USA And Canada Are The Two Best Teams By A Mile

Welcome to the empty netters podcast. Can you believe what this has become? There was a full 48 hours right? I felt like that was like literally Superman. Jumbo loves playing Fortnite so... No, I hate you. You get on the stick. Did TR show you the sauna cycle? It was not already. No, I invented that. Almost a year now that I haven't taken a body check. That's kind of nice. So we are back. We are horned up and we are going deep. We're just going to have some chicken fingers and a few Guinnesses. We're ending to you guys. That's where this pod came to life. Ice is ready and bonjournal. Coming to you live from Milano. We are back with another episode of the MGNaters podcast brought to you by BetMGM. I'm your host, Dan Powers. We are on the roads. That means we got Redmond with us. BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM And over here to my right, a man who does everything he can to look like the biggest boner in the world. Chris Powers. As always. Do you know how corny you look all the time? Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Do you? Yeah. Dude, listen. I got fucking... I'm a billboard, baby. I got people to a piece. I got products to wear. But you just don't have to look so dumb all the time. You look gray right now. You got good stuff on. It's gonna say pretty much everything I'm wearing is bought by you, which is almost always the case. And then your argument is always like, well, I bought you that when it was cool. And now you've worn it too long and it's no longer cool. That's true often. But it is always funny to put them all so you can have nice things and then match them horribly. Yeah. Yeah. And then you know that happens. Well, guys, we're in Milan. And I got to say, I'm absolutely loving it. I love an every single thing about it. It's an incredible place. Incredible. It doesn't feel like Italy as much as I thought it might. Like I feel like I could be just in a big city. Could be in Chicago. I think the Italy in your mind is the south of Italy. Yeah, probably. You're thinking coastal. Yeah. You're thinking like Rome. Because it's like a completely perfectly bustling city out there. What is the what are you saying, dude? You said you're talking to about you don't think Italy has that in it. I didn't think Italy went went hard in the paint like that. You think it was like I thought Italy was like, do you want some wine and some pasta? And everybody was just eating and drinking. They're doing that here too. And everybody's out just working all day. And I think, well, they're doing that here too. Yeah, but they're working. They're working hard here. I want to get into some Italy stuff before we get into some Olympic hockey stuff. Because that's what these episodes are going to be all about, but baby, well, we're here. I mentioned this on the story yesterday. If you guys don't, every time I travel to Europe, I come home and buy something immediately. That's like something I've been experiencing well in Europe that I love and I get all pretentious and douchey. And I'm like, I now need this in my everyday life in the States. If you don't think I am buying an at home, today, this second I get home. Dude, I cannot begin to describe how nice a bidet is. And what is that to attach? It's like an easy job. They sell them and I don't know free ads, but I am going to say this. I know that there's a company that sells an attachment that attaches to your seat. And it gives you a water temperature controlled bidet right on your toilet wherever you are. Whatever you, whatever company you are, slide into our emails. All right, DMs and let's get something going. Oh my God, dude. Don't say what it is. Why not? Because we need them to come to us. Actually, let's do it. Free ad. What is it? Tushy? Well, this is the one I, this was just the top hit. But Tushy, the Tushy Classic 3.0 are best selling bidet attachment. How much did you think it got? I bet it's $1,000. $110. I was about to say 600. Look at that. $110. And if you get... No, not whole bidet. Hold on. Hold on. This is getting 60 bucks a day. Stop it. This is trying to get to too much of an ad. Like that was ridiculous. You actually just gave a free ad. I haven't used it yet. Yeah. Yeah, do you believe it? Yeah. Guys. I'm scared of the shuffle. The shuffle. There's no shuffle required. I'm not in a lot of money to talk about here. In talking about here. In our room. In our bathrooms. You have a nice shuffle. We all... The pan's round the ankles shuffle. It's just so nice. But you know what it got me thinking. And I promise this won't be but talk the whole time. Do you think it'd be more awkward to walk in on someone pooping? Or walk in on someone bedaying? I think walking in on someone while they're washing their anus. It's 100%. It slightly works. But I think it would be... I think though it would be so hilarious that it wouldn't be awkward at all. Like it would be... Just walking in. You walk in and you just lock eyes at the person that I like this. Because it feels so good. Yeah. Oh yeah, sorry. I'm just... Sometimes I know I'm already clean but I just keep it going. It's just like great. It's so great. But I'll tell you. This place. We're going to get into... Folks, you're going to see a ton of content coming from us of enjoying Milan, doing a bunch of stuff here. But it has been phenomenal so far. The weather's great. It's cold enough for winter Olympics but it's not too cold. The food has been incredible so far. Walking around the city... I love walking. Love walking. We're getting to walk around the city and I am here to say this. Anything that you're seeing on Twitter, anything online of just a bunch of cromudgins and a bunch of Ebenezer screw jai talking shit about this arena. Don't listen to it. Dude, don't listen to it for a second. Don't. The rink looks so cool. The jumbo tron, the whole setup is fantastic. The audio, everything. Everything guy. The guy. The guys are great. There's one wall that's like there's no seating and it looks cool. It's like a horseshoe. The arena's fantastic. I couldn't believe how far it up that guy got for the wave to love the wave. Dude, everyone was coming around the second time and he was like, keep it going. He was like, don't get off. On the ammo. I was like, I love that guy. I do it. I hope it's in every game. It was awesome. So just so much respect to everyone going right now. It's fantastic. So some games. We need more food. Oh yeah. I haven't had a single piece of pizza yet. Great. We haven't eaten well at all. Where we've eaten well. We haven't eaten enough. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. We haven't eaten enough. Let's go ahead and get into some Olympic hockey. Some games we play. We, like the women are trailblazers and they've been buzzing around for a week for us and the men started getting it going. So let's jump into it all. We're jumping into Olympic hockey breakdowns brought to you by Ben MGM. Brought to you by Ben MGM. 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We had Finland's LaVaccia and we had Italy Sweden quickly jumping into these games. Finland. Finland got bitched. They kind of got bitched. And what bums me out is, and I don't want to use this opportunity of this game to talk about the format. But when I was watching that game, we were at the lovely Samson house and the bowler. Yes. Watching on the huge screen. And we got to never do in our tour. We have a few obligations and I come back out and Finland's losing. And I was like, oh shit. We're both like, yo, upset, upset. And Slovakia just continues to pour it on and wins. And I thought to myself, damn dude, Finland is in a bit of a bind here now because no fence, but it's Italy on the other is the fourth team. So I'm thinking, you know, everybody's going to beat them. So you really, now you've just lost the tiebackers of LaKia to get second in this group. You've got to now beat Sweden or hope Sweden loses to them. And then I was like, oh, actually everyone gets through. So this doesn't matter at all. Finland can go 0 and 3, get into the one game quality and just beat whoever. Yeah. Because they're capable of beating anybody. Correct. And then they're just like, sick. We went 0 and 3 in the round robin and now we're going to be in the final. And I'm like, that sucks. So I wish I wish this wasn't that because that the feeling of, ooh, upset was kind of taken from me in that moment. It does, it is strange that it feels like the group stage is completely meaningless with the, with the exception of the fun. I like watching. Yeah. But that hurt a little, that hurt me personally a little bit. Yeah. I realized that losing these early games doesn't mean that much, which is tough. You know, like that game, I mean, not to make everything about 1980, this entire two week round, which I will. But the, that tie against Sweden, they always say, my god, that was such a crucial point for the US. Yeah. Because you need those round robin points and this, this, it used to be like that. Yeah. And this, I'm like, you don't need shit. And listen, it's not totally pointless. You get to buy the terms who you play. Yep. Yeah. But it's not there. You can lose all three games here and you're just still when you're as good as Finland. Yeah. Which means you probably won't lose this, but you just could and then be like, where are I? Exactly. But that was a, that was a crazy, crazy way to start. Crazy way to start. And I feel like going into this tournament, you know, we've got the four nations teams that everyone talks about. And then I feel like check is the team everyone wants to bring up after that. And Slovakia came in and went, hey, so we're going to tag Finland and you're, I still have Kofsky. