Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we're cooking
Speaker 1: up a plate of poutine, pouring a pint of mulson,
Speaker 1: and clearing a spot on the old Chesterfield. PWHL finals
Speaker 1: are on tonight in Canada. Eh It's Tuesday, May twenty.
Speaker 1: At the on Today Show, we'll be chatting with Minnesota
Speaker 1: Frost goaltender Matti Rooney about facing off against the Ottawa
Speaker 1: Charge in the PWHL finals, plus how she stays confident
Speaker 1: in high pressure moments and why the Frost seemed to
Speaker 1: relish the underdog mentality. Plus a top seed topples non
Speaker 1: frosty relationships and a CV that sends a message. It's
Speaker 1: all coming up right after this welcome back slices, Here's
Speaker 1: what you need to know today. Let's start with hockey
Speaker 1: and the PWHL. The best of five Walter Cup Finals
Speaker 1: get underweight tonight with the number four seed Minnesota Frost
Speaker 1: taking on the number three seed Autawa Charge at Ottawa's
Speaker 1: TD Place a seven pm Eastern puck drop. Live coverage
Speaker 1: in Canada is on TSN with French Length which coverage
Speaker 1: on RDS, and in the US you can watch live
Speaker 1: on YouTube or check your local listing to see if
Speaker 1: regional broadcast partners are carrying the game. Ahead of the finals,
Speaker 1: the PWHL looked ahead to next season, releasing the rules
Speaker 1: and procedures for the upcoming expansion Draft. With two teams
Speaker 1: joining the league next season, Vancouver and Seattle, each of
Speaker 1: the existing six teams is set to lose four players.
Speaker 1: The process the league is using is just a little
Speaker 1: bit complicated, so stick with me here for a minute. First,
Speaker 1: each of the original six teams have between now and
Speaker 1: June third to protect three current players. Yeah, just three players. Then,
Speaker 1: beginning on June fourth, the new expansion teams will be
Speaker 1: allowed to negotiate with all non protected players during a
Speaker 1: five day exclusive signing window. It's essentially expansion team free agency.
Speaker 1: Both Vancouver and Seattle will be allowed to sign five
Speaker 1: players each during this period. Then, on June ninth, the
Speaker 1: expansion Draft, Seattle and Vancouver will take turns making picks
Speaker 1: until both teams have so elected twelve players total, either
Speaker 1: through the initial signing window or the draft. Once one
Speaker 1: of the existing teams has lost two players to expansion,
Speaker 1: that team will be allowed to add a fourth player
Speaker 1: to their protected list. Finally, all eight teams will take
Speaker 1: part in the official PWHL Draft, which is primarily for
Speaker 1: recent college graduates. That's on June twenty fourth. Got all that,
Speaker 1: Even if you didn't, the good news is you don't
Speaker 1: have to worry about it for a little bit because
Speaker 1: in the meantime you can just enjoy watching the PWHL Finals.
Speaker 1: More on that later in the show with Matti Rooney
Speaker 1: to softball, where for the first time in Division one
Speaker 1: softball history, the top seed in the tournament didn't make
Speaker 1: it out of the regional round. Number one Texas A
Speaker 1: and M was upset by Liberty, losing the decisive game
Speaker 1: on Sunday six to five. Now softball's NCAA bracket uses
Speaker 1: a double elimination format, meaning that after losing the first
Speaker 1: game to Liberty on Saturday, the Aggies had to win
Speaker 1: out the rest of their games during the weekend competition
Speaker 1: in order to advance to the Super Regionals. They were
Speaker 1: victorious in their first rematch against Liberty on Sunday afternoon,
Speaker 1: winning that one an extra innings, but they couldn't pull
Speaker 1: off the Sunday sweep. Liberty trailed three to one, but
Speaker 1: scored five runs in the sixth inning to secure the upset,
Speaker 1: and there were three other upsets over the weekend too,
Speaker 1: with Nebraska upsetting number ten, lsu Ole miss upsetting number
Speaker 1: thirteen Arizona, and Georgia upsetting number fourteen Duke. The Super
Speaker 1: Regionals get underway this coming weekend with number two Oklahoma
Speaker 1: now the highest remaining seed in the tourney. They're looking
Speaker 1: for a fifth consecutive Women's College World Series title. We've
Speaker 1: got two WNBA games tonight, both tip it off at
Speaker 1: seven pm Eastern, so get out that second screen. The
Speaker 1: Indiana Fever hosts the Atlanta Dream and the Las Vegas
Speaker 1: Aces host the Connecticut Sun. All teams, but the Fever
Speaker 1: looking for win number one on the season. More WNBA
Speaker 1: one loose end to tie up from a big opening weekend.
