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00:00:03Sixty minutes done, and we've yet to declare a champion.

00:00:12Whose time is it going to be underway in overtime again?

00:00:18We got one here, it's coming.

00:00:21Eight and seven points, and it's a shot block.

00:00:28Way up, way up.

00:00:31We're far.

00:00:32Go, go, go, go.

00:00:33Brock Nelson.

00:00:35It's okay.

00:00:36Shot started as our friend.

00:00:37Couldn't get.

00:00:38Sole in front.

00:00:39Matthews denied.

00:00:41We need that to do, boys.

00:00:42It feels good here.

00:00:43It's got to feel good.

00:00:45The puck rolled in front.

00:00:47Keep playing deep, boys.

00:00:48Dropped in.

00:00:48Chance, Matthews, another handstop, a rebound.

00:01:00Is this the moment?

00:01:02Is this the moment that the USA proves to be better than Canada?

00:01:09Four Nations brought us something that I don't think any of us expected.

00:01:13There's sort of been four hockey games that have this amount of national iconic status.

00:01:19Henderson!

00:01:20Henderson in 72, 87, Canada Cup, 2010, the Olympics, and then there's this tournament.

00:01:30This matchup has become bigger than hockey.

00:01:33It's about pride.

00:01:34It's about patriotism.

00:01:35It's about country.

00:01:37It was not a political tournament, but it had some political ties.

00:01:42Canada should be our 51st state.

00:01:44It's literally a tête-à-tête between two worlds.

00:01:48Canadians are angry.

00:01:50And yeah, we're probably going to keep booing the American anthem.

00:01:54I think ultimately they'll be praising the national anthem.

00:01:58There was more at stake than just a hockey game.

00:02:02The context of it was in the middle of absolute turmoil for Canadian identity.

00:02:08I think people are taking some of his jokes too literally.

00:02:11Elbows off, everybody! Let's go!

00:02:14And I welcome you. 51st state, come on in.

00:02:16And this is the first kind of massive national moment.

00:02:19Where we're like, we're going to fight together.

00:02:22I think that's an insane thing to have to say.

00:02:25Where an outcome of a game could be actually affecting a national mood at a critical juncture.

00:02:32We need to tell a different story of who we are.

00:02:35And we can do all of that by winning one game.

00:02:47There they are.

00:02:49What's up, crew?

00:02:52Where were you when you were watching it?

00:02:53I was sitting right here.

00:02:54Like holding my head, oh my god, covering my eyes.

00:02:58I was watching the game like lots of people.

00:03:00Yeah.

00:03:00And right away you knew this was going to be different.

00:03:03Okay, so this is not like what we've seen anywhere else before.

00:03:08I think this is 1987.

00:03:10Wayne is celebrating another cup.

00:03:13I'm still all business here.

00:03:15I was in my bedroom.

00:03:18I mean, I'm just sitting there rubbing my hands through my hair, talking to the screen.

00:03:24It's like a jolt of hope.

00:03:27We can win.

00:03:28Hell yeah, I watched it.

00:03:29I was super excited for it.

00:03:33I watched every game.

00:03:35My fandom is pretty serious that way.

00:03:38I felt anxious.

00:03:39And in that moment, I'm a Canadian who needs this team to win.

00:03:47Hey, you see the toque I got on?

00:03:49Check that out.

00:03:50Hey, I never leave home without it.

00:03:53Okay, so when games are on, usually I have that night table over there come right over here.

00:03:59I got my lamp.

00:04:01Okay, do you want me to show you game setup?

00:04:03I got to be in a situation where it's like, I got to create my own situation.

00:04:08So like, this is it.

00:04:08This is my chair.

00:04:111700 bison horns.

00:04:13Bruce Springsteen here.

00:04:14This is like, you don't open this.

00:04:16This is my situation right here.

00:04:19The reason why I do this is because I like to put my legs in.

00:04:22Right?

00:04:22But I don't want to be on the couch.

00:04:24So I'll sit here.

00:04:26And I'm just like this.

00:04:27Boom.

00:04:29I don't really listen to the games too much.

00:04:31I do sometimes watch it with no sound.

00:04:33Why?

00:04:34You turn off the sound.

00:04:37You have to pay attention to everything going on.

00:04:46The NHL said we're tossing out the All-Star game.

00:04:49We're going to put this tournament in.

00:04:51It's a breath of fresh air.

00:04:53Because as a player, you now look at it as the league is investing in us.

00:04:59One more.

00:05:00The international best on best.

00:05:03It's always been the highest form of hockey you can play.

00:05:07Thanks, everyone.

00:05:10At the start of the Four Nations tournament, I don't think I was paying attention at all.

00:05:16It didn't take on a lot of cultural meaning, I don't think, until later.

00:05:20When the story that this game is telling me.

00:05:23It's not just a hockey game.

00:05:24There's a larger meaning.

00:05:26All right.

00:05:27We got it.

00:05:28We got it.

00:05:28Let's go.

00:05:29Let's go.

00:05:29Go.

00:05:30Go.

00:05:32Oh, wow.

00:05:37Wow.

00:05:38Go.

00:05:38I think there were real concerns about it going in.

00:05:43That it was kind of a freeze-dried tournament.

00:05:45That the players wouldn't take it seriously.

00:05:49There were real questions about, would it matter?

00:05:53I think fans coming in maybe misunderstood what it meant to the players.

00:05:57Is this an All-Star game?

00:05:58Is this an exhibition game?

00:05:59Is this whatever it is?

00:06:01It wasn't the Olympics, but it felt that big.

00:06:07I was someone who was always preaching, we need to get best on best back.

00:06:11That's what you're asking for.

00:06:12You're asking for that moment.

00:06:14You're asking for those big games where it's country against country and it becomes more than hockey.

00:06:20That's what we were asking for.

00:06:21Whether it's the U.S. or Sweden or Finland, some good teams.

00:06:28When did you first realize something was different?

00:06:32Probably just getting to Montreal.

00:06:34Just got some of the best players in the world.

00:06:38First day of practice was incredible.

00:06:42Like, you get the buzz when you're around the team for the first time.

00:06:45I know it was just being around the best players in your country.

00:06:48I was super excited to get to play with some of the guys that I grew up walking with.

00:06:52Obviously, Crosby's a big one.

00:06:54But getting to be on his team was really cool.

00:06:57You know, you never think as a kid that you're ever going to really...

00:07:00You want to, but you never really think it might happen for you to play on a men's national team.

00:07:06Good job, boys.

00:07:07Good work, boys.

00:07:08Good work.

00:07:08He made a two goal lead.

00:07:10Quickly back on the attack on the Oilers.

00:07:12Dylan Holloway keeps...

00:07:14Yes!

00:07:14Score!

00:07:17I got the playoff beard going.

00:07:23For me, it's fun to describe how obsessed I was with the game of hockey.

00:07:29I think I knew early on that I wasn't going to make it into the NHL.

00:07:34So then, what's the next best thing? Being the voice of the game.

00:07:37I was so into it that my parents bought me a toy microphone.

00:07:41The first games I called in my career as a play-by-play announcer, it was a Stanley Cup final.

00:07:48Like, it can't get any better than that.

00:07:50But later on, in 2016, was a really big moment.

00:08:04The adrenaline was flowing, and with the Punjabi style of call, it just went viral in the hockey world.

00:08:12Our story here is about a tournament that everybody was unsure about.

00:08:19And it definitely exceeded expectations and captured the attention of the entire hockey world.

00:08:27This was not a full-on World Cup of Hockey.

00:08:30It was a tweaked format with just four countries in it.

00:08:34And so you have Canada, US for sure, and then you have Sweden, Finland, two of the top Scandinavian countries.

00:08:41And, you know, it's full of NHL players, and they're all going to be playing for their own country.

00:08:48Four teams, they'll all play each other in a preliminary round-robin kind of format.

00:08:56And based on those points, you get two nations that meet each other in the championship game.

00:09:02It's a short format, right? So you've got to hit the ground running.

00:09:20That first game, I remember the pregame and how we were talking about it.

00:09:26That was like our Super Bowl.

00:09:28So, like, the preparation for it encompassing the hundred years of history in Montreal.

00:09:33Over a hundred years of hockey history there.

00:09:37In the Mecca of hockey.

00:09:39Rick Smith breaks it up at center ice.

00:09:41Lemire for Montreal.

00:09:44Fires it into the Bruins zone.

00:09:46You played in that building from Boston.

00:09:48Yeah.

00:09:50Then suddenly you're on home ice.

00:09:52Yeah, it's different being on home ice in that building.

00:09:54Come on, boys!

00:09:56They've always been one of the craziest fan bases.

00:10:01One of the most emotional and loudest fan bases in the league.

00:10:06Come on, 3-0 Canadians!

00:10:08It can be intimidating walking in there in the playoffs with how loud they are.

00:10:12But when they're cheering for you, I mean, it just feels so good.

00:10:15You get your adrenaline running and the support in there is remarkable.

00:10:20TK, how we doing? How we feeling?

00:10:21Four nations. For me specifically, because I had to cover it.

00:10:24Well, as you can see.

00:10:26It was everything that I would have wanted as a player.

00:10:34I've played 800-something games.

00:10:373-0 Canadians.

00:10:38You know, 90-something playoff games.

00:10:40And how many of those games were in Montreal?

00:10:42Soudan, Geekshund scores!

00:10:45I'm telling you, man.

00:10:46Like, I've heard some loud times in that building.

00:10:48And, you know, it'll always get the loudest for the Canadians just because it's Montreal.

00:10:52But I'm going to tell you, there was not much of a difference at the Four Nations.

00:11:07We've got a special man here tonight.

00:11:09He came here for you guys, none other than Mario Lemieux.

00:11:17Good luck, guys.

00:11:18Have a great tournament.

00:11:19In goal, we've got Jordan Binnington.

00:11:23Defense.

00:11:24Devontae.

00:11:25Mikael McCarr.

00:11:28Forward, Mark Stone.