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then he wasn't an assist and his two goals weren't nasty. He looked great. And it was awesome. And one of the sickest empty netters I've ever seen. That was, that was a street. That was a truly mad mad. That was awesome. Yeah. Okay. And then Sweden, Italy, Sweden, Italy, they weren't, they weren't laughing the whole time. No. The, before we even get into, because Sweden, Italy was an electric factory for a bit. Right. Can you look up real quick the, the name of the Italian goalie because that fucking animal was out of control. Like he saved so many fucking shots. It was insane. I think Sweden had 60 shots and that, that true. Yeah, he had 55 saves. Oh my God, dude. That's amazing if that's true. Yeah. No, I assure you, it's true. They literally had 60 shots to 22 in that game. That's awesome. But that starts. And before we even get into that game, how in the world is Philip Forsberg, the 13th forward on this game? I thought that was a mistake when I saw it. And I literally don't know. Sweden's the only other team besides US and Canada that has all NHL players. Finland is all but one. So they're right there. Yeah. But there are three teams all NHL players. So theoretically, you know, you scratch anyone on USA, Canada or Sweden, somebody nasty. Yeah. Damien Clara. James Staten. James Clara, I imagine it is. I think it's funny. 23 second round pick of the NHL. Let's go. 60 saves. 60. 55 shots. 55 shots. 55 saves. 55 fries. 55 burgers. 55 saves in that game. Crazy. It's insane. But I just don't know. This is one of the situations where you know when you're... I feel like I was bringing up the rider cup. The Saturn's with the rider a couple of lot where they go. Should we bring this guy? He's nasty. He's not playing that well. Yeah. Dude, he's gross. This is like flip is a guy that I'm like, yeah, was he having his best season of his career? No. But I just don't understand how you could put that talent. Literally the amount of talent that that man possesses not on the ice at the fucking Olympics. It was crazy. It was crazy. But listen, they went down, went nothing, then go up to one, then to start the second, right off the bat in the second period. Italy ties it to too. Make it a fun for the home team. Dude, I want to shout out to my... Well, I was just a my boy. He doesn't even remember me. But this guy on the Italian team, Tommy Larkin. Yeah, dude, the Italian job. Italian job went to Exeter with me. He was a freshman when me and all my friends were in our last year, our last year. And he wasn't that good yet because he was a little kid. Yeah. And we were like, Tommy. Tommy. Like a Tommy out here. Him and Pooch. And then by the time he was a senior, him and Pooch were gross. Tommy goes to Colgate and he said incredible career. And he's been playing all the time. Look at him now. Just amazing. He's still playing for the other team. And he's been in World Championships. He's got a picture of himself lined up next to the Datsuke. It's incredible. And I was like, man, I hope he's, you know, he's not that old. But I was like, I hope he makes this Olympic team and that'll be sick. And there's Bang. He's on the squad. He's on the squad. He has an apple. It's unbelievable. So for Sweden, a five-two win against Italy where you go into the third period up three two, but it was kind of a sweat. Yeah. Not exactly what you want, but I will say what you want is that there are a lot of guys on the score sheet who are so important. Landy scoring, Neil underscoring, Zabana Jada, I think had a goal and an assist. Dolly and had like three assists, foursling had a goal and an assist. Like everyone that you need can't be with an assist, Carlson with an assist. Like the big guys were all over the score sheet and that's exactly what you want from a game like that. So Sweden, even though it was a bit of a sweat, very happy. Yes. Take the dub. Very happy. So let's get into today. Yeah. Start off, it is Thursday. I have no idea what that is. I know, dude. Same. Holy shit. No idea. What day it is, what time zone I'm in, where I am other than Milan. We start off the day with Switzerland France. Yes. Roman Yosey was all over the place. I mean, just like, good God, that man. Not much, not much doing in this game. Two goals in the first for Swiss. Two goals in the third for the Swiss. Like a nice comfortable- Took care of business. Four, four nothing when two team-omire goals, Shadow JJ Moser. Yes. Get in the tuck. Love to see that and an assist. But good win for the Swiss, good shot out for the Swiss. And that's another team that I'm like, frisky. Yeah, frisky. Just be aware. Frisky indeed, but I still think some other teams in their group are more competitive. But we'll see though, because that's a good showing by that. Yeah. And they have the tools. They have the tools to make waves. Yes, absolutely. And then the jumping ahead to the evening game, Germany Denmark. Yep. Denmark, obviously, great team. Got some great players on there. But all eyes were on Germany and the big dogs and the big dogs came to the Swiss. Dry. Stutzle. Yeah. Stutzle with two. Did he get nothing? No, no, no, it was dry. Stutzle, Stutzle. Oh, shit. Yeah, he must have tipped that. Yeah, dry got the primary assist on that second on the third goal. Yeah. But good little scrap like Germany. There were a couple of fucking dog walkers who were like Germany's going to win this group. And you know, who knows? Maybe they will. But that's not an easy game. Denmark's good. Yeah. And a three one scrappy victory for Germany. God. But I didn't think Germany was like terrifying. When those dudes weren't on the ice and it's funny, like dry scored 23 seconds into the game. And then Stutzle with two, including a power play goal. There's part of me that's like, yeah, if Stutzle, dry, cider and Paturka aren't on the ice, it's a little bit like they've got a lot to do. I think Denmark got shot them pretty high too. Or maybe it came back around. No, it was 20. I think it ended 24 to 16. Yeah, I was like, yeah. What are you doing? So again, great win for Germany. Yep. I, I, 16 shots. Like I'm not, I don't think Germany looked that dumb. Yeah. And it's again, when you're big game here, when your big guy scored, that's huge. It's a whole game. All right. We got to get into the marquee games of the day. And before we do that, we've got to talk about the marquee stick on the market. And that is the power pulse. Everyone knows that power is the best name and hockey. They've been doing it for almost 100 years, given you the best gear, the best everything. I've even talked about their workout clothes. From head to toe and then go head to toe in gear. And when it comes to the twig, the power pulse has changed the game. This thing has got a unbelievable feel. They got the raised lettering. It's like a new grip style without it being sticky. It gives you a better feel on the puck. 