Speaker 1: Ahead of their season opener, the Phoenix Mercury announced that
Speaker 1: Kalia Copper will miss four to six weeks out after
Speaker 1: undergoing a left knee arthroscopy. Copper, a four time All
Speaker 1: Star in the Mercury's only returning starter from last season,
Speaker 1: was expected to be a central part of the Mercuries
Speaker 1: rebuilt following the retirement of Dinah Tarrassi and Britney Griner's
Speaker 1: move to the Atlanta Dream Now. Copper also dealt with
Speaker 1: injury during the offseason, playing in just seven of sixteen
Speaker 1: games for her unrivaled squad due to a right leg injury.
Speaker 1: The Mercury will also be without Natasha Mack for two
Speaker 1: to three weeks as she nurses a lower back injury.
Speaker 1: To soccer, Let's talk, Balloon Dior aka Ballon d'Or, the
Speaker 1: award given each year to the world's best male and
Speaker 1: female soccer players, and beginning last year, also given out
Speaker 1: to the best men's and women's coaches. On Monday, it
Speaker 1: was announced that the Ballon d'Or annual award ceremony will
Speaker 1: be held September twenty fifth this year, a date that
Speaker 1: will better accommodate female players. You may recall that last
Speaker 1: year's event was scheduled during a women's international window, meaning
Speaker 1: many of the top female players were unable to attend.
Speaker 1: In fact, since a women's category was introduced in twenty eighteen,
Speaker 1: the ceremony has consistently overlapped with an international women window.
Speaker 1: Emma Hayes, who last year was named the Women's Coach
Speaker 1: of the Year, called out event organizers, saying it was
Speaker 1: quote like running an Oscars or a Golden Globes without
Speaker 1: having any females present. Glad to see they've made the switch.
Speaker 1: Now about those weird photos they use every year, We
Speaker 1: got to take a quick break when we come back.
Speaker 1: It's Frost goalie Mattie Rooney. I caught up with her
Speaker 1: Monday afternoon. I had a game one of the PWHL
Speaker 1: finals tonight. Stick around joining us now. She's one of
Speaker 1: the starting goaltenders for the Minnesota Frost at the Professional
Speaker 1: Women's Hockey League and won the league's inaugural Walter Cup
Speaker 1: with the team last season. She was also the starting
Speaker 1: goaltender for the US women's national team when they won
Speaker 1: gold at the twenty eighteen winner Olympics, and she also
Speaker 1: went silver with the team at the twenty twenty two
Speaker 1: Games in Beijing. A Minnesota Duluth grad, still the Bulldog's
Speaker 1: all time career saves leader, She's got a pup named Riley,
Speaker 1: and she gets coffee with legendary NHL goalie Mark Andre
Speaker 1: Flury every Tuesday. It's Maddie Rooney.
Speaker 2: Hi, Maddie, Hey, thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: Is Tuesdays with Flurry really a thing?
Speaker 2: No, I don't know why My fiance decided to start
Speaker 2: that rumor. But no, I'm shutting that down right here.
Speaker 2: It is not true. Though I wish it was true,
Speaker 2: but no, he.
Speaker 1: Said it with such like certainty and seriousness. He's like, yep,
Speaker 1: she gets coffee with him every Tuesday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the amount of times I've been asked that, I'm like, no,
Speaker 2: I don't know why he just pulled that out of
Speaker 2: his butt.
Speaker 1: But maybe he's manifesting it. Maybe Mark Andre will hear
Speaker 1: it and be like, all right.
