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Speaker 3: I always love that one sounds of hockey. Shall we begin?

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Speaker 1: That old Dusty free bird, that old Dusty Steve freebird,

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Speaker 1: had a big say in the housing of the gold Za,

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Speaker 1: and gentlemen. The USA men's and women's hockey teams swept

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Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen for immortality like broadcasting work. That was boldy.

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Speaker 1: Then everything after that, well, it became all tooth and

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Speaker 1: Then everything became just all tooth and nail even more so,

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Speaker 5: For the first time.

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Speaker 1: us there. Jack brought us home. Quinn Hughes got us there.

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Speaker 1: Jack Hughes brought us all home. You know, it's the

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Speaker 1: Here's what Jack said on NBC right after the game.

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Speaker 6: Jack, the first gold medal for the United States in

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Speaker 7: About country right now? I love the USA, I love

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Speaker 6: This is bro This was such an incredible game to

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Speaker 7: Unbelievable game by Hellibuck, he was our best player tonight

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Speaker 7: Game by our team. That's just a ballsy, gutsy win.

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Speaker 7: That's American hockey right there. That's a great Canadian team.

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Speaker 6: Jack, the gold medals coming home and you're about to

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Speaker 1: How about that? Hello based Canada? And the goal went

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Speaker 8: Yeah, all of it's just been spectacular. I think having

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Speaker 10: I love the narrative.

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Speaker 10: And if you watch the game, who do you think

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Speaker 1: the postseason to go ten to ten in all circumstances.

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Speaker 1: Do you see it that way?

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Speaker 2: Well?

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Speaker 1: I think so.

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Speaker 2: I mean it's you know, it's again, it's been been

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Speaker 2: in our personality. It's unfortunate that we weren't able to

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Speaker 2: play better last thing to win. I mean, results around

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Speaker 2: the league are kind of going our way at the moment,

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Speaker 2: and we got to be able to take advantage of that.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, but you know, it's twenty four games to

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Speaker 2: go now, and it's still a lot of games, a

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Speaker 2: lot of basketball.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be some ups and downs.

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Speaker 2: You know. Coming into the last Thanks game, we were

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Speaker 2: think we'd won eight of eleven. It's just our lows

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Speaker 2: are so low, you know, And I think that's the

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Speaker 2: thing that we we we can't seem to get get over.

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Speaker 1: A couple of quickies to close here for Chris Finch,

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Speaker 1: an interesting conversation after you beat Dallas between Jalen Rose

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Speaker 1: and Charles Barkley, and they were talking about your team

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Speaker 1: the other night. Charles said he wishes when you guys

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Speaker 1: get like a ten point lead, you go boot on

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Speaker 1: throat and end the opponent's night and open up twenty

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Speaker 1: or thirty. And it does doesn't happen enough. Now, jail

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Speaker 1: encountered with they'll be fine they have too much talent.

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Speaker 1: He went through the length and just the players and stuff.

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Speaker 1: They have too much talent to discount. They play differently

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Speaker 1: with pressure, and they'll be back in the Western Conference Finals.

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Speaker 1: So that was Barkley and Jalen Rose. What do you

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Speaker 1: think about what Barkley said with the dagger mentality or

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Speaker 1: as he perceives lack thereof.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, listen, I think both things can be true.

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Speaker 2: I think it's that's that's again. We just hit upon

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Speaker 2: the personality of our team. And you know, we can't.

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Speaker 1: We don't.

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Speaker 2: We don't, we can't take anything for granted, and we

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Speaker 2: certainly don't assume that we're going to be right back

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Speaker 2: in the Western Comment Final. There's a ton of ton

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Speaker 2: of mileage to go before we can even think about that.

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Speaker 2: But we certainly have the ability and the potential and

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Speaker 2: we've got the experience of it of it all. But

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Speaker 2: you know, I agree, like we have to be more

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Speaker 2: mature in these moments when we build leads, and you know,

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Speaker 2: I think we we you can feel it in the game,

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Speaker 2: you can see it. You know, we just kind of

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Speaker 2: take our foot off the gas and you know it

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Speaker 2: comes from you know, it comes from our best players

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Speaker 2: like those guys got to push through those moments and

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Speaker 2: keep leading and keep competing and and not look for

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Speaker 2: any kind of areas to take a break. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: I think with us both things are true.