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The men's Canadian team. Very good team. Holy shit. So this is the first game we went to folks. We did as we did as the Romans do. We did as the Milano's do. We took the public transit. We walked through the city. We hopped on the bus. Yeah. We got to the arena. We walk in. Place was buzzing. Yeah. And I got it. I got to say, listen, they lost five nothing, but the check fans were incredible. Dude, they were chanting the whole game and we're friendly too. It wasn't hostile at all at any moment. They were chanting the whole game singing, cheering for the team. Friendly the whole time. We had checked fans all over the place. It was they were a real highlight for me. That was awesome. Yeah. You sound like you're on the Czech tourism board. I should fucking know. I might move there. The fans were awesome. Game starts. The first thing that I saw and the first thing that I have to say, I don't fucking understand how I can see Conor McDavid play live as many times as possible. And I will always be shocked. It's like he just moves so much faster than everyone else. It's fucking crazy. You said it. Like when he gets galloping, it's like good Christ almighty. It's genuinely like the most terrifying thing I've ever seen. There was one time in the far corner where he had it. And I could see the seven, but I couldn't tell if it was him or Sid. I thought it was Sid and he did a turn and stop so fast that I looked at Dan Redd. And I was like, whoa, Sid, little giddy up there. Yeah. And then he was like Conor. We were like, that was not Sid Chris. Not Sid. No, he's out of control. I think JD tweeted something. It was like Conor McDavid snorted a red bull before this game. Yeah. And it did look like that. It was crazy. But both teams in the beginning were flying. And I couldn't believe how physical it was. Yes. The whole game, both sides too. The check, I think that was an agenda. I'm sure there was a talking part for them where they were like, go hit them. Hit them in the mouth. Yeah. So they came out trying to do it. But man, the Canada boys were not holding back. The guys you'd expect obviously through Tom Wilson throwing the body around. They had been thrown the body around. But Conor McDavid and Dewey and guys just popping people left and right. I was like, holy shit, we're in one now. To hear his question for you, David Poschenack, dirty player in an international play, in international waters. There's no rules here, Dan. He came around the net and fucking popped a shoulder into Devon Taves' face. Yeah. Early. There are no rules here, Dan. He was running people. Yeah. He was running people. Radco Goudus was running people. Nate Dogg fucking cross checked a guy's arm into Bolivia. Yeah. It was unbelievable. That. So there were two, was that second period? Yeah, it was. That second period after a tight first in terms of score, right? Yeah. Because you get, it was one nothing. We'll go back to that in a second. But in that second period, Canada started to, Canada got better throughout the game. Yeah. They were good tell they were kind of wearing that checked him down. So as it started to be like, oh shit, you're going to lose. There were two plays, that Nate Dogg cross checked behind the net and then the Too Many Men, which was lunacy. That too many men. The Too Many Men. It was, it was, it was, it was a, that guy jumped over the boards prematurely. We've all been there, played the, played the puck and the entire arena was like, oh, too many men. And, and then the check team was going like this. Oh, yeah, and they didn't call it and then, you just kept six guys out for like 30 seconds. They just kept playing with 60s on the ice and the rest are just like, we've made our bet. Yeah, I'm not, I'm not calling, I'm not calling this and eat, you know, the check power play had had one already. had one already and didn't do much. So who knows? But either of those get called. And you know, maybe you pull one back there and it's a little bit of a game. But it was just like, fuck you, fuck you, Canada rolls. And I was like, ah, okay. Dude, we're done here. Everybody go home. It was so good. So that first period was just buzzing all over the place and then with what, what was it? The five seconds before that, talk about the Nate Gold. The Nate Gold that wasn't. I don't have anything to say about the Nate Gold. Why don't you talk about it? I'm sad because that was a really cool moment. Like it was like, it was especially where we were sitting. It was like Nathan McKinnon. We had a cool view of that. I went down, bang, high glove, Canada crowd goes ballistic. And I was like, wow, what a great opening goal for this team and that guy specifically. You know, I was like, holy shit, what a moment. So I'm sad that that was robbed of him for a, I don't know if I'm being a hair. I didn't think there was anything special about that. Oh, really? I don't know. Sick as hell. No, I'm sorry, it was a nice goal. Yeah. You keep like talking about this moment. Like I didn't think there was anything special about it. Nathan McKinnon never been in the Olympics and then comes firing down the slot and nipping on my glove. I've got news for you. Take anyone on that team except two guys. No one's been on the Olympics. But like you want it to be Nate. Like I think Nate or Connor is a cool narrative if they go and they're finally here. Boom. They open the scoring. And with the goal, I get to is even, or equally amazing. I'm not trying to be a hater. I just don't, I don't think there's anything special about it. I think, well, we'll hear from the comments. I think you were wrong about this one. I think I probably am. I think the people are going to go, Dan was being a hater about that. That would have been cool. No, no, I'm officially not being a hater. You can't call me a hater. You said I am being. No, no, no, I said I fear I'm being a hater. But I'm not hating on the moment. It was a great goal. I just don't think, I'm not really sure I see what's more special about it than if Connor did, than if Kale did, than frankly if Sid did. Like if Sid or Dewey scored, I'd be like, that's almost more special to me because it's like, welcome back. One of the guys who's been there brought us back. I think Nate and Connor tied. Yeah. Are the most special moments of opening Canada scoring. Nate or Connor? And because everyone goes, those are our two best players. You know what? You putting Connor equally important, I'm on board. Yeah. Don't get defensive, dude. You're getting spicy over here. I'm just trying to figure out if it was, if that would have been more special than what did happen. Connor? No. Maclin's celebrating. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, God. With like five seconds left, Maclin's Celebrini scores. This one's not called back. It is the first goal of the game. And now I got a fact for you. I got a staff for you. Hit me. Maclin's Celebrini has scored in his USHL debut, his collegiate debut, his NHL debut, and his Olympic debut. Should have seen that one coming. Is that... Guys, we should have bet on that. Yep. And here's another fucking shout out to JD. I think he did call that one. Yeah. I think he said, I think he tweeted, Maclin's Celebrini first goal score. God. We got, we had to be on that action. I'm pissed. We know our John, I'm jumping ahead, but I'm pissed because Locks texted me and was like, who you got first USA goal score? And I was like, Brady, could you? Did you? He always does this. And Locks didn't bet it. I know. I don't think I said it with enough conviction because I was just like, I don't know. I think I like Brady. Can I be harsh to you? Yeah. That is your ML. Yeah. Not like you have all these thoughts in your head. And then you tell these retroactive stories that things come to fruition. And you go, I just, I didn't convince people enough. Believe in your side of an idea. Believe in someone else, learn a fucking lesson. How many times in a row can I go, I don't know, I think this will happen. And then it happens every time. And you all keep going, what do you mean? You are. You have only given me more conviction there. And I'm like this, you are the one who said that. I don't have to do anything. I didn't say anything about you were the one who admitted your conviction wasn't good enough. I didn't say your conviction was bad. Yeah, but you're saying it's on me for not giving more conviction so everyone will start acting on these things. And I'm going, no it isn't. I'm just right every time. I don't, I can say it with whatever conviction I want. You guys should start acting on it. Okay, can I, can I, can I challenge you? Yeah. What you just said is you're right all the time. You're always right. You're, you're, you're this, you're that the other. You need to start putting your money where your mouth is. And when you have all these things, you need to go. When locks goes, who's the first goal scorer for the US? You need