Speaker 2: Him in Yeah, I wouldn't be mad.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about this Frost team, the underdogs rising again
Speaker 1: second straight year that your team makes the finals as
Speaker 1: the number four seed. How similar or different does this
Speaker 1: season feel from last year?
Speaker 2: It honestly feels pretty similar, just with kind of our
Speaker 2: record going into the home stretch. Like last year, you know,
Speaker 2: we're kind of on a little bit of a losing streak,
Speaker 2: but we turned it around at the right time and
Speaker 2: got hot at the right time, and it feels kind
Speaker 2: of the same as this year. We have a little
Speaker 2: bit of a downtime after that international break, but we're
Speaker 2: heating up at the right time, and I thought we
Speaker 2: had a great series against Toronto obviously really did well offensively,
Speaker 2: and I think we're going to use that momentum coming
Speaker 2: into this final series here.
Speaker 1: Evny guesses as to why the squad seems to peak
Speaker 1: end of season and in the postseason.
Speaker 2: I don't know. We always joke we do our best
Speaker 2: elimination games, but I think I think this group just
Speaker 2: has a ton of heart and like we truly just
Speaker 2: want to win, so we do what we can to
Speaker 2: get it done here in the final stretch and in playoffs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you yourself, You've been in some pretty high stress,
Speaker 1: high pressure situations, including being between the pipes for the
Speaker 1: USA and those Olympics that I mentioned, leading the team
Speaker 1: to gold at just twenty years old, and I'm wondering
Speaker 1: what are your tools for staying calm and present because
Speaker 1: you are truly the last line of defense for your team.
Speaker 2: You know what I would think of the gold medal game.
Speaker 2: I would never think it would come down to a shootout,
Speaker 2: So I love shootout. So grateful it came down to
Speaker 2: it like that. But there was a lot of nerves.
Speaker 2: I think in the moment. I just remember kind of
Speaker 2: relying on that bench energy, you know, looking over at
Speaker 2: the bench and seeing like my teammates excitement or support
Speaker 2: whenever they were yelling. I just try to stay like
Speaker 2: as in the moment as possible. Goalie is such like
Speaker 2: a mental game. It's easy to think like, oh, I'm
Speaker 2: going into this player again. She's done X, Y and
Speaker 2: Z in the past on previous shootout moves. But that
Speaker 2: just kind of leads to too much overthinking. So I
Speaker 2: think in order for me to stay calm, I truly
Speaker 2: just constantly remind myself to just play in the moment,
Speaker 2: be present, don't think in the future, don't think in
Speaker 2: the past, and it's worked out well for me.
Speaker 1: I can't believe you just said you love shootouts as
Speaker 1: a goalie. Why do you love them? You love the
Speaker 1: pressure put on you?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I do like the pressure and kind
Speaker 2: of just being in that position to make or break games.
Speaker 2: It's fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I guess nobody else is contributing to that
Speaker 1: moment except for you. It can't be a deflection. It
Speaker 1: can't be a player standing in front of you and
Speaker 1: you can't see. It's like just everything on you. But
Speaker 1: you're in charge.
Speaker 2: Yep, You're in full control.
Speaker 1: Yeah. That game against Canada, that twenty eighteen gold medal
Speaker 1: is one of my favorite sporting events to watch of
Speaker 1: all time. It was so tense but so joyful that
Speaker 1: Joscelyn Lamaroue goal, the oops I did it again, reverse
Speaker 1: deek in the shootout, and just the back and forth,
Speaker 1: Like I can't imagine what being a part of that
Speaker 1: would feel like in those moments. Are you able to
Speaker 1: sort of block out how big of a deal it
Speaker 1: is and just focus on I'm just playing hockey, and
Speaker 1: I play hockey all the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think it was a little bit of a
Speaker 2: bunch of different things, you know, that being my first
Speaker 2: Olympics and haven't gone through the heartbreaks of some of
Speaker 2: those veteran players on the team did in previous Olympics.
