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Team USA Hockey beats Canada to win the GOLD MEDAL! · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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It stopped. Everybody said it was going to
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stop about 6:00 PM, but it stopped.
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Really not here, especially here in Long Island, about 1:00 PM
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1/30, we had to clean up. I would say we got about 15
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inches. It was brutal.
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And and we've had a compiled of snow over the last couple of
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weeks. We had a snowstorm, what was it,
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2 1/2 three weeks ago and now we had this one and we might have
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more snow coming on the way sometime later this week into
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next week. So it's been a crazy, crazy
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February. I would have never thought that
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we would get this much. So we haven't had this much snow
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in about 5 years. And we've had probably the
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coldest winter month in January. It was so cold.
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It was at one point in the, you know, in their teens and, and at
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one point it was in the, it was like 5-6 degrees.
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So, and it was out of -3 one of the days as well in the month of
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January. So I would have never thought we
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would have this kind of cold and this kind of snow in, you know,
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in, in February, in the new year.
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So 2026 is on to a great one, ladies and gentlemen, a cold
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one. I like the cold.
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But when it gets to this point, I, I don't know if I like this
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weather. It's a little overboard when
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you, when you're practically walking in the snow and it's up
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to your waist. That's how bad it is over here.
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And I'm not small. I know Jabba likes to say that
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I'm such a small guy, but I'm 5/10 and 1/4.
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I have to add that quarter because it gives me a little bit
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more size. But the emphasis here is we've
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had a lot of snow over the last couple of weeks.
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Hopefully going into March it it probably gets a little bit
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warmer. Spring time's around the corner
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and we might see no more of it. But I think March could be more
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of a hazard when it comes to snow because over the last
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couple of years, especially here in New York, it's the coldest in
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March. It unless we got the cold front
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in January and now we're moving to the snowy part in February
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and then in the warmer part in, well, springtime March.
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So we'll see. I, I, I don't know.
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I don't know what to expect with the weather.
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I know a lot of people on the East Coast were slammed,
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especially in the city. And, and what's crazy about the
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snow when it hits the city? I'm talking about Queens,
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Brooklyn and Manhattan. You can't put the snow anywhere.
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There's nowhere to put the snow. It's not like it's the suburbs
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and you can push it on somebody's lawn.
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There is no lawn in Queens. There is no lawn in Manhattan.
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So where are you putting it? And, and everybody parks their
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cars on the street. There's nowhere to park on the
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streets now. Now you're definitely going to
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have to pay for parking. So a lot of New Yorkers are not
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enjoying this weather of snow, especially in the city part of
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New York. So it's not good.
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But hey, we're here. We're here to entertain you.
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If you're locked in your houses or you're, I don't know, you're
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caved in with snow throughout the New York market or on the
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East Coast. You can enjoy a lot of takes,
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hot takes when it comes to sports and give you some
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laughing objectives. I don't know, it's something
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we're going to. We'll give you something tonight
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and maybe throw you guys off in a little occupied craziness.
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I don't know, I'm occupied with this, but there's a lot of
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craziness that's going to be handed to you in the show.
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We got a lot to get into and one of the big stories is if you're
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a USA Hockey fan or if you're just a United States fan, what
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happened on Sunday was something that you'll never forget, never
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forget. On Sunday morning, Team USA
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Hockey won their first gold medal since the historic Miracle
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on Ice 1980s team with a 21 overtime victory over Canada.
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US goalie Connor Hellebach saved an incredible 41 out of 42
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shots, the most total saves ever in a gold medal game.
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Canada outshot United the United States 42 to 28 and dominated
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total puck possession by almost 4 minutes in the second and
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third period. Minnesota Wild winger Matt Boldy
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open the scoring 6 minutes into the contest, putting the US up
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one to nothing. Assisted Assisted by team
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captain Austin Matthews and Boldy's new Wild teammate Quinn
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Hewes. Quinn Ewes had eight points,
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including a point in every game of the Olympics, tied for the
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most ever by a defenseman. Quinn's brother Jack, however,
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was the story with the golden goal.
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Assisted by Blue Jackets defenseman Zach Warinsky in the
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wild in a wild three on three overtime period after losing
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teeth and getting blasted by a high stick late in the game.
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Game used did not appear to miss a shift after winning the gold
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medal. Team USA did an amazing tribute
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to Johnny and Matthew Goudreau, honoring him by having Johnny's
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jersey in front of the gold medal ceremony photo and
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celebrating it with the Goudreau kids on the ice with the team
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for what goes down as the greatest US accomplishment in
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hockey in 1/2 a century. When you think about Jonny
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Goudreau, first of all, and his brother, it's it's horrible to
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think about what happened to them the night before they were
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supposed to be at their sister's wedding.
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They they were riding their bikes and a drunk driver hit
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them and killed them instantly. Jonny Goudreau is one of the
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best American scorers we have seen in the last 15 years.
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This guy was the face of New Jersey and Philadelphia hockey.
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He stood for a lot. He really did.
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And you can see it after the United States won the gold
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medal, as you see the Kashuk brothers, Matthew Brady and a
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bunch of the players holding his jersey and pretty much
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celebrating his life. The Cujo family, his father and
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his mother were there in the audience.
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His kids were there. His wife was there as they were
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invited to come and celebrate. Now, nobody knew that Team USA
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was going to win the gold. I don't think Team USA knew they
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were going to win the gold. And Canada was the heavy
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favorites going into the game. There was no question with the
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talent that they have over there with Connor McDavid, who's
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arguably the greatest hockey player of this time, he has been
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as dominant as a player we've seen.
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You have McKinnon, who's one of the best hockey players, not
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only for Colorado in the NHL, Mccarr, who you can say is the
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best defenseman in all of hockey.
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The talent over there in Canada, you would say out of all the
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players playing on that Canadian team, probably the majority of
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them are going to be Hall of Farmers.
