Canada just kind of gave
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up on the play like like And then I was just
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like, I was watching it develop and I was like,
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no way, no way. And then he shot it and I was
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still like, no way. And then everybody just came
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out on the ice. They started celebrating. I was
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just like, like, Oh shit. Like, yeah, like I
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even like going back and watching replays of
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like the actual broadcast. I was like other angles,
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you can see it, but I still like cannot see like
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I see it get passed back. Never. even see it
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really get to Hughes, much less see a shot. But
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yeah, I was just, everyone started losing their
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minds. I was like, wait, what? And then like
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Wednesday's cut to like everyone pouring over
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the bench was like, Oh my God. I started because
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I was like pacing the entire overtime really
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like last half of the third period. But I just
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started just sprinting across the room. Yes.
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That's exactly what I did. Oh my God. Like, I
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mean, I don't even know where to start. I mean,
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I guess we started in the beginning. That game
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felt like it was quite possibly one of the greatest
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hockey games of all time. And at the very least,
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I think it might have been the greatest collection
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of talent in hockey ever. For sure, yeah. that
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whole first period like was literally back and
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forth and it was it was incredible and like it
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just felt like every inch was was a war to get
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and like oh for sure oh my god and it's like
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that i mean the story is different in the second
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and third but like holy shit man like That that
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Matt, but I know I keep saying that that Matt
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Boldy goal. Oh my gosh, dude, like Like the level
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of skill filthy like that. That's the top D pair
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in the National Hockey League like those are
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two of the best defensemen in the world and They're
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better when they play with each other and that's
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why they were playing together and they got fucking
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walked dude Oh my God, like, he, he, he bobbled
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the puck to himself. Like, just the showcase
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of skill was incredible. Like, I couldn't, I
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couldn't believe it. I couldn't believe that
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we scored. I couldn't either. Like, um, I, it
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was very much also a delayed reaction where I
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was like, wait a minute, that went in. Like I
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didn't really even see like an actual shot. It
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was just kind of, he just kind of put it in.
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Yeah. So I was just like, wait a minute that
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let's go. And then like, I mean, the first period
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was, was just one after the other, after, after
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battle, it was just, my eyes were glued to the
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screen. Like it was, it was crazy, dude. But
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then of course, like the second and third, like
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We were on our heels the entire time. And it
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just felt like you don't win a game when this
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shit happens. And that's what I felt. Like the
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first period was stressful, but like, fun. Obviously
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we were ahead, but it was like, okay, like we
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were getting like, it was just trading blows.
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Like the entire period, the rest of the game
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was stressful and like an, I want to die. This
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is awful. And yeah, I just kept waiting. I was
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like, like you said, like you don't win hockey
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games like this. So like something bad's going
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to happen. And then obviously they scored, but
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then it was like, okay, well, they're still piling
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it on. So like, when's it going to happen? And
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then just didn't just. Didn't and we were talked
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up. Sorry good Connor Hellebuck That's gold tender
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in the world. He's the best goalie in the world
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bar none no question like like That performance
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he gave was Out he was an alien out there. He
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was out of this world He did not belong on this
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planet I don't know how he made as many saves
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as he did in the way that he did it. This dude
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is an animal. Like he was so locked in. It's
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crazy that he was able to do that given he had
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not been tested at all. And he's like, because
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the one game where we were kind of like fucking
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around and losing for a majority or not majority,
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but a decent part of the game was when Swain
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was a net. So it was like, anytime hell books
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had been out there, he was just kind of like,
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it felt like going through the motions and still
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being amazing. So it was like. The fact he was
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just getting peppered left and right and still
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standing on his head when he hadn't really faced
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anyone like that since I don't know the last
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time he played for the jets. I mean, I feel like
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any time he plays for the jets, he's kind of.
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Yeah. That's the play on his head. Like, yeah.
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So maybe that's just another day at the office
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for him. Yeah. I mean, maybe, but you're going
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up against like, like, if we just fast forward
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a little bit to overtime, um, you have the best
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three players in the world out there and he's
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shutting them down. It's honestly a team and
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we can get into Canada bitching and moaning.
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Later, but it's a team that later, that is, I
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don't want to say designed for that, but like,
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if there was ever a team that's designed for
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three on three over time, it's this team. So,
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and we were saying it cause we went to the bar
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the night before and it was like, we, I said
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it, I was like, if we go to overtime fucked like
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we don't have a prayer. We all agree too. We
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were like, if, if we go to OT, we're fucked.
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Yeah. So when we went to overtime, I was like,
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we're, it's just a matter of time. I was like,
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let's just get to a shootout. but we all we all
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knew it was going to overtime like before the
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puck even dropped it was like kind of if you
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didn't think this game was going to overtime
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you're nuts like there was no way either team
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was going to go up you know five two six four
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like whatever like no this was going to be a
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very low scoring game that was going to be a
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battle of attrition And it's exactly what it
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was. And I loved every second of it. I did not
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love every second of it. In retrospect, yes.
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In retrospect, yeah. I hated a good 40 minutes.
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To your point of it was our friend's birthday.
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If we went out to the bars, I was just, I didn't
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even drink that much, but I was so violently
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hungover that morning. And I had no beer here.
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Like, I forgot to buy it the day before because
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Tim sees a bunch of bitches and he can't buy
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beer on Sunday until 10 a .m. But I was just,
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I was so stressed out throughout the second and
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third period that I was like, I am way too hungover
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to be this stressed out. And then like overtime
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came and I was like, I need some Tylenol or Advil
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or something, man. That's how I felt like first
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period I'm not gonna lie slept through my alarm.
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I woke up and it was like two minutes into the
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first period so like okay, I didn't miss anything.
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Thank God, but I was still it was like At the
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end at the intermission. I was like, oh my I
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need to like regroup because I literally woke
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up and was in a war So yeah, I was like I need
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because I need a drink or something this is terrible
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Dude, yeah, although we did say that if it goes
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over time we're done About halfway through the
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third period. I was like if we want a chance
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We have to go to overtime like oh, yeah. Yeah,
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it was it just felt like we we couldn't Penetrate
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their zone at all like it felt like we couldn't
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get set up or even get a clean shot at all and
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so it was like We we need over like this is our
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only hope mm -hmm so But I did also feel like
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We'd be fucked if it was like it was our only
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help but also like we're still screwed but Right
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But uh, but yeah, and I heard Kind of going back
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to what Sean said about being a war of attrition.