to go Brady Kachok, bet it right now. You fucking idiot. Or you will be poor. Or you, you need to then make the bet yourself and then show him the ticket and go see, I'm putting my money where my mouth. I don't want, I don't want it. I don't want to bet. Well then I don't think you're allowed to pee cock around to your saying you're right all the time. Did JD bet on it when he, he just, he said Maclin? No, but he called it, he tweeted it. Yeah, I texted a buddy. I don't tweet. Like I texted a buddy. He tweet. You tweet sometimes. I tweet. I tweet. I tweet. I tweet. Then, then that counts. I'm not like, okay, I don't know why you're, I'm not clowning on you. I'm trying to get you your credit. No, you're not. You just said I can't pee cock. I'm not, I'm not. I credit would go, good job. But because you don't do it with, I don't have any of these receipts, dude. All you do is tell everyone, oh, you did this, you did that, but then you don't have the bets to prove it and you don't have the tweets to. You don't have the tweets. Yeah, maybe I'll make an account that's called. You can even, here's a make a Twitter account. It's called, yeah, kind of think this will happen. No, no, I'll, and that person will just tweet things that, that's pretty good. I think people would follow that. I can delete that, dude. I don't need anybody. No one needs to know about that. That's actually gaff. But you know, you can, you can do text us all of these things. And then when they come through, I'll talk about it. Oh, yeah, okay. And be like, fucking Chris was on it. Yep. He was on it. But is there anyone more ready than Maclin Celebrity? No, it's incredible, dude. He's, he's, when he's playing in wing, like he, he's just goes, sure, what do you do to me to do? And I'll be all over the ice. He had another great chance. He was always in the right spot. The whole game. And dude, this is the Olympics. Like this is the Olympics. This is Connor's first Olympics, Nate's first Olympics. This moment isn't about him in many ways at all. He's gonna be in a 10 of these, you know? Yeah. He sits third going for his third, goes so many other storylines here. And at no point does he look nervous or scared or out of place? He's just like, what's up, dude? I'm one of the best players on the ice. I'm 10 years old. Dude, okay. He, he just looks so about it too. He's always getting in the shit with people. He's getting in people's face. He's 19. Yeah. Jason Tatum's only 18 years old. Macklencel and Breanie's 19 years old. I, I think it is remarkable. I also think there we, we talk about this with Sid and Ovee all the time. We've talked about it on the show. Macklencel and Breanie and Connor Bdard will be compared for the rest of their entire lives. And I think because of that, there's unfortunately a huge collection of Chicago Blackhawks fans who hate Macklencel and Breanie. That was a really tough moment for them. Yes. All these Blackhawks fans who are like, Connor Bdard should be on this team over celebrity. You're wrong. That's not me saying that Bdard should be on this team, but you are wrong when you say that he should be on over Macklen. And when Macklen then comes out and scores the first goal and looks like a 10 year vet. Veterinarian. It's a tough look for you. Or it's not a tough look for you. It's, it's a tough pill to swallow. Yeah. And I will say it's tough for fans of American hockey where God, you fuckers just churn him out. Like here's Sydney Crow. It's unbelievable. Here's Connor McDavid. Here's Nathan McKinnon. Here's Macklencel and Breanie. I'm like, take it. And here's Connor Bdard. Yeah. Like, all right. Here's Gavin McKinnon. Yeah. Stop. Chill. Let us have a couple. Yeah. We'll take a couple. Yeah. I don't even need all of them. So no. Just give me a couple of them. Before we get into the other goal scorers, team Canada been there. Yes, bro. That was right. There was a part of me that's like, I think this check team is really good. What did they have, Chris? 26, yeah, 26 shots to 36 shots for Canada. Not a bad performance. And I think in the third period, they definitely got. They got ground down. Yeah. Like, finally ground beef in a in a bullenese sauce. Nice. You could have put that check team over some fucking pastini. That's some Italy shit. That's what I'm talking about. That's get in the zone. Little ragu. Get in the calzone. Yeah. They have calzones here. Do they? Yeah, but it's not like our calzones. It's not like fucking, you're telling me you've seen a calzone on a menu and you didn't order at the bowler, didn't it? There was four calzones on the menu. There was a whole section of the name. Really? Calzones. Is he lying? Oh my god. I swear, I swear. Calzone would have felt like something like chicken parmed to me with like, we don't do that. I almost got it, but I was like, they, I feared getting made fun of. Yeah. The table orders this like incredible melons. Yeah. And I'm like, all of the pepperoni calzone. We, one of our crew tried to order an espresso martini at that dinner and got fucking a laugh out of the restaurant, which was bullshit because he got an espresso martini somewhere else like the night before. Yeah, no, that place was just just beer and wine. Oh, that's why. I think that's what happened. That's why he didn't laugh. He didn't laugh though. Yeah, because I was like, I don't think that's a crazy one. No, no, they would. They love an espresso martini. Yeah. They didn't, he didn't know that. Back to dinner. I, I don't get it. I don't get it, but this fucking guy just, I'll tell you what, every other team in the league pray that this fucker never gets back to the Stanley Cup because he will win. Correct. Like he is the, he is maybe the most automatic big game dude who's ever lived. And I will add the check team was aware of his struggles this year. Yep. What I mean is they were firing pucks from every angle possible in that first period of shit off him because they're like anything will go against this guy. And a couple almost did, by the way, a couple, you know, like, they're a couple like scrappy moments. Yeah. But, but man, dude, he, and this one I meant to say earlier too, when we were talking about who else is in that group. Oh, Swiss. Yeah. And France. Easy to say the check team got rolled on today because they did, but that, that team is very good. Oh, yeah. We're going to do it with them. That is, that is a completely a testament to how nasty this candidate team is. Yeah. Where that even wasn't even their best, best game. And they made that look fucking easy. Yeah. But that check team is good and bitter. That wasn't a freebie shutout. No. Yeah. Yeah. I wasn't like, oh, I'm playing. No, it'll be like I said, they, they definitely slowed down in the third. Yeah. Like they, they got ground. We don't need to do this. Oh, yeah. Again. We got them in a twilight zone. But they did. They, they, they got tired. But shit, man, they, they tested him early and he just nothing looked like it faced him. I mean, they're going to rotate. I think LT is going to play the next game because that's how team Canada operates. But when it's all said and done, that, that's his net. And I, I said it in our, if you haven't watched, we released a YouTube video come, come to the Canada game with us. Go watch that. It's fun. I said it at the end. This guy, I swear to God, he unzipped himself and he hangs up. Yeah. Team Canada, Ben or in his closet. And then he puts on that fucking super suit when it comes to insane. He, I, I had, we had both been wondering who they would go with because you're just going to rely on that, rely on his super suit. And it is now to the point, after that game where, because the checks were even out shooting them for a while till they became ground beef. But the, something catastrophic in his play would have to happen for him to not get the net moving forward. That's what this game did for me. So bad news for everyone else, they get into the second period. Their goals, unbelievable play by Mitch Marner. Putrid. Oh, that's nasty dude. Putrid, backhand sauce. Yeah. Over the defender lands right on Markstone's sick, who makes a great drive to the net, bangs it home. That is a, to your point that you always say, like when everyone's like, what, how is Mark's stone on this team? That's a goal that not everyone on this Canada roster can score. Like that Markstone is so good. Goal whore of that. Another guy that people were like, should Bobin picked, he was all over the ice. He gets sprung. Very fucking cheeky forehand backhand push five hole. Then