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That's how good they are. And to me, Team USA had the
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advantage going into the game was goaltending and you could
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say whatever you want. Connor Hollabock has not been
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very good in the big game over the years going into the
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playoffs with the Winnipeg Jets. He has not looked good.
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He has not looked good. Winnipeg was one of the best
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teams in the NHL 2-3 years ago and they choked early in the
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playoffs. A lot of people thought,
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including yours truly, thought they were going to make a run,
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maybe go to Stanley Cup finals and they fell very short and
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that was because Connor Hollabuck did not show up in
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those games. This is a guy last year that won
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goaltender of the year when won the Venzina Trophy.
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On the Hart Trophy. And the Hart Trophy.
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He was the best player in the NHL last year and he was a
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goalie and going in this tournament they needed Connor to
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show up because he didn't show up in the fall. 4 Nations.
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They play Team Canada in the finals and Hollabuck gave up a
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really bad goal against Connor McDavid at the end of the game,
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which sealed the deal for Team Canada in the Four Nations and I
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believe the Team USA after losing against Canada really.
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And I'll I'll give a shout out to Bill Garin, who were him and
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Beezer. John Van Beezburg has been
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developing these young superstars like Jack Hughes and
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Boldy, all these guys that have been coming up in in United
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States hockey and junior hockey, All these guys have slowly
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developed on it. You have to help.
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You have to give a shout out to John Van Beezbrook because he's
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been a part of that, and Bill Garin, who if you don't know
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Bill Garrett, played for Team USA Hockey, played for the New
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Jersey Devils. This is a guy that was a great
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United States hockey player. Was he an elite player?
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No, but he was a guy that knew how to put the puck in the net.
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So when the USA gave him the opportunity to run this team and
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build this team for this year's 2026 Olympic hockey team, you
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knew that he had to put speed on this team.
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You knew how that he had to put guys that have heart.
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And when you look at the two brothers in the Kuchuk brothers
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and Brady and Matthew and Jack and Quinn, these guys slowly but
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surely have developed. I've been to three out of the
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four guys draft classes. I interviewed all three.
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I've interviewed Brady Kuchuk, Jack Hughes and Quinn Hughes.
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I met them both and I got a chance to see these guys in.
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It was in different drafts where these guys really started to
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develop their names and remember, they all come and now
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the use brothers. Their father never played in the
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NHL, but he's coached in the AHL.
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He's coached for many, many years.
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They're from Orlando. They're from Florida.
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You would think that how does hockey players get developed in
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Orlando? How do they get developed in
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Florida? Well, we can ask our friend
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Goody that that question because hockey's grown all over the
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country, especially here in Long Island.
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McEvoy, Charlie McEvoy, who's a Long Island native, Fox, who's a
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Long Island native who was not a part of this team but was a part
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of the Four Nations team. The development of United States
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hockey has changed as far as competition is concerned.
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When you think about the Russian, the Soviet Union in the
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past, but the Russian team who did not compete in this
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tournament this year because of what's going on overseas with
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Ukraine. And the Canadians who have been
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as dominant of a team and as as dominant as a program that any
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program in professional sports, especially hockey, when you
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think of the fact of Team Canada going into this game, everybody
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and you look at the betting lines, you go look at Vegas,
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everybody had Canada winning this game.
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Nobody, I don't even think Team USA believed until after the
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third period going into overtime, they can win this
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game. And you look at guys like Jack
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Hughes, who had his teeth knocked out, cracked teeth in
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the third period. The Knicks, I mean, the Knicks,
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the United States team had an opportunity to have a 4 minute
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power play, couldn't capitalize on it.
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I think it was Peterson that knocked his teeth out.
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And everybody thought, hey, this, this might not, this might
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not happen. The United States might not get
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a chance to close out the way They had a chance to close out
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in the third period like they did with the Jack Hughes
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penalty. And then Jack Hughes had his own
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penalty in the third period, which could have cost Team USA
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because it ended a 4 minute power play, but Canada didn't.
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They didn't capitalize on that either and it was back and
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forth. Team USA won the first period,
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absolutely dominated, and then after that it was really Team
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Canada and second and third period.
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Cooper is one of the best coaches in the NHL and Sullivan
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right there with them. Two respectable coaches, two
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guys that respect each other, two guys that have been a part
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of their team and their nation's colors for the last couple of
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years. Sullivan's been running Team USA
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Hockey as the coach and Cooper's been right behind the bench for
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a significant amount of time. But you saw it at Brady Kuchuk
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during the game and, and he had a, he had a mic on him saying
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keep fighting guys, keep fighting, keep working, keep
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working. Things will happen, things will
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happen. We're winning this, we're
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winning this. And you saw it you, it's the
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confidence in some of these players.
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And I like I'm, I'm not a big fan of the Kuchuk brothers as
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anybody that listens to the show.
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I'm not a fan of Keith. I met Keith Kuchuk.
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I was there when the Saint Louis Blues won the Stanley Cup.
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He wasn't really respectable, especially didn't give me any
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respect when we were on the ice. When I wanted to interview him
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after the Blues, he works with the Blues.
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Al McGuinness gave me the opportunity to ask him a couple
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of questions, Brett Hall, Chris Pronger.
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But Keith Kuchuk just seemed like he is a real big, you know
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what, I'm not going to say it on live radio.
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I don't want to scare any kids away, but you know what I mean?
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I mean, Brady and Matthew, I've, I've heard stories.
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I, I was there when Brady got drafted.
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So Matthew was there, Keith was there, they were taking pictures
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and they just, Brady was a little bit more nicer than
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Matthew. But you can tell, you can tell
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they have a little bit of sting to them.
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You can tell that their father built them up to be tough and
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they were the tough team. They were a tough team because
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of these two guys. They would go out there if
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somebody was getting hit behind the behind the net of the
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opposing team or if the goalie got hit, Conor Hollabook got hit
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or Swayman got hit, what would happen?
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You see the Kachuck brothers start the fights and end the
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fights. It didn't matter if it was
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against Slovakia or any of the other teams that they played
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against. This team played as a team.