00:11:33Winger, Nathan McKinnon.

00:11:37Finally, Sid The Kid.

00:11:38Yeah!

00:11:45It's the best, eh?

00:11:47This has got to be the best place in the league.

00:11:49Yeah.

00:11:49Like, for…

00:11:54The wait is over.

00:11:57Opening night does the Four Nations face off.

00:11:59Lotred d'Archef head coach, John Cooper.

00:12:03The rivalry.

00:12:04It started the Sweden game.

00:12:07And it started when Mario Lemieux walked on the ice.

00:12:10Bon retour à la maison.

00:12:11Welcome back to Montreal, Mario Lemieux!

00:12:17And I've never heard anything like the ovation.

00:12:21To the point that...

00:12:22And Mario Lemieux even played in Montreal for the Canadians.

00:12:26Yet he got this thunderous ovation

00:12:28where he had to call Sidney Crosby over to say, hey...

00:12:32Canada's captain, Sidney Crosby.

00:12:35All four captains of the four nations are there.

00:12:38And out comes Team USA captain, Austin Matthews.

00:12:42Captain for the United States, Austin Matthews.

00:12:47And cue the reaction of the Canadian faithful.

00:12:56So now you've built this into...

00:12:59OK, now it's Canada-US.

00:13:00Even from the broadcast booth,

00:13:03you could feel not just the tension,

00:13:05but there was an undercurrent of hostility.

00:13:12It's not hockey anymore.

00:13:14It's literally a tete-a-tete between two worlds.

00:13:19No.

00:13:20Literally, that tournament is the first month

00:13:22that Donald Trump is in office.

00:13:24And one of the many things that he's been doing

00:13:26is he's been taunting Canada.

00:13:28What I'd like to see, Canada become our 51st state.

00:13:32And the more that Trump talks,

00:13:34the more we get uneasy.

00:13:36And I'm a person who I...

00:13:38I consider myself relatively educated.

00:13:40There was moments where I paused and I was like,

00:13:43oh my God, could that happen?

00:13:44It does make a lot of sense.

00:13:45It actually makes...

00:13:46because they're having a hard time up there in Canada now.

00:13:48That's an existential threat to Canada.

00:13:51And he does this regularly.

00:13:53He doesn't do this once.

00:13:54He does this, you know, a couple times a week.

00:13:57The threats pile on, and Canadians are angry.

00:14:00We're nice people.

00:14:02We like to get along, but don't push us around.

00:14:05No, probably Canadian, I'd like to say that way.

00:14:07That will never happen.

00:14:09There's 40 million people here.

00:14:11There's new immigrants.

00:14:12There's indigenous people.

00:14:14And all of these have very different experiences of Canada.

00:14:19And you have a rare moment in Canadian history

00:14:22where everyone is on the same page

00:14:26about what they want for the country.

00:14:28And they want it not to be American.

00:14:31This is our friend.

00:14:33Suddenly they're, like, hostile towards us.

00:14:37I mean, I think it's like your big brother,

00:14:40a big cousin, say,

00:14:43who's always been the successful one in the family,

00:14:46coming to your door with a knife on a meth binge,

00:14:48asking for money.

00:14:49Like, that's what, I mean, that's what it's like, right?

00:14:52So it's, and it's like, you still love that guy, right?

00:14:56And you still, there's still like,

00:14:57but on the other hand, you're like,

00:14:58well, let's close the door.

00:15:00And this is the first kind of collective event

00:15:03where we're like, okay, we're going to fight together.

00:15:06And then against all of that sort of a powder keg,

00:15:09this sort of scene of disarray,

00:15:12you get a tournament that kind of get to the place of saying,

00:15:16okay, not only do we care,

00:15:18this will be the place that sort of determines, you know,

00:15:22how we tackle ourselves.

00:15:23That's pretty wild for one tournament to sort of contain all this.

00:15:26And this is what everyone's been waiting for.

00:15:28Drop the puck, let's get this thing going.

00:15:30Four of Rocky's leading nations,

00:15:32the first of seven games to decide the best of the best.

00:15:37Come on here, come on, boys.

00:15:38Come on, boys.

00:15:39The way we go.

00:15:41Play the right way, boys.

00:15:43Play the right way.

00:15:45That'd be the Canadian way.

00:15:47Conor McDavid back to Crosby.

00:15:50Look at that.

00:15:50What a goal.

00:15:53Come on, baby!

00:15:55Woo-hoo!

00:15:56We scored that power play goal right away,

00:15:59and it's just brilliance.

00:16:00Come on, boys.

00:16:02Come on, boys.

00:16:03Come on, boys.

00:16:04Come on, boys.

00:16:04I think the first message was sent when Canada played Sweden.

00:16:07First period.

00:16:14The level of hockey was so good that you knew we were in for something different.

00:16:22The intensity is up.

00:16:24The emotions are up.

00:16:25The pace of the first game between Sweden and Canada was breathtaking.

00:16:39Crosby's away.

00:16:41Crosby spits it back.

00:16:42Scores!

00:16:42You're watching, you know, ballet on ice.

00:16:46It was so beautiful.

00:16:47That's the best, isn't it?

00:16:51Then the game goes to overtime.

00:16:52It's out!

00:16:54McKinnon down is good.

00:16:57An appetizer of what wants to come.

00:17:01Marner to work.

00:17:02He's in!

00:17:03Marner!

00:17:04Oh!

00:17:05Mitch Marner!

00:17:07In overtime!

00:17:09Mitch Marner is, you know, there's the McDavids and the McKinnons and the Crosbys and those

00:17:14guys are the Mount Rushmores.

00:17:16But Marner's right there.

00:17:19I just had to really enjoy that moment after, to be honest.

00:17:22The building was rocking.

00:17:23It was, like you said, nice to have him cheering for me instead of against me.

00:17:26This is the first best on best hockey we've seen in a very long time and I'm just wondering,

00:17:31from your perspective behind the bench, if you could describe just the pace of it.

00:17:36Well, you never really know until you're in it.

00:17:38And I remember the first practice I went to with that under-23 team back in 2016 and I

00:17:44thought that was the fastest hockey I'd ever, you know, witnessed up close.

00:17:50Well, this just trumped it.

00:17:58F*** it, boys.

00:17:59F*** it.

00:17:59Way to go, boys.

00:18:01Man, you guys are fun to watch.

00:18:05That might be the biggest fan here.

00:18:09Risky play there at the end.

00:18:118-7.

00:18:12Okay?

00:18:12Bring your legs back to our zone.

00:18:14Not a big deal.

00:18:28You're right there.

00:18:30Broadcasting the whole tournament.

00:18:32In French, in Quebec.

00:18:34As a reporter or a host.

00:18:37We have to be careful not to be cheering, you know, for too much.

00:18:42But we're Canadian, so, I mean, we're not going to pretend that we're not cheering for Canada.

00:18:47But we were nervous.

00:18:49And we're really excited to see all the news and for the last!

00:18:49But we were nervous.

00:18:49And we're like, they have to win.

00:18:51They have to win this.

00:18:54There's so much at stake.

00:18:57My dad used to play hockey and almost, almost became a hockey player, but he was too short.

00:19:04I remember also with my sister, we used to put my dad's old skates and go on our frozen pool

00:19:10and skate until my mom had to scream, girls, come in for dinner.

00:19:14So hockey has always been part of my life, and I think it's like that for most Quebecers.

00:19:21Sometimes we feel a little bit apart, but when you're mad at something or at someone, it's always nice to

00:19:28have someone else with you being as mad.

00:19:31And then, oh, Ontario, you're mad as well?

00:19:32Oh, Saskatchewan, you're mad too?

00:19:34British Columbia, okay, let's be mad together.

00:19:38And let's do what we do the best together, which is hockey.

00:19:43As is the custom in international hockey, you'll see that they all...

00:19:47As much as sports and politics shouldn't mix, they always do.

00:19:51Sports and politics are deeply intertwined.

00:19:54It's nationalism.

00:19:58Now, the representative of the Soviet delegation, Mr. Georgi Rygulski, will join Mr. Pierre-Elia Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada,

00:20:09and Mr. Charles...

00:20:11Canada's played internationally for a long time, but the real moment was 72.

00:20:15I can't recall any game that I've ever been at where you can just feel the tension, and it keeps

00:20:20building up, and it's very...

00:20:21In the backdrop of all the tension, the Cold War, and I had watched the Olympics in Munich that summer,

00:20:29and the Soviets won everything.

00:20:31Like, they were bench-pressing refrigerators, they were clobbering everybody.

00:20:36It was almost like for those players going to war to defend our status.

00:20:43Everything was at stake.

00:20:47I mean, we scored twice in the first six minutes.

00:20:50Back to Henderson, he scores!

00:20:52A quick shot from the face-off!

00:20:54See?

00:20:55We are the best.

00:20:56Bad run, a roller right in front, they score!

00:20:59And then we weren't.

00:21:00Story, a shot, he scores!

00:21:02Karlovo went right around...

00:21:04Because it was 7-3 at the end of the night, and it was just a real, absolute catastrophe.

00:21:11I can still feel how terrible that was.

00:21:16I was 7 years old, and I remember thinking that the Soviets were supermen, you know, and the Soviets were

00:21:22going to overtake the world.

00:21:24And it came down to the 8th game.

00:21:27The wild staff worked spell.

00:21:28Here's another shot right by the sword!

00:21:31Henderson has scored for Canada!

00:21:34Henderson right in front!

00:21:36It's, you know, it's almost 60 years ago.

00:21:38And the players of the team are going wild!

00:21:41Paul Henderson has said he hasn't gone a day since without talking about scoring that goal.

00:21:45In game 8, it's a, it's a seminal moment.

00:21:48Henderson right in front!

00:21:50Fireworks by the Tragically Hip, it begins with the song.

00:21:52If there's a goal that everyone remembers, it was back in 72.

00:21:56Paul Henderson as there should be, but you can't underrate the effort again of Phil Esposito!