the Nate Doug go on the third period, the power play goal was the dream team. That was that was that was insulting. It was, it was just, crossby to McDavid, poised down low, passes it across to Mc, uh, McKinnon pounds it in and it was like, oh, it was like that first four nations goal. Yes. Just power play dream team, the three best fucking centers alive, unreal. And then my guy, Nick Suzuki, also from McDavid, I think we gave it a three assist in that game. Yeah. Suzuki gets on the score sheet to cap it off for the fifth. So the first big challenge, Canada takes on check, game one, and they beat the wheels off them five to nothing. I loved Nate obviously got that, but I loved that, uh, you know, Sid had that unreal deflection like that classic high tip that said does that somehow got saved with like four minutes left. But you know, Sid doesn't even get one. David doesn't get one after having a ridiculous two on one with Hagle where Higgs doubles sees him and McDavid has two shots. Two. We're normally he puts that under the bar. Both of those he puts under the bar every time. Yeah, two chances. Can't get either one off. It's crazy. If you're Canada and you go, we just rolled and Sid missed a grade A, which he created with his skill, but like Connor missed a grade A, um, kale, kale not really doing much. Yeah. I'm like, holy hell. They have such a ceiling. We walked out of that game going, um, we walked out of that game, but I don't know how anybody, but I don't know how the US beats that team. They, who said it was red, I think it was like, they don't make mistakes. They do. Yeah, red did say that. That was sharp red. He was like, it's crazy just watching a team that no one makes mistakes. It's also crazy. You just see guys hands. Yeah. And not everyone has hands like this, but everyone has hands like this on this team. It's just wild. Every time they talk, touch the puck, it's just hands moving, feet moving. Yeah, everybody. And then kind of I give a quick double rister to our boy. Yes. I thought, do we looked fantastic? He did. Hold on. Defensively. Yeah. We know do it to be a great offensive weapon. And he was fucking dialed defensively. And we're in people grind it in the corners. He was hitting rotating, rotating, rotating. Yeah, that's when the boots come into it. And I'm like, oh, dude, do he's fucking everywhere in front, in the corner, in front, in the corner. It was awesome. He had a quick change of like, there was a turnover and a quick change of possession in the D zone. And he fucking threw the pivot on, got backwards. The often, I think it was natious, got even with him. And do we just turned and clap to stick down on the past last second, picked it off? And I was like, oh my god. That's pasta in a loan. That's pasta in a loan. That's great. That was huge. That was fantastic. 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Well, actually, this is an insult to their regular season play, which is also elite. Yes. But I was going to say they are binner in a way where they have a team USA version of themselves at the dry cleaner. There's no doubt about that. They just go pick it up whenever the game starts. There's no doubt about that. They're gamers, man. They're gamers. And we had a nice little play, Zach Kurenski, my boy. Gets the puck up, Tomatik Chuk. He comes in, puts on the brakes, tosses a lovely, cheeky little bit of sauce over the defender coming in. Brady gets it with some time and fucking nips. And it was just watching Brady curl up the boards, drag the knee, throw the fist pump, go right into Matthew's arms. I knew we were back. Dude, that is, I knew we were back. I knew we were back. And the reason, because I got back the reason I texted Locke Brady was because of that. I just thought it was, it was too typical that, you know, Brady Kachak would score the first goal. And frankly, same with Mac, it makes sense where you go, okay, of course, they bring this, they bring this 18 year old phenom and it's going to be him. It is. Oh, Brady could Chuk put the team on his fucking back in four nations. It's going to be him. It is, you know, it just, that was too perfect. It was just too, it was too good. But then things got messy. Then things get messy. USA scores again. Quinn Hughes nip, John. Quinn Hughes gets a nice puck at the top. Beautiful shot through traffic nip to nothing USA. I thought we were about to roll. Oh, I was like, oh, here we go. Two goals in the first period because we talked about it with the guys that were left home. The big questions were can, can we score? Can the boys score? Well, Quinn Hughes gets on the board, but then challenge for offsights. I personally did not think what I saw. And actually, can we dial it back? Yeah. Good call. Folks, it's late here. It's, it's 12.30 in the morning. We got a lot going on. I totally forgot to talk about the fucking saga that was us watching. So also to be clear, we, as it stands right now, had, could get tickets to three. We, we're going to be going to a bunch of games. We're not going to every game. Exactly. Yeah, don't, don't forget folks. We are here via empty netters. Yeah. You know, we're here for you. And we're not made of money. We're not going to every single game. We also don't have time. So this game, we were like, we're going to, we're going to hang. We're going to watch this one. We'll go to Canada today. Yup, watch US. And we wanted to get the pod out. So we were like, we're going to, you know, and the Canada check game on paper seemed epic. This one we could sleep on. And we just thought, naively, that I was like, folks, I'll just watch the game literally anywhere, anywhere. Think about it. Including in my opinion, the, the Olympics are on. Yeah. USA is playing, the US men are playing their first game. This will be on every TV in, in the country. The country. Yeah. Fortunately, there are no TVs in this country in establishments that serve food and alcohol. We, there are three sports bar in bars in this entire city. Where do people watch AC Milan games? Where do people watch inter Milan games? I assume home now that I've seen what I've seen. I assume home because otherwise, I have never seen anything like it. And for the love of all things, holy, if there are any Italian people, fans of us listening to this. And, and we're doing it wrong. Yeah. Tell me, it'd be like, oh, go here. There's a, there's a million, please. We've got a lot of Italian fans now. And so many, actually people in Milan, who have hit us up being like, you're in my home city. Like, let's, we're begging you. Where should we go? Where do we watch games? So what's funny is I'm thinking, obviously, the US and Canada, sports bars on every fucking club. Yeah. But we're like, I'm even thinking London, I'm thinking the UK, I'm like, there are pubs everywhere. So we're looking shit up. We're just desperately trying to find a place to watch this fucking game. And of course, the two places we find are called Mind the Gap, British. And then the football pub. Oh, yeah. And then the offside. Yeah. So we're, we go to, we go to the first. We leave early enough to, we're gonna walk. We leave early plenty of time. And keep in mind, we're hungry. Yeah. We're trying to eat. We go to the first place. We go to, uh, Mind the Gap. Scariest bar I've ever been to in my time. Remember that bar, it's healthy. Remember the review of that bar. Yeah. I got it. No, come on. We got to know what that place is called. There's a bar in Southy called fucking, there's, oh, no. There's a bar in South Boston called something so Boston. And one of the reviews is a guy telling a story about how he got stabbed there because it was like some bookie who owed him money or something. And it's the craziest bar in the world. Do you have it? Oh, no, yeah. But that was basically this bar. We go to this bar, Mind the Gap. It's a broom closet. When we walk up, there are 20 guys outside, rip in darts, drinking peronies. And they looked at us like the three biggest scumbags they've ever seen in their fucking day life. It's just occurring to me now that the arsenal game probably hadn't started yet. So those guys were all outside smoking just waiting for us. But they do, they were truly like, get beef. They looked at us and they're like, what are these three take eaters doing? It was as if we were going to go inside. Like we like, dude, and I looked inside. Found it, bro. You found the bar. Yeah. What's the bar called? Croke Park. Croke Park, dude, that's right. Croke Park in Southy, sketchiest bar in the world, aside from Mind the