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They didn't lose 1 game in this tournament.
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They didn't lose 1. They absolutely dominated.
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And I'll, I'll say this, everybody says, what do you mean
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they dominated? There were games they could have
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lost the game before, they could have lost against Sweden, They
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could have lost against some of these games.
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How many games went to overtime? But you see, that's competitive
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hockey. And when you have a heart to
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win, you're going to find a way to get the game, you know, in
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your favor, you get the get the goal and end that game.
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And that's what they did. Austin Matthews, I don't know if
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he's so much of A captain, but he's had an offseason.
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Austin Matthews has not been the same Austin Matthews he's been
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with the Maple Leafs. This guy was is been the elite
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goal scorer for Team USA Hockey for a very long time.
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But going into this tournament, he really has had a bad season.
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He really has but Team USA and and maybe this will give him a
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little bit of boost. Winning the gold medal and
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really showing that it meant something in 1980.
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The Miracle on Ice, I wasn't alive for that.
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I was born in 82. I never got a chance to
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experience it, but we all know what Mike Orizione was.
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We all know what Craig, who Craig was and and we all know
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what some of these players Johnson was, Herb Brooks, what
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he stood for, for Team USA Hockey.
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If you ever seen the documentaries, there's a
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documentary right now on Netflix, Miracle.
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You seen the movies with Kurt Russell playing Herb Brooks.
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It was an amazing story. And I don't know if 2026 could
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ever be matched to the 1980 Olympic team.
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I don't know if it could ever be that way.
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But think about this. It took 46 years for Team USA to
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win another gold. 46 years. Think about that.
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The last time they experienced hoisting that flag in the
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national anthem was 1980. For American men's hockey and
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everything that you look at what they stand for and all the
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players. Let's go.
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And we we spoke about Quinton use, what he did and how what,
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what this team did. As far as completed players.
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Brady Kachuk had five points throughout the tournament in six
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games, three goals and two assists.
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Zach Warinsky, six games, six points.
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Jack Aiko, I think is one of the most important players on this
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roster. In six games had six points, two
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goals and four assists. One of the best in all of
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hockey. JT Miller, Ranger fans, even
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though he played six games and had no point, he played a big
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part of their checking and a really playing the aggressive
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type of game that Team USA wanted to play.
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Matt Boldy scoring the first goal of of the championship
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game. He had four points.
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This young kid is going to be a part of Team USA Hockey for
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many, many years. Brock Faber, Six games, two
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points, +7 all these players. Vincent Trochek, who's probably
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going to be traded sometime before the trade deadline for
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the New York Rangers, played a big part as far as far as the
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four checking is concerned for Team USA, which AT Miller.
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Dylan Larkin big time when it comes to face offs and he had a
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big part of the speed of this team and the defensive side of
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the puck. Brock Nelson by the way, was
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sensational throughout the tournament too.
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I, I know Islander fans don't want to hear it, but Brock
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Nelson was a big part of Team USA success, especially as far
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as the four checking is concerned.
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When Bill Garin put this team together, he didn't put the most
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athletic guys on the team. He put the guys that fit this
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roster. The aggression, the aggressive
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way that Team USA wanted to play in this tournament.
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They didn't compare to some of the Canadian players as far as
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talent is concerned on the ice. But there was one position that
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everybody knew they were going to be better than Canada was,
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and that was the goaltending. And I believe that Team USA had
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the best goaltending in this tournament.
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They had Jeremy Swayman, Boston, Jake Ottinger, Dallas and Connor
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Hellebuck, Winnipeg. These three guys are not only
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some of the best American born goaltenders we've ever had,
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these guys are some of the best in the NHL.
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Top five, top 6. All three of these guys have
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been there and you're you, you're seeing the video right
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now of what Hellerbuck did to another ex New York Islanders,
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Islander Devin Thames stopping him with the shaft of his stick
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in the third period. Actually, he was the second
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period, right? No, it was the third period,
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third period. One of the best saves in the
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tournament, if not the best save in the tournament, if it wasn't
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for Hellebuck doing what he did, stood on his head.
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Team USA doesn't win this game. And what Jack Hughes did after
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getting his teeth knocked, teeth knocked out, and played every
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single shift after that. He could have sat out, he could
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have bitched and moaned and cried about it.
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He got back in the game, he skated and he did what he was
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supposed to do as one of the best offensive players that Team
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USA had on his roster. And in overtime, Team USA did
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something and they caught Canada really almost having a 2 on O.
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They caught him shifting and changing, changing lines, and
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they caught him and the United States had a three on one and
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then it was a two on one. Orinsky got it to Jack Hughes
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and he buried it right behind Bennington.
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Game over match to Team USA and what the crowd and there were a
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lot of Canadian fans there. A lot of them there was half
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Canada, half American. And when Canada and and by the
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way, Makar is one of the best defensive, one of the best
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offensive players in the NHL. When he took that shot and he
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tied the game, he buried it. He buried it.
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It wasn't like Hollabuck couldn't see the puck.
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He just couldn't stop it. Canada is loaded and I think
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they were shocked when Team USA ended in an overtime as fast as
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they did. If it went any further, I think
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Team Canada wins the game and and Team USA had no offensive
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chances really throughout the late 2nd all through the third
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period. Even on that 4 minute power play
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that they had before Jack Hughes who draw the penalty got a
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penalty, they couldn't find any offensive chances, chances
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really throughout the third period.
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Bennington, whenever he did need to make a save, he made a good
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save once or twice in that third period.
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It was really Connor Hollabock standing on his head throughout
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the second and third period. That was the the amazing thought
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and if anybody wants to pin something on why Team USA won
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the gold medal on Sunday morning, it was Connor
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Hollabock. Yeah, you mentioned the
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sustained pressure that Canada had in the second and third
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period. The puck possession stats were
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really big in Canada's favor. The first period was kind of
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even. I think Canada may be slightly
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outplayed in puck possession, while I think they had two more
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shots on goal, but they dominated that whole stretch in
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the second and third period. And Hellebock made some
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unbelievable saving. Besides the Devon Davis one the
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could Chuck break away, I think it was Brady in the at the start
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of the third period. He had a tough save on McDavid
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in the second and then McKinnon, I think he had one like just off
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the side of the net or something that he got a piece of.
