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Thrilling Canada vs. Sweden Game: Highlights and Player Insights
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2/14/2025
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But I just thought the game was just fabulous last night.
00:04
I watched the first period.
00:07
I watched the third period, the end of it, the last minute 50.
00:10
And then I just thought the overtime, it
00:13
was the most exciting overtime I've seen in years for my money.
00:18
I thought both of them made three big saves each,
00:21
at least that were all goals, like they were
00:24
going to be goals, those shots.
00:26
And then I talked about what it meant to me
00:30
to see my favorite player of all time in any sport, Lemieux,
00:33
get treated that way in his hometown,
00:35
and the way they love Crosby, and the way
00:37
they boo everybody else.
00:39
I just thought it was really special.
00:44
If you're the National Hockey League,
00:47
you couldn't really be happier after night one.
00:49
Now, it's just one game, but it's a short tournament.
00:51
There was a lot of speculation about what was this?
00:56
What was it going to be?
00:58
I knew it was going to be intense.
01:01
Just because fans don't care about things,
01:03
or don't know about things, doesn't mean the players don't.
01:05
And dude, you've got Carter McDavid, Sidney Crosby,
01:08
and Nate McKinnon on the same team.
01:11
These guys don't joke, bro.
01:13
They don't even go to comedy.
01:14
They don't watch funny movies, even these.
01:16
They don't have a humor bone in their body, these three.
01:20
Nate McKinnon doesn't smile.
01:23
He barely talks.
01:24
Sidney Crosby's a good guy.
01:27
He's not the most outgoing and ha-ha-ha type of person.
01:31
You know what I'm saying?
01:32
You ever seen Carter McDavid smile?
01:34
I haven't.
01:36
He's all business.
01:37
Literally.
01:38
Here's your MVP.
01:39
Thanks.
01:41
These guys are serious people.
01:43
And you saw it.
01:44
Brad Marchand set the tone last night.
01:46
Like you said, Scott, people throw around the best
01:50
on best, man.
01:50
When it comes to hockey, it really is special, isn't it?
01:53
When you see.
01:54
When you take out, and I said it last night,
01:57
it's better than NHL hockey.
01:58
It's like faster than NHL hockey.
02:00
Bennington said it all after the game, Scott.
02:02
He's played, he won a Stanley Cup.
02:04
They said, what was that like being on the ice?
02:06
He goes, I don't know.
02:07
I can't really describe it.
02:09
He goes, it was like the Stanley Cup playoffs,
02:11
except faster.
02:13
Yeah, it's just better.
02:15
He goes, it was like the playoffs.
02:17
He goes, man, that felt like the playoffs.
02:18
But he goes, it's just so much faster.
02:20
And he goes, everybody's so good.
02:22
Scott, you don't have any third or fourth liners, bro.
02:25
Every guy on the ice is like a first line guy.
02:27
Like you notice every pass is tape to tape.
02:31
Bing, bing, boom, boom.
02:33
There's not a lot of mistakes
02:35
because guys are just so good.
02:36
It really is the best of the best.
02:38
And think about it, bro.
02:40
That was just the first game, Scott.
02:42
They didn't even play.
02:44
They didn't play the exhibition games or anything.
02:46
They just got thrown together.
02:48
I've seen Canada practice twice.
02:50
And if that's them after two practices,
02:52
oh boy, wait till we see what they look like next week.
02:56
Right, I mean, this tournament's only a week long.
02:58
The final's next Thursday.
02:59
But yeah, really, really fun hockey.
03:02
And both the USA and Finland took notice last night, Scott.
03:06
They were like, you know, the players after were like,
03:08
oh my God, like this is okay, okay.
03:11
Like we know we need to really even bring it more
03:14
than even we thought we needed to bring it right now
03:17
because that was a high level of hockey.
03:19
So Finland and USA have a tough act to top tonight.
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