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Uh, Keith Yangel said, um, he made a good point
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that this team was put together to win that kind
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of game. It was like, this team was specifically
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designed to beat Canada two to one. It was like
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built by having phenomenal goalie and great defense.
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And it's like, just withstand and then capitalize
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on an opportunity whenever you get it. And that's
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what they did. And I just thought that was a
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great point that it was. They weren't built,
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like obviously they're built to win goal, but
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they're built to beat Canada. Like it wasn't,
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I mean, kind of cliche, but it's like, it wasn't
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the best team. Cause obviously we left like Coke
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off field at home. He's like, we left a lot of
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good goal scores off the team, but it was the
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way the team was designed was to win this game
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two to one, not four to two or whatever. Cause
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that's just not possible. Yeah. man. And like,
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obviously, we can look back and, like, we talked
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about it a little bit when they announced the
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roster. And it was like, JT Miller, putting JT
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Miller on this team. What are we doing? Little,
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but actually, that fucking guy just just eats
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pox, just defensive. I mean, I'm not going to
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say defensive mastermind, but he's great in it
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defensively. Uh, so it was like, this makes a
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lot of sense. And then like, true check, like,
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didn't he like not lose a face off until the
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gold medal game or something, something crazy
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like that. I think it was like, he didn't lose
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one in the third period or whatever until the
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goal or it was something insane. I can, but yeah,
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it was like, he, he dominated. Yeah. It was on
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one for sure. Yeah. Yeah. Like We didn't give
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up a power play goal the entire tournament. Insane,
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including women, including a five on three. Yeah.
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I was about to say including a five on three,
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which that was like the second or third moment
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when I was like, okay, this game's over. Yeah.
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Once the five on three happened, I was like,
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okay, I'm going to go ahead and just be sad.
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I'm just going to prepare myself to be sad. And
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then it was like, it's like, oh, it's it's only
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four now. For like, what was it, like 13 seconds
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or whatever? And it was just like, all right,
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let's. Maybe maybe they can pull one off, but
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like it was some I was thinking I was like, it'd
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be some shit if Canada just scored as this power
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play expired, you know, that's that was my thought.
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I was like, as it goes to zero, they score, but
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they fucking. left it out there and just I was
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like oh my god how do we get so lucky but we
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were extremely lucky in a lot of in in a lot
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of sense um but I'm I'm not saying that against
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like the willpower of these players if that makes
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sense I mean in to win any sort of championship
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in at any level of any sport, you need luck on
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your side to an extent. So that's just part of
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the part of sports. Yeah, and hockey is a game
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of bounces. I mean, like, shit, if Nathan McKinnon,
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like, isn't a pussy, then like he, he grabs the
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puck and over time and and shoots it over to
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Cale McCarr. And then they have a two on one.
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And that's, that's over this game. Or he just
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scores on a wide, wide open net. Yeah, yeah had
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so many I mean they had multiple opportunities
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to put us away and Didn't couldn't whatever they're
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like It's crazy man, I I couldn't I couldn't
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believe it we we did it We did it we finally
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fucking beat them. Oh my god, it feels so good
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like, we've wanted this for so long, like, they're
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like, they haven't done best on best and, you
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know, regularly, in quite some time. And so like,
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I told you all, after the four nations after
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we lost, I was like, this is the beginning of
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the DVD of when us wins the gold medal. I don't
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think anyone responded to me in that group chat,
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but that's okay. I said it though. But I think
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they were pretty sad. Yeah, I was trying to Be
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positive, but I get it, but it's neither here
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nor there And that and this is a DVD I will fucking
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purchase over and over and over again. I Mean
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you don't need one I need a physical and a digital.
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I got 27 copies of the US Canada gold medal game
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do they still make copy of the town dvds like
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championship i assume they have like some sort
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of like special but i didn't know if it came
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in like an actual physical i hope it's at least
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a blu ray digital i hope it's a blu ray yeah
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i hope it's not a dvd well i didn't know like
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i didn't know if they made hard copies of these
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things anymore if they were just like hey there's
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this like there's this video on youtube go watch
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that would be really cool to get physical media
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of that for when you know eventually the internet
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goes down and civilization is at its brink and
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all we have left is the USA Canada gold medal
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game that'd be pretty awesome honestly wouldn't
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be too bad no because you know how it's gonna
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end but you're gonna feel the same way every
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time you watch it so yeah but dude like Nathan
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McKinnon not putting that away in Just in a wide
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open net I I couldn't believe it. It was another
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thing. I couldn't believe like that shit. He
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does not he doesn't do that It's crazy man like
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and it has a wrist shot that Like I'm trying
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to think of a funny euphemism here not a euphemism
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like a like a saying like a metaphor or whatever
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But like every time he shoots it and misses the
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net It is like the loudest bang on the on the
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boards of all time like more than any slap shot
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It's always the Nathan McKinnon wrist shot. It
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is the hardest shot ever And it frightens me
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to be quite honest. It frightens me like imagine
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if you're a goalie That shit would be scary But
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When they got the stuffed animals that shit was
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hilarious I texted my dad because me and my dad
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were texting back and forth after the game and
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I was just like, can you imagine being handed
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a stuffed animal after losing maybe the biggest
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game for your country? I saw so many tweets and
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it's like nothing is more in danger than that
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stuffed animal that was handed to Nathan McKinnon.
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I wonder if those, you think those made it back?
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No, absolutely not. I need my hands on one of
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those. I would, I would pay an obscene amount
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of money for, uh, uh, for the Nathan, specifically
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the McKinnon stuffed animal. And I would like
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put that in like a glass box and have like the
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picture behind it. That was, that's God. Okay,
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and if we just want to get into Canada being
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a bunch of bitches about this Nathan McKinnon,
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it might be one of the biggest ones To on like
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in a sense cost your team the game like in a
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sense and to go to the media is like I'll let
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you be the judge of who is the better team Fuck
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you He cost more twice. Yeah, like Win the gate
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like you had it man. It's just that was the biggest
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bitch move I think I like because if he like
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I Don't know if he is like played exceptionally
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well and said that you're still that's still
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very much like loser mentality to say that but
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You can kind of forget But I guess you speak.
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Okay, he's pissed off whatever but just he was
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a big factor in them losing that game He's doing
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it I loved every like, I loved it. But God, what
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a bitch. Yeah, man, like Canada is in shambles
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right now. Like, like the amount of Canadians
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on on X are just like, you're a casual if you're
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celebrating this. And I'm like, what the what
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does that even mean? So first off, so what? Yeah,
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we just took your game. I, I was mixing it up
24:06
on Twitter with a few Canadians to the point
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where it got to be. That was all I was seeing
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was just like Canadians bitching. So I was like,
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okay, I gotta, I gotta close the app. I gotta
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chill for a second. Cause I don't want to see
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this all night, but it was God. It was great.