Gap. But I look inside, it is a broom closet. There are two tiny TVs and not a single morsel of food to be found. People are only drinking and fucking chain smoking cigarettes in this place. So we decided we didn't even think about opening the door. We just went and we're moving on. We're headed to the football pub. So we walked another 25 minutes, got there just in time for puck drop and we walk up, look through the glass. I don't even look inside yet, but look through the glass. Chris is reading the review of Croke Park right now. Do you want to read the review before I move on? I don't, do you have to read the whole thing? It's just a little bit. I think you got to read the whole thing. Okay. This is one of the funniest bar reviews of all time. Croke Park in South Boston, red. This is a review from Johnny Z on Yelp, one star. He says, I don't want to say this is the worst bar in the world because I've never been to places like Bangladesh, Rwanda or Haiti. But I can say with 100% certainty that this place is by far the worst bar in Boston. I've been to crack houses where I felt safer, also that had less crack. Seriously? At no point did I feel like I wasn't about to be stabbed by the locals. Remember the scene in Star Wars when Luke Skywalker walks into the bar in the two aliens attack him before Obi-Wan Kenobi steps in and cuts the guys arm off? Croke Park makes that place look like cheers. The clientele was a collection of mobsters, wannabe mobsters, addicts, punks, criminals, pimps, and fugitives of the law. And the men there were twice as bad. People in the dough tell me this place has gone downhill since the original owner of white people grailed at and he was shot one day while barbed. So apparently this place has gotten much worse since the days when customers would fucking shoot the bartender. I could go on but I think my review might get kind of negative after this. That's got to be the great view of all time. Oh fuck me. Oh, that's incredible. So that was our first stop. Yeah. Mine the gap. We then go on to the football pub. We get to the football pub right in time for a puck drop. Like I said, we didn't even look inside yet. As far as the people we looked in and just saw the game on TV and we were like, let's go. We opened the door. It's the most packed bar I've ever seen. Literally the door threshold was the space. There was a person that was the only spot. There was a person so close to the door that I assumed this can't be a door. This is a window because why would anyone be standing ass up against the door like this or I thought there was a host table. Yeah, that person's in line to receive his table. But sure enough, it was the door. And we then slid in and wouldn't you know it for some god for sake and reason. There was a 9 p.m. UK London kickoff time of an Arsenal Brentford game. And apparently all 100 people in Milan wanting to watch Arsenal Brentford were at the top where they are pub and I said in their defense, I said they were fuming mad that there happened to be a fucking USA Latvia game on. And we have overrun their football pub and they were like, I thought I was going to sit here and peace and now I have dudes ass is sticking up the door. Yes. So everyone was upset. So not a single person was having fun in there. We walk in. There's no audio for any game. I would have accepted the Arsenal. Same, but there's just no audio. We've got Latvia fans on one side of the pub. We've got just Canadian. Those guys were Canadian. They were all decked out heads talking. So there's a bunch of Canadians pretending to root for Latvia. There was a couple of fins pretending to root for Latvia. There was a table full of US fans and one of these fumes kept going, blame Canada, blame Canada like from the South Park. They were trying to chirp the Canadian. Yes, it was cheering for Latvia, but it was getting unruly. But it just it wasn't a good chirp. Nothing was landing. So anyway, we're watching the game here. Quinn's goal gets taken away from the off sides. And when I said from what I could see on the replays of TV, we're back on track. I didn't think you could overturn. We can't hear anything here. So we're just like the one view they kept showing us. Brock Nelson is entering the zone and JT Miller gets in the way of the puck. Like you can't see the puck. And again, maybe there's an angle from the other side that we didn't see, but they call that goal back Latvia scores. Yeah, right away. So now it's tied up. Crasenberg scores. And then US gets on the board again. Brock Nelson tips a puck in great tip. Beautiful goal. That gets called back for the softest goalie interference these eyes have ever seen. Now, apparently these are international Olympic rules, folks. There is we will be having zero increase time whatsoever with the so that is something these players need to increase. If you're in the crease anywhere near the goalie in international play rules, that shit is goalie interference. So beware folks. JD said, I don't know. I'm going to pronounce this horribly, but the Latvian coach, Peteris, something like that. Peteris Groms incredible challenges. Oh, I was like, what are you doing? Because I asked if you get a penalty, this is to what I think you do. So it was like, if you give that up, now you're down and then the US scores again. And I'm like, oh my god. So I couldn't believe the balls to hit those. Brass balls. And then challenging the second and then getting it right. I was like, Jesus. This is fucking crazy. So they call that one back. Then we get Brock Nelson hit in the post. Dude. And then this fucking guy, this poor guy, there was a crossbar to close out the first also. But the two, the two call, oh, and shout out Matt Boldy, who actually didn't think did much tonight or Jake. Correct. But Boldy, so Latvia overturns the US's second goal and then immediately scores to tie it. Yeah. And the US scores their second goal again and then Latvia challenges it overturned. And then again, 30 seconds later, had a wide open net. And I was like, wow, these challenges have gone perfectly. They got erased a goal and then scored. And Matt Boldy flying in out of nowhere, got a stick on that one to deflect. Unbelievable. That was actually a massive play in that. Unbelievable block. A massive play. So period ends one one. And I am going to say in that moment, I was like, okay, here's classic Latvia being a pest. And this is it. This is going to be a mental toughness game for the US. And I won't lie. I was sitting there going, I feel a little uncomfortable about Connor Hellerbuck. Oh, really? I actually think I guess I'm all sitting done. I thought their goal wasn't the best defense from the Lads. But it was also just like there was a loose puck. The Latvian goal score, what's his name? Sorry. Crasenbergs came crashing in and like got a quick shot on it. But it, it chicken winged him. It didn't go up and over him. It was just like a really. Yeah. We score a second goal. It gets called back. And then immediately the first shot on net you let in. Yeah. And then it almost happened again. And I was like, don't go down here in this second period. So I was a little uncomfortable. So speaking of uncomfortable, at the end of the first, we were a little uncomfortable. Yes. We were like, we got to get out of here. And but again, it was actually hilarious if you open up Google Maps. Yeah. And you know, it's like your blue dots we are. And you can hit like nearby bars. And it's actually really great because you can be like nearby bars with TVs. Yes. And it's like a bunch pop up. But Italy is a, it's weirdly a closes not that late city, but also open to late. Yeah. So I go open now and they all just disappear. Like there's no bar with the TV open in even the searchable area of my Google Maps. Correct. So I'm like, fuck, I'm stretching it out. And we see this place called the offside sports pop. Yeah. It looks like it has a ton of TVs online. So we immediately get an over 15 minute. What how long is the intermission red? 15 minutes. I'll tell you 15 minutes. How long is the ride to the offside pump? 15 minutes. 