Speaker 2: But it was also just kind of to talk more
Speaker 2: about the veteran leadership. There was such good leadership on
Speaker 2: that team, and they throughout the whole residency, they made
Speaker 2: us feel like basically we were a part of that
Speaker 2: loss in Sochi in twenty fourteen in the previous Olympics,
Speaker 2: and I wanted to win it not only for myself,
Speaker 2: but I really wanted to win it for those veterers
Speaker 2: on the team. And we just had, like I said,
Speaker 2: such great leadership and when it came down to it,
Speaker 2: it was just a lot of fun playing with that group,
Speaker 2: and yeah, it'll be one of the best memories throughout
Speaker 2: my whole career.
Speaker 1: So your two of the p WHL playoffs, How do
Speaker 1: they compare it to Olympic pressure?
Speaker 2: Honestly, kind of similar. Definitely not quite as high as
Speaker 2: the Olympic pressure, but it's similar. I'm playing in these big,
Speaker 2: big games against the most elite players in the world. Essentially,
Speaker 2: it's a lot, but it's also a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: Like it's so competitive. The atmosphere and the with the
Speaker 2: audiences and the crowds in the arenas is so it's
Speaker 2: so high level and it's so exciting. So it's just
Speaker 2: it's a lot of fun. Like I said, this group
Speaker 2: that we have this year, I think we really lean
Speaker 2: on each other. Everyone has their own role, and uh,
Speaker 2: I think this is the best team to go out
Speaker 2: and do it again.
Speaker 1: So, yeah, you mentioned the crowds. It's been fun to
Speaker 1: see some sort of organic things start to build in
Speaker 1: such a young league of you know, the dance breaks
Speaker 1: or the music in certain areas. Is there an opposing
Speaker 1: team barn that you most like playing in.
Speaker 2: I really like playing in Toronto. They get a consistent
Speaker 2: good crowd each night, and they're loud, they're fun to
Speaker 2: play in, or their rink is fun to play in.
Speaker 2: But nothing be playing at home at the Xcel. You know,
Speaker 2: whether we only have three thousand fans in the arena
Speaker 2: or fifteen thousand, they bring the energy every night and
Speaker 2: it's just no matter where we're playing. Truly, the PWHL
Speaker 2: has had so much interest and the women's hockey movement
Speaker 2: is still going so strong, so continue I hope we
Speaker 2: continue to grow here. But yeah, the atmospheres in every
Speaker 2: arena have been really great.
Speaker 1: Did you get to play in a couple I think
Speaker 1: takeover tour games and was one of those your favorite
Speaker 1: places to go?
Speaker 2: I really liked playing in Denver, not only because the
Speaker 2: city itself was so it was so cool too, but
Speaker 2: the fans were really passionate and it was it was
Speaker 2: considered one of our home games. So though it was
Speaker 2: a takeover to our game and a neutral sight, we
Speaker 2: were there and they had their Frost Frost jerseys, Frost
Speaker 2: signs and really made it feel like a home game.
Speaker 2: So I thought that was a really cool experience.
Speaker 1: Any opposing team fan base particularly good at chirping you,
Speaker 1: as anyone get under your skin a little more.
Speaker 2: I don't think I've really want to be chirped, though
Speaker 2: I don't hear them. Maybe someone's out there chirping me.
Speaker 2: But I think the hardest kind of rinked to play
Speaker 2: in is probably Montreal. Other fans are very passionate and
Speaker 2: it gets pretty loud in there. But it's yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I would say Montreal.
Speaker 1: They're swearing at you in French. You're like, I don't
Speaker 1: know what you're saying, but.
Speaker 2: It sounds me help you. I don't know what they're saying.
Speaker 1: All right, take me back to baby Mattie. Why did
Speaker 1: we decide to get it in the goal?
Speaker 2: Yeah? So I started hockey rooms age four. My parents
Speaker 2: kind of just threw me into a bunch of so
Speaker 2: I started off as playing forward for about five years,
Speaker 2: six years, and then switched to goalie at age ten.
