Thrilling Canada vs. Sweden Game: Highlights and Player Insights

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00:00But I just thought the game was just fabulous last night.

00:04I watched the first period.

00:07I watched the third period, the end of it, the last minute 50.

00:10And then I just thought the overtime, it

00:13was the most exciting overtime I've seen in years for my money.

00:18I thought both of them made three big saves each,

00:21at least that were all goals, like they were

00:24going to be goals, those shots.

00:26And then I talked about what it meant to me

00:30to see my favorite player of all time in any sport, Lemieux,

00:33get treated that way in his hometown,

00:35and the way they love Crosby, and the way

00:37they boo everybody else.

00:39I just thought it was really special.

00:44If you're the National Hockey League,

00:47you couldn't really be happier after night one.

00:49Now, it's just one game, but it's a short tournament.

00:51There was a lot of speculation about what was this?

00:56What was it going to be?

00:58I knew it was going to be intense.

01:01Just because fans don't care about things,

01:03or don't know about things, doesn't mean the players don't.

01:05And dude, you've got Carter McDavid, Sidney Crosby,

01:08and Nate McKinnon on the same team.

01:11These guys don't joke, bro.

01:13They don't even go to comedy.

01:14They don't watch funny movies, even these.

01:16They don't have a humor bone in their body, these three.

01:20Nate McKinnon doesn't smile.

01:23He barely talks.

01:24Sidney Crosby's a good guy.

01:27He's not the most outgoing and ha-ha-ha type of person.

01:31You know what I'm saying?

01:32You ever seen Carter McDavid smile?

01:34I haven't.

01:36He's all business.

01:37Literally.

01:38Here's your MVP.

01:39Thanks.

01:41These guys are serious people.

01:43And you saw it.

01:44Brad Marchand set the tone last night.

01:46Like you said, Scott, people throw around the best

01:50on best, man.

01:50When it comes to hockey, it really is special, isn't it?

01:53When you see.

01:54When you take out, and I said it last night,

01:57it's better than NHL hockey.

01:58It's like faster than NHL hockey.

02:00Bennington said it all after the game, Scott.

02:02He's played, he won a Stanley Cup.

02:04They said, what was that like being on the ice?

02:06He goes, I don't know.

02:07I can't really describe it.

02:09He goes, it was like the Stanley Cup playoffs,

02:11except faster.

02:13Yeah, it's just better.

02:15He goes, it was like the playoffs.

02:17He goes, man, that felt like the playoffs.

02:18But he goes, it's just so much faster.

02:20And he goes, everybody's so good.

02:22Scott, you don't have any third or fourth liners, bro.

02:25Every guy on the ice is like a first line guy.

02:27Like you notice every pass is tape to tape.

02:31Bing, bing, boom, boom.

02:33There's not a lot of mistakes

02:35because guys are just so good.

02:36It really is the best of the best.

02:38And think about it, bro.

02:40That was just the first game, Scott.

02:42They didn't even play.

02:44They didn't play the exhibition games or anything.

02:46They just got thrown together.

02:48I've seen Canada practice twice.

02:50And if that's them after two practices,

02:52oh boy, wait till we see what they look like next week.

02:56Right, I mean, this tournament's only a week long.

02:58The final's next Thursday.

02:59But yeah, really, really fun hockey.

03:02And both the USA and Finland took notice last night, Scott.

03:06They were like, you know, the players after were like,

03:08oh my God, like this is okay, okay.

03:11Like we know we need to really even bring it more

03:14than even we thought we needed to bring it right now

03:17because that was a high level of hockey.

03:19So Finland and USA have a tough act to top tonight.

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