15 minutes. So we said we can do it. We ordered the fastest Uber you've ever, these eyes have ever seen you. We left that, we left the football pub. Yeah. And we got in the car, we got to this next place. And as we walked up through the, through the glass windows like a mirage, like a perfect elaces, Olympic hockey on TVs. And we go, thank you. Through the windows empty table. Thank the Lord. So we walk in and wouldn't you know it too? There's a gorgeous four top table. Oh my God. And the food looks amazing. Newed. Newed. It smells incredible in there. And I go, this is the best, this is where we all should have been. I was born in this bar. And I will die in it as well. We literally look at the server. Bon Joono. Yeah. Can we sit here? Yeah. Absolutely. We look up. It's the Germany game. But the US game is not back yet. So I was going to go back. The US game is not back now. We're like, okay, there's a lot of TVs in there. And the game is on the lot of them. And we go, is there a chance that the US game is on one of these televisions? She says no. They can't get it. They don't have that channel. We don't have that channel. It was like, what do you feed? And we, we were now like, dear Lord Almighty, what are we going to do here? And then an angel. Yeah. An angel from Italy swooped down over literally over my shoulder. I don't know if you heard this, by the way, he works for Eurosport. Yeah. This Italian gentleman, the spectacle, handsome fellow. Yes. Swooped in, swept in over, I don't know, swooped, swooped in. I think swooped in. Over my shoulder, placed his phone onto our table, had grabbed a silver carafe. Yeah. And leaned his phone against said carafe with the USA game on. And he said, till I finish my beer. Yes. And we said, oh, wow. Thank you so much. And did you hear what he said after that? No. He goes, Olympic spirit. Yes. I did hear that. So we were able to watch the game on this gentleman's phone. Yeah. Sun believed. Until he finished his beer. And then hilariously, we were checking all our apps and it was like out of rain. You know, you're in the wrong area. And then we tried the NBC Olympics app. And it came with a 30 minute free preview before you had to connect the TV provider, which I don't have. Dan and I realized that between our two phones, there was only 60 minutes. So we just double, yeah. In the game. So we just watched mine. We just double tapped free trials, baby. Finish the game. We had to have a hell of a meal. Only to get home and discover that in our beautiful apartment. It was on TV. It's just on TV. We could have just been here the whole. But anyway, that by the way, that fucking chicken sandwich I got at that place was one of the best chicken sandwiches I've ever had in my entire life. Now I was starving. That might add it to it. That thing was that was unbelievable. Okay. So it's two. It's one wants one one. We go into the second. We get halfway through the second and then it's getting tight. Dan I started thinking if it's for here, it's bad. Sticks were getting tight. And I was like, man, we got to get something going here. But I want to get a little bit of credit here. I had said earlier and I tweeted it. You did see this is how you have receipts. I said, Jack Hughes looks phenomenal. Looks fantastic. And if you go back and the Brock Nelson goal, that goal, no, yes, sorry, the disallowed one. That goal was made possible by Jack Hughes. Great, great possession of the puck. Slowed down the play on the side wall. Then this is a nice pass up to the point and gets it to get the shock. It's off Brock Tipson. I was like, Jack Hughes looks great. After some flack from four nations, he's been hurt this year playing on a point on the look. Great. And then bang, Brock Nelson gets a nut, dude, hands team population Brock on that, the second goal of the game for his first. Oh, yeah, I was like, fucking Brock, but a great play by Jack Hughes. So bang, there you go. Two one US. Then get a little peeper with three minutes left. 25 seconds in. Then he used Jack, I call, Tach Thompson, boom, power play goal. Then 12 seconds left. Brock Nelson again from Jack Hughes again. Dude, Brock Nelson is the greatest player alive. And when he made the foreign nations team, he is, I was upset. Yes. So many apologies from so many people and you and I are at the top of that. Dude, my boy Kyle, big island guy, he always talks about this because he's like, buddy, take it easy on Brock. He's nasty. And when he got picked for foreign nations, I was so pissed. And he had a fine tournament, but I won't, I wouldn't say I was like, oh, I was so wrong about Brock Nelson. But I was like, he belongs here. I should have eased up, but whatever. And then I'm like, oh, now he makes the Olympic team. Like, do we really need to know? He's having a good year and I'm like, he's playing on the fucking afts. I'd be having a good year on the fucking afts. Grow up. But then he has this game where you said he has a goal disallowed unfairly, a post that was this far from going in. And then two goals. Brock Nelson is the best player on our team. He was buzzing. He was absolutely buzzing. And then I heard this dude. And I tried, I almost told you in real time and you said, what was that? And I said, I'll tell you on the phone. I think I know it. Dude, Brock's uncle or great uncle. So Brock's, Brock's granddaddy played on the 1960 team. Correct. Then his uncle, Dave Christian played on the 80 team, played on the 90, 90, 90. Now we got Brock Nelson. Can you imagine if we didn't select Brock Nelson? We might have locked up fucking gold. We just picked it. I am going to, Ev bot. We might have to have you splice this in. We do not we the hockey world collectively dogged on Brock Nelson for his foreign nation's team photo. Yeah. This is a photo of his grandfather on the 1960 team. You're going to look me in my eyes and tell me that's not Brock Nelson. That is Brock Nelson. And sure of his, that's picture of Brock. And you're the photo he took for his foreignation team. You're telling me that's not the same guy. Are you kidding me? That's him. That's just Brock. That's incredible. I got news for you, play a, that's just Brock. I wonder if they put a picture of his granddaddy by accident. They might have. They might have. But he looked fucking phenomenal. He's best played on the ice dude. And at this point, at this point, here's one of my favorite things. Okay, right? So first goal, we got Brady Kachakul, Matthew Kachakus. We're on this guy's sister too, but Brady, Matthew. That's cool. Brock Nelson, Jack Hughes assist. Next goal, Quinn Hughes assist. Next goal, Jack Hughes, Matthew Kachakus assist. Final goal, Quinn Hughes assist. The brothers were going all over the statue. All of the statue. And then, yeah, third period, we got another power play. Quinn Hughes to Jack Eichel. Jack Eichel again. Sick pass. I know it got deflected a little bit, but sick. No look pass. And then sick release. And you know what I loved about this goal? A number of things. Number one, it was awesome. Oh my God. I knew I was fucking. I fucking knew it. I fucking knew it. Austin Matthews, who wasn't the busiest in this game. He caught a little shot up high and he looked like he was on a bit of pain on the bench. Oh, good call. I've mentioned that. That scared me. That was scary. He was getting checked by the trainer. I was like, this is the last fucking thing we and he needs. And it's a fucking concussion against Latvia. And now we're fucked. Austin Matthews getting a goal and the first game. Yeah, that's big. Massive. But also, you know what I really loved? It was a nice dish in the slot right where he lost Conor McDabod in the Gafford Nation's fight. Nice. I like that. And he gets his slot goal to exercise some demons. Yeah. I like that. So five one win for USA. And I'm here to say this. I think that was a perfect game for the US. I got to tell you. I think that there was a, you played a pesky team who can upset people. We've seen that before. You get a convincing win. You score as many goals as anyone else in the tournament. Five goals so far. You've dealt with adversity, mental toughness, some bullshit going on with the refs. You dealt and then you also had a lot of guy like a Brock Nelson guy. I'm mad we unveiled Brock already. I wish didn't other teams. Oh, I love have the notes. I love it. You got a guy like Brock who you're like is was this Brock belong you bet your ass he does. I like Jack Hughes who wasn't that busy in front and he was fantastic. And then that was also only 18 shots for Latvia, but Connor he'll buck, you know, let's up that one that you're kind of like nothing after that. I thought he looked good, dude. I thought he looked good. I think that they are fired up. I went like this. I walked out of the can of the game and went, man, it's going to be hard to beat that team. And then half or through the second of the Latvia game. And I know we're two days into the men's tournament. Half or through the second after having seen the Canada game, I was literally there sitting at the offside pub thinking we are going to get murdered in Canada. And then I left that game going, God, this gold medal game is going to be fucking electric. Dude, I agree with you. I guess I wouldn't say it was perfect, but it just, it looked at every level that we can hang. It was okay. Let's just fight, dude. Let's go. It was just so so I had a question. So I'm shocked. And I haven't, I got to look up their numbers again, but I shocked that Latvia went Merzlikans in gold. I agree. I thought she loves should have started only because what was the term? What did he win? Was it a World Junior's or World Championship? She loves? Yeah. Yeah. Something like he. I think champion. She like literally, it was gold, right? Or was it bronze? I know they did something for the first time ever. And it was literally on the back of she lobbed like a spider. And I'm going to myself. That's a dude who is in the same way, the same Bennington argument. I'm like, this is a dude who in this exact tournament, because you, if you're going to win as Latvia, you need a massive upset and great goalie play, right? 