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Speaker 1: Uh, this week three roadies at Portland, Tomorrow night than

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Speaker 1: the Clippers, and Sunday at Denver. Do you think? I

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Speaker 1: don't know, man? Do do you guys think you have

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Speaker 1: a three and oh in you this week? Mister Finch?

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean certainly capable. You know, we're we've been

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Speaker 2: a good road team.

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Speaker 1: So uh, you know, we got.

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Speaker 2: Clippers. You know, we got score to settle with them,

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Speaker 2: and I came in here a couple of weeks ago,

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Speaker 2: right before the breaks and laid it on us. So

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Speaker 2: they're playing really good basketball. So I'm actually looking forward

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Speaker 2: to this road trip. But Portland's always been a really

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Speaker 2: tough place to play. You know, they're they're a really

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Speaker 2: good team. This year they're tough out. You know, they're

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Speaker 2: still they're still young and have some you know, inexperience

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Speaker 2: to them, but uh, you know, they're definitely a team

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Speaker 2: on the rise. And then they're building a very very

509
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Speaker 2: tough place to win. So uh, and then we know

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Speaker 2: Denver how good they are, and you know they've beat

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Speaker 2: us three times this season, so we got a lot

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Speaker 2: of challenges in front of us. I'm I'm really looking

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Speaker 2: forward to this road trip just because I think it's

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Speaker 2: a great litmus test for where we are in the season.

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Speaker 1: And and you and I you know, go back with

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Speaker 1: the NBA. So I mean we you know, with with

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Speaker 1: with Portland man, we you know, Jack Ramsey and Maurice

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Speaker 1: Lucas chasing Bill Walton into the stands in the NBA

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Speaker 1: Finals because they want to fight. Uh So from there

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Speaker 1: all the way to now. In a city like that

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Speaker 2: That's a great question, Kay. It is one of my

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Speaker 2: favorite places to play. I'm not sure exactly why. I

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Speaker 2: just think always every night feels like a big game there.

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Speaker 2: They got great crowd, really really into the game, but

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Speaker 2: very respectful. They love basketball, they know the game. They

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Speaker 2: reo hard for their Blazers. You know, it doesn't matter

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Speaker 2: if they're top of the standings or in a rebuild mode,

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Speaker 2: they're always the building's always full, so we've got a

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Speaker 2: great energy. You're kind of playing the last game of

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Speaker 2: the night, you know, in the league when you're up there,

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Speaker 2: So he kind of has like a special feel that

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Speaker 2: people most people in the league are watching you.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: It's a cool place and basketball means a lot to them,

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Speaker 2: and they've been fortunate to have a pretty good history

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Speaker 1: Of you know, our lifetime, no doubt, my brother, I'm

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Speaker 1: we will be there with positive energy, appreciation and happiness.

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Speaker 1: See in Denver. Chris. All right, all right, thank you,

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Speaker 4: For the first time since the nineteen eighty Bear Gold

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Speaker 1: who joins US. Now, David, having searched for you, having

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Speaker 1: searched for the gold twice, and a handful of years

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Speaker 1: after your long career has ended. How did the guys

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Speaker 1: winning the gold yesterday make you feel?

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Speaker 11: And?

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Speaker 1: Good morning?

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Speaker 11: Good morning, pa I was. I was at a swim

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Speaker 11: meet for my daughter and in Middle Tennessee. The number

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Speaker 11: of screens that were out watching the US Canada gold

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Speaker 11: medal game at the Olympics. I was astounded by and

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Speaker 11: thankfully the guy in front of me had an iPad

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Speaker 11: and I didn't have to watch it, just to my

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Speaker 11: tiny little fun. But as I'm watching my daughter swim,

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Speaker 11: Jack Hughes scores that goal, and I'm not gonna lie.

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Speaker 11: I had tears running down my face. I was choked

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Speaker 11: up and emotional, and just know all of the guys

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Speaker 11: and all of the effort that's gone into kind of

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Speaker 11: revitalizing USA Hockey and being so close in two thousand

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Speaker 11: and two and twenty ten and overtime in twenty ten

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Speaker 11: and that going the other way. Just beaming with pride

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Speaker 11: and so happy for the guys that finally got over

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Speaker 11: the hump and for USA Hockey to have brag rights

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Speaker 11: for four years at least and hopefully continue that run

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Speaker 11: into twenty thirty when we get another shot.

