The Dream Gold Medal Matchup - Semi Finals Olympic Hockey Recap

Welcome to the Empty Netters podcast. Can you believe what this has become? There was a full 48 hours where I felt like I was like literally Superman. Jumbo loves playing Fortnite, so he gets on the stick. Did TR show you the sauna cycle or was that all you? 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. Finished tonight with some chicken fingers and a few Guinnesses ran into you guys. That's where this pod came to life. Ice is ready and we are live with another episode of the empty nerds podcast brought to you by bet MGM. We are here in Milan boots on the ground coming to you live right now breaking down a lot of Olympic hockey. We're going through the rundown the women's gold medal game USA Canada. Then we're rolling right into the men's semifinal games. We had Canada Finland USA Slovakia. Holy hell. Lots of action. Lots of horny vibes here in Italia. Horny for hockey, right? One of the horniest days I've been a part of. And I've been a part of a lot of them. To be very honest with you, I've been a part of a lot of them. A couple of horny, horny days. Let's get it cracking. Stick. With the gold medal. Who's this podcast brought to you by? Did you say that? I said. Okay, yeah. Fucking Jesus. Did you say Red's here? He is. Did you say, as always, I'm here? No, that's your job. Well, you've got to say I'm here. No one even knows I'm here. That's true. I'm your host, Dan Powers. I got red on the sticks. Sticking. He is exhausted after that Canada game. Yeah, he is. I am physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually gone. I saw your soul being sucked out of your anus. I almost didn't speak for an hour. Yeah, he didn't. I've only seen Red look like that once in his life, and then that was at Coachella. That is true. And then over here with the best homemade knit hat. Ping on. What's her name? Chris Powers. Laura. Laura. Shout out, Laura. Shout out, Laura. As always. Holy fuck. Holy fuck, indeed. Hey, I forgot about it the other day. What is the— Oh, Matt Boldyglazer's here. Fucking Boldyglazer. Thank God you're back. What is the movie that we've been trying to quote every episode? Draft Day. Draft Day, yeah, yeah, yeah. So we've got to get a Draft Day quote in there at some point. I want my picks back. There it is. Folks, there it is. All right. We just came back from the official USA hockey house, watching it with a ton of the Olympians. We wanted to do a house day today. We were at the Canada house, then the USA house, watching the boys play. But we were in the house, in the building for the gold medal tilt. Basically, we were like, we're coming all the way to Milan. We saw a ton of preliminary matchups and everything. And we were just thinking to ourselves, if we're here, we've got to see the gold medal. We've got to be in the building. Saw a few of the early round elimination games, but this semifinal round, we wanted to do it with the people at the houses. We're going to the gold medal game on Sunday, obviously, and we went to the gold medal game last night. One of the great rivalries going. Oh, yeah. In sports. Oh, yeah, buddy. The USA women and the USA Canadian – or Jesus Christ. The USA women and the Canadian women facing off in that gold medal game. It's the gold medal game everyone wanted. Yes, it was. and holy hell was that tense well because before coming in we said because there was a lot of hype here around the um the two those two women's teams and everybody was saying and we're talking to people who are deep in the women's game reps and and staff and all this shit and everybody was like this u.s women's team is next level we posted that graphic 7-0 the third 33 goals to two you When it's all said and done, they look unbelievably dominant. Unbelievably dominant. Coming into that game, that's all everybody was talking about here. This women's team, U.S. team, is the greatest female team ever. They are going to roll over Canada in the final, just like they did in the round robin. Yeah. And we kept saying, this is a nightmare for the U.S. team because you have everything to lose. Canada just gets to play free. Shout out our girl Domi, unbelievable agent at CAA. she was quick to say during that game this Canada team is nasty and anyone who thinks this is going to be a roll fest does not watch women's hockey and that was on pure display in that game and I also want to shout out the Canadian ladies because that graphic did go up that you mentioned talking about how dominant this US team is and they are but that Beijing year Canada team was a wagon so just saying And they've had plenty of wagons. Check yourself. They've had plenty of wagons. Check yourself on the stats. Yep. But we come into this game, and it was juiced to the tits. It was