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Just to get them so angry. Like I literally like
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on multiple tweets. of people complaining, I
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just copy and pasted the fly free bird and had
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the gif of the undertaker holding up the American
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flag. And that got a few people I pretty pissed
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off. It was I loved every second of it. How can
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you hate the undertaker? Canadians do. I mean,
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sure, it is last few years that he wasn't up
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to par with what he had done previously, but
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you know if they did if they didn't before they
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do now yeah they probably saw that they just
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remember that wrestle many match against roman
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reigns it was like uh this this guy no the gif
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is american badass undertaker good god that was
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that was so much fun there's one lady in particular
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um first time in a while i've been blocked on
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twitter Well, we were mixing it up a little bit
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and I tried to respond to something and it wouldn't
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let me. I was like, what the fuck? And I like
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clicked on the tweet and was like, you've been
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blocked. Like, God, let's fucking go. That's
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how my dad feels about because he's blocked by
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Dion. I on Twitter, I got to do that more often,
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man. I got to take the Rick Dixon approach to
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Twitter. God, that was the best. Yeah, good.
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Rick was. mixing it up the day before. Oh, he
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was. I didn't see that. Rick doesn't. Rick. Rick
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mixes it up all the time. Yeah, he's he's he's
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he's a wild card. He just fires on all cylinders.
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But like he wasn't like not to Canadians to Americans
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like no one's safe. Like like, dude, your dad
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just like. loves to chime in on basically everything
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on it. I gotta start doing it. I gotta start
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doing it. It was a very fun few hours and I got
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to kind of see Twitter through his eyes. He would
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comment on people's posts that were just like,
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me and my son were watching Miracle the night
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before the Canada -America game tomorrow. It's
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gonna be awesome. And your dad was just like,
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these are a bunch of millionaires playing a game.
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It's completely different to Miracle. I saw him
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post that more than maybe five times. I mean,
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he's not wrong. This isn't a Miracle situation.
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It's completely different. He's not wrong, but
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to be like, oh, me and my first born, I'm showing
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him this for the first time to show what this
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really means. He's just like... not the sock
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you so hilarious i'm like damn rick i just love
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raining on parades over here yeah god that's
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that's funny though dude i saw that i was like
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what are you doing stuff up um dude i i literally
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spent the whole day on x on sunday like because
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i i needed to see OV levels of celebration after
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that. I needed to see I watched the goal No less
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than a hundred times like the entire day and
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my wife's on the couch next to me and she Got
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to a point where she was just like looking at
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me every time Every time it came up and I was
28:03
like, hey, man. I can't believe this happened
28:07
Like this is like I hate this is this is normal
28:11
I'm not the only one doing this. Oh, I've been
28:14
watching it. I mean, yeah, I saw it about a hundred
28:16
times on Sunday alone. And I watched it probably
28:19
a couple of times like 45 minutes ago. Yeah.
28:24
Like anytime it comes on my feed, I'm watching
28:26
it. Yeah. I watched it like probably 15 times
28:29
yesterday and probably only a couple of times
28:31
today, but today was like a prime last night.
28:35
And today was a prime time for like when the
28:37
edits came. Like yeah, I sent y 'all a good one
28:42
yesterday. Yeah, that's good. That one was great
28:45
overtime That sent me That that fucking sent
28:55
me bro Dude and like The group chat was just
29:03
going crazy and I was definitely in the mix there
29:08
We stole Tate McRae. We beat y 'all women's team's
29:13
ass. And we beat y 'all men's team's ass. We
29:16
own hockey. What the fuck is a kilometer? They're
29:20
hats, not toques. I'm wearing a hat, not a toque.
29:25
They seriously got like - Yes. Yeah, it's a toque.
29:30
I think they're more or less referring to, uh,
29:32
beanies? To like, to beanies, like, to - Oh,
29:35
okay. Like, yeah. But like still that's silly.
29:39
It's it's a little bit of an interchangeable
29:41
term up there. So I so I heard But yeah, I got
29:47
a lot of also just on like Instagram stuff. It
29:50
was all I'll just can't Canadian watch parties
29:54
and just Either stunned silence or just visceral
29:59
like anger. I haven't seen in a long time Yeah
30:01
Like we took this from like we I mean we obviously
30:05
care about that game hockey is like nowhere near
30:08
our top three sports And we took that shit from
30:13
you at best. It's our fourth. Yeah, and like
30:17
sometimes fifth depending on how golf does but
30:20
That's golf isn't even American. Yeah, right
30:25
But in terms of like where it ranks on. But we
30:28
have amateur sports that we die for before. Sometimes,
30:34
yeah, yeah. Yeah, I mean, this is just an L year
30:41
calendar year for Canada. Edmonton Oilers lost
30:45
the Stanley Cup Finals. They lost the World Series.
30:51
Lost the Women's Olympics, lost the Men's Olympic.
30:53
women men's olympic hockey and zero super bowls
30:59
and zero scc championships um it's just tough
31:03
it's really tough to be in canadian right now
31:06
like not gonna lie at least con mcdavid was the
31:10
olympic mvp um he got two stuffed animals god
31:15
i mean count them count them two pretty shitty
31:17
day for every canadian except now it's a joke
31:20
oh i was like oh okay He gets a different stuff
31:24
to him. I don't. I do mean to troll because it's
31:27
funny to troll Conor McDavid. Is he ever going
31:30
to win the fucking thing? I don't know. It seems
31:34
like he's cursed, but I am. I was just kind of
31:38
on like the that hater train just to be a hater
31:41
for down there for shits and giggles. Now I'm
31:44
kind of like, no, he's not going to damn thing
31:46
ever until he. Leaves like. Wayne did or no,
31:51
he won with Edmonton. That's not a good comparison,
31:54
but until he leaves to go to an American team,
31:57
then you'll probably win a cup. Yes. I mean,
32:01
statistically is a better chance of winning a
32:03
cup with an American team than he does a Canadian
32:05
team. Um, I've never been a, uh, a McDavid hater.
32:11
Uh, I, he's the best player in the world. It's
32:15
just a fucking fact. If you don't think that's
32:18
true, you're Wrong. Oh, you're wrong. I don't
32:23
hate him. I just think it's fun to say he is
32:26
not going to he will never win anything. I don't
32:29
think that's fun at all because it's not cool.