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean, you probably know seventy five percent of

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Speaker 1: the players on both rosters USA and Canada. You either

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Speaker 1: played against him or you know them. Just truly when

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Speaker 1: you talk behind the scenes about USA Canada heat, how

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Speaker 1: truly heated is it between those countries and winning a gold.

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Speaker 11: Well, you're you're representing your country and it doesn't matter

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Speaker 11: who's in the in the other locker room. But when

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Speaker 11: it's us Canada. Obviously we share a long border and

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Speaker 11: there's kind of a Canada tries to own the game

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Speaker 11: of hockey and has you know, been on top of

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Speaker 11: the hockey world for a long time. And to watch

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Speaker 11: not only the men but the women win the gold

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Speaker 11: medal in overtime, uh spectacular fashion. Feels like that tide's turning.

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Speaker 11: And I think expectations around the team, the way that

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Speaker 11: Billy Garrin you know, picked the team and really set

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Speaker 11: the culture around the team that this is this is

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Speaker 11: gold or bust, and this is not just showing up

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Speaker 11: and hoping to come home with a medal. We want

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Speaker 11: the gold medal. And uh, you know, talking with former

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Speaker 11: teammates and former guys that have represented the US too

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Speaker 11: to see how much every stepping stone along the way

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Speaker 11: has contributed to now you know, double gold for the

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Speaker 11: men's and the women's.

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Speaker 1: Teams in uh Milan.

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Speaker 11: It's just can't say how much it means to everyone

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Speaker 11: that's involved. And I think even the youth players that

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Speaker 11: have started playing USA hockey. Not many kids know, but

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Speaker 11: all those little entry fees that you paid redudgingly, those

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Speaker 11: go to support the national development team that a lot

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Speaker 11: of these kids on this Olympic team played at and

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Speaker 11: honed their skills and came together and have common you know,

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Speaker 11: time spent together, so that when the chips were laid down,

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Speaker 11: you've got an amazing skill level. And the Hughes brothers

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Speaker 11: and you've got you know, the tenacity of the Kachuck

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Speaker 11: absolutely out of his mind playing a role that's certainly

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Speaker 11: not comfortable.

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Speaker 1: For him, but he was willing to go do it.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, that was That was so special and I don't

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Speaker 11: get a gold medal for it, but I feel like

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Speaker 11: there's a little piece of me that went into it,

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Speaker 11: and I've got a lot of pride in that team.

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Speaker 1: Amen man. Because David Back has played in the Olympic

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Speaker 1: Games twenty ten and twenty fourteen, and in those years, David,

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Speaker 1: did you and your squad and I know you got

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Speaker 1: close in twenty ten, but did you guys enter the

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Speaker 1: games thinking you had a big shot to get the

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Speaker 1: gold because this group was one of the two favorites

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Speaker 1: all along. But twenty ten and twenty fourteen, what was

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Speaker 1: it like for you guys?

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Speaker 11: Twenty ten, I think we had an idea that it

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Speaker 11: was probably between four teams US, Canada, Russia and Finland.

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Speaker 11: And when it came down to we beat Canada and

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Speaker 11: the prelims five to three, and I think that's when

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Speaker 11: it clicked in everyone's head, like, holy crap, we got

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Speaker 11: a chance to do this. And you know that Golden

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Speaker 11: Golden Medal game was probably a more tightly contested game.

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Speaker 11: I think everyone would agree. The first period was dominated

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Speaker 11: this one by the US, and then Canada really carried

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Speaker 11: the play for the second and third period. So where

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Speaker 11: in Vancouver in twenty ten it was back and forth

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Speaker 11: and Canada was up to one late, we scored a

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Speaker 11: late goals at feazy and then it goes into over

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Speaker 11: and you're like this, this is four on four overtime

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Speaker 11: instead of three on three. I think a lot of

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Speaker 11: the hockey world would say overtimes in big, meaningful games

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Speaker 11: like a gold medal game should be NHL playoff style overtime.

656
00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:19,000
Speaker 11: So let's play five on five until somebody cracks the

657
00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:21,520
Speaker 11: code and gets the goal, rather than a little more

658
00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:26,320
Speaker 11: of a carnival game three on three NHL regular season overtime.

