00:00I hope the NHL takes advantage of the excitement about this
00:05and uses it when it comes to guys like Jack Hughes,
00:09guys that are on that team who may not be as well-known as some of the others
00:16and takes advantage of it to market hockey because they got an opportunity here.
00:21And Nathan McKinnon, like afterwards, with the sour grapes,
00:26saying you be the judge of who the better team was,
00:29sounds like a complete jackass.
00:31Like, the better team won the hockey game.
00:33Sorry about that.
00:34Take the L like a man.
00:35But, like, not every time does the better team win the games.
00:38Like, sometimes that just happens.
00:39Sometimes on that day, the other team is just better.
00:42They made the right plays.
00:43Like, Charlie McAvoy makes that play in the net.
00:46Like, Canada might be more talented, but they were not the better team in that game.
00:50But that's, like, I don't know if these players that say that realize it's worse if it's that.
00:54Like, you're saying you were the better team and you played like dog poo.
00:59Yeah.
01:00Right?
01:00Like, so either way, you look like a jackass.
01:02And Nathan McKinnon shouldn't say anything because he had a wide open net
01:06that probably would have, you know, could have been the goal that would have won the game for him,
01:10but he completely missed it.
01:11So he's one person that shouldn't be saying that,
01:14especially when you had an opportunity to take the lead in that game.
01:17I think it's a, you know, and we kind of talked about this a little bit.
01:22Does this, like, make USA hockey and just, like, some of the young kids that are playing and,
01:30you know, you brought up the NHL players.
01:31Like, does this not revitalize the game, but does this, like, create more interest in it
01:37when it comes to young kids playing it?
01:39Like, I hope it does.
01:41I mean, we live in an area where a lot of kids play hockey.
01:45So we're not able to judge it because they don't in the rest of the country in a lot of
01:50places.
01:51So I think it's great for the sport.
01:53It's great for the NHL.
01:55It's not going to make a gigantic change to who plays hockey.
01:57But it could if they took advantage of it.
01:59No, you don't think so?
02:01I don't think that kids don't want to play hockey.
02:03I think it's only available to a pretty small group considering the cost.
02:06Too expensive?
02:07And the region that you live in, I mean, it's not like you're driving through Phoenix
02:11playing hockey out at every corner.
02:13I mean, it's just, like, we've said that forever, Greg.
02:15Like, the Women's Professional League in Boston, like, it's, we do a sports radio show.
02:20Have we ever gotten a phone call about it?
02:22No.
02:22No.
02:23And it's not that it's bad or good.
02:24It's just it's very difficult to break through.
02:27And it's cool because it's USA versus, you know, Canada or other places.
02:34But now once you go back to the National Hockey League, do people's interest in it, just kind
02:39of waver and being like, all right, I really have no rooting factor in it.
02:45Like you said, I live in Arizona and I'm not, like, a fan of hockey.
02:48But I do think, I mean, what that team did, their relationship with each other and their
02:53celebration of the country was almost as impressive as their performance.
02:56Like, if you're watching that on NBC yesterday, which I'm sure did a gigantic number, you are
03:02glued to that broadcast.
03:04And then you see the Goudreaux's and you see all the, like, every element of it made you
03:08feel proud to watch it.
03:09And so I'm sure that'll serve the league.
03:11And, you know, maybe it'll serve some, you know, get some players playing.
03:14But financially, it's an idiotic thing that the NHL never had, would ever have not allowed
03:19their players to play in this.
03:21Oh, and, and I would agree, I guess, that going into it talent wise, Nathan McKinnon
03:28is correct where they, I mean, they have Connor McDavid.
03:33I guess you can argue that maybe things would have been different if Sidney Crosby didn't
03:38end up hurt, but they, they were the more talented team, but not the better team.
03:44The better team won the gold medal.
03:46The better team won the game yesterday.
03:47The better goalie won the game yesterday.
03:49I would say this, the goalie, and we heard Jack Hughes talk about it, if Hellebuck was
03:55the reason why you won that game, if you were just watching that game objectively, you would
04:01say that throughout the whole game, it looked like Team Canada dominated.