100%. And he, I go, he's done that to these same countries. 100%. He beat these people already. So I was kind of shocking to me. I couldn't, since we were on the phone and no fucking audio, I actually didn't even notice. I think it was going into the third when they made the poll. Yeah. I just noticed one save extension. We were like, oh shit, she loves it. So whatever. But I'd be, I'll miss her to see if it's him moving forward, because I would have definitely given him the bid at the upset in that one. Agreed. So Canada Dream Start, Dream Start, USA Dream Start. Dream Start. I think Dream Start. I'll give it to him. I'll give it to him. I'll give it to him. Dream Start. So big, big start to the men's. We're going to get right back at it. We're going to be at the Sweden Finland game bright and early tomorrow. We're going to be seeing all the content coming out, but we're going to close this episode out talking about the ladies, because the ladies are buzzing. We're going to go back to when we got here the 10th. We got a few days here to get through just because there were big results. Sweden, four nothing against Japan. Sweden four no. Dude, the Sweden ladies are fucking wheeling. It overlooked. Of course, in the women's game, it's pretty consistently. Everyone's gearing up for the USA Canada final. Sweden took that personal. Yeah, that's how it looks right now. I mean, they are just all over the place. You love to see it. They won four nothing. Germany two one over Italy. I think we might have discussed. Did we talk about this? I thought so. Right before, because we talked about the US thwacking. Did we, I thought we hadn't got to that. That's what I couldn't remember. I think we didn't. Or maybe it was like, no, because we were somewhere, dude. And I went, I was like, is that the score of that game? Yeah, we were at like, God, where were we at? I don't think we talked about it. We couldn't have, because we were in Italy. Yeah, we were talking, we talked about the, yeah, we were in Italy when that happened. Yeah. So let's quickly talk about USA. Dude, this was crazy. I thought it was a mistake. The USA always so tight. Takes down Canada five nothing. And they looked elite. And don't worry, Canada bounced back with a big win. We'll get to in a second. But Caroline Harvey starts the scoring. And then our girl, friend of the program, Hannah Bilca, Bilks with two goals in the game, unbelievable stuff. Kristen Sims on the score sheet again, and then also, dude, I think Leila Edwards is the most electric player in the tournament right now. The, just doing it all over the ice cat. I think it was, was that a, no, not a power play. Sims was a power play goal. Yeah. Leila gets the fifth goal to like really break the back of Canada in that third period, about halfway through. And that was, that was one of the most dominant US wins over Canada women's that we've seen in a long time. Especially when Aaron Frank was pitching a fucking shutout. And it dude, it ended up goes, okay, we're not gonna score anyway. Fuck five. Two was in the tournament. And also, friend of the program, Aaron Frank, Frankl looks completely unflappable in net. It's hysterical. He was, like shots are, she's doing those like, it looks like the other team has a good chance. They're passing the puck around and they get a, like, a live wire shot on that. And she's just going, already been here. Saw that coming. Glove was there the whole time. Pat two, Pat staff there the whole time. She's just fucking dialed. The event we went to, and I won't, we won't say names, but the event we went to after that. Yup. There were Canada women there. Yes, there were less women there. And there were, and there were women from a ton of the team. Sure. And everybody was being so friendly and nice and buddy buddy. But the Canada and US girls were not talking. No, they were talking. They were like, don't look at me. They were talking. It was, I was like, oh shit. You could feel the, the kaisiness in the air here. Because that game's things, dude. Canada's here to win a fucking gold medal. Canada's here to defend their gold medal. So that getting thwapped, dude, for a stretch, they couldn't get the puck out of the zone. No, it was crazy. So I was like, man, this is, this is an uneven match. And what I loved, I'm not going to say who it was, but at the event we were at, when the girls came through, they were playing, replaying the Canada and the US game. And one of the US women sees it on TV and she was, oh, let's go. Yeah. Fuck yeah. So Finland gets their first win. They took down Switzerland, three won. And then yesterday, Slovakia beats Finland four to one. So the twelfth, as we talked about, Canada was able to get their, get it back. And they get their third win, only lost was to US. They beat Finland. So Canada was all over the place, Clark with two goals at the end in the third period. They look great. It's going to be a battle between US Canada. It feels like for sure. But this is what we said at the top. Sweden, the Sweden women are fucking firing. Yeah. Oh my god. Don't cannot stress that enough. Four and oh. And now the quarterfiles are set. So when you're listening to this on Friday, yes, they'll be playing Sweden against the Czechs, Italy against the US. And then on Saturday, Germans against the Canadians and Swiss against Finland. Yes. So Finland Swiss, that's going to be an interesting game. Canada, Germany, great match up for Canada. You've got to expect that they'll be able to, I think, Germany 2-1-0-1 in therefore games through the prelims. Yeah, that's the toughest matchup, honestly. That has got to be the toughest matchup. Because my Canada's tough draw for them. Yeah. But the Italians with two good wins, loved to see that on home ice. But that's a matchup the USA wants. I think that Sweden check game is going to be a, a, should be win for Sweden because of how good they've been. Yep. But check is always, always scrappy. Yeah. They have been, they have been a great tournament. They only beat Finland, I think, who's been so bad. So tomorrow, today for us, by the time you're listening to this, to this, yeah, today for you, we've got some great games. Like we said, we're going to be at Sweden, Finland for the men's. We've got Switzerland, Canada, that'll be a great game for the men's. But all eyes today are on the women. Sweden, this is the quarter finals. Quarter finals getting knocked out now. This is the world. Sweden, Czechia, Italy, US and the US women are fucking. I crap. Crab wagoon. Yep. And they are blowing everyone out of the wall. It's incredible. So those, those are the games to dial in. All right. We got to get some rest. We got a ton of shit to get to. Like we said, check us out on all the socials. We're going to be posting all this stuff. We're going to be at that Sweden, Finland game tomorrow. We're going to be dialing into the quarter finals for the women's. We're going to be covering that as well. Guys, make sure, do us favor Spotify, Apple, Five Star Reviews. Show us some love if you can. Make sure you're subscribed everywhere. So you have fun. And also, if you're Canadian, US, we've got some awesome merch on the site right now. You can rep the Olympic gear, rep your nations, do your thing. It's going to be a blast. Like I said, we're going to go to sleep when we wake up. There's only one thing that we can do, and we hope you do it with us. Skate hard.