659
00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:28,799
Speaker 11: But it was four on four in Vancouver. It's three

660
00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:31,399
Speaker 11: on three now and I'm not going to argue about

661
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:33,239
Speaker 11: the Carnival game when the right team wins, but I

662
00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:35,680
Speaker 11: think there's a little beef in Canada that that's a

663
00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:38,799
Speaker 11: little more gimmicky than maybe it otherwise would have been.

664
00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:43,520
Speaker 11: But yeah, we we had weren't thinking for sure that

665
00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:45,200
Speaker 11: we were going to be, you know, one of the

666
00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:48,600
Speaker 11: top two teams in Vancouver. Obviously in every room, when

667
00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:51,319
Speaker 11: you start a competition, you feel like you're gonna win,

668
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:52,920
Speaker 11: but you got to kind of feel it out and

669
00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:55,680
Speaker 11: see how the team comes together. However, you guy's going

670
00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:58,000
Speaker 11: to play their role. Ryan Miller was so good for

671
00:35:58,160 --> 00:35:59,839
Speaker 11: us in twenty ten, and when you've got a great

672
00:35:59,880 --> 00:36:03,920
Speaker 11: go as evidenced yesterday, you never know on these one

673
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:07,600
Speaker 11: and done type of tournaments what can happen. And the

674
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:11,279
Speaker 11: save by Connor hellenbuch On Devon Tave's in front of

675
00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:14,480
Speaker 11: the net, those are things that happened in practice, and you,

676
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:16,799
Speaker 11: you know, the goalie kind of laughed a little bit

677
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:18,400
Speaker 11: and you kind of chuckle, but in the back of

678
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:21,280
Speaker 11: your head, you're like, that was miserable that that goalie.

679
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:23,919
Speaker 11: Just say, I like the feeling of putting the puck

680
00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:26,040
Speaker 11: in the net in a gold medal game. For that

681
00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:29,279
Speaker 11: to happen, even for him to just desperately try to

682
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:32,560
Speaker 11: throw his paddle out there, can't say enough about his

683
00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:35,400
Speaker 11: effort to never say die, attitude of Team us A

684
00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:37,239
Speaker 11: and coming home.

685
00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:39,439
Speaker 1: With the gold medal for it great for them dB

686
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:43,120
Speaker 1: my brother David backus firing bullets nine to noon talking

687
00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:45,879
Speaker 1: about the Team USA and the men getting the gold

688
00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:48,840
Speaker 1: yesterday after the ladies did it a few days before that.

689
00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:51,440
Speaker 1: That's beautiful and with the with the three on three,

690
00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:54,160
Speaker 1: I'm with you, but it's what we have in front

691
00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:56,840
Speaker 1: of us, so kind of need to embrace it and

692
00:36:57,200 --> 00:36:58,960
Speaker 1: do the best you can with it. But you know,

693
00:36:59,080 --> 00:37:02,080
Speaker 1: the thing thatugs me about three on three if there

694
00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:04,440
Speaker 1: are several things, but one of them, and I don't

695
00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:07,680
Speaker 1: think a lot of people bring this up, is there

696
00:37:07,719 --> 00:37:09,640
Speaker 1: are so many players who don't get a chance to

697
00:37:09,719 --> 00:37:12,960
Speaker 1: play when it's three on three, Like Matthew kuld Chuck

698
00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:15,440
Speaker 1: his hockey immortality, but he ain't the fastest thing in

699
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:18,040
Speaker 1: the world, So, like you know, you're not going to

700
00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:22,360
Speaker 1: see him or some other high end players simply because

701
00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:24,879
Speaker 1: three on three such a speed game.

702
00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:28,160
Speaker 11: You know what I mean, well, I know it intimately

703
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:30,560
Speaker 11: because when three on three was introduced to the NHL.