00:22:03Here's a moment when Canada stood for something, symbolized something on the global stage, and there's this energy once again,

00:22:11that if we win this, we're going to remember it.

00:22:16Canadians like to think that, you know, we invented the game, and we have a God-given right to win

00:22:22when we choose.

00:22:22And it, it's a bit arrogant, actually.

00:22:25You'll notice that, internationally, there is nothing that other countries like to do more than to beat Canada.

00:22:33My name's Nick Palmgarden.

00:22:35An ex-hockey player, beer leaguer, former hockey dad, and a hockey writer now.

00:22:41I grew up in New York City, and became a fanatic as a very, very young man.

00:22:49Here we go, as the game is underway, the Soviet Union in red and the United States in white.

00:22:54You know, I'm, I'm of that generation, I'm sort of the miracle generation, if you will.

00:23:05I was 10 years old, about to turn 11, when the miracle on ice happened.

00:23:09For some hockey fans, today's gold medal win meant taking to the streets for some serious cheerleading.

00:23:17The height of tension between the United States and Soviet Union.

00:23:21So, you know, that event in American hockey was a big deal.

00:23:25They got the gold, we're all set.

00:23:27The United States suddenly is, is, is now a legitimate hockey power.

00:23:32As a coach and staff, you know, there are moments in time that impact and inspire the development and growth

00:23:42of, of sports.

00:23:45When I was a child, the 1980 Olympic team had a huge influence on my generation.

00:23:54You know, I was 12 years old.

00:23:56When that team won the gold medal, a number of guys on that team that came from the Boston area

00:24:01where I grew up.

00:24:02And, you know, when you're playing street hockey or you're playing on the pond, you, you know, you want to

00:24:06be those guys.

00:24:11Hey, can I get your guys' attention for, uh, five minutes?

00:24:17There's always people that have come before us to kind of lay the pathway, making U.S. hockey what it

00:24:22is today.

00:24:23Guys, Mike Arruzzioni, captain of the 1980 U.S. Olympic team, scored probably the most famous goal in United States

00:24:31hockey history in Lake Placid versus the Soviet Union.

00:24:35This is a big deal.

00:24:36And, and you're going to send a message to how far we've come in this country and the type of

00:24:41players that we have.

00:24:42You are so damn good.

00:24:45Embrace it.

00:24:46Enjoy it.

00:24:47Because this is special.

00:24:48The best team in the world is sitting right in front of me right now.

00:24:51And go out and show it.

00:24:53And bring something special.

00:24:54Because that's something you'll remember the rest of your lives.

00:24:57So thank you.

00:25:0211 seconds.

00:25:03You've got 10 seconds.

00:25:08I know there's a couple of us that watched Miracle, you know, before a couple of the games.

00:25:13Just, uh, you know, you watched it as a kid, but then you, you know, like, kind of have this

00:25:17opportunity right in front of us, too.

00:25:19So.

00:25:19Who, who watched it with you?

00:25:20It was, uh, Matthew, uh, Hannafin, Jack Hughes was in there, Charlie McAvoy.

00:25:29And then Austin was in the room.

00:25:30So it's fun because it almost takes you back to, like, youth hockey.

00:25:35Excuse me.

00:25:36All right, gang.

00:25:38Uh, we think they're going to be a two-man four-check off the neutral zone dots, okay?

00:25:42That's, that's what it appears.

00:25:45We'll go to school if it changes, but I would be prepared for the pressure, right?

00:25:50It's like we talked about through this whole thing.

00:25:52You guys are built for these types of games.

00:25:55It's going to be an unbelievable atmosphere.

00:25:57We've got to have fun with this.

00:25:58It's one of the fiercest rivalries in sports.

00:26:01But what I'll tell you is there isn't any country in the world that can put better players on the

00:26:05ice than we do.

00:26:06We've got to get through it.

00:26:07Let's help each other.

00:26:07With all due respect to other countries.

00:26:09Let's turn up the heat on these guys, right?

00:26:11So in a lot of ways, when you look at that tournament, it's whatever it was, 11 days long, 12

00:26:16days long.

00:26:16I think we had three practices.

00:26:18Controlled emotion for me is the key, right?

00:26:20We wanted to be able to give them a game plan, a simple game plan.

00:26:23But we ultimately wanted them to, to, to act on their instincts.

00:26:30Because that's what separates the great players from the not-so-great players.

00:26:34Let's play fast.

00:26:36Let's play straightforward.

00:26:37Let's get on the body with these guys.

00:26:39Let's get on top of their goaltender.

00:26:44You've got to get into guys, all right?

00:26:46It's just all about work.

00:26:49What you do away from the puck.

00:26:51All right, we talk about it.

00:26:52It's moments, okay?

00:26:54It's going to be a whole bunch of small little moments in the game that's going to lead to one

00:27:00big one in the end.

00:27:05This is a once-in-our-career moment right now.

00:27:10I think we all left it out there, you know, more than a lot of people expected.

00:27:15Hockey unites.

00:27:16And we were there for our fellow friends from figure skating recently.

00:27:23Tonight, the United States plays Canada.

00:27:38I've heard the anthem a million times, but right now it was being sung before what felt like a battle.

00:27:45This is also the period of time when Donald Trump started talking about tariffs, not just on Canada, but on

00:27:50so many different countries.

00:27:51And the tariff numbers that he's throwing around are incredibly high.

00:27:56The mood, the national mood is anxiety over how is this going to affect us, to what extent is this

00:28:02going to affect us, how long is it going to last, and how do we get out of this?

00:28:06I intend to resign as party leader, as prime minister.

00:28:11I had announced that this was it.

00:28:13I was there for the last few months.

00:28:16And my job, while the party was off picking the next leader, my job was to set us up for

00:28:23success, and I knew Trump.

00:28:26I spent more time working with Trump than just about any other world leader.

00:28:30President Trump plans to impose tariffs on Canada and Mexico starting Tuesday.

00:28:36I think Canada, you know, they're going to have to pay tariffs on automobiles, lumber and oil and gas, etc.,

00:28:42etc.,

00:28:42and they get 95% of their product from the United States, so I think they have to become the

00:28:4751st state.

00:28:48As soon as Donald Trump got re-elected and announced, and we're going with, you know, big tariffs on Canada

00:28:53right now.

00:28:54For the 51st state, I call him Governor Trudeau.

00:28:58I went down to Mar-a-Lago to have some conversations to try and suss out how serious he was

00:29:02about this.

00:29:03And it sort of became clear that picking a fight with Canada was one of his, you know, main ideas.

00:29:11Trump then doubled down on the jab, labeling the prime minister the, quote, governor of Canada.

00:29:18What did you think when he started calling you Governor Trudeau?

00:29:20Well, no, but it was an extension of the 51st state thing.

00:29:23It didn't matter to me.

00:29:26I mean, he's had better insults to me than that.

00:29:28Like what?

00:29:30We're here to work together, aligned to take on the world, and yet you want to pick a fight with

00:29:35us?

00:29:35Okay.

00:29:37That woke us up for sure.

00:29:58Same start, boys.

00:30:00Same start.

00:30:02Let's play hard here.

00:30:03Let's play hard.

00:30:05Let's play hard.

00:30:06The building is in an uproar.

00:30:09We've been waiting for this.

00:30:11But for a lot of people, the Four Nations was going to be a glorified All-Star game.

00:30:16And I never bought that.

00:30:18Too many players had been waiting too long for this.

00:30:22But we had no idea that the next nine seconds were going to be unforgettable.

00:30:32What does he actually say to you?

00:30:34Does he say, like, hey, we're going to go?

00:30:36He says, we're going off the draw.

00:30:38The Czech brothers are on the ice, flanking Jack Eichel.

00:30:42Jack Cooper, look out.

00:30:44We're going to drop the gloves right away.

00:30:46And Brandon Handel.

00:30:48Okay.

00:30:49Here we go, I guess.

00:30:50There's not much more to it.

00:30:52I could have seen it happening, just the way those guys are.

00:30:59To be fighting an international, it's never happened.

00:31:02Guys, when does that happen?

00:31:04Yeah.

00:31:04We have never had anything like that.

00:31:06Best on best.

00:31:10Everybody had a lot of built up frustration, maybe.

00:31:13And I don't know.

00:31:15I think both teams want to set the tone.

00:31:17And that's always one way to do it.

00:31:29As a Canadian.

00:31:31Yeah.

00:31:31As a Canadian player.

00:31:32Yeah.

00:31:33All that, right?

00:31:34Mm-hmm.

00:31:42I love Brad Marchand.

00:31:43I love him as a person.

00:31:44I want to gold medal with him.

00:31:45But when he was playing for the Bruins, I wanted to kill him.

00:31:48And he wanted to kill me.

00:31:50It's crazy out on the ice, you know?

00:31:52It gets physical.

00:31:53It gets tumultuous.

00:31:55When you're in a fight, you're not looking to make friends with the other person.

00:32:01But there's a respect in our game.

00:32:04I'll tell you this.

00:32:05The guy throwing them and the guy receiving them, neither of them can feel anything.

00:32:10Sometimes it's just like a momentum thing.

00:32:11If you go into a hostile environment, you want to show your unity, stick together.

00:32:16And I guess that's just one way of doing it.

00:32:18What do you mean by hostile environment, like the Montreal?

00:32:20I mean, we're playing against Canada, in Canada.

00:32:25And you've got to give Brendan Hagel here.

00:32:27I've got to give him a lot of credit.

00:32:29He did better in this fight than I think the whole world thought he would do.

00:32:32Just a little bit smaller than Matthew Kachok.

00:32:35You're not usually that guy.

00:32:36No, no, I don't fight at all.

00:32:38I mean, I'm not afraid to, but it's not really my game.

00:32:43I try to keep her to maybe one a year and probably my weight class.

00:32:48I needed, I needed the Canadian team to fight.

00:32:53I needed them to fight in that game.

00:32:54I needed them to fight those players.

00:32:57I loved that they were unapologetic.