04:05And, but you were able to catch.
04:07I wouldn't say the whole game.
04:08I would say the first period was a really, really good period of hockey for both teams.
04:12And then the second and third.
04:13Second, yes, they were kind of on their, they were back on their skates a little bit, the
04:17U.S. team.
04:18You capitalized.
04:19Yes.
04:20In that game.
04:20I would say, I would say you capitalized as a team where, when you look at it, you might
04:26not have been playing the better game, but you were able to capitalize in the moment,
04:31in the situation when you needed to, to, to win the football game, the football game, excuse
04:36me, the hockey game.
04:37So I always look at it like.
04:39You're still sick, huh?
04:40Yeah, I am.
04:41I'm dealing with this.
04:42What is it?
04:42It's probably the flu.
04:43Long COVID.
04:44It's probably the super flu.
04:45Who the hell knows nowadays?
04:47Everywhere you go nowadays, people are.
04:50So you just suck it up and you ride it out.
04:52You should throw the face mask on.
04:54No, I ain't doing that.
04:55You borrow one from Tristan Cassis.
04:57If we ever, if we ever get to Florida.
04:59If I even, I don't even, yeah, I don't even know if I have a face mask anywhere.
05:03But, you know, I would say that, you know, Canada might have played the better game all
05:07the way up until the last goal.
05:09And that's ultimately what matters most.
05:11Who scores the game winner?
05:12And USA did that.
05:14It doesn't matter.
05:15Whoever won, they won.
05:17It's to make that comment immediately after when you get a silver medal is dumb.
05:21Yeah, it's just sour grapes.
05:22That's just a sore loser in that moment.
05:24Say, hey, listen, we might have, we might have had an opportunity.
05:27You should have said we had an opportunity to win the game.
05:29We didn't take advantage of it.
05:30The one thing the broadcast was lacking was a bunch of sad Canadians watching together.
05:34I would, I would have loved a live shot of their reaction.
05:37Like I could watch the Seahawks fan reaction to the Malcolm Butler pick from now until the
05:42end of time.
05:43It is just awesome.
05:43Well, there was a little bit of it when they were going to some of the watch parties.
05:47There was a little bit of, uh, of sad.
05:50Right.
05:50And you, you got, you got sad Brad.
05:52You had sad Brad Marchant, uh, that you got to see get his sad Sydney get his, uh, so
05:57yeah, yeah, sad.
05:59Sidney was talking to sad Brad, so.
06:01Salt and pepper is working for Sidney Crosby.
06:04Let me tell you.
06:04Oh, really?
06:05Yeah.
06:06My group messages were on fire about that.
06:10Your group messages with married women, you're talking about the attractiveness of, of other
06:14men, other than.
06:15Just Sidney Crosby.
06:16He just, I mean, he's aging very, quite nicely.
06:19All right.
06:20He stands out.
06:21Yeah.
06:21Salt and pepper works.
06:23Hey, not a problem at all.
06:24You like those wings, Wiggs?
06:25Huh?
06:25Salt and pepper.
06:26I do love the salt, lemon pepper, salt and pepper.
06:29Hey, Greg, you know what I would say though?
06:31Like, and I think the, really the frustration for team Canada is because they've dominated this
06:39sport for so long.
06:40Yeah.
06:40Right?
06:40It was their sport.
06:42It's now our sport.
06:43Yeah.
06:43They have never wanted to beat us more than they wanted to this Olympics.
06:47Yeah.
06:47And it's so great.
06:48Oh, it's so great.
06:49They should shut the whole country down, honestly.
06:51If they did, would anybody notice?
06:54I mean, half of it shut down anyways, isn't it?
06:57Like, I mean, it's just, why don't you say, you know what I thought of watching their reaction
07:01yesterday is the scene in A Few Good Men where Jack Nicholson says, maybe just say
07:06thank you.
07:07Like, say thank you to the United States that we protected your ass for 200 years.
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