Speaker 2: I really was just intrigued by the equipment, but my
Speaker 2: parents knew how expensive the position of goalie was, so
Speaker 2: I had to beg for like three years to get
Speaker 2: my dad to finally agree to letting me try out
Speaker 2: playing goalie. And so once I tried it, out in
Speaker 2: a squirt practice. I never went back.
Speaker 1: You're kind of still a squirt no fence, but you're
Speaker 1: very You're a little nugget, you're like five to five.
Speaker 1: I always think of the joke when people are like,
Speaker 1: why don't they just throw like a sumo in that
Speaker 1: that takes up most of the space, Like you're the
Speaker 1: opposite of that. Was there ever a question about whether
Speaker 1: you were built for the position and to take it
Speaker 1: all the way to the pros?
Speaker 2: I don't think so. I think on the women's side
Speaker 2: having smaller goalies is definitely more common than the men's side.
Speaker 2: I think us smaller goalies kind of make up for
Speaker 2: that lack of height with our quickness. Something I focused
Speaker 2: on my whole career is having good footwork, movement and
Speaker 2: kind of making up for that lack of height with
Speaker 2: my agility and speed, able to move well down low
Speaker 2: and like I said, have quick movement.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the PWHL finals starting Tuesday night. Give
Speaker 1: us your scouting report on the Ottawa Charge.
Speaker 2: Yes, they're a good rush team. I think they generate
Speaker 2: a lot of the chances off of rush, So we're
Speaker 2: going to have to have a good neutral zone They're
Speaker 2: also a very quick team. They have a lot of depth,
Speaker 2: but I think we do as well. We're a quick
Speaker 2: team and we also have a lot of depth. So
Speaker 2: I really think it's going to be a good matchup.
Speaker 2: What's going to set us apart, I think is just
Speaker 2: our overall grit, like the hungerest to be able to
Speaker 2: score and to be able to want this next win,
Speaker 2: to be on the attack every single shift. So yeah,
Speaker 2: I think our focus will be speed and physicality for sure.
Speaker 1: What did you see from them out of their semi
Speaker 1: final series against the Victoir that you thought, Okay, that's
Speaker 1: really something we're going need to watch for.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think definitely their rush chances like I had mentioned,
Speaker 2: and also they just looked very very quick, very fast,
Speaker 2: they moved the puck well. So yeah, it's gonna be
Speaker 2: a good matchup because I think those are some of
Speaker 2: our strengths as well.
Speaker 1: Any particular player on the other team you're least excited
Speaker 1: to see skating your way open path to the net.
Speaker 2: I don't know. They have a lot of skilled forwards.
Speaker 2: I think Brian Jenner has had my number on a
Speaker 2: few of their power play goals this year, so I
Speaker 2: think I'm going to have a extra sense when she's up. Nice. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what's it like splitting starts in time with your
Speaker 1: fellow frostcool tender Nicole Hensley.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we've been goalie partners now for seven or eight
Speaker 2: years since that twenty eighteen Olympic team. So we started
Speaker 2: training together in twenty seventeen and it's just been it's
Speaker 2: just been fun. Like we're great friends outside of the rinks,
Speaker 2: so each and every day we're pushing each other to
Speaker 2: be better, but we also are just having a lot
Speaker 2: of fun. We crack jokes all the time, and we
Speaker 2: just have so much support for each other. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's hard being in our position given that only one
Speaker 2: goalie is getting the nod each night in the game,
Speaker 2: but whoever's in net, we know that the other is
Speaker 2: on the bench giving us the utmost support and just
Speaker 2: being there for each other. So it's been it's been
Speaker 2: really fun and I'm grateful to have her.
Speaker 1: That's very mature. How has it been navigating a friendship,
Speaker 1: a teammate relationship in the midst of a really competitive situation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, sometimes I don't know how we do it.
Speaker 2: Sometimes people like look at us and be like they
Speaker 2: shouldn't be friends. Like I know, like coaches that we've
Speaker 2: had over the years are like, this doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2: But it's just been something that we've been doing for,
Speaker 2: like I said, seven or eight years now. We live
Speaker 2: together in the twenty eighteen Olympic residency, so I think
Speaker 2: there's never really been any you know, tension or like awkwardness.