32:33
I think it's funny if he's in a gold medal game
32:39
and he doesn't win. But other than that, I'm
32:43
kind of I'm kind of always rooting for him because
32:46
I kind of want him to get a cup. It would be
32:49
it would be a fucking shame if he didn't get
32:52
a cup in his entire career Yeah, that's what
32:56
that's that's just how I feel but I'm in the
32:58
same boat like yeah, that's why I put a little
33:01
bit more money every year on Edmonton to win
33:03
the cup because Gonna happen What if he doesn't
33:09
what what if he gets traded or like signed somewhere
33:11
else where you just Bet like on the Hurricanes
33:15
or wherever. Yeah. Okay. Absolutely. Yes Okay.
33:19
I don't know. It's just fun to, I think it's
33:22
fun to just be a hater, but it is all, it is
33:26
always fun to be a hater. Let's not like get
33:28
it twisted, but it's, I don't know. Like I've
33:34
been hating all week. Yeah, exactly. We've, we've
33:38
been the biggest haters over here. Hey, is the
33:42
name of the game? Yeah. Call me Jack Hughes the
33:45
way I'm good at my game. Alright, I did. I added
33:51
him to my my lock screen. Yeah, I mean that picture
33:56
him with no tooth and the flat. I mean that's
33:59
I'm getting part of the greatest sports picture.
34:02
Maybe the greatest picture ever taken. Hang it
34:05
in the lose. No, I might get a T shirt. I don't
34:08
want that in. Europe. Put it in the mat. It's
34:12
an expression. I know but I saw someone say that
34:15
on Twitter He's like I don't want Europe to have
34:17
this or he said I would say hang in the loop
34:19
But I don't want bitch ass Europe to have this
34:21
put it in the mat Let's fucking go That's funny
34:27
man, it's a while from you to fucking dude like
34:32
Holy shit, I can't believe it happened like I
34:37
can't Like, it hit me, but like, realistically,
34:44
like, I wasn't mentally prepared for this outcome,
34:49
even though, realistically, it was a possibility,
34:53
because we've never fucking beat them. So it
34:57
just felt so far from something that can happen,
35:02
no matter how good we are. Like, it was, oh man.
35:09
But like we fucking got him we got him We own
35:15
hockey Tomorrow is about to be the most hungover
35:20
NHL Yeah, my I just yeah, they got a plate. That's
35:25
ridiculous like for Pretty much the entire Olympic
35:29
break or I was like they I was like this is a
35:32
long time for like the non Olympians to like
35:35
not have to play like I kind of feel bad for
35:36
them, but now I'm like They have to play again
35:38
on Wednesday? That's insane. Give them another
35:41
week. It's like. I saw that on X this morning.
35:48
I was like, oh shit, you're right. And then I
35:51
remember something that Ryan Reeve said. Probably
35:53
the smartest thing he's ever said. It was if
35:56
if you can't play hungover, then you don't belong
36:00
in the National Hockey League. And I'm like,
36:02
yes. This is a different point. This is a different
36:07
kind of hangover. This ain't a night out in Vegas.
36:09
This is, yeah, this is a bender. Celebrate this
36:12
yet. This is a bender. Like there's a decent
36:15
chance that Hughes Brothers and the Kachaks and
36:17
all of them are still drunk. Like we'll still
36:20
be drunk going into that game. Quinn Hughes was
36:23
maybe the drunkest man on the planet. See, I
36:28
don't know. I don't know about that because his
36:30
demeanor is, you know, I loved that. Yeah, but
36:34
he was like, I want to thank the troops for letting
36:37
us play this game. You're like, they're like,
36:40
gotta do it. I love the video of when they were
36:46
doing like the press conference after and he
36:48
had a half empty beer in his hand and another
36:51
beer on the table. And he was, yeah. One more,
36:56
one more. Yeah. Like this guy fucking rules.
36:59
I mean, that's, that's just all time. That's
37:02
just a all time guy's move. Honestly. It's like,
37:06
Hey, you need another beer? Yeah, I've got a
37:09
one and a half here already, but I'll take another.
37:11
Do you need another beer? Probably not, but I'll
37:13
take one. No, I don't need one, but I could use
37:20
one. Yes, exactly. Yeah. It was absolutely insane.
37:27
Um, and then like getting the medals and then
37:31
they got Johnny Gaudreau's Jersey. Like that
37:35
was like, I was already like tearing up from
37:41
it just happening and like seeing the boys just
37:46
like rooting, like rooting for a team that wins.
37:49
Like I've never experienced that. I don't get
37:53
that that often. Yeah. And so like I was already
37:56
kind of tearing up and like everything that it
37:58
meant, like it's been 46 years and then they
38:01
bring Johnny Goudreau's jersey and then like
38:04
- And his kids. Yeah. When Larkin and Warinski
38:09
went off to get the kids, I was like, this is
38:16
a moment. This is a moment in time. And like
38:25
Real I think I saw I heard about someone seeing
38:27
something on X that it was like They saw it.
38:31
They made like a little edit of like Nathan McKinnon
38:34
Like flubbing on that goal and it was just like
38:37
the ghost of Johnny Goudreau right there I saw
38:41
that and I was like It's got it that's got to
38:46
be it you you like once you see that you're like
38:50
You can't think it's anything else but that.
38:56
You know, like you're like, oh, it, it, like
39:00
you said, it has to be, it has to be Johnny's
39:03
ghost. It has to be like his spirit coming through
39:07
the ice or through the puck or through the stick
39:09
or whatever he chose his, I don't know, like
39:16
such a powerful moment, honestly, like just.
39:20
that whole ending dude that that picture almost
39:27
wrecked me like when they were taking the picture
39:30
yeah yeah dude what and like what an all -time
39:35
moment when Jack Hughes like after scoring you
39:39
can see tears in his face and his teeth are so
39:45
fucked up they're so bad He gives that post -game
39:49
interview and that's probably the greatest post
39:53
-game interview maybe ever. Probably right in
40:01
front of Stone Cold Steve Austin, Austin 316.
40:05
Because that was off the dome as well. And it's
40:10
a t -shirt that makes a billion dollars. That's
40:12
probably made a billion dollars. Dude like I'm
40:20
so thankful to be an American. I love America.
