4 Nations Face Off: Did the USA/Canada hockey border war live up to the hype?

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Canada beat the USA in overtime last night to claim the first ever 4 Nations Face Off championship. Did you watch? Were you as locked in to this hockey border war as we were? K&C discuss the game and what it means for the future of midseason hockey in the video above.

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00:00Is it safe to assume that last night lived up to the hype?

00:21I mean, look, putting aside like, hey, I'm disappointed the United States lost.

00:25It feels like this game had an immense amount of hype on it and it delivered.

00:30And it had an immense amount of hype because of what they did in the first time they played.

00:35That game was so amazing.

00:36I know we were texting back and forth during that game.

00:38That game was so amazing that it set up for, are we going to get 2.0 of that?

00:43Yeah.

00:44And you got the same physicality.

00:46You got the same speed of the game.

00:48You got those things without as much of the chippiness to start, obviously.

00:52But there was still chippiness throughout the game that was a really great part of it.

00:56I thought, Kevin, while I was watching it, I think somewhere in the third period, I was

01:00watching these guys fly around on the ice and I was like, this is the highest level

01:04hockey I think I've ever seen.

01:07This is the best.

01:08They're flying.

01:10For one, once one offense makes a move this way, they're turning back around and going

01:15the other way as fast as they can because that's how Canada plays.

01:19They're amazing.

01:21If in most cases on NHL night, you're like, oh, that team just got destroyed.

01:24Well, because they're so good, they're able to catch up.

01:27That was the great part of it was it was a very delicate window that they were able to

01:31make goals happen here.

01:33And it was awesome to watch.

01:35And I want to shout out, Alec, and then I want to get your thoughts about the hype level

01:39and how you took this game in and everything.

01:41But I want to shout out some of the specific individual defending moments because you had

01:48Slaven who stopped what looks like it would have been a wide open net goal.

01:53Which one?

01:54The one where he like his skate or stick did it or the one where he laid on the ground

02:00and had one of the coolest saves I've seen.

02:02That was the stick.

02:03Eichel right after that had no stick and he stopped it with the skate, which I thought

02:07was incredible.

02:08Man, the last 12 to 18 months have really been like the match of the hype behind Jack

02:14Eichel because, you know, for a while, like obviously you moved teams and everything,

02:17but it was a struggle, man.

02:19You have seen him really announce himself.

02:21And then as much as I hate to say this, overtime was the best that Team USA had played all

02:27night.

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