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So there's a lot of these wide open chances or breakaway
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chances that he was just ready for.
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And how about Charlie McAvoy jumping in front of the net and
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stopping a puff from going in? That one, yeah, Charlie McAvoy
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has always been one of the more alert defense.
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When you saw the US get very physical in front of the net,
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one they had to be too, which is something that.
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Well, if you look at Bill Guerin, like with his Minnesota
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Wild team, this is something that would have been questioned
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with Hugh's another one they did a trade for.
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And he's kind of undersized, but he played tough when.
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He They had Speedy, they had many opportunities to bury the
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puck behind Hellerbuck. They had an open net.
26:25
McKinnon had an open net and missed it.
26:26
Missed wide. Yeah, missed it.
26:28
It was wide open for him to put it in and he couldn't find the
26:31
net. And this guy is one of the best
26:33
goal scorers in the NHL. Colorado, who arguably is the
26:36
best team right now in all of the National Hockey League.
26:39
He couldn't and he's the best player.
26:41
Him and Makar, you can argue with the two best players on
26:44
that roster and it's a loaded roster and he's probably the
26:48
best offensive option they have and couldn't bury the puck.
26:51
He was the best offensive, like he should probably.
26:53
If Hellebuck didn't have the year he had, he was going to win
26:55
the Heart trophy in the kid last year.
26:57
He was the best offensive player in the league last year during
26:59
the regular season. And yeah, they just had a lot of
27:01
chances they couldn't and they had so many good passes.
27:04
They made the right place a lot of the time.
27:05
It just was hard for them to do that and eventually the US was
27:08
going to break even because the US had enough transition
27:11
opportunities. I think in the first period they
27:12
even some. They dominated the first.
27:14
Period. Yeah.
27:15
I would say like even in the like middle of the third period,
27:18
US had enough transition opportunities where they could
27:19
have done at Bington and a nice save on Brock Nelson that you
27:22
mentioned that in the third period.
27:25
And I think they because of that they had enough confidence in
27:28
their transition game, their passing ability that they had.
27:31
And I agree with you, if it went longer in overtime, that would
27:33
definitely benefited Canada because of the way Canada was
27:35
possessing the puck for most of. That and the way Connor McDavid
27:38
was skating really in the third period, he was unstoppable and
27:42
you can see he could skate circles around half those
27:44
players on the ice, including his own players.
27:47
He is that good of a player. Every time he touched the puck,
27:50
my, I started like hoping that somebody was going to take the
27:53
puck away from him because I, I started my everything.
27:56
I was sweating every time he touched the puck every and he
27:59
was out there almost every single shift, every other shift.
28:02
Conor McDavid was out there. It was amazing how much stamp
28:05
there this guy has and the skating ability he has when it
28:09
comes to that stamina and, and, and really going up and down an
28:12
Olympic ice. Remember, the Olympic ice is
28:14
bigger than the NHL ice. Right.
28:16
And that's where I think you mentioned too with the
28:17
development systems when you talk about the any or the the
28:20
Olympics, changing the rules backward of the NHL players
28:23
could participate because the last three years they were not
28:24
able to that automatically jump starts the development system
28:28
for the US like you say with Van Beesbrook and Garen there, did
28:31
you have to change that philosophy to make it work?
28:33
And Canada to the same kind of thing.
28:35
Now, Canada didn't have the obviously the same level of the
28:37
goaltending, but they had the same level of really everything
28:39
else, fast skating, great play making type guys where I think a
28:43
lot of those other European nations were kind of ahead
28:45
because a lot of those NHL players played with some of the
28:48
amateur players where you saw Russia when the well IO Russia,
28:52
IOC, they weren't allowed to use their flag.
28:54
When the last one in 2022, you saw Sweden win some other ones
28:57
as well because I think they had that national chemistry where I
29:00
don't know if the US had those types of things with those
29:02
younger players and the same kind of thing with Canada.
29:04
Here's another thing, when I got a chance to interview John Van
29:07
Beesbrook years ago in Dallas and I was working the media and
29:11
he I was one of very few people he would talk to and speak to.
29:15
One of the reasons why is he's one of my favorite players, one
29:17
of my favorite athletes growing up.
29:19
So I got a chance to interview him right by the rafters, right
29:23
behind the rafters. And it was crazy because I asked
29:26
him, what could you tell me a little bit about Team USA
29:29
Hockey? Who do we look forward to seeing
29:32
up and coming stars in the NHL in the future?
29:34
And this was years ago. And he said the Kachuk Kachuk
29:37
brothers are definitely there. But he said the you brothers.
29:40
And that was that was when Quinn you was was drafted.
29:44
And I remember that draft. It wasn't when obviously Jack
29:47
used and he said his brother Jack is going to be one of the
29:49
best young offensive players the United States has ever had.
29:52
Watch out for this kid. This kid is going to be that
29:54
type of player. And I didn't know who he was
29:57
until he was drafted. And everybody said, look at his
30:00
size. Is his size going to work in the
30:02
NHL? That's what they said.
30:04
Is it going to work? Is it going to be this or is it
30:06
going to be that? Well, ladies and gentlemen, his
30:09
size does not matter. It's his speed is his leg
30:11
strength. And when I got a chance to see
30:13
him when he was drafted at #1 in Capoco at the and the Ranger
30:16
fans wanted Jack Hughes. I remember that a worse before
30:20
that everybody thought that the Rangers were going to, you know,
30:25
somehow trade up and and at #2 to get to #1.
30:28
There was no way the new. Jersey I won.