00:32:59I loved that they were unapologetic.

00:33:03I loved that because one place where I will argue Canada is not polite and they're not meant to be

00:33:10polite, it's on the ice.

00:33:14If you're going to handpick a group of people to represent Canada's interests, you'd probably pick hockey players.

00:33:19But this was only the first volley.

00:33:22I don't think we're done.

00:33:33After the national anthem, he actually skated by the bench and said, we're going.

00:33:37And I kind of shrugged him off and like told him, like, no, we're not.

00:33:43Did you have to say anything to Bennett or to the Canadian bench?

00:33:46Yeah, I just said that, like, kind of, I guess, cryptic a little bit.

00:33:50But I was just like, after this one, we're going.

00:33:52And again, I don't think it needed much convincing.

00:33:57Wait, did Brady, when he skated by the bench, did he say that to you specifically?

00:34:00Or did he just kind of say that to the bench to see who would, any takers?

00:34:05No, just to me specifically.

00:34:07We're on the bench and Heggs goes to box.

00:34:10Now somebody's got to jump on the ice.

00:34:11And I look down the bench.

00:34:13The one guy, I see turn, and he looks like that.

00:34:17He looks right at me, and I knew it was Benny.

00:34:18And we both, the eye contact and exactly what was said, he remembers it.

00:34:22I remember it.

00:34:24And he went over, and we knew what was going to happen then.

00:34:28And Sam Bennett's not going to back down, even though he's outweighed.

00:34:32Come on, Benny.

00:34:33Come on, Benny.

00:34:35Come on, Benny.

00:34:36What a touch.

00:34:38What a start.

00:34:39What a start.

00:34:40What a start.

00:34:41What a start.

00:34:42What a start.

00:34:43All we care about is Team USA.

00:34:44We're going to show that we're a team.

00:34:49And we're here to do whatever it takes, especially in enemy territory.

00:34:54This start, if you can call it that, and we even started reminiscent of the old days.

00:34:59I thought I'm good.

00:35:00Unbelievable.

00:35:02And there's Keith, like it's 1996 all over again.

00:35:06You know, you just think of Keith watching his boys, kind of been like watching some replays of his own

00:35:11life.

00:35:14What's the story with the Kachoks?

00:35:17They're a full-on hockey family.

00:35:19I mean, their father, a great NHL player.

00:35:22They grew up in the game.

00:35:24They grew up at the arenas.

00:35:26And they are big personalities in the game, right?

00:35:29They take up a lot of storylines.

00:35:32And a very rough exhibition game.

00:35:34Look at this.

00:35:35Only 20 seconds into this game.

00:35:37And the far side, Lemieux is squared off near the USA bench that is Kachok in Lemieux.

00:35:47I think the biggest thing is, we can't believe all the things that my dad could do there.

00:35:52Of course, you see the fights when he got kicked out and all the battles that they fought.

00:35:59Just seeing kind of the hate that they had then and how they wanted to be the best.

00:36:04All kinds of patriotic words exchanged by both teams, and away we go.

00:36:11It was pretty cool to see.

00:36:12That is the miracle of Nice Generation.

00:36:14That is the players who were five, six, seven years old in 1980.

00:36:20I think they had in their mind the sort of, that, the myth that was created by the miracle on

00:36:25Ice.

00:36:26And so this was their chance to reenact that myth.

00:36:28To have another miracle.

00:36:30Because, you know, to that point, the United States had never really beaten Canada in a major tournament of best

00:36:35on best.

00:36:36The U.S.

00:36:37They were always the little brother in hockey.

00:36:41In 96, they were not going to be intimidated, and they came out aggressively.

00:36:47Shot, score!

00:36:49And this time, it wasn't our guys.

00:36:53It was the U.S. that came through.

00:36:55At the top of the triangle.

00:36:57Score!

00:36:58Shot by Hall!

00:37:00Power play goal!

00:37:02Tony Amonti scores a clinching goal, and it's never been the same since.

00:37:10Canada's edge always was the physicality they brought.

00:37:14Giveaway inside the line, but Glen Ross made up for that one.

00:37:17But the U.S. wanted to send a message.

00:37:20We're not going to be intimidated anymore.

00:37:24And it's been Canada-U.S. as the prime rivalry in hockey ever since 96.

00:37:31Shadow boxing.

00:37:33I know they had a breakfast, a family breakfast the day before.

00:37:38You've got to think that somehow Dad set the tone, and it's, and history repeated itself.

00:37:48So is something like that planned in advance?

00:37:51It was on the American side, yeah, it wasn't on our side.

00:37:54We're going to do this to let everyone know that we care about our team.

00:38:00We're going to set the tone for our team.

00:38:03Was it Matthew telling you?

00:38:05You asking Matthew?

00:38:06Like, how does that happen?

00:38:07Honestly, we joke around about how sick would, like, even, like, once we found out about Four Nations,

00:38:11like, how sick would it be just to square up center ice, like, U.S. versus Canada?

00:38:16Like, in the weeks beforehand.

00:38:17Oh, that's just, like, in the summer.

00:38:19No, no, my friend.

00:38:20Hey, he gives it to me.

00:38:21We're going.

00:38:22All right.

00:38:22Hey, game notes, don't tell you everything.

00:38:241-0.

00:38:25Yeah, yeah.

00:38:26Well, I didn't think anything was going to top the intro of game one.

00:38:32I might have done it.

00:38:34Just don't run me over, anybody.

00:38:36But you could tell that we might not be done yet.

00:38:39Fired in by Zico.

00:38:40All the way, Binnington gets a touch, and we might have more.

00:38:44Pareko and Miller.

00:38:45And Miller dropped the gloves, and Pareko's going to answer.

00:38:49And Pareko's going to answer in a big way.

00:38:56I just wanted a piece of the action, too, and wanted to, you know, do it for the crowd,

00:39:00do it for their country, too.

00:39:02Three fights, nine seconds.

00:39:05And both teams may need some reserves tonight.

00:39:09You guys, nobody's looking to fight all tournament, but that element changes the way the game is played.

00:39:23The McDavid goal to open the scoring is breathtaking, and it's classic Connor McDavid.

00:39:30That was a special one, you know.

00:39:32And then just to hear that building, that building on a...

00:39:34It was incredible.

00:39:35Yeah.

00:39:35I was watching it.

00:39:36It was incredible.

00:39:37On a Saturday night in Montreal, the stands are so steep.

00:39:41It feels like the right on top of you, like, it feels like the Coliseum or something like that.

00:39:44It's a special place to play.

00:39:47But then the Americans, they respond.

00:39:55You've got to protect the lane!

00:39:57There were some huge hits, some fights.

00:40:01Some really nice goals.

00:40:03Just incredible hockey.

00:40:06This is going to be a battle.

00:40:08We're all right!

00:40:09We're all right!

00:40:14What a period!

00:40:16Three fights, two goals, and a tie!

00:40:20Listen, you guys are invested.

00:40:21It's an unbelievable atmosphere out there.

00:40:23Let's keep going out of here.

00:40:24Know who you're changing for, and let's change smart, all right?

00:40:27Keep going.

00:40:28I love the game of chess.

00:40:30I thought nothing, nothing could talk.

00:40:32We started game one, but I think you guys are gamers, boys, and I love it.

00:40:36Change early before late.

00:40:38All right, fellas, let's go.

00:40:39Hey, you want to try an outside in?

00:40:41Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:40:43I'm going to go with Austin's line down there.

00:40:46I'm going to come back with Larkin, all right?

00:40:49But then somebody else rises to the occasion, and Dylan Larkin scores a great goal.

00:40:54And the building gets a little quieter.

00:40:59The building gets feeling a little uneasy.

00:41:04I don't mind the match.

00:41:06Yeah.

00:41:07I don't mind the matches.

00:41:08Let's let them play hockey.

00:41:10Third period, we push.

00:41:13Every inch of ice is contested.

00:41:17No!

00:41:18Board pass!

00:41:19Board pass and up!

00:41:21Nice!

00:41:22Off the try.

00:41:25Larkin with the open net, across to Ginzel, scores!

00:41:30And they score an empty net goal, and it's Team USA that draws first blood.

00:41:37That's going to do it.

00:41:38A hard-fought Team USA victory, and it finishes 3-1 in a three-point victory for the visitors

00:41:47here in Montreal.

00:41:50We always have a little panic moment.

00:41:54We're always uncomfortable when it doesn't go our way.

00:41:58But also, I think under this political climate, I think we wanted to get our bragging rights

00:42:06back.

00:42:11Bragging rights.

00:42:12That's the language that Americans speak.

00:42:15It's arrogance.

00:42:16It's winning.

00:42:17It's being the champion.

00:42:18It's being the best in the world.

00:42:21We are that at hockey.

00:42:23So the stakes get higher.

00:42:26Again, we're in an election.

00:42:28In the meantime, there's debates happening, and there's tension politically.

00:42:37Tell me about where your love of hockey came from.

00:42:41I grew up in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

00:42:43It's a wee little thing in a Habs jersey.

00:42:46I was born into a Montreal Canadiens loving family.

00:42:50It's my genetic disorder from my mom.

00:42:54She moved to Canada in 1972, and she fell in love with the Canadians.

00:42:59She fell in love with the way Gilafla played.

00:43:04Frank Mahavlitch would know those names as if they were new neighbors.

00:43:08She became so obsessed with hockey that if they had visitors or visited on a Saturday night,

00:43:14she would check out.

00:43:15She would ask to watch TV, which is a little untoward for a new Pakistani bride.

00:43:21I played with my brother on a co-ed team.

00:43:24You played?

00:43:25I did.

00:43:26I played hockey.

00:43:27I love the pace.

00:43:28I love the speed.

00:43:29I love the cold.

00:43:30I look really cute in a coat, so I love that for me.

00:43:35Now I work in the realm of sports journalism.

00:43:39And I've tried to break up with hockey men's hockey many, many times.

00:43:43It's a very long, complicated relationship that I have with it.