40:23
We did this all for the country halibut Was our
40:27
best player by a mile? you dream about this ever
40:31
since your little kid to represent your country
40:34
and it's just unbelievable and I'm like I I was
40:40
at a loss for words like Like there's this there's
40:45
this funny clip of a of like late night with
40:48
Jimmy Fallon, where Blake Griffin goes on there.
40:53
And he's like, he's talking to him. He's like,
40:56
why do like post game interviews, like aren't
40:58
very good. And he was like, you want to, you
41:02
want to know? And then like, he made Jimmy Fallon
41:04
like get up, do like 20 burpees and a bunch of
41:08
jumping jacks. And then it was like, Hey, so
41:11
Jimmy, how do you feel about the game? And he
41:12
was like, I can't even think. like that's exactly
41:17
like ever since I saw that clip I'm like I look
41:20
at those types of interviews and kind of like
41:22
a new light like and just being able to come
41:26
off the dome where you're you're physically exhausted
41:29
like even more than just playing the hockey game
41:33
because like he fucking yeeted his helmet into
41:36
the crowd which was which was all time like yeah
41:39
and like you're just you're jumping and you're
41:42
man like it's to just put everything into perspective
41:46
it's just it's crazy man like it's insane i don't
41:53
know bro in that picture it's like first of all
41:58
like tattoo the hella buck save with the paddle
42:01
on me somewhere because like that that picture
42:07
it's hard it's so hard so fucking cold like Oh
42:14
my God. But that Jack Hughes picture. That's.
42:21
I know we already said it, but like that's that's
42:23
got to be one of the greatest pictures of all
42:24
time. Yeah, we. Once I saw that I was like. That's
42:31
just like. That's going on my lock screen right
42:35
now. Yeah, like I'm going to look at that like
42:38
probably every day. Yeah, I've got it like shuffled.
42:42
So I get like different, you know, things every
42:46
time I open my phone. But if Jack Hughes, Jack
42:51
Hughes has come up on my screen a couple of times
42:53
today and I've just been like, hell yeah. Nice.
42:59
Which, okay. Um, um, can't believe it. There's
43:07
one thing, well, yeah, it's probably it's Canadians
43:11
coping, but like, Well, I'd never really get
43:14
because like this is like a thing in hockey where
43:16
it's like when the goalie stands on his head
43:18
and is essentially the reason you win. You're
43:20
and but you're just like, well, it's just because
43:22
you had a goalie. It's like, OK, he's a hockey
43:25
player as well. He's a member of the team. Like
43:29
if Conor McDavid would have if Canada would have
43:31
Molly walked us and McDavid had three goals and
43:35
three assists, we can't just say, well, it's
43:37
just because of McDavid. Like it doesn't work
43:41
like. It's like yeah doesn't work both ways.
43:43
Yeah, we had our we also had our best player
43:46
He just happened to be the goalie. So that That
43:50
argument is just like go fuck yourself and like
43:53
that was that was the same for the four nations
43:55
like the the end of that like the regulation
44:00
in four nations like Like Jordan Bennington entered
44:05
his flow state like we had oh, yeah Ton of fantastic
44:10
chances and he saved them all and like it's it's
44:13
literally the exact same thing. Yep, and like.
44:19
Jack Canada left alone in the slot. Connor McDavid
44:22
left alone in the slot. It's over. It's it's
44:27
the exact same. Yeah, um. Yep, Jordan Big Game
44:34
Bennington. Played a great game as well. It's
44:38
just you can't it unfortunately the overtime
44:42
I Will say that I'm not a fan of like the three
44:49
on three, especially in the Olympics for the
44:52
overtime. It's just like It's what the NHL does
44:56
for regular season, you know and it's When they
45:01
go to playoffs, it's 5 on 5, 20 minutes. This
45:04
is 3 on 3, 20 minutes, whoever scores first,
45:07
and it never goes to a second overtime. But this
45:12
is the way the cookie crumbles. Canada won a
45:15
game in overtime on 3 on 3. If they're going
45:18
to cry about that, you made it this far because
45:22
of 3 on 3 overtime. And also, if you really want
45:25
to nitpick 2010, it was 4 on 4. So like, yeah,
45:30
that wasn't real hockey. If you want to say that
45:34
real hockey either. Yeah. Like, keep like, yeah,
45:38
keep bitching about that. You probably, I'm gonna
45:40
say probably there's a decent chance you don't
45:41
make it if it wasn't for three on three. So yeah.
45:45
And I'm not taking away. I'm absolutely not taking
45:48
away the win over the U S uh, the way the U S
45:53
one on three on three, because it, cause I'm
45:56
saying it's not real hockey, but That's the way
46:01
it was. That's the way that could crumbles man.
46:03
I mean You get three on three you take advantage
46:06
of three on three. You're they're gonna let you
46:08
cheat cheat and I said earlier and like we've
46:12
all said at some point like this team is Would
46:16
be the is like the best three on three hockey
46:18
team in the world They're best five on five as
46:20
well. But it's like the amount of speed that
46:22
I had out there and they still couldn't win I
46:26
Mean no, no fucking excuses Yeah, and I think
46:30
the collective opinion on three on three is like
46:36
No, nobody nobody thinks that it should have
46:39
been three on three and no like like nobody like
46:43
not even Americans or or or Canadian like because
46:46
like That's I don't want to go as far to say
46:52
that's fake hockey but like You play what you
46:57
play man like that's that those are the rules
47:00
and like I agree with the statement that I don't
47:04
think the Stanley Cup should be one in a shootout
47:07
or three on three or even four on four and I
47:10
I think the same way for the Olympics and you
47:14
know it's but that's this is the way it is and
47:18
so like yeah it's it's a lot of fun hearing a
47:26
Canadian cope Canadian tears They're delicious.