30:29
The Devils were doing it. Were going to trade with the
30:32
Rangers when Jack Hughes was signed and and and obviously
30:35
brought in and drafted by the New Jersey Devils.
30:38
I looked at him and I'm like man, this guy's legs are like
30:40
tree trunks. When I saw him, he he's not the
30:43
tallest guy he's like 5-10 at best.
30:46
I was a little bit taller than him, so I would say he was a
30:49
little bit under 510, but but on skates he's about 6 foot or 511.
30:54
But what I like about this kid is he's nice, he's kind.
30:59
He was very good to the media, very uplifting, very kind and
31:03
collective, gave you all the answers you wanted from a young
31:07
superstar United States player. When Brady was drafted, Brady
31:11
didn't say much to the media. As a matter of fact, his father
31:13
spoke for him and so did Matthew.
31:16
So it wasn't like Brady went out there and opened his mouth.
31:19
Now, I'm not saying Brady Kuchuk is anything like his father in
31:22
Matthew. I think Matthew is a little bit
31:23
more abrupt, a little bit less kind to the media than Brady is.
31:28
I think Brady, I think, speaks a little bit more formal and
31:32
understands what the media is going to do for him if he ever
31:36
wants to leave Ottawa, which could be very soon.
31:39
But I think that what the Chuck brothers bring to the game,
31:45
United States hockey is aggressive play.
31:48
That's what you want. You want guys that are going to
31:50
go up, they're going to slam you in the boards, they're going to
31:52
four check you, they're going to dominate you behind the net and
31:55
they're going to make sure you feel them every time they hit
31:57
you. And that's what Brady does.
31:59
And Brady, I think he's a little bit different than Matthew
32:02
because offensively the guy has a gift.
32:05
When he gets a puck in on his Dick, he could put it right
32:07
behind the net, he could put it right, right behind the goal
32:11
very quickly. He's got unbelievable hands.
32:13
Matthew, he's got good hands. He's talented.
32:16
He's got the ability to do what Brady can do, but he doesn't do
32:19
it with ease like Brady can do it.
32:21
Brady makes it look much easier than Matthew does.
32:25
And you can see the difference in the style of game that both
32:28
these guys play. And I, I, I say the same thing
32:31
about Quinn Hughes. Quinn Hughes was the best
32:34
defenseman throughout this tournament, even better than
32:37
Macar. He was that good.
32:40
When you talk about USA defenseman, Brian Leach comes to
32:44
mind. Brian Leach, Phil Housley comes
32:47
to mind. These guys are some of the
32:50
greatest American born defenseman of all time for Team
32:54
USA Hockey. And remember NHL players in the
32:57
past times in the the late or early 90s did not play in the
33:02
Olympics. It took really the mid 90s or
33:05
late 90s for that to transition. After the World Cup.
33:09
It was different and I remember the World Cup because I think it
33:11
was 9596 when Team USA beat Team Canada in the world.
33:16
Cup, I would imagine there's a lot of like, but the just the
33:18
changes in Russia and like. Everything.
33:19
Mike Richter was the goaltender. The starting goaltender was John
33:22
Van Beesbruck and Tom Barrasso, a part of a part of those Team
33:25
USA teams. Some of the greatest goal
33:27
tenders of the 90s. Yeah, I was.
33:29
Going to imagine a lot of those of Russian players and even the
33:31
even the Swedish and Fenders, some of them like defected a lot
33:34
of the time right after the Cold War.
33:35
So I would imagine there was a lot of like roster turnover,
33:38
both those teams, big window for US and Canada at that time.
33:41
I think the difference right now when you see United States
33:45
hockey is we're more grittier and there's more opportunity to
33:49
build young superstars in the United States junior hockey
33:55
divisions. If you look at some of the
33:57
junior hockey teams around the country and some of the places
34:01
that they are building, some of the best young United States
34:04
hockey players, including here in Long Island, New York, which
34:07
there's been like 7 or 8 NHL players that have been drafted
34:12
here in the last 10 years. And I would say about six of
34:14
them have become stars in the NHL.
34:17
It says a lot about the development here in New York.
34:20
Thank Mark Messier, thank some of the Adam Graves and some of
34:24
the hockey players, Darius Kasparidis and Vladimir Molikoff
34:27
guys, Benoit Hogue and and some of those guys that have helped
34:31
developed young stars and young players here at the NHL level.
34:36
So it's been it's been crazy. And also look at the guys, like
34:42
look at Hagen, who was just drafted out of the draft from
34:45
the Boston Bruins, Young superstar from Comac, kids going
34:49
to be a star, going to be a stud, probably play for Team USA
34:52
in the very near future. It's bright.
34:55
Not just here in New York, throughout the East and West
34:58
Coast. There are a lot of great hockey
34:59
players coming from the West Side.
35:00
Yes, LA, Sacramento, San Francisco, there are there.
35:05
There's just so much development here and hockey become such a
35:09
big sport and you, everybody boos Gary Bettman, everybody
35:12
boos the guy. But here's the thing, Gary
35:14
Bettman has been the best commissioner in all of the big
35:18
sports here in America. I'm talking about better than
35:21
Adam Silver and Rob Manfred and Roger Goodell.
35:24
Yes, all these guys have brought in money for their respectable
35:27
leagues, but guess what? Gary Bettman's been there the
35:30
longest and Gary Bettman has not changed his way.
35:34
He didn't. He didn't do anything.
35:35
As a matter of fact, he did the one thing that a lot of these
35:38
commissioners will not do, and they have these lottery drafts.
35:41
Now they're doing it. They're picking the bulls in
35:44
front of the media, in front of the fans, showing them that
35:47
nobody is cheating as the New York Islanders for the first
35:51
time ever, right in front of the fans, right in front of
35:54
everybody. They picked the ball and it fell
35:57
their way. And they got Matthew Shaffer,
35:59
which could change their organization for many, many
36:03
years to come. So Gary Bettman has done
36:05
something that a lot of these commissioners don't have the
36:07
balls to do. Adam Silver and your goofy brain
36:09
take. Notes.