704
00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:34,400
Speaker 11: That took me. Once it was tied after regulation, I

705
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:37,120
Speaker 11: started untying my skates and got the Poplin bucket out

706
00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:40,160
Speaker 11: and started watching my teammates go to work because I

707
00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:44,080
Speaker 11: wasn't the fastest thing ever. And so I know what

708
00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:47,440
Speaker 11: you're saying, but also I think that from a fan

709
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:50,160
Speaker 11: experience as I'm watching that game and I didn't know

710
00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:54,759
Speaker 11: what the current rules were for overtime. Really, in my heart,

711
00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:57,279
Speaker 11: what I was saying is that I hope this game

712
00:37:57,360 --> 00:38:00,799
Speaker 11: doesn't go to a shootout. Can you imagine gold medal

713
00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:04,160
Speaker 11: being decided by a shootout? Not having tj Oshi on

714
00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:07,480
Speaker 11: the team and all of this spectacular shootout moves, like

715
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:11,680
Speaker 11: if it's a coin flip for a skill competition shootout

716
00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:14,000
Speaker 11: to determine who gets gold and who gets silver. So

717
00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:17,040
Speaker 11: the result is what the result is.

718
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:17,879
Speaker 1: I love your.

719
00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:20,160
Speaker 11: Attitude and that's what was laid in front of them,

720
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:24,480
Speaker 11: and that's what decided the competition. And there was a

721
00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:27,719
Speaker 11: you know a little bit of me connecting with some

722
00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:32,480
Speaker 11: Canadian friends yesterday and today of my chest being a

723
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:34,680
Speaker 11: little bit puffier than it was before and standing a

724
00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:38,360
Speaker 11: little bit taller because there's quiet voices on that side,

725
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:41,880
Speaker 11: and they're you know, all the talk about the golden

726
00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:44,600
Speaker 11: goal in twenty ten, and then they actually knocked us

727
00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:46,880
Speaker 11: off in the semi final of twenty fourteen to put

728
00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:50,319
Speaker 11: us in the bronze medal game. You know, those those

729
00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:53,800
Speaker 11: scripts have flipped and we're on top of the hockey

730
00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:55,759
Speaker 11: world at least for four more years.

731
00:38:56,200 --> 00:38:59,759
Speaker 1: Right. Your recollection and your memories that you're sharing here

732
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:03,000
Speaker 1: just spectacular. Thank you for that. With these Canadians, the

733
00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:05,520
Speaker 1: ones that were on the team, and they probably are

734
00:39:05,560 --> 00:39:09,240
Speaker 1: home by now, do you think the Canadians are sad

735
00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:13,360
Speaker 1: because they feel like they let down their country? Is

736
00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:14,720
Speaker 1: that something that lingers?

737
00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:20,120
Speaker 11: I'm sure that's I mean in twenty ten, I think

738
00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:25,360
Speaker 11: I had the feeling, you know, part of me initially,

739
00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:28,759
Speaker 11: and you just had an opportunity to win a gold

740
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:30,719
Speaker 11: medal and you don't win a gold medal, and you're like,

741
00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:35,640
Speaker 11: this sucks and it hurts. But as you start to

742
00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:38,840
Speaker 11: think about it and you talk to your family and

743
00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:41,920
Speaker 11: everyone that had the experience, you go, I got a

744
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:44,480
Speaker 11: silver medal in the Olympics. I would have loved for

745
00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:47,800
Speaker 11: in the heart of my heart's for anything to do.

746
00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:49,759
Speaker 11: I would have done it to make that a gold.

747
00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:52,520
Speaker 11: But I went a silver medal in the Olympics, and

748
00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:55,360
Speaker 11: I am so proud that I laid everything on the

749
00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:57,760
Speaker 11: line and I came away with that and I represent

750
00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:01,040
Speaker 11: my country proud and it was an amazing in twenty ten.

751
00:40:01,719 --> 00:40:03,799
Speaker 11: But what I heard from the Canadians after that game

752
00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:06,960
Speaker 11: was they were expecting to have all these parties and

753
00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:09,719
Speaker 11: celebrate this gold medal, but a lot of them said

754
00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:13,360
Speaker 11: it was just a relief that they got to accomplish,

755
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:16,440
Speaker 11: you know, what they were expected to do. And I

756
00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:19,560
Speaker 11: think that's been the pressure on the Canadians for so long,

757
00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:22,319
Speaker 11: and rightfully so just looking at the roster, they had

758
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:25,360
Speaker 11: what the first, second, and fourth leading scorers in the

759
00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:28,200
Speaker 11: NHL on a line. At times we were able to,

760
00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:31,759
Speaker 11: you know, slow them down and stop them in that game.