47:30
They're maple syrup to yours. Yeah, that's why
47:33
yummy. But like, but I mean, we weren't going
47:45
to win that game. Five and five. Like they're
47:50
like shit happened in that game. That if that
47:56
happens in literally every any other game you
47:59
you lose that game like 99 out of 100 times and
48:04
like Whenever he did the paddle save I was like
48:10
This this is different this is yeah Connor hell
48:17
book is in his flow state like he's the the the
48:21
amount of locked in that he is he was in like
48:24
was incredible like it's yeah he was an alien
48:32
he was otherworldly yeah and we talked about
48:35
how there are so many times where it was like
48:37
okay you don't play like this and still win that
48:40
hell box it was like okay usually when something
48:43
that fucking epic happened i'm usually but it
48:46
feels like whenever something that cool happens
48:48
like this you got destiny yes that's the same
48:53
way with With the, the, the caps nights in the
48:58
cup final. Yeah. Wow. Why am I blanking? What'd
49:05
you say? Holtby Holtby. Yeah. That's Pat. That's
49:10
literal. Like knob save. Yeah. It was like, Oh,
49:16
they're going to win. Yeah. They're winning this
49:20
game. You got something otherworldly on your
49:22
side. Yeah. you have there was a divine intervention
49:28
you know type of like save man i'm trying to
49:36
think of what else and i mean i i've still spent
49:39
most of my time when i'm not you know working
49:42
um on x just trying to find more celebration
49:47
clips because like The I mean I know if it was
49:52
me like I'd be Yeah, I wouldn't remember the
49:59
celebration because Because I'd be just so messed
50:04
up like Dude and just like like seeing them at
50:10
the club Just and that Miami club just like spraying
50:14
Fuck with booze. I'm like Do it Y 'all deserve
50:20
it. Yeah. Winning a champion has to be like one
50:24
of the best feelings, like a man or a woman can
50:28
ever experience because that's just like another
50:31
state of euphoria. It seems like, and I say,
50:33
man, because I feel like every championship video
50:35
I see is predominantly by a male team. So, but
50:39
I'm sure the U S women were out there partying.
50:44
They're in Vegas right now. Yeah. I mean, and
50:47
they ended up in Vegas. They had extra. I don't
50:49
know what the, um, women's professional hockey
50:53
league, um, calendar is like, but I mean, they
50:57
still had extra days to party. So, I mean, they
50:59
probably on a generational better, like an OV
51:01
level better. They, they might be, we just unfortunately
51:05
haven't been able to see it. Yeah. Maybe I'm
51:08
not on women's hockey Twitter. So I mean, that
51:11
could be my fault, but yeah. I mean, I do remember
51:16
the last time the US women won the World Cup.
51:22
Yeah, they were they were getting after that
51:25
was that was awesome. See, I totally forgotten
51:29
about that. Yeah, seeing the clips from the locker
51:31
room. They're like, Hey, give me a beer, bitch.
51:35
Just I'll get you a beer when you get me a beer,
51:43
bitch. I'm like, You know what? Fuck yeah. More
51:47
power to you. I wish I could experience that
51:52
level of celebration. Happiness. Yeah. Okay,
52:05
trying to think of anything else here. I will
52:07
say the one negative. And it's not just about
52:11
this game. It's about really just the entire
52:13
coverage of it in general. NBC's got to quit
52:16
doing this. One team scores. We immediately just
52:19
wide shot out, pan to the crowd behind the goal.
52:23
That's so bad. They don't have hockey coverage
52:33
anymore, but if they ever get it back, they need
52:36
it. not do that ever again. I saw a lot of people
52:39
on Twitter, not about that game. No one was really
52:42
complaining about that game, but just the entire
52:45
Olympics was like, I don't need to see the crowd
52:47
behind the goal. Like I want to see the actual
52:51
players. I don't feel like that's a hot take
52:53
at all. That was like my one gripe with the,
52:58
I guess like the end of the game where it's like,
53:00
we didn't see like the on ice celebration. It
53:03
was like goal. crowd, Canada, like just being
53:09
sad. And then us was like, no, immediately cut
53:12
to Hughes getting mobbed on the boards. That
53:16
was my one gripe with the game. Yes. Yep. The
53:19
camera cut right to him like right as he was
53:22
hitting the boards. And I was like, Hey, man.
53:27
I mean, I know I'm gonna watch this goal and
53:29
every angle of it. They had that on Peacock.
53:33
It was like every angle, every camera angle from
53:36
the, the Jack Hughes goal. Uh, I watched that
53:38
the same night. Uh, so I recommend it. It's pretty
53:42
cool. Um, is it still on there? I need to check
53:43
that out. It should be. Awesome. And then I think
53:47
there's like every single Hellebuck save maybe.
53:52
Oh, don't dirty to me. Yeah. Um, but, and then
54:00
I, you know, I, I saw the as soon as like, cause
54:04
Jax, he was like, I didn't even see it go in
54:06
either. Like I just saw Larkin jump up and down
54:11
and I guess it went in. So I just started this.
54:16
I'm like, that's, that's insane. Um, and like
54:20
when they first, when they played the replay
54:22
of it, I was like, Oh man, he went top shelf.
54:24
And I was like, Oh shit, no, he went five hole.
54:26
He went five hole on his ass. And I was like,
54:29
this is That was a bullet. Yeah. Cause at first
54:35
I was like, Oh, maybe he just like didn't get
54:36
all of it. And it just kind of like trickled
54:38
by him. Cause like I said, I never saw the puck.
54:41
Yeah. It was kind of how, I mean, I know nothing
54:44
about the physics of hockey. How can you like,
54:47
cause he ripped it. How can you shoot a puck
54:48
that hard and it never gets off the ice? That
54:51
seems like a superpower. Yeah. Um, I thought
54:56
it was like the, the Patrick Kane, like Overtime.
55:01
Yeah, goal against the flyers. Flyers and the
55:04
Stanley Cup final where like at the moment like
55:07
he was the only one who knew he had scored. Yeah,
55:11
but then like the whole crowd erupted and everybody
55:15
else like came off the bench. I was like wait.
55:18
Oh shit like it was such a crazy like and then
55:22
I watched the replay and I was like, oh my God,
55:25
he fucking slapped that thing in there. So crazy
55:32
so Yeah, I fucking love it it's like I Keep saying
55:41
this but it doesn't feel real even though like
55:43
it's hit me like Like realistically it has hit
55:46
me but like yeah the fact that it is real You
55:54
know, I don't I don't yeah, it's like I don't
55:55
know I don't I don't know what to do with this.
