00:00United States on Friday. Let's start Finland and Canada, Troy. Heavy favorite, rightfully so,
00:04for Canada. Sidney Crosby also diagnosed with an injury. Not sure when he's going to appear.
00:09Talk about Sidney Crosby's injury and also Finland and Canada for you.
00:13Yeah, so here's the thing with Crosby's injury. If he doesn't play, I know a lot of fans are
00:19going to want Canada. So Canada has loaded up before with this top line of Celebrini,
00:25McDavid, and McKinnon, who, by the way, are one, two, and four in points in the NHL this season.
00:31I don't think they could do that without Sidney Crosby being there in the lineup. It creates too
00:37much of a hole in their third-line center position if they do that. I think they probably want to
00:42keep a little bit of balance. Obviously, if the situation arises, they're down by a goal late in
00:48the game. I think you could always press that nuclear button option and get those three players
00:52on the ice. But without Crosby, you're going to ask either Bo Horvat or Joe, your boy, Sam Bennett,
00:59could come off the start and fill in there too. So I think, look, they're going to be fine in
01:04terms
01:05of the talent level. Getting through the neutral zone might be a little bit tougher without a
01:09puck possessor like Crosby himself, but Canada should be fine. You're going to be heavy favorites
01:15that you just showed the graphic. They're huge favorites against Finland, and they should be.
01:18They have so much more talent than the Finns do. Finland, giving them respect, they won
01:25the gold medal in the last time their Olympics played, but they weren't NHL players in that
01:29tournament. There are NHL players now. I expect Canada. I think when you have a tough situation
01:36like they were, they were losing the entire game against Czechia and most of that third period
01:41as well. And you kind of galvanize yourselves and have a huge emotional win like that. It could
01:47always galvanize you and group you together. And I think Canada comes back with their best
01:51effort against Finland because they're hungry for a game against the United States just as
01:55much as much as we are.
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