761
00:40:32,760 --> 00:40:35,320
Speaker 11: And so they've got all the pressure on them that

762
00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:38,560
Speaker 11: might be flipping onto the US side after winning that gold.

763
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:41,719
Speaker 11: And so I think, to answer your question, the Canadians

764
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:44,680
Speaker 11: probably feel like they let their country down. It's something

765
00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:47,920
Speaker 11: that Canadians in general, if you haven't noticed or had

766
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:52,160
Speaker 11: any interaction with Canadians, beam with pride about their hockey

767
00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:55,319
Speaker 11: team and their hockey prowess and how they think they

768
00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:58,919
Speaker 11: own the game. But that's just a little further south

769
00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:02,120
Speaker 11: of the border now that we've got both goals in

770
00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:02,520
Speaker 11: the US.

771
00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:06,240
Speaker 1: Any any idea what the story was behind the stuffed animals?

772
00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:08,640
Speaker 1: I mean, those Canadians getting those stuffies, that's like the

773
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:11,279
Speaker 1: that's like the last thing they wanted to do was

774
00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:12,240
Speaker 1: shake hands twice.

775
00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:17,239
Speaker 11: Yeah, maybe they were therapy stuffies with some of the

776
00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:19,920
Speaker 11: sad faces they had on. I did see those in

777
00:41:20,040 --> 00:41:23,080
Speaker 11: other events and metal ceremonies. I thought they were a

778
00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:25,759
Speaker 11: little cheesy to be hanging out to Olympic athletes that

779
00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:30,320
Speaker 11: just got medals, but yeah, with the dismay on their faces,

780
00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:32,600
Speaker 11: and then have to hold the stuffy and even the

781
00:41:32,719 --> 00:41:35,080
Speaker 11: US to hand those out. I don't have the full

782
00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:37,200
Speaker 11: story behind them. Maybe there's some deep meaning and I'm

783
00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:40,759
Speaker 11: missing the point. But the medal is the prize, and

784
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:43,400
Speaker 11: the stuffy who knows if they even have them or

785
00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:45,320
Speaker 11: they've given them all to kids on the streets on

786
00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:49,239
Speaker 11: their way out of the building. But nonetheless gold for

787
00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:50,280
Speaker 11: the US, and that's.

788
00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:52,400
Speaker 1: What matters, all right. You scored a lot of goals

789
00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:54,360
Speaker 1: in your career, and I had a lot of assists,

790
00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:58,000
Speaker 1: but from a goal story scoring standpoint, mister David Bachus,

791
00:41:58,640 --> 00:42:01,720
Speaker 1: in a game like if you're peppering Hellibuck or a goalie,

792
00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:05,440
Speaker 1: but if you're peppering Connor Hellibuk the way Canada was

793
00:42:06,120 --> 00:42:10,080
Speaker 1: and it's just not going in. How frustrating is that?

794
00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:11,160
Speaker 1: And how do you overcome it?

795
00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:17,840
Speaker 11: It is frustrating, But I think there's there's tenants of

796
00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:21,319
Speaker 11: hockey that never change, and especially at high levels, if

797
00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:25,160
Speaker 11: a goaltender can see the puck, they're probably going to

798
00:42:25,239 --> 00:42:27,560
Speaker 11: stop it. So we got to get bodies into the

799
00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:31,600
Speaker 11: goalie's eyes. And that was one of my my usages

800
00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:33,520
Speaker 11: of my big frame was to go stand in front

801
00:42:33,520 --> 00:42:35,880
Speaker 11: of the goalie and take away his eyes and not

802
00:42:36,080 --> 00:42:37,600
Speaker 11: let him see it. And even if he's going to

803
00:42:37,640 --> 00:42:39,759
Speaker 11: stop the first one, it's not a controlled stop and

804
00:42:39,760 --> 00:42:41,640
Speaker 11: you're getting rebounds to put in the back of the net.