00:43:47But I love the sport.

00:43:50There's this unfettered nationalism that comes out in me when it comes to hockey, unapologetically.

00:43:57I want Canada to win.

00:43:58I want Canada more specifically to beat the United States.

00:44:03We know who we are when we're on the ice.

00:44:05The whole country knows who we are when we're on the ice.

00:44:10Sports and politics are very intermingled, for good and bad.

00:44:14Like, if you think about the 36th Olympiad with the Nazis, or you think about Jackie Robinson breaking the color

00:44:19barrier in baseball,

00:44:20these things mattered to the political life of these countries, but the outcomes didn't matter.

00:44:28In Canada, hockey does actually matter historically.

00:44:33The Rocket Richard riots in 55, that started out of a hockey game.

00:44:41Whereas the Four Nations hockey tournament was the unifying game.

00:44:48I would even go so far as to say no other event crystallized it in that form.

00:44:54You have to remember, people are going into grocery stores, looking at American products,

00:44:59and turning them upside down, so that everybody knows not to buy American products.

00:45:03Like, no government is mandating that.

00:45:06They're literally just doing it personally, and it's completely grassroots.

00:45:10Everybody was locked in and engaged with this.

00:45:13Because of the political stakes.

00:45:15Because of the Canadian-ness of it.

00:45:20Three fights in nine seconds.

00:45:23Yeah, they did the first nine seconds of the game.

00:45:25It was like three fights.

00:45:26A month ago, I barely heard anyone among my hockey fan friends talking about this tournament.

00:45:31I did it for the flag, and not for the cameras.

00:45:34We kicked Canada's ass.

00:45:35Sorry, Canada.

00:45:36In Canada.

00:45:37It's not good.

00:45:38I'm not a fatalist.

00:45:40It's one game.

00:45:42We can pull it out of a bag.

00:45:43I remember Salt Lake City.

00:45:45At the Olympics in Salt Lake City, they lost to Sweden in their opener.

00:45:48Coming up empty.

00:45:49And the shots were 11-3 in favor of Sweden.

00:45:54We get upset right off the bat.

00:45:56And by the end of the round, Robin Wayne Gretzky, who is running the team, has to call a press

00:46:00conference and said, you know, he kind of rallied the troops.

00:46:03I'm very proud of our hockey and our heritage, and when other people take shots at it, it bothers me.

00:46:08I know the whole world wants us to lose, except for Canada and Canada fans.

00:46:12He wanted to reinforce with his team that we've all got your backs.

00:46:17You're in this position, and whatever it was, it was heard loud and clear.

00:46:25The gold medal game, folks.

00:46:27Salt Lake City, 2002, is underway.

00:46:31By 2002, the United States is now they're forced to be reckoned with.

00:46:35The crowd, hopefully, is ready.

00:46:39I always thought, because we were the team to beat, of course everybody wants to get a piece of you.

00:46:48In the O2 Olympics, I remember watching Joe Sackick was my favorite player at the time.

00:46:53USA come up to try and get it back.

00:46:54It's lifted into the zone.

00:46:55Watching with my friends and family in the basement, they had a huge priority for every game.

00:46:59And those memories, just getting together as a family, to watch that and what it does for a young hockey

00:47:04player, it's pretty remarkable.

00:47:08Canada hadn't won an Olympic gold in men's hockey in over 50 years.

00:47:11I'm trying to hang on and get a break. It's going to be a break. It is Joe Sackick. Scores!

00:47:18And that makes it 5-2 Canada. Surely, that's going to be it.

00:47:24For some reason, when Canada achieves their greatest moments, it comes through a struggle.

00:47:30What Canada does is play their best when the chips are down.

00:47:35Whose game is it? Canada's game! Canada's game!

00:47:39When Canada beat the Americans in Salt Lake City, it wasn't against the backdrop of sort of this political climate.

00:47:45It was neighbors. It was, you know, neighbors going at it.

00:47:49Now it's... it is antagonists.

00:47:56Good morning, guys.

00:47:56One of the things that we've talked about for the last six months was what it's going to take to

00:48:02win.

00:48:03Some of you guys have won Stanley Cups. Some of you guys have won championships at different levels.

00:48:07So, for me, talent is essential.

00:48:09When I look around this room, we're loaded with it in here.

00:48:12What I will also tell you is the three other dressing rooms that are having this conversation right now, they

00:48:17are too.

00:48:18Look around the room. All of you guys are the very best on your respective NHL teams.

00:48:24It takes more than talent, guys. It takes character.

00:48:27And we've got to become a team. And that's going to be our challenge.

00:48:30All right? Let's get excited about this thing.

00:48:35Now you go in a game Thursday night for the finals.

00:48:38Personally, I think Donald Trump should be there.

00:48:40We would love it if President Trump was in attendance.

00:48:44Before we get the dream rematch, there are still two games to play.

00:48:48Don't play for yourself. Play for your country.

00:48:50Come on, boys. We are proud of you Americans.

00:48:54The USA versus Sweden.

00:48:56When these guys are giving and going off the line, go through them.

00:48:59And Canada against Finland.

00:49:01That's how we play right there, boys.

00:49:03They had to now beat Finland to make sure that they got another chance at Team USA.

00:49:07Play quick. Play quick. Play quick.

00:49:10Sweden is always good. Finland pesky.

00:49:14But this is set up for Canada to play Team USA in a final.

00:49:21We wouldn't be doing this documentary if Finland came back from four goals down to beat Canada

00:49:27in the last game of the round robin.

00:49:30And there's time on the clock and Finland's pulling their goalie.

00:49:33And they're going to spoil the chance of Canada-US in a final.

00:49:48And Sidney Crosby makes a play at center ice defensively and ices it.

00:49:55He put his mark on the tournament to get us to a Canada-US final.

00:50:00As only, I think, Sidney Crosby could do.

00:50:04Crosby fires right on.

00:50:06The aura of Sid is just undefinable.

00:50:11The respect he has universally from players and opponents is just incredible.

00:50:17Crosby at backhand. He scores!

00:50:20When he walks into a room, he doesn't have to say a word.

00:50:22He just commands it.

00:50:23And his resume tells you that he doesn't have to say a word.

00:50:28When you look at 2010, he is one of the greatest winners in the history of Canadian hockey.

00:50:33I got to call one game in hockey, and it turned out to be a significant game.

00:50:40It was the final event of the Olympics.

00:50:43I've never been in a rink with the atmosphere that was in Vancouver for that game.

00:50:50It was absolute hysteria from the very start.

00:50:54Of course, I remember the 2010 Olympics.

00:50:57We take a lot of pride in our game.

00:50:58I feel like it's Canada's game, and every time best-on-best happens, Canada is expected to win.

00:51:08Canada led for a long time.

00:51:11And all of a sudden, Zach Parisi scores, and the game's tied to force overtime in the gold medal game.

00:51:20And then Crosby's on the ice with the Ginla.

00:51:25There's this split second where everything stops.

00:51:29And then I'm thinking, it's go time.

00:51:32Over the line, Sidney Crosby can't bust in.

00:51:36Up with it again.

00:51:37He's on the ice with the Ginla.

00:51:40The Ginla scoping!

00:51:42Sidney Crosby, the golden goal!

00:51:45And Canada has once-in-a-lifetime Olympic gold!

00:51:50And in my excitement, I'd had something else I was going to say about once-in-a-lifetime gold.

00:51:57And I forced that in.

00:51:59I wish I hadn't.

00:52:00I wish I'd gone Foster Hewitt.

00:52:02Here's another shot!

00:52:03Right by the scores!

00:52:04Henderson scores for Canada.

00:52:07From an early age, I was interested in not just the players on the ice, but the broadcasters as well.

00:52:15I watched, as a kid, the Maple Leafs every Saturday night with Foster Hewitt in black and white.

00:52:22Back up to Makita.

00:52:24Makita let his shot go, Bobby Howell, and a whack bat.

00:52:26From an early age, I thought I wanted to be that guy.

00:52:30Henderson, right in front of the net!

00:52:32And Foster Hewitt in 72 was short, was simple, was perfect.

00:52:39I want my Foster Hewitt moment.

00:52:42Henderson scores for Canada.

00:52:44That's all he had to say.

00:52:46And since 2010, I thought, if I ever get a chance again, I know what I'm going to say.

00:52:52In 2010, Team Canada was celebrating.

00:52:55All of Canada was celebrating.

00:52:57And I'm not sure anybody's too worried about a few extra words.

00:53:05And still get emotional.

00:53:10Because that...

00:53:11Still get emotional.

00:53:16Because that was so big.

00:53:23And to call goals that are that big for Canada, that's pretty special.

00:53:32Sorry about that.

00:53:40I think hockey, in general, is one of the rare instances where we have a collective possession.

00:53:50This is one of the very, very few collective experiences.

00:53:58Like, you know, we don't experience the movies together anymore.

00:54:02Like, music is mostly experienced alone.

00:54:06In a world where spectacle is kind of denied, there's a kind of retreat from it.

00:54:12And these mass events take on even more significance.

00:54:16You don't have to play hockey to be a Canadian.

00:54:19But hockey is Canadian in a way that certainly no other sport is.

00:54:24But also no other activity is, really.

00:54:27And I don't think that compares even to cultural phenomenon.

00:54:30I don't think anything comes close to that.

00:54:31So, the game does take on a ritual component.

00:54:35I mean, there's a reason that the flags are hanging over the stadiums.

00:54:39When I think of Canada, what I actually think of is the proximity of big cities next to wilderness.

00:54:48That, to me, is kind of what defines it.

00:54:51Is that you can get to the wilderness pretty much anywhere very quickly.

00:54:55And that encounter with the wilderness and also with the cold creates a certain kind of humility.

00:55:01Being tough enough to handle Canada.

00:55:03It's a game that's played on frozen rivers.

00:55:07This game was part of this land.

00:55:09And the game does take on a ritual component.

00:55:12Because it really is a battle of toughness.