36:10
Well, you could I. Agree.
36:12
As far as Bettman goes, he's been there forever.
36:14
Bettman's. Have you ever met him?
36:15
He's like a really tiny guy. I did meet Gary.
36:18
But hey, you know what? He does a great job.
36:20
For the for the league, he has for a very long time.
36:23
You mentioned the West Coast. It's real easy to be a fan if
36:26
you're on the West Coast in San Jose these days because Macklin
36:30
Celebrini outside of Conor McDavid just jumped off the
36:32
screen the entire time he was on the ice.
36:35
I, I was, I don't know if I was more scared of him or I mean,
36:38
obviously McDavid. I mean, McDavid is just crazy.
36:40
He's so fast and so powerful how he skates like even if he like
36:44
doesn't get a good like dump into the zone, he's always able
36:48
to back check and catch back up like he's always is because he's
36:51
so fast and has such a like immediate turn back.
36:54
Like he's a two way player and then he's unfairly good on the
36:57
offensive side celebrating. He's maybe not as good two way
37:00
just yet, but he looks like he is just lightning out there.
37:04
It is sick what he's doing. McKinnon, my God, he had a wide
37:09
open net arrow. He's sitting there with the puck
37:11
on his This just sitting there like doorstep.
37:14
They they had the game and US, you know, look, makes me happy
37:18
as a Ranger fan to know that the old Ranger theory of hey, just
37:21
get a goalie to stand on their head and, you know, have some
37:24
good offensive plays and maybe we'll tic tac toe it into the
37:27
net and we'll be great. So basically Fisher saying the
37:30
Rangers should petition for single.
37:31
Elimination NHL play offs because that's all they want to
37:33
lobby for. Look it, it works.
37:35
It worked in this. One for them.
37:37
Mike Sullivan was there. He coached him on the way to do
37:39
it. JT Miller now has gold medal
37:41
experience as a captain of the Rangers.
37:44
I thought him and Trocheck played well.
37:46
Trocheck was their face off guy. They brought him in in overtime
37:50
and then immediately told his ass to get off the ice to send
37:53
in Jack Hughes. I think.
37:53
I think he was the one who got off for Hughes.
37:56
How about how about every time Bo Horvat was?
37:59
Out there for Team Canada, he won every single face off.
38:01
Every single face off. He was out for the most
38:04
important face offs, including Makar's goal.
38:07
He won that face off, which practically gave Makar that
38:10
open, open shot. So I'm going to tell you this Bo
38:13
Horvat, I mean, was an absolute steal by Lou Lamorello.
38:16
And everybody was questioning what Lou Lamorello did and then
38:19
giving Bo Horvat that contract. He was as important to Team
38:23
Canada as any player. Connor McDavid, Makar McKinnon,
38:26
any one of those guys, even Celebrini.
38:29
I, I mean, and Celebrina was to me throughout the tournament as
38:33
good as Connor McDavid. And that's why they were playing
38:35
on the same line. Could you imagine Connor McDavid
38:37
and Celebrini playing on the same team on the same line?
38:41
And how about dry sidle, Celebrini dry sidle and Connor
38:45
McDavid on one line? How scary would that be?
38:49
How scary would that end you got to give America?
38:52
Some love, though. They were able to stop that
38:54
onslaught. It shouldn't have been possible.
38:56
Like you were saying it earlier, Errol, I asked AI, they said 15
38:59
to 20 future Hall of farmers in this game.
39:02
And I think more than half of them were on Canada's side.
39:06
I mean, you could just go through some of the names here,
39:08
you know, just obvious names right off the bat.
39:11
I mean, Sidney Crosby didn't play.
39:12
Now, I don't know if that would have made the difference or not.
39:15
I think so. I think it would have Sidney.
39:18
Crosby has killed Team USA even think about how many times did
39:23
Sidney Crosby put the puck in the net against Team USA.
39:25
Even in the games that you would you would point out where he
39:28
wasn't playing as well as some of the other players on the
39:31
roster. He's scary in the big game.
39:33
Sid the kid always finds a way to bury the puck and stick it
39:37
right to Team USA. So thank God he didn't play in
39:39
the game and I you can see it in his face.
39:41
He wanted. I tend to agree with you, but
39:43
some of the. Stuff you were hearing from the
39:44
guys on the in the broadcast that this was like the fastest
39:47
game they've ever seen in their lives.
39:50
Like just the skating on this level with like the types of,
39:53
you know, young athletes that are skating might have been
39:55
pretty hard for an older guy to to keep up with them, even if it
39:58
was Sid the kid. But it was just an unbelievable
40:01
game. McDavid, McKinnon, surefire Hall
40:04
of farmers, Marshan. We can't even talk about
40:06
Marshan. Hall of Famer Drew Dowdy is on
40:10
that team. They're all are Famers, Every
40:13
one of them. I mean, in a car.
40:14
Except Bennington. Three on three overtime.
40:16
Three and. Three on Bennington, three on
40:18
three overtime. Bennington's not a Hall of Fame,
40:21
no. He's not a Hall of Famer, but he
40:22
played. Really good.
40:23
He was. He was really, I mean Team USA.
40:25
Didn't put the puck on it as much as they should have after
40:28
the after the first period. I mean, he had a couple of big
40:31
saves in the second and third period, but he really didn't do
40:34
as much as Hollabuck was doing. Well, Hollabuck didn't.
40:37
He didn't have to do as much as Hellabuck.
40:39
For sure, you know, like it. That was that was was
40:41
definitely, you know, other guys on the did you hear?
40:44
What did you hear? What, Eddie?
40:45
Olczyk was saying throughout the game after the if, if Team USA
40:48
wins this game, everybody on Team USA should give Hollabuck
40:53
their gold medal because he's the reason why they won or
40:56
they're going to win the gold medal.