56:00
Yeah. I don't know what to do with this amount
56:03
of joy. Yeah. It's like, I've never, yeah. I've
56:06
never experienced this before. So like what,
56:08
what do I do? Like what, what, like, I don't
56:11
know what to do. It's, it's pretty crazy because
56:15
I mean, the U S is, is no stranger to winning
56:19
gold medals at all. You know, summer, I mean,
56:24
this, I think this is the most, the U S has won
56:26
gold. or any medals in the Olympics ever was
56:31
this year. Really? I think so. I want to say
56:35
that might be for the Winter Olympics. That's
56:38
what I meant for the Winter Olympics. This was
56:40
like their most like metal hall ever. But this
56:50
one just it felt different and I think that I
56:56
might go on a little bit of tangent here because
56:59
I wrote some things down about how this made
57:05
me feel. And I think this was more than just
57:09
a game. I don't think this was really about a
57:13
gold medal hanging around someone's neck. I don't
57:17
think it was about the final score or highlights
57:19
or who scored the game winner. I think what we
57:22
witnessed was bigger. than this. Every single
57:28
one of these players, men and women, started
57:32
as kids. Kids with oversized jerseys who woke
57:37
up at 5 a .m. to go to practice, kids who signed
57:41
up through USA Hockey, got their USA Hockey number,
57:46
stepped on the ice for the first time, and every
57:51
legitimate hockey club that runs through this
57:57
country is through USA hockey. That means every
58:01
one of those athletes came through the same system,
58:03
the same development structure, same belief.
58:06
You put in the work, you put in the effort, and
58:09
there's a path, right? And somewhere along the
58:19
way, they heard the stories. They heard about
58:22
1980 they heard about the miracle on ice they
58:25
heard about this group of Americans who weren't
58:29
supposed to win and they did and they thought
58:34
maybe just maybe when they laced up their skates
58:39
they thought why not me and I think that's what
58:46
this gold medal really represents it were it
58:50
represents opportunity, commitment, development
58:56
done the right way. And I think it represents
59:01
what can happen when dreams are backed by structure
59:06
and support. And as someone who plays hockey,
59:12
I have a USA hockey number. I didn't grow up
59:17
playing like athletes, like these athletes did.
59:20
I didn't follow the same path that they did.
59:23
I came into this game much later, but I am a
59:26
part of USA hockey. I lace up my skates, I play,
59:30
I compete. I love this game. And I watched them
59:35
win goal. And that fucking felt personal for
59:42
me. And yeah, we're just, we're a part of the
59:47
same system, the same bridge. And it's the same
59:51
belief that this sport fucking matters. And honestly,
59:57
I couldn't be prouder of the fact that I'm a
1:00:00
part of it. I know that, especially the men's,
1:00:06
they're getting a lot of flack right now. This
1:00:09
wasn't about politics. It wasn't headlines. I
1:00:13
think this was more about unity more than anything.
1:00:18
You had people tuning in who didn't know off
1:00:23
sides from icing. You had casual fans, you had
1:00:26
diehards, you had former players. You had kids
1:00:30
watching with their parents across the country
1:00:33
cheering on for the exact same thing. And when
1:00:38
Megan Keller and Jack Hughes buried those overtime
1:00:41
goals, nothing else mattered. didn't matter where
1:00:46
you were from. It doesn't matter what you believe.
1:00:48
It doesn't matter who you voted for. We were
1:00:51
fucking Americans celebrating. And it's hard
1:00:58
right now. I know things aren't perfect and it's
1:01:01
easy to focus on what divides us. But I think
1:01:06
moments like this reminds us of what we're capable
1:01:12
of when we rally. behind something bigger than
1:01:16
ourselves. These players, man, they gave everything
1:01:20
they fucking had. They represented more than
1:01:23
just themselves. They represented every kid,
1:01:27
every adult, every teenager in a local rink,
1:01:31
every adult who plays like me, who have found
1:01:35
the game later. I think it was just very, I feel
1:01:40
very fortunate to have witnessed something like
1:01:43
this. And is a very, very, very beautiful moment.
1:01:51
It was beautiful. It was beautiful. Great moments
1:01:54
are made from great opportunity. Have you seen
1:01:57
the video of, um, there was like some peewee
1:02:01
hockey game going on at like the exact same time
1:02:04
as I was like, when we won, they just like took
1:02:08
a break and celebrated. I was like, God damn,
1:02:10
like I need 20. 50 whatever the hell. Some would
1:02:16
be like, yeah, I was on that team. That was me
1:02:18
in that video. Now I'm playing for USA hockey.
1:02:20
I was like, God damn, it's going to be awesome.
1:02:23
There's going to be, there's going to be at least
1:02:25
one kid, maybe. And at least one. Torico touched
1:02:30
on, or not, he had a very nice monologue at the
1:02:33
end of the coverage too. He was like, a lot of
1:02:35
these guys, their story, like they get to this
1:02:38
moment started in 2010, watching us lose in heartbreaking
1:02:41
fashion. So he's like, Think about all the paraphrasing,
1:02:45
obviously think about all like the kids out there.
1:02:46
Now we were like, this is their, like, this is
1:02:49
the first time they've got to really watch USA
1:02:52
hockey. And it's like, who knows? Like what we're
1:02:55
going to get out of this is like, this could
1:02:56
be dynasty. I don't want to get ahead of myself,
1:03:01
but it's just like what Sean said. It's could
1:03:05
just impact future generations of really athletes
1:03:09
in every sport, but primarily hockey that. I
1:03:12
don't know. It's something we never seen before.
1:03:14
So it could be, I don't know. It could impact
1:03:18
like, like you said, those kids lives and wait,
1:03:20
like that could be the start of a, the next story
1:03:23
of USA hockey. Yeah. If you, uh, if you're interested,
1:03:29
uh, spitting chiclets, wit had something really
1:03:33
cool to say when he talked about the beginnings
1:03:35
of USA hockey, that they wanted to start a development
1:03:39
program that USA players that were above the
1:03:45
caliber of of what they could do with You know
1:03:49
limited on your location or whatever That they
1:03:55
would always have somewhere to go and be taught
1:03:57
how to win and it kind of started with Developing
1:04:01
them like 14 15 years old the the US development
1:04:06
program in Michigan and they started it and you
1:04:13
know it wasn't great at the beginning but as
1:04:17
it developed you start to see the fruits of the
1:04:19
labor like you start to see more NHL players
1:04:23
that are from America you start to see the world
1:04:26
juniors like the USA winning world juniors like
1:04:30
they've done it like kind of a lot like in the
1:04:33
past like 10 years like it's which is absolutely
1:04:36
crazy and then you think that all these all these
1:04:40
players came from the same development program.