805
00:42:42,040 --> 00:42:44,640
Speaker 11: And then the other one is to put it through

806
00:42:44,760 --> 00:42:46,879
Speaker 11: the back of the net. If you're Nate McKinnon, you're

807
00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:49,560
Speaker 11: not aiming for the near post. You're you're aiming for

808
00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:51,600
Speaker 11: the sent of the net, and you're you know, if

809
00:42:51,880 --> 00:42:54,080
Speaker 11: Connor Hellibuck puts a stick out there, you're putting a

810
00:42:54,160 --> 00:42:57,920
Speaker 11: stick into the net too if you're Devontae. So options

811
00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:01,719
Speaker 11: like that, and just there's a belief that the law

812
00:43:01,719 --> 00:43:03,960
Speaker 11: of averages wins, and when you keep getting those good

813
00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:06,400
Speaker 11: scoring chances, at some point you're going to put it in.

814
00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:09,200
Speaker 11: I would put the shoe on the other foot too, though.

815
00:43:09,719 --> 00:43:13,399
Speaker 11: Four Nations Golden or Championship, whatever it was called. Jordan

816
00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:16,680
Speaker 11: Bennington had a similar performance where Austin Matthews had three

817
00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:19,320
Speaker 11: or four Greade eight chances, a couple other guys have

818
00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:22,080
Speaker 11: really good chances and he stops them and they come

819
00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:26,200
Speaker 11: up with the overtime goal and win the game. Happened

820
00:43:26,239 --> 00:43:28,600
Speaker 11: to us in Game seven of the finals with Boston

821
00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:32,799
Speaker 11: against Bennington as well. So not really going to shed

822
00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:36,080
Speaker 11: any tears for him to be on the bad side

823
00:43:36,239 --> 00:43:39,080
Speaker 11: or the losing side of one of these efforts either.

824
00:43:39,560 --> 00:43:41,960
Speaker 1: I can't remember if last week it was your PEREIZI

825
00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:44,239
Speaker 1: that I brought up MacLean Celebrini, but I know you

826
00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:46,960
Speaker 1: know who he is, the nineteen year old, and I

827
00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:52,320
Speaker 1: mean Celebrinis, I mean probably not super happy about coming

828
00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:56,760
Speaker 1: up empty on those three high slot power play chances

829
00:43:57,160 --> 00:44:00,840
Speaker 1: where McKinnon's feeding him at a perfect time and he

830
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:04,359
Speaker 1: couldn't close. I mean, that's tough for the nineteen year old.

831
00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:09,120
Speaker 11: Yeah, and a couple semi breakaways too, where Hellibuck makes

832
00:44:09,160 --> 00:44:11,680
Speaker 11: saves and I know he didn't have all data, set

833
00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:15,399
Speaker 11: his feet and go laterally, but and I haven't seen

834
00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:18,080
Speaker 11: the statute. He might add seven or eight shots easily.

835
00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:20,920
Speaker 11: He was one of their most dangerous players, or if

836
00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:24,920
Speaker 11: not their most dangerous players. And he's probably dismayed that

837
00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:27,319
Speaker 11: he's coming away with a silver rather than a goal

838
00:44:27,440 --> 00:44:29,000
Speaker 11: playing on Team Canada.

839
00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:31,640
Speaker 1: But this kid is out of this world.

840
00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:33,759
Speaker 11: At nineteen to be tearing up the NHL and then

841
00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:36,520
Speaker 11: to go to the Olympics and being played on Canada's

842
00:44:36,560 --> 00:44:39,080
Speaker 11: top line when they need a goal in the semi

843
00:44:39,200 --> 00:44:42,000
Speaker 11: final game. He's playing twenty five minutes in a game

844
00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:45,640
Speaker 11: where you've got, you know, all of these incredible players

845
00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:48,640
Speaker 11: just waiting on the bench that are very capable and

846
00:44:48,719 --> 00:44:51,560
Speaker 11: would have been playing almost the whole game on their

847
00:44:51,640 --> 00:44:54,640
Speaker 11: NHL team. The sky's a limit for this kid, and

848
00:44:54,719 --> 00:44:57,000
Speaker 11: he's going to be probably a thorn on the side

849
00:44:57,040 --> 00:44:59,560
Speaker 11: of the US. But the US also has some pretty

850
00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:01,719
Speaker 11: thorny p players that I'm so proud.

851
00:45:01,480 --> 00:45:04,480
Speaker 1: Of that are on our team last one, dB, appreciate you.