00:55:15Public spectacles, which all have a ritualistic element.

00:55:18You have to be kind of brutal.

00:55:21Right?

00:55:21Being ground down.

00:55:22Can you survive being ground down?

00:55:27How much punishment can you take?

00:55:33Can you spit your teeth out and go back on the X?

00:55:37Can you survive being tucked in a corner and hit?

00:55:42Like, that's really what it is.

00:55:44And the will to endure.

00:55:48I love the physicality.

00:55:49There's so much beauty in it.

00:55:51But they don't let you fight, right?

00:55:53In the Olympics.

00:55:54They don't let you fight in international hockey.

00:55:56So the fact that they were able to go during the Four Nations with those jerseys on.

00:56:01And it felt like kind of the closest thing to a war between Canada and the U.S.

00:56:09that has happened in a really long time.

00:56:15That has happened in a really long time.

00:56:22You played junior, right?

00:56:24Yeah, I played junior briefly.

00:56:28Before I wanted to be like a writer or a journalist, I wanted to play hockey.

00:56:34I grew up on the Lake Meadow First Nation, which is like two hours or so north of Winnipeg.

00:56:41I was like maybe three when I first learned how to skate.

00:56:45There was the school and there was the rink and they were just divided by a single road.

00:56:50So after school, I would just go across and go skating until my mom told me to come home.

00:56:57It brought me closer to my family.

00:57:00It brought us together.

00:57:01We watched the Stanley Cup finals every year.

00:57:05We watched the Olympics together.

00:57:06It's become a ceremony like anything else, like powwows, like sundances, lodges, anything.

00:57:13Like it's just something that is so a part of who we are and we love it.

00:57:19Ceremony is a part of hockey.

00:57:21Hockey itself is this ceremony.

00:57:26Ceremony to me is something that brings you closer to yourself.

00:57:32I think for Canadians, hockey is that it's something that makes us more recognizable to who we are as a

00:57:39people, as a country.

00:57:40You saw that in 2010, right, with Vancouver.

00:57:43I don't think there was an event in the last 25 years where people in Canada felt more Canadian.

00:57:51But now when there's all this other stuff that's amplifying the game, all these ceremonies bring something out of you

00:58:00that you harbor for a long time or that you've harbored for your whole life.

00:58:04I think I've always thought of myself as Anishinaabe living in Canada, but there's that other part of me that's

00:58:13just always loved this game.

00:58:15And when it comes to hockey, like I'm a Canadian, I feel like, like everybody else, like just so desperately

00:58:23want to see us to not just win, but to dominate doing so.

00:58:30Like, I'm not going to deny that.

00:58:35From four nations down to two.

00:58:38From a cultural standpoint, really fascinating to watch.

00:58:41City has been buzzing all week long.

00:58:43People traveled from all over the country and Canada to be here.

00:58:46Two days ago, we're driving out.

00:58:48It is the border battle no one knew they needed.

00:58:52It's a big moment, not just on the ice, but a lot more than just hockey on the line here,

00:58:57of course.

00:58:58It's a spicy mix leading into a very exciting hockey theater.

00:59:03Boston, what's the vibe there?

00:59:06That was one of the coolest bus rides I've ever been a part of.

00:59:12You can see all the American flags.

00:59:14You can see all the jerseys when you're driving up.

00:59:16People are already having so much fun.

00:59:19My head was out the window just staring the whole time, like listening to music and looking back at Matthew,

00:59:25like, holy shit.

00:59:27I just have never seen that before.

00:59:32So I felt that immense pride to be an American and, you know, wanted to, you know, get the win

00:59:37for them.

00:59:38I grew up in the Boston area and I heard from, you know, coaches that coached me when high school

00:59:43days and, you know, and players that I played with.

00:59:46And it was just a really cool event.

00:59:48The fact that the tournament started in Montreal and Canada and ended in the U.S. was probably better for

00:59:55us.

00:59:56Head coach, John Cooper, take your questions.

00:59:59Please raise your hand and wait for the microphone.

01:00:01I couldn't name a third of the people that were in the press conference.

01:00:06The sport went from all the regular hockeys to now news outlets.

01:00:11There's been this backdrop of kind of political energy.

01:00:14It's pretty charged.

01:00:15The sport went from North American to global.

01:00:21The heated overnight face-off.

01:00:24The first ever Four Nations face-off championship game.

01:00:29It's the fastest players at the highlight level.

01:00:33Made the best team win.

01:00:35Adding to the usual competitiveness, the unusual geopolitical tension between the U.S. and Canada.

01:00:40Ray, nobody could have imagined even a week ago that this inaugural event would have captivated the sports fans of

01:00:46North America the way it has.

01:00:48And obviously the interest is being driven by the great skill of these players, but also their incredible passion and

01:00:55intensity.

01:00:56And tonight, it's all about national pride.

01:00:58Wondering how much you think what's happening off the ice is impacting the players on the ice.

01:01:03President Trump talked to the USA hockey team this morning.

01:01:07He talked to the players after their morning practice around 10 o'clock.

01:01:10Mr. President, can you hear me?

01:01:12I just want to wish you a lot of luck.

01:01:14You really are a skilled group of people.

01:01:15We love America and we love you guys.

01:01:18We'll be watching tonight.

01:01:19Bring it home.

01:01:20There's no pressure whatsoever.

01:01:23I'm not sure the political environment has anything to do with what's going on on the ice.

01:01:27I think there's two really good teams that are going to compete extremely hard and do everything they can to

01:01:32win.

01:01:32We look forward to the United States beating our soon-to-be 51st state, Canada.

01:01:40As it went on, it became a bigger deal in the United States.

01:01:44And suddenly, the ratings were rising.

01:01:47And people were paying attention to this tournament.

01:01:51We needed to win.

01:01:53To assert that we didn't deserve to be treated that way.

01:01:58To win is to speak their language in the same way they understand.

01:02:02And to be brash about it.

01:02:04To be brutal about it.

01:02:08Hey.

01:02:10Talking about how great you guys are going to be tonight.

01:02:13I have somebody really great to do our starting lineup.

01:02:17Hello, everyone.

01:02:22First of all, congratulations.

01:02:23You made the hockey world proud.

01:02:26Ex-players.

01:02:27And, of course, the country.

01:02:28So, good for you guys.

01:02:29It's been fun to watch.

01:02:31And I know you give up a lot of time to do these kind of things.

01:02:34But nothing more fun than playing for your country.

01:02:36So, I wish you guys good luck tonight.

01:02:38So, the group had me thrown in to do the starting lineup.

01:02:43All right, should we talk about Wayne Gretzky?

01:02:44Do you want to talk about Wayne Gretzky?

01:02:46Sure.

01:02:47I mean, I would love it if we didn't because it's heartbreaking.

01:02:50But we probably do have to talk about Gretzky.

01:02:53Okay, let's talk about Wayne Gretzky, man.

01:02:55Let's do it.

01:02:56What was he doing?

01:02:56Why did he do it?

01:02:59So, Bennington and goal.

01:03:00Yeah!

01:03:01A's on defense.

01:03:04Carve.

01:03:05Gretzky was in the Team Canada dressing room.

01:03:08Giving a motivational speech at the invitation of Canada's head coach.

01:03:12John Cooper.

01:03:13Let's meet Canada's honorary captain, Wayne Gretzky.

01:03:18That, for whatever reason, didn't get shown on the broadcast.

01:03:23And what does get shown on the broadcast is Gretzky comes out and the thumbs up to the American players.

01:03:30If the tensions between the countries were not so high, I don't think we would have even blinked an eye.

01:03:35Wayne, we call you Team Canada.

01:03:37Can you honestly say it was a team victory?

01:03:39Oh, no question.

01:03:42I grew up in Edmonton, Alberta.

01:03:45When I was eight was when Gretzky started bringing Stanley Cups to Edmonton.

01:03:51So I saw the magic of Gretzky with a child's eyes.

01:03:58He really was something like a secular saint.

01:04:04My love of hockey comes from growing up in Alberta during the 80s when Gretzky and the Oilers were in

01:04:12their dynasty.

01:04:14My family was the only family of the sick faith in a town of about 10,000 people.

01:04:20And so when I'm going to school, I'm searching for commonality.

01:04:24And, you know, Gretzky, the greatest player to ever play the game.

01:04:27And I soon became obsessed with it.

01:04:32As a broadcaster, I remember doing a game in L.A.

01:04:36It's Oilers against Kings.

01:04:38And the hotel we're staying at, there's some other ex-Oilers there.

01:04:42All of a sudden, I'm walking with Wayne Gretzky, and we start chatting hockey.

01:04:46He puts his arm around my shoulder.

01:04:48Like, it's giving me a sense of belonging in the game, right?

01:04:51Like, this is pretty special.

01:04:54The Gretzky I knew growing up from my childhood to the Gretzky that I've seen as an adult.

01:05:00It's the same down-to-earth guy.

01:05:03He was incredibly humble.

01:05:05He was always giving credit to other people.

01:05:07He was never bragging.

01:05:09And he didn't even look like an athlete.

01:05:11The gentleness with which he approached this brutal sport was kind of Canadian in a very iconic way.

01:05:20The Oilers are a great team with or without Wayne Gretzky.

01:05:24And, you know, when Gretzky was traded, I was 13 years old.

01:05:27I remember exactly where I was.

01:05:28I was in my grandfather's acreage in New Brunswick, and I refused to believe it for 24 hours.

01:05:35The idea that you could sell Wayne Gretzky was like the idea that you could sell the sunset.

01:05:41Hockey is strong in Canada.

01:05:43It'll always be our number one sport.

01:05:45We need to help create that interest and that atmosphere in the United States.

01:05:49By the time we get to this game, it's been a few years, actually, of Wayne Gretzky and Donald Trump,

01:05:55their relationship being relatively public.

01:05:57I was with Wayne Gretzky.

01:05:59I said, Wayne, would you like to be the governor of Canada?