Speaker 2: It's always just came very naturally, and so I'm grateful
Speaker 2: for it.
Speaker 1: How much notice do you usually get as to who's
Speaker 1: starting when.
Speaker 2: Typically it's maybe the day before or two days before.
Speaker 1: Why do you think the team continues to split minutes
Speaker 1: and goal instead of deciding on one of you and
Speaker 1: riding it out.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So I think it showed last year, especially in
Speaker 2: the playoffs, that we could both be relied on in
Speaker 2: different situations, me closing out the Toronto series and then
Speaker 2: Nicole closing out the finals against Boston, and it's rolled
Speaker 2: into this year. I think we both just bring a
Speaker 2: different aspect on the ice, but both of our styles
Speaker 2: have contributed to the team's success obviously, and it's just
Speaker 2: it's for me personally. It's been grateful because you know,
Speaker 2: this season can be long and the position is very
Speaker 2: mentally tough, so it's been almost like it's just been
Speaker 2: a good tantem, I guess to say, like to know
Speaker 2: that I can go in and win the game, and
Speaker 2: then also Nicole can come in the next night and
Speaker 2: win the game. And if one of us is off,
Speaker 2: you know that the other might be in that next game,
Speaker 2: and it's kind of just become a natural thing that
Speaker 2: we've gotten used to.
Speaker 1: Does it feel merit based, like if one of you
Speaker 1: is just standing on your head and crushing it, you
Speaker 1: stay in for an extra couple of games before making
Speaker 1: the switch. Or is it feel more like it's on
Speaker 1: a schedule of take a few off, take a few,
Speaker 1: take a few off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe a little bit merit based, But I think
Speaker 2: that's just something we came to kind of expect and
Speaker 2: we know that that's probably how it's going to go.
Speaker 2: But it also has kind of allowed us to just
Speaker 2: raise the bar for each other day in and day
Speaker 2: out in practice. You know, we got to be have
Speaker 2: a great work ethic, we got to be doing well,
Speaker 2: and just it's just pushing each other and like I said,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of support for each other. But I
Speaker 2: think it is like a really healthy environment.
Speaker 1: So I'm so impressed, I have to admit, because there
Speaker 1: is a lot of pressure in like, oh, no, I
Speaker 1: had a bad game. What does this mean? As opposed
Speaker 1: to when you're the starting star and they know they're
Speaker 1: counting on you. You know you can get through some
Speaker 1: tough times. But I also just think your mental fortitude
Speaker 1: to see those breaks as beneficial instead of being on
Speaker 1: the sidelines, like, oh, I should be in there. If
Speaker 1: I was in there, this would be happening. Being able
Speaker 1: to support your partner, It's really special. That's really really cool.
Speaker 1: How much of advantage do you think your team has
Speaker 1: having been through this last year and coming out on top,
Speaker 1: not just winning it all, but coming from the fourth position,
Speaker 1: knowing that you weren't maybe the strongest all season long,
Speaker 1: but that you could put it together at the end.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think it's just giving the team a bunch
Speaker 2: of belief knowing that we were at rock bottom last
Speaker 2: year and we came back to win it all. I
Speaker 2: think we went on a seven game losing streak if
Speaker 2: I remember correctly, into that Game three of Toronto is
Speaker 2: when we turned it around at home. So I think
Speaker 2: this year, with going or being in that little down
Speaker 2: spot too going into the playoffs. It's just it's just
Speaker 2: like we believe because we know we can do it.
Speaker 2: We did it last year, we can do it again
Speaker 2: this year. So I think it just gives the team
Speaker 2: that extra boost to confidence.
Speaker 1: Take us behind the scenes last year for the celebration,
Speaker 1: what did it look like?
Speaker 2: It was a whirlwind. I remember postgame in the locker room,
Speaker 2: the champagne showers, and then just celebrating with the team
Speaker 2: for the rest of the night. But then getting back
Speaker 2: to Minnesota, the Excel in the League put on a
Speaker 2: great celebration for us back at the Excel Energy Center,
Speaker 2: which was super cool. To have family and friends there
Speaker 2: and just have one big celebratory gathering with all of
Speaker 2: our fans. Super cool. And then just doing kind of
Speaker 2: various media opportunities throughout the throughout the city, and just
Speaker 2: the support from everyone across Minnesota and across the across
Speaker 2: the country was super special.