852
00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:08,839
Speaker 1: Minnesota Wild coach John Hines was the was Team USA's

853
00:45:09,120 --> 00:45:11,960
Speaker 1: Williams an assistant, but he was the PK coach. The

854
00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:17,839
Speaker 1: penalty kill finished the tournament eighteen for eighteen, and when

855
00:45:17,880 --> 00:45:22,160
Speaker 1: they avoid, when they avoided damage killing that late five

856
00:45:22,239 --> 00:45:26,560
Speaker 1: on three, the confidence probably just went soaring after that,

857
00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:28,680
Speaker 1: right for sure.

858
00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:31,920
Speaker 11: That's that's one of the ones where you, i mean,

859
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:35,400
Speaker 11: the five on three has three or four scripted plays

860
00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:38,200
Speaker 11: that they expect to play the score on, and when

861
00:45:38,239 --> 00:45:40,080
Speaker 11: you don't score on the five on three, and you

862
00:45:40,280 --> 00:45:43,480
Speaker 11: see the grit of those three guys out there absolutely

863
00:45:43,640 --> 00:45:47,160
Speaker 11: selling out to kill that penalty in Connor Hallibuck again

864
00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:50,879
Speaker 11: coming up large when pucksdew get through, that gives such

865
00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:53,759
Speaker 11: a boost to like, all right, boys, we're still in

866
00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:56,239
Speaker 11: this and we still got life, and we just did

867
00:45:56,320 --> 00:46:00,879
Speaker 11: the improbable. Now let's go finish the job. And yeah,

868
00:46:01,080 --> 00:46:03,960
Speaker 11: the penalty kill. So John Hines, Billy Garn's a GM.

869
00:46:05,239 --> 00:46:08,080
Speaker 11: This Quinn guy was not too bad the whole tournament.

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Speaker 11: Matt Boldi scoring a goal in the gold medal game.

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Speaker 11: Things could be pretty interesting in Minnesota come June time.

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Speaker 11: Not gonna, not gonna bet the farm on it. But

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Speaker 11: it's probably the most excitement around Minnesota wild hockey too,

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Speaker 11: and those guys, when you get that experience, there's all

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Speaker 11: of a sudden confidence that oozes Audia and it's going

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Speaker 11: to be contagious to the rest of the crew.

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Speaker 1: David, God bless you and your family. Greatly appreciate you,

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Speaker 1: Love you, ma'am, and we'll stay in touch probably during

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Speaker 1: the Stanley Cup playoffs.

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Speaker 11: All right, well, love it, Pa, thanks for having me

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Speaker 11: on again, and hope to hear from you soon.

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Speaker 1: See yup. David beckis the hockeing immortality right there. Talking

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Speaker 1: about Team USA and the men's gold medal winning performance yesterday,

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Speaker 1: but team ZA USA with the ladies sweeping the Canadians

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Speaker 1: over the course like I don't know, forty eight seventy

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Speaker 1: two hours, whatever it was, that was fantastic and if

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Speaker 1: you'd like to talk about it, we have the talkback

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Speaker 1: machine available free iHeart Audio app by the microphone got

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Speaker 1: up to thirty seconds for some talkbacks. Next segment and

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Speaker 1: topics can include, but don't have to be limited to

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Speaker 1: three on three overtime. Having Boldy and Hughesy on your

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Speaker 1: squad for the final twenty four, Hughesy and Baldsey on

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Speaker 1: your squad for the final twenty four and it's a

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Speaker 1: good squad. How emotional was yesterday morning and the gold

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Speaker 1: medal winning performance for you and your family? Was there weeping?

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Speaker 1: There was weeping in my household. David Backus said he

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Speaker 1: was at a swim meet for his daughter, and while

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Speaker 1: he's not watching the backstroke, breaststroke or Brett Blakemore's favorite

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Speaker 1: the doggy paddle, he was watching somebody else's iPad and

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Speaker 1: when Hugh, when Jack scored, David got emotional at a

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Speaker 1: swimming meet in Middle Tennessee. So how emotional was it

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Speaker 1: for you? You yesterday with a team USA getting the gold?

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Speaker 1: Was there weeping? Gnashing of teeth for those north of

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Speaker 1: the border. And finally, yours truly is off to Indianapolis

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Speaker 1: later today. So are there any free agents you'd like

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Speaker 1: to see the Minnesota Vikings consider the state of the skull?

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Speaker 1: Always welcome nine to noon, specifically with the talkbacks, and

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