01:06:01I can't imagine anybody doing any better than Wayne.

01:06:05Wayne was not too interested.

01:06:07But I think he probably would have liked statehood.

01:06:09He's a friend of mine.

01:06:10He's a great guy.

01:06:14We don't know the nature of the relationship.

01:06:15We still don't know the nature of the relationship.

01:06:17What we do know is that, hey, as far as hockey comes, Wayne Gretzky would never have been in Canada.

01:06:25Would he?

01:06:29And then the blow.

01:06:34Wayne Gretzky comes out through the American bench.

01:06:38And everyone in the room is going, hang on.

01:06:42He comes out from the U.S. side, which I think that was unfair.

01:06:47It was just an unfortunate protocol of the evening.

01:06:51Strictly on the visual side of it, it could not have been worse.

01:06:56But he had to do so little.

01:06:59He just had to basically wear a Canadian identifier and demonstrate it in any way.

01:07:06And he would have been just fine.

01:07:10Right?

01:07:10Canadians would have taken it that as perfectly normal.

01:07:13But he didn't.

01:07:13Where is your Order of Canada pin?

01:07:16Why are you not wearing it?

01:07:17Why are you congratulating or cheering on the Americans?

01:07:25He built his career on being Canada's golden boy on ice.

01:07:30Gretzky waits there around in front.

01:07:31He shoots.

01:07:31He scores!

01:07:32Wayne Gretzky wins the game!

01:07:34People take shots at Wayne.

01:07:36I know who Wayne is as a person.

01:07:39All these people that are speaking about him, you don't know him.

01:07:44You'd be pressed to find a better ambassador and person who cares about the game more than Wayne Gretzky.

01:07:52And he's put himself out there in front.

01:07:55He's stuck his neck out.

01:07:56And he's done that for the country and for the game.

01:07:58Not for himself.

01:08:01What more do you want him to do?

01:08:03In a unique time like this, does a country need its icons to do something, say something?

01:08:11He's the greatest hockey player of all time.

01:08:13But he's also a retired athlete.

01:08:16Tempers were inflamed.

01:08:18Emotions were running high.

01:08:20And, you know, we have to be careful not to put too much political sophistication or whatever on people who

01:08:26are, you know, just people.

01:08:29It does make me think of this idea of, like, icons and what's expected and symbols.

01:08:35And you talk sort of like ceremony and ritual.

01:08:40Like, no one will ever doubt, of course, what he meant to the game and what he is as a

01:08:45player and as a figure.

01:08:47But his role in Canadian national life, I think, is definitely sullied.

01:08:51Every once in a while, you get a hero that is a projection of a lot of people's hopes and

01:08:56desires.

01:08:57And they don't say anything.

01:08:59And that story of them being a hero perpetuates and gathers up steam and is wonderful.

01:09:08I don't know how willing he might be to sort of have that mantle of hero.

01:09:16I think it just highlighted how emotions were burning pretty hot, even when the greatest player to ever play for

01:09:27Canada is taking it on the chin.

01:09:31It tells you that people are really feeling an emotional bond to what's about to happen.

01:09:47In the spirit of this great game, we kindly ask that you respect the national anthems and the players that

01:09:54represent each country.

01:09:57Please welcome Chantal Kraviyacic for the singing of the Canadian National Anthem.

01:10:02You look cute in your hat.

01:10:05Enjoy the creek.

01:10:06I will.

01:10:07Make sure you go the creek and not that funny road.

01:10:10Oh, yeah, yeah, of course.

01:10:12Don't worry.

01:10:14I really cherish being able to come home and take, like, this walk, for example.

01:10:20Winnipeg obviously shaped me.

01:10:22It made me really resilient.

01:10:23There you go.

01:10:30I changed the lyrics to the anthem at the Four Nations final.

01:10:34It was an idea that came to me, and I just sort of went with it.

01:10:39Here we are.

01:10:40You weren't phoning anybody and asking us, shall I do it?

01:10:43You just did it.

01:10:44Okay, this is what happened.

01:10:45I went out to do the sound check.

01:10:49When I walked out on the ice, I sang the anthem I last knew.

01:10:54I said, in all thy sons command.

01:10:56Ladies and gentlemen, please rise and join Chantal Kraviyacic for the singing of our national anthem.

01:11:09And then I went back to my room, and it was probably an hour and a half or so to

01:11:14game time.

01:11:15And a producer of this show came around to give me a sheet of paper and say, you actually got

01:11:21the lyric wrong.

01:11:22Here's the new lyric.

01:11:23And he kind of went out.

01:11:24And I was like, hang on, what do you mean there's a new lyric?

01:11:26Like, it totally, like, I really, really didn't know.

01:11:29The national anthem wasn't handed down on a mountain graven on stone tablets, never to be changed.

01:11:36It has changed a whole bunch of times through the 20th century.

01:11:42The line that we changed in 2018 from, in all thy sons command to, in all of us command.

01:11:50Well, that was actually returning to an original version that said, thou dust in us command.

01:11:59Someone changed it around World War II, in all our sons to bring in the men in war.

01:12:05So the anthem has been changed.

01:12:07I thought, right, immediately, it needs to be an only us.

01:12:12What was going on that sparked it?

01:12:15Well, there was a lot of back and forth thing I was starting to read about, like, you know, that

01:12:20we were going to get absorbed by the neighbors.

01:12:23And I thought, oh, my gosh.

01:12:26Like, it just felt like bullying.

01:12:30And that's actually what drove me.

01:12:33I was feeling incredibly patriotic in that moment.

01:12:37And I just thought, let's just crank it out.

01:12:40Only us command.

01:12:41Not all of us.

01:12:42No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

01:12:43Only us.

01:12:44I had one question.

01:12:47Would I do a, would it be a problem for our prime minister's office?

01:12:52She called me up.

01:12:54She was nervous.

01:12:55I said, listen, I just want to know what you think about this idea I have right now that to

01:13:01change a small lyric.

01:13:03It's exactly the right thing to do.

01:13:05She said, okay, well, if you give me permission.

01:13:08I'm like, okay, I'm not giving you permission.

01:13:10And I was like, okay, I think he just gave me the green light.

01:13:15Do what you need to do.

01:13:16You're the one making the final decision on whether you do it or not.

01:13:19You're not going to say that the prime minister commanded me to do it.

01:13:22She's like, no, no, I wouldn't do that, Jess.

01:13:24Smart, you're covering it.

01:13:24Yeah, yeah, Chantal's an old friend, so we had a good conversation.

01:13:27But when I said, yeah, yeah, go for it.

01:13:28And my feeling was, oh, crap, I got to do that now.

01:13:37True patriot love that only us command.

01:13:44And then as I was singing and got past that part, something wild happened.

01:13:51The crowd began to sing O Canada with me.

01:13:58She did it with so dignified that I remember getting shivers because immediately it was like us versus them.

01:14:11Normally, I'd be offended by that, but I actually thought, wow, even our anthem singer, she's ready to drop the

01:14:19gloves.

01:14:22I thought, man, Chantal Krevyazic's a good teammate.

01:14:26We grow up in this stunning, inspiring place.

01:14:32Canada's incredible.

01:14:35And I felt like standing up for my country.

01:14:40I love feeling that, you know, in my small way, I am contributing to that unity and that pride.

01:14:46And what she did was a genius thing.

01:14:49Oh, God, for me!

01:15:01This is the end.

01:15:03There's one game to go, and it's like the nerves are all here.

01:15:07Do not f***ing change as a wholesale if they are eyes up on us.

01:15:13Having lost in Montreal, now they're at home, you know, the home team.

01:15:18The anticipation was huge.

01:15:20It was almost like just the perfect storm where it was, I guess, the real world and then also hockey.

01:15:27A lot of these guys are going to be Hall of Famers, you know, and some of them are Stanley

01:15:32Cup winners, and, you know, they're in pretty good spots in life, you know.

01:15:39You're participating in this thing because of your love for the sport and your pride for your country.

01:15:46We're embracing roles, whatever it takes to win.

01:15:49It's been an unbelievable ride here.

01:15:51You know, it became bigger than hockey.

01:15:57We knew it was a winner-take-all, one game, anything could happen.

01:16:00We talk about a collaboration of little moments that ultimately become one big moment.

01:16:07And it's sitting around a room with 20 players and then having them become one.

01:16:14And for 10 days, I've watched all you guys lay in traffic for each other.

01:16:23I've watched it.

01:16:26Now go lay in traffic for your country.

01:16:28Let's go do it, boys.

01:16:32Thousands of Canadians have gone to Boston to watch this.

01:16:38And it's pretty clear that Canada's heavily invested here.

01:16:45It's no longer a bunch of people taking to the ice to settle a tournament.

01:16:50It is a nation sort of, like, kind of duking out its national identity.

01:16:54Gentlemen, good luck to both nations.

01:16:56Let's get ready for an epic battle.

01:16:58Hey, hey, hey!

01:16:59It's showtime, and away we go.

01:17:02McDevitt wins the opening draw.

01:17:03Speed, speed, on your toes, on your toes.

01:17:07Go, go, out.

01:17:09Stay fast, stay fast.

01:17:10Immediately, I need them to win.

01:17:12Try to get to the net.

01:17:13Can't play.

01:17:14It is all night, all night.

01:17:15I need them.

01:17:16And I meaning me in all of Canada.

01:17:19Come on, you've got to stay on your checks here, boys.

01:17:21Don't skate away.

01:17:23No way he should be able to skate that up the ice.

01:17:25No way.

01:17:25In the country of Canada, when you're involved, we expect nothing but gold.

01:17:32We're not going in to participate.

01:17:34We're going in to win.

01:17:43We're good, boys.

01:17:44We're good.

01:17:45I forgot how intense it was.

01:17:47Boys, we've got to start hitting again.

01:17:49Hard, hard.

01:17:51There was no room out there with how hard.

01:17:54You know, the teams were checking.

01:17:56Some of the hits, and I remember hearing, like, that buzz before, like, as I'm getting there.