1:04:43
And like, it was it's it's just like crazy to
1:04:48
see like the the overarching story here. Because
1:04:51
it's like, yeah, you know, they they weren't
1:04:52
supposed to win in 1980. But they did. But like,
1:04:55
there was no there's nothing in place to hone
1:04:59
these college players skills previous to them
1:05:01
going to college. And so like, it was basically
1:05:05
play high school hockey, and then hope that a
1:05:09
college sees you. And like that was that's kind
1:05:11
of it. But like, being able to put time and effort
1:05:15
into your development as a young man, as a not
1:05:19
even a man, like not even not even an adult,
1:05:22
but like, like, basically a kid, like, and to
1:05:25
just provide the support to reach your goals,
1:05:28
like it's, it's absolutely crazy. Wit goes into
1:05:32
it, like a little bit more into detail. But that's,
1:05:35
I guess the close notes of it. This should mean
1:05:40
something to me, man. Like, yes, that's, I mean,
1:05:45
there's really like my whole point is this, this
1:05:49
does mean a lot to me. This feels very, very
1:05:55
special to me. And I will be damned if I, if
1:06:01
we let any, whether you're on one side of the
1:06:06
aisle or the other. these more But yeah, there's
1:06:41
been a damper online for sure. I don't know if
1:06:44
you guys have seen this, but it's not vibing
1:06:48
with me at all. I'm not going to let anybody
1:06:52
fucking tell me how to celebrate this win. Yeah,
1:06:57
because this is fucking amazing. This is awesome.
1:07:02
It's I mean, this is a pinnacle. moment in just
1:07:09
US sports, you know, like, it's it's crazy. But
1:07:15
that's enough of that. We're running out of time.
1:07:18
I know Chris wanted to touch on some other USA
1:07:23
things. Yeah, I mean, it's like what it's good
1:07:27
that you mentioned is pendulum moment USA sports.
1:07:30
There's a good chance that good old US of a sports
1:07:33
wise could have a better year. Cause up here
1:07:37
in a little bit, we got the world baseball classic
1:07:39
and USA has got some unfinished business with
1:07:42
Japan. Um, from the last WBC where we lost to
1:07:46
Shohei Otani on a not walk off home run, but
1:07:49
a late home run. So it was like, we're favored
1:07:52
to win that. We win that and then fuck it hosts
1:07:58
the world cup, win the world cup. If we, if we
1:08:03
won the world cup, I mean, Uh, yeah. Oh, that's
1:08:07
not good. That'd be wild. Let's just go and say
1:08:09
that's not going to happen. I looked up the odds.
1:08:11
That's not going to happen. We're like 64 to
1:08:12
one, which I mean, in terms of like the list,
1:08:17
we're not super far down. We're kind of like
1:08:18
right in the middle. But yeah, odds wise, we
1:08:20
don't have a prayer, but. Never now. Yeah, but
1:08:24
just if we win the World Cup, I wouldn't be the
1:08:27
biggest asshole on Twitter, because I'll go talk
1:08:30
about there as you should be countries where
1:08:32
they literally like. kill people over soccer
1:08:35
games. It's like, I don't give a fuck about this
1:08:37
sport, but USA baby. It's so goddamn right. As
1:08:45
American. It would be cool. Like obviously world
1:08:49
baseball classic, not nearly as big a stage as
1:08:51
the Olympics, but be pretty dope to team USA.
1:08:57
I don't know if they even get out like gold medals
1:08:59
in that, but two USA championships in the span
1:09:02
of I don't know how long it like month and a
1:09:04
half. Pretty damn cool. I, I might argue that
1:09:09
the world. Cup might be bigger than the Olympics.
1:09:13
Oh, let's talk about the world baseball class.
1:09:15
Yeah. World Cup. Yeah. I was going to be, I was
1:09:17
going to say, I was like, I think you might be
1:09:20
wrong there. No. World Cup definitely is. Um,
1:09:23
I was talking about baseball classic because
1:09:24
we actually have a very real chance of winning
1:09:27
that. But yeah. World Cup is definitely probably
1:09:30
the biggest sporting event. It's ever in the
1:09:32
world. Yeah, yeah. But and just imagine if we
1:09:37
like. We won't, but just imagine if we just roll
1:09:40
in Americans like we don't give a fuck about
1:09:42
soccer. Imagine if we just win that. And you
1:09:48
know what, like going going off my point of,
1:09:51
you know, a few minutes ago, like I hope we get
1:09:53
to that point, you know, where like kids growing
1:09:57
up will see Americans Give a shit about soccer
1:10:04
and think that we can do this, you know and Maybe
1:10:10
one day we will But for right now, I think it's
1:10:15
a pretty long shot. Oh it is but I was and I'm
1:10:18
just I'm being realistic here, but Yeah, it is
1:10:21
but I was just thinking like man what like after
1:10:24
all this shit like people other countries around
1:10:28
the world just taking big old dump on America
1:10:31
the last however many years, especially lately.
1:10:35
What if we just win every major championship?
1:10:41
We are celebrating 250 this year, come July.
1:10:47
It would be a crazy 250 if we did that. Again,
1:10:58
probably not going to happen. Probably not. Never
1:11:01
know. It could happen. If we just win a World
1:11:05
Cup. There's a slogan for this show. It's it
1:11:09
could happen. It could. I mean, honestly, if
1:11:12
they just win like a World Cup, like actual like
1:11:15
elimination game in the World Cup. That's good
1:11:19
enough for me. Yeah. Or tie or tie a really good
1:11:26
country like we did in the last one. I guess
1:11:29
England. Yeah. That was hilarious. Yeah. Which
1:11:34
have the, I don't even know if the groups have
1:11:36
been drawn for this thing, but I was like, maybe
1:11:38
we have like a wheat group. Maybe we actually
1:11:41
make it out this year. Who knows? Who's to say.
1:11:46
Yeah. All right. Well, uh, is that all we got?
1:11:54
Um, I mean, pretty much, there's just a little
1:11:56
anecdote last week. We're talking about college
1:11:58
basketball. And I was saying, I was thinking,
1:12:01
like, if we get, if we have time, I'm going to
1:12:03
talk about how I'm going to put a future on Texas
1:12:06
tech to win the national championship. Thank
1:12:09
God we didn't have enough time to get to that.
1:12:10
And I didn't place it because I think it was
1:12:13
the next night, maybe two nights later, um, Texas
1:12:17
sex, arguably best player writing big 12 player
1:12:20
of the year torn ACL. They're still very good
1:12:25
team, but, uh, they ain't winning that. So very
1:12:30
glad we didn't get to get to, we didn't get to
1:12:32
that last week. Happens. Great. Unfortunately,
1:12:38
it does happen. Yeah, it sucks. I really like
1:12:41
he was, I mean, still a great player, but it
1:12:44
sucks to see. Yeah, absolutely. All right. I
1:12:49
guess I'll end it then. Um, All right. Thank
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