40:57
After all the saves that he made in the third period, even at the
41:01
end of the second period, some of the unbelievable glove saves
41:04
that he was making and they were, they were doing everything
41:07
against him, standing in front of him.
41:08
Is he a Hall of Famer now with this?
41:10
Performance and the three he's going, he's going to be a hall.
41:14
Of Famer, there's no Does this make it official?
41:17
Though right now I thought he was this moment.
41:18
I I. Thought he was a Hall of Famer
41:20
before this. I, I mean, think about this
41:22
Connor Hollabuck and, and they said they, they told the story
41:25
during the game and his, his brother plays obviously AHL
41:30
hockey or OHL hockey. His father couldn't afford both
41:33
of them playing travel hockey. So Connor really didn't play for
41:37
one of those big colleges. I think he played for UMass or
41:40
something like that. He didn't play for a top D1
41:43
school because he couldn't play for those travel teams where he
41:46
could be seen. So whoever gave him a full
41:48
scholarship, that's where he was going.
41:50
Connor Hollebuck is really. And remember, he was a fifth
41:53
round draft pick too. A lot of teams passed on him and
41:58
look at what he's turned out to be.
41:59
Winnipeg didn't pass on him. And look at the talented court,
42:02
a goaltender he is and he's still only 32 years old.
42:05
He's going to play in another Olympic game.
42:08
He is he is definitely going to play in another Olympic
42:12
championship game if Team USA makes it that far in the future.
42:16
I mean, I it's I thought he was a Hall of Famer before this, But
42:20
what he did in this game and what he stood for after the game
42:24
and what he said to the media after the game and saying that
42:28
if it wasn't for the players in front of me and and doing the
42:30
things that they did behind me in front of me, I wouldn't had
42:34
had the game and I wouldn't have seen the puck as well as I did
42:37
in the game to stop some of the best players in the world.
42:39
And also fish. I think the factor in as.
42:41
Well, the goalie longevity today, now you don't see as many
42:44
that really stretch out. So I think the same way we
42:46
talked about a few weeks ago with the NFL likes a lot of
42:48
players retiring early. Like I think the same thing will
42:51
be rewarded with peak performances with goalies too,
42:53
because there's not many in today's era that last as long as
42:56
you're seeing with a lot of these goalie platoons now.
42:58
So him having a great six year peak with those 3 Vasanas
43:01
combined with this now, which is an unbelievable.
43:03
GAIL Goldman, you also want a heart too, yes?
43:05
And winning a heart which hasn't been done for a.
43:07
Goalie in this era, that's what I'm saying.
43:09
Like you know it. Takes a lot.
43:11
There's not a lot of I mean, it's very hard to draft high on
43:15
a goalie and be good on it. I mean, your your old nemesis
43:20
from the island. There's Di Pietro comes to mind
43:23
as a top goalie draft pick, but you know, you don't you don't
43:26
really see it. You like Lungfest with the
43:29
Rangers was a later draft pick. Igor wasn't a high high draft
43:33
pick either. You know, it's just like either
43:35
Sarokin was a it's it's kind. Of more of a crapshoot.
43:37
I feel like at that position in the draft, you really need the
43:40
goalie coaching. For it, yes, that's why you're
43:42
not and it also. It also depends where you're
43:44
coming from if. Obviously, Lungquist came from
43:46
the Swedish OR organization, so Sweden always has good
43:50
goaltending. And then Sarokin and Igor
43:53
Shastarkin, where do they come from?
43:54
They come from the Russians. And some of the best Russian
43:57
goaltender, really the best goaltenders in all of the world
44:00
are Russian players. Think about it.
44:02
I mean, so Vasilevsky is another goaltender who won multiple
44:08
Stanley Cups with the Tampa Bay Lightning.
44:10
So he's goalie of the decade. Yeah, so.
44:12
I mean if you look at. An American goaltending has
44:14
really developed over the years. As a matter of fact, I think
44:18
American goaltending has been the best in the last 20 years.
44:23
I know they don't have those guys that really stand out like
44:25
the Henrik Lundquist of the world, but go if you look back
44:28
at some of the great goaltenders that we've seen develop in
44:31
United States in the United States program and that's
44:34
something I spoke about Van Beesburg, I spoke to Van
44:36
Beesburg with when it came to interview him in Dallas.
44:39
I said, will we ever see a goaltender like you 5859 playing
44:43
in the NHL says it's not a chance in hell, not a chance in
44:46
hell. The smallest goaltender in the
44:48
NHL is Jonathan Quick, who it was 6 foot 6 foot 1.
44:52
He says, I don't think you'll ever see a goalie that small in
44:54
the NHL. They're going to be 6 two or
44:56
bigger if they want to play professional hockey.
44:58
And that's, that's the difference right now in hockey,
45:01
bigger Nets and obviously more to, you know, more to take up
45:05
and, and look at. If you look at Conor Hollabuck,
45:07
he's one of the biggest goalies in the NHL.
45:09
He's 6 foot four and he's 230 lbs and you can see or 220
45:15
something pounds where you can see his abilities, reflexes and
45:19
the way he could take up the net.
45:20
I mean, he was unbelievable some of the saves that he made.
45:24
And remember, Conor Hollabuck is not a butterfly goalie.
45:28
He is a stand up goalie. That's what he is.
45:31
So it's it's a lot more harder now in these days cutting down
45:36
angles with his size and being a stand up goalie than being a
45:39
butterfly goalie and taking up the lower part of the net.
45:41
So and what makes him so unique is he takes up the lower part of
45:46
the net as good as anybody in the NHL and that's what's
45:48
amazing about him. So I don't think people
45:50
understand the goal tending end of hockey and how big he is and
45:54
how much he takes up the smaller part of the net where you're
45:57
going to have to go high on him. And he's got one of the fastest
46:00
gloves in the NHL too. Yeah, I think a lot of them are
46:03
prioritizing. A lot more, I think more of the
46:05
Pecorine prototypes, those bigger goalies that are athletic
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made those unbelievable saves than you're seeing with the
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Jonathan Quick and Henrik Lundqvist types anymore.