01:18:02And throwing that hit and people, like, going nuts.

01:18:05I was like, oh, my God, this is so cool.

01:18:06No, no, no, no.

01:18:07That's good.

01:18:08That's good.

01:18:09And the NHL got what it wanted.

01:18:11They've got Canada in the U.S. in the gold medal game.

01:18:14They've got top players doing their thing.

01:18:17This has become their dream outcome.

01:18:20D to D skate.

01:18:21D to D skate.

01:18:23Kiddum, get it out.

01:18:25Let's go.

01:18:28Let's go.

01:18:29Watch McKinnum on the move.

01:18:31McKinnum scores!

01:18:36There we go.

01:18:38There we go.

01:18:39Let's go.

01:18:43Canada played a completely different game in that finals game.

01:18:47It showed their experience.

01:18:49Yes, I'm in time.

01:18:50I'm looking at the east side every time.

01:18:51You know, every guy in those teams has been a big moment player, and that's why they're there.

01:18:55When it goes around the wall like that, three sides wide open.

01:19:00They knew that they didn't have maybe all the skill that the U.S. had or had all those young

01:19:04legs, but they took care of the middle of the ice.

01:19:06They managed in front of the net.

01:19:09They played Canadian hockey.

01:19:13I remember I looked down and hit my stick.

01:19:20I was kind of like turning around, I looked back, and I saw it hit the netting, and mine went

01:19:26completely blank.

01:19:28I mean, all I heard was, you know, the roar, and I was like, like, I could run through a

01:19:33wall right now.

01:19:34Yeah!

01:19:38Let's go!

01:19:45I remember it being very stressful, and it wasn't just me.

01:19:54Like, it was so bad.

01:19:55Like, it was so bad, I don't think I could even go on social media, and I'm someone that likes

01:20:00to enjoy watching games, engaging with others in community.

01:20:03I just was like, I can't, I can't do this.

01:20:06I didn't want to go to the final. I wanted to be with, with people here watching it.

01:20:11I didn't want to be in Boston for, uh, for a, a Canadian victory, or much less a, a Canadian

01:20:16loss, which wasn't going to happen anyway.

01:20:19Come on, boys. Hey, one f***ing shot. Play through it.

01:20:23It's got to feel f***ing good here. It's got to feel good.

01:20:28Oh, take it, Marge. Take it, Marge. You have it.

01:20:31It's got to get it back to see a better.

01:20:32It's right!

01:20:35So that is tied at the end.

01:20:38Headed to the third period.

01:20:41Tied at two.

01:20:42Little things you got to do to get the big moment.

01:20:46They're going to get our best from here on out.

01:20:47We're not playing fast enough.

01:20:49We should be turning and burning.

01:20:50We knew it was going to be a battle.

01:20:52We knew it was going to be a battle.

01:20:53Here we are.

01:20:54Hey, it doesn't get any better than this.

01:20:55Let's get excited about it.

01:20:56Let's go have a blast with this third period.

01:20:58We were unbelievable when we were playing the game fast.

01:21:02It's just heads up and we look.

01:21:04All right? Loved it. Let's go.

01:21:08Don't skate away, boys.

01:21:10Stop on putt.

01:21:11The kids are firing it.

01:21:13It's loose and frowns.

01:21:14It's chopped away.

01:21:15Hey, slave.

01:21:17F***ing unbelievable stick.

01:21:19Best stick in the league.

01:21:20Leaders lead, baby. Leaders lead.

01:21:22Best stick in the league, slave.

01:21:28Strong side shots.

01:21:29Low to high, strong side shots.

01:21:31Low to high, strong side shots.

01:21:37We've got to make harder plays.

01:21:39We've got to try to play more straight ahead, right?

01:21:482-2 after 60 minutes.

01:21:52Why not play some more when it's this good?

01:21:56As a fan, it's the best case scenario going in OT.

01:21:59It's like, what else can you ask for?

01:22:03When you're into the nitty-gritty of the game

01:22:05and it's tied and it's late in the third period

01:22:07or overtime, in those moments,

01:22:10I think leadership really counts.

01:22:12All those teams, that's for the count right here, boys.

01:22:15Hey, it's been a hell of a game.

01:22:18Your effort has been phenomenal.

01:22:20It's not done.

01:22:21All right?

01:22:21All these little things we did to get here

01:22:23is now for the big moment.

01:22:25You have a chance to shoot it in the net,

01:22:26you shoot it in the f***ing net.

01:22:3060 minutes done,

01:22:32and we've yet to declare a champion.

01:22:35We're winning this game.

01:22:37Storybook here.

01:22:39Whose time is it going to be?

01:22:42Underway in overtime again.

01:22:46Shot!

01:22:47Hit!

01:22:48Hit!

01:22:497 points up.

01:22:51In the flip.

01:22:52Hit!

01:22:53Hit!

01:22:54Shot blocked.

01:22:56Shot blocked.

01:22:57Hit!

01:22:58Quiet!

01:22:59Quiet!

01:23:00Quiet!

01:23:01I sort of felt like I was spiraling.

01:23:04It's okay.

01:23:05Shot started as our friend.

01:23:06Couldn't get.

01:23:07Sol in front.

01:23:08Matthews denied!

01:23:10We need that to do, thank you.

01:23:11I was like, I don't know if I can do this.

01:23:14The fact rolled in front.

01:23:16He blamed.

01:23:17He points.

01:23:17Dropped in.

01:23:18Chance Matthews.

01:23:19Another handstop.

01:23:20A reboot.

01:23:20He knew it was going to be eventually a game of mistakes.

01:23:24Stakes.

01:23:30Is this the moment?

01:23:32Is this the moment that the USA proves to be better than Canada?

01:23:40Then I tried for a nanosecond to be pragmatic.

01:23:44OT is what Canada does really well.

01:23:48Sudden death.

01:23:49Till the end.

01:23:50We're going to leave it all out there.

01:23:51We're going to fight until we have no teeth left.

01:23:55The gloves are all gone.

01:23:57We're really going to put it out there.

01:24:01Oh, Billington!

01:24:02Did you see that?

01:24:04Holy fuck, what a save.

01:24:06How do you bridge what is just a game with this political moment?

01:24:11Hockey aligns really well with who Canadians are.

01:24:17Crosby fires.

01:24:18Crosby fires right on.

01:24:20Canadians are nice and friendly and thoughtful and compassionate and polite.

01:24:26But if you push us, we will push back hard.

01:24:30Face off against McDavid.

01:24:32The hockey game was an opportunity for us to once again express you don't get to push us around.

01:24:39I mean, I don't remember the Americans making a single mistake the whole game.

01:24:46And then they left McDavid alone in the slot.

01:24:53He's basically...

01:24:54You're trying to be as on top of it as possible.

01:24:59Sidney Crosby!

01:25:01The goal that...

01:25:01Unlike the Sidney Crosby goal, you could see this develop.

01:25:14And off the drop, McDavid went forward and nearly got a shot on.

01:25:19Makar sends it around.

01:25:20Marner waiting.

01:25:21I kind of had one look at the net and then the puck kind of rims around.

01:25:25Cale puts it back down to Mitchie.

01:25:28I'm standing there by myself and just trying to make a good shot.

01:25:32Honestly, he kind of blacked out.

01:25:37And in that case, for me, a chance to get it right.

01:25:42Makar sends it around.

01:25:43Marner waiting.

01:25:44Connor McDavid scores!

01:25:47Connor McDavid for Canada!

01:25:54McDavid scores for Canada.

01:25:59It was like this punctured balloon.

01:26:04Bam!

01:26:04It was just...

01:26:05Oh, it was such a beautiful goal.

01:26:07I turned around looking for a friendly face to hug.

01:26:11And the first guy I see is my bodyguard, Ben, our simpy officer.

01:26:15And I'm like, dude, we're hugging.

01:26:18He's like, okay, we're hugging.

01:26:20You know, everyone always asks, you know, what do you remember?

01:26:22What did you see?

01:26:23I don't remember a whole lot.

01:26:24Just remember being real excited.

01:26:26The country needed that.

01:26:28They needed...

01:26:30They needed that politically, socially, sports-wise.

01:26:35Great job, bro!

01:26:36It wasn't about the hockey.

01:26:38It was about the nation's battling.

01:26:40About identity.

01:26:42About agency.

01:26:43About being sovereign.

01:26:45Will we ever be the 51st guy?

01:26:48Galvan!

01:26:49When you challenge that, people come out.

01:26:53Elbows up!

01:26:55Elbows up!

01:26:56Elbows up!

01:26:57The importance of this cannot be overstated.

01:26:59How hockey was used as a vehicle to galvanize a nation.

01:27:04It was a sign of Canadian hockey toughness.

01:27:08We're not going to be intimidated.

01:27:10The original Mr. Elbows was Mr. Hockey, Gordie Howe.

01:27:14And now the lineage has been passed from Howe and Richard to Bobby Orr to Wayne Gretzky to Mario Lemieux

01:27:23to Sidney Crosby to Conor McDavid.

01:27:30As a result of an overtime goal by Conor McDavid, it doesn't mean that Trump is going to go away

01:27:35or that this problem is going to be resolved.

01:27:39It's certainly like an emotional bomb for Canada.

01:27:43And then certainly, like, we're definitely going to beat you in hockey.

01:27:46People have to believe.

01:27:47And I think that we accomplished that.

01:27:50We made a lot of people believers in our game.

01:27:56This one was different.

01:27:58This wasn't a win for themselves.

01:28:01This was a win for 40-plus million people.

01:28:05And the guys knew it, and they delivered.

01:28:27And they were also different than that at all.

01:28:27And I hope I'm glad to see you in the home of my york mall and my family,

01:28:27this one is going to be primeiro right now for the church.

01:28:27So dance is coming to you in 24 paraLL and Mars pie is bisschen abscessed.

01:28:31This is what I've learned once.

01:28:32how I важ my heart.

01:28:32Wow!

01:28:35Yeah!

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