Speaker 1: Got anybody on a wish list or any place you
Speaker 1: want to go celebrate if you win it again this year.
Speaker 2: That's a good question, I think, because we only had
Speaker 2: one day with the Cup and I did like a
Speaker 2: small kind of family gathering because it was kind of
Speaker 2: short notice. I think this year I'd really do like
Speaker 2: a big gathering back in my back in my hometown
Speaker 2: of Andover, Minnesota, and do it up big this time.
Speaker 1: Nice. Well, you know, the Minnesota Wild have never won
Speaker 1: the Cup, so it's nice for you to bring that
Speaker 1: city something that the guys have never done. I'm a
Speaker 1: black Hawks fan, so I've always enjoyed sending the Wild
Speaker 1: golfing for the off season. But I love that the
Speaker 1: Frost are showing him how it's done, letting them get
Speaker 1: some of those Cup celebrations, and then maybe maybe one day,
Speaker 1: maybe one day, they guys will figure it out.
Speaker 2: Yea.
Speaker 1: We talked earlier about how your fiance Carson and Taylor
Speaker 1: Heies's boyfriend were miked up for a recent playoff game.
Speaker 1: You did not approve of his made up story about
Speaker 1: your friendship with Marc Andre Fleury. What else did you
Speaker 1: make of his commentary? Did you do you think he's
Speaker 1: got a future?
Speaker 2: I think he was pretty tame in that, but I
Speaker 2: do think him and him and Park would be great.
Speaker 2: Great announcers are great commentary.
Speaker 1: Whatever.
Speaker 2: I don't know where that rumor started and why he
Speaker 2: had the motivation to start that rumor. I was like,
Speaker 2: out of all things, that is what came out of
Speaker 2: your mouth. So n actually, but I thought they were great.
Speaker 2: They're funny, and it's cool to see the Frost supporting
Speaker 2: them too.
Speaker 1: So yeah, And it was fun to see them trying
Speaker 1: to impress each other with hockey phrases that they kind
Speaker 1: of knew.
Speaker 2: That was brutal.
Speaker 1: It's like that one's called a safe, that one's a sick.
Speaker 1: Well done. Yeah, do you have a wedding date yet?
Speaker 2: Yeah? This September?
Speaker 1: YEP? Amazing, so exciting. Well, it was really fun to
Speaker 1: watch them just be nervous and excited and watch YouTube
Speaker 1: play and it's been really fun to watch this team
Speaker 1: all season long and the rest of the league. Is
Speaker 1: there anything you want to see next season in the PWHL.
Speaker 1: Is there a wish that you've seen already year to
Speaker 1: year from season one to two that you're like, this
Speaker 1: is the only thing that's missing, or this is something
Speaker 1: that could be addedive.
Speaker 2: Well, that's a good question, I think, just because it's
Speaker 2: on the top of mind right now. I think what
Speaker 2: I'm most excited for is to seeing this expansion happen
Speaker 2: and knowing that this is going to continue to grow.
Speaker 2: Throughout the coming years, this league will continue to grow.
Speaker 2: I think it's going to be really exciting, and it's
Speaker 2: just overall a really exciting time for women's sports to
Speaker 2: see this coming to fruition finally after many years of
Speaker 2: building it. And yeah, it's just great that now the
Speaker 2: youth generations have this one league to look up to,
Speaker 2: and now it's expand into the West Coast, so it's
Speaker 2: going to be going to be really cool.
Speaker 1: Any excuse to get to Vancouver for work is good
Speaker 1: in my book. Yeah, I love Vancouver so beautiful, and
Speaker 1: Seattle's great to well. Thank you so much for the time,
Speaker 1: good luck, We're excited to watch.
Speaker 2: Yes, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much to Maddie for taking the time. We
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Speaker 1: When aliawan Yie, captain for Italian Serie A club FC Como,
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