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I think even if this generation of goalies, probably the only
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one that I think of that 6 foot is probably John Gibson offhand
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and he's not even a great goalie.
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So like you're judging at least if you don't have the
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athleticism, you still have the frame to make it work.
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Got it. Before we move on, just want to
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give a. Shout out one of our Western New
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York teams, Tage Thompson having to go against that onslaught of
46:32
forwards from Canada. He's a big part of the reason
46:35
why there was a lot of bending and not breaking.
46:37
I thought the way forward. Shout out to Bill Garin for
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making that move. Because he didn't pick him to be
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a part of the the the Four Nations.
46:45
And a lot of people were questioning how is Tage Thompson
46:47
not make the four Nation team? And this guy was sent down to
46:50
the AHL a couple of times before he he started to play as an
46:54
elite player for Buffalo. And he wasn't even drafted by
46:57
the Buffalo Sabres. He was traded by the Buffalo, He
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was traded for by the Buffalo Sabres.
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So from the Blues, from Ryan. O'Reilly Ryan.
47:04
O'Reilly so and you've seen. Ryan O'Reilly help them win a
47:07
Stanley Cup and Tage Thompson has been one of the best young
47:10
offensive options the Buffalo Sabres and the NHL has seen in a
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very, very long time. How many forty goal seasons has
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he had or thirty goal seasons has he had?
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He's been a big important growth of the Buffalo Sabres and where
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they are today. Speaking of fun, ladies and
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gentlemen, my golf clap of the week.
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This deserves a golf clap, no doubt.
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Golf clap. Golf Clap.
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All right, My Golf Club of the Week goes to United States gold.
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Ladies and gentlemen, for the first time ever, the United
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States have won more gold medals in an Olympic Games, and that
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would be 12. They came in second place right
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by right behind Norway, who won 18 gold medals, 12 Silvers, 11
47:57
bronze for 41 medals for Norway, the United States 12 gold, 12
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silvers, 9 bronzes for 33 total medals.
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Right behind them, Italy with 30 total medals, 10 golds for them.
48:13
To me, the Olympics is is so great to watch and especially
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getting a chance to see Team USA Hockey winning the gold medal
48:20
and knocking off Canada. It makes you feel good to be an
48:22
American, even makes you feel even more good when you watch
48:26
the figure skating. You watch the all the different
48:29
things, the curling, all the crazy things that we've watched
48:32
over the the last couple of weeks, snowboarding, skiing.
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It's fun and you want to know something.
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It's a great thing to see the United States dominate the way
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they did in the Winter Olympics this year.
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So my golf clap goes to United States and gold championship
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wins. So my Golf Club, ladies and
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gentlemen, Golf Club to United States gold.
48:57
Thank you to all the fans tuning in and listening to us every
48:59
single day on Spotify and Apple video and audio.
49:02
We were ranked 56th in the country today, so that's a huge,
49:08
huge jump from where we were over the weekend.
49:11
And we think we'd like to thank all the fans out there tuning
49:15
and listening to us. Thank you to Siobhan, our
49:17
marketing guy working and working his tail off to get our
49:20
stuff out there. So thank you to him.
49:23
Thank you to all the TikTok and Apple.
49:25
I'm I'm sorry, TikTok X Instagram, Facebook, all the the
49:31
platforms, YouTube, we have a new YouTube channel, YouTube,
49:34
New York. I'm sorry, YouTube New York, a
49:37
job in the mouth New York. So check that out.
49:40
It is up. All our New York takes will be
49:42
up there moving forward. And also we still have the job
49:45
in the mouth, you know, channel. We also have worldwide sports
49:49
radio network channel if you want to check that out as well.
49:53
Who do we have on on Thursday? Nobody yet.
49:55
Nothing yet. And if it's working on something
49:57
I should, I'm going to reach out to Neil Smith as well trying.
49:59
To get him on, yeah, I definitely like to hear Neil
50:02
Smith's. Take on Team USA Hockey and Neil
50:04
Smith is a Canadian, so I'm sure he didn't like the fact that
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you're not USA won the Olympic gold medal.
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But by the way, what Team USA did with Goudreau and Johnny
50:16
Goudreau and his family for him and his brother was sensational.
50:20
It shows the heart and soul of this United States hockey team
50:24
and how how much and how important the Goudreau family
50:27
meant to every single player from, you know, from top to
50:30
bottom. The youth and and and the future
50:33
of Team USA Hockey stands for something.
50:35
When you see Johnny Goudreau's United States 15 jersey being
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held up while they're skating around the ice and celebrating.
50:44
So it was sensational, it really was.
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And seeing his kids get a chance to be on there.
50:48
It is speedy. I mean, not Speedy.
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Fish is posting up on the social media.
50:54
All the kids are on the ice, but the players taking pictures with
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the team. So it was nice to see and shout
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out to Bill Guerin, John Van Beesbrook and Team USA Hockey
51:04
for doing and and really doing something special like that and
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inviting the Goudreau family to celebrate this unbelievable
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feat, which took 46 years to do. So a long, long time.
51:17
And hopefully it doesn't take that long again because we do
51:21
remember 1994 for the New York Rangers and it's been a long 1A
51:24
long one for you Ranger fans. Neil Smith knows all about it.
51:27
Yes, he does. Because he's the one.
51:30
That built that team and the Rangers pretty much threw the
51:33
Wolves, threw them to the Wolves.
51:35
And he was the one that traded John Van Biesburg and we had our
51:37
conversation. So I love Neil now.
51:40
He he kind of made me feel good about why he traded John Van
51:43
Biesburg and he gave me his his take on it.
51:45
So thank you to Neil, thank you to all the fans.
51:47
We will be back on Thursday. Until then, this is Arrow and
51:51
the the clan of jabbing them out, saying goodnight and we'll
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talk to you then. Goodnight, everybody.
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You're you're listening to the Worldwide Sports Radio Network.