unbelievable. And the crowd was split. It was packed. And there were flags. I've never seen more flags. The flag. Canada had the flag game. Yep. The building was split. We were sitting in a very family-oriented section, and that was very split. And we did our best. it's also like we talk about i mean listen we're we are american we're proud americans but we got a lot of friends on both teams and we always like to try to snap around the love so we were doing our best to be impartial in the stands i mean i'm talking literal parents of canadian players are sitting behind me and parents of u.s players are sitting in front of me so i was just i was trying to be switzerland in that game well i'm a bronze medalist yeah i was And they were there. They were in the building. I was on a Swiss team. So we're in there, and man, like you said, the fandom was split, but the Canadian flags were everywhere. Yeah. They were everywhere. They actually – at one point, there's a guy. I've been talking about the rink guy all trip. The rink guy, he's doing the wave. He's doing the fucking – Clap. Clap. He's got all kinds of gimmicks. He does that one. Yeah, he's so good. He loves the wave, like you said. Also, I don't know if people aren't aware of this yet. Everyone here in Milan is aware. So hockey, not the biggest thing in Milan. Yeah. And when there are TV timeouts and the ice crew comes out and cleans the ice. Insane, dude. They have decided to call that a power break. And I'll tell you what. When that comes over the speakers in that arena, every fucking time, it sounds like power play. And keep in mind, it always happens at a stoppage of play and all the gates open. So 80% of the arena every time goes, what was the power? What team? So it's great. And it sounds like it's from a Nintendo game. I was just about to say that. It's like Pokemon or something. It is. It's like an old school N64 game. Power break. Power break. I'm like, holy shit. Everyone goes, for which team? Yeah, so we got all kinds of chaos. But this time, for the first time in a game I've been to, that rink guy goes, he goes, put the flags up. Yeah, that was nails. And if you did, if you looked around the building, just flags waving. Everywhere. I was like, oh, my God, dude, this is all time. Everywhere. It was amazing. And you go into that game, okay, and what's that? I think it's a Mike Tyson quote. Everybody's got a plan. Everyone's got a plan until you get punched in the mouth. those canadian gals had that mentality because yes round robin they lost five nothing to this u.s team this u.s team was just shellacking everyone i i went in to the semis u.s sweden and i was like this is the game of the tournament it just turned out to be murder unfortunately yep and by the way the swedish gals i tough tough tough tough tough but that is what happened this the veteran leadership and the just the the the talent and the poise on that Canada team they came out and they frustrated the shit out of USA dude we we had talked about a little nervy little nervy nervy because dude we Tom Brady in the building by the way couldn't find him I was trying to get up there I had some boys that was a lot for us I had some Panthers fans boys up there in a suite and I was like yo give me up to that suite and he was like he talked to the guy and the guy said get fucked your friends can't come up here and i was like oh shit and then i was like where's brady and he was like he's actually two sweets over there's fucking secret service consequences consequences yeah so it was dialed in there is no room for air correct so it was it was um you see tom was with uh wano and mess today yeah dude and he uh he took a pick too with somebody else that i saw with jack and quinn with jack and for some reason can tom take a pick with me one tom's arm and arm with quitter yeah jack standing off to the side i'm like jack get in there it's unbelievable jack jack slide in dude tuck in so anyway tom has said many times haven't played in 10 superbowls how are you he was like you don't you just can't simulate it you don't know what you're gonna feel like you can't test the nerves and plenty of these girls on on the usa team have been in gold medal games so i don't mean to imply they're this you know completely uh novice inexperienced team correct but they have some young players who are in their first one sure but even if you've played in them already it still affects you that's what you really need to understand and that's what we were kind of getting at with the fear of that girls team going in going you're better you know you're better they are a rabid dog because they just go just give them your best punch in the mouth and see how they respond and i thought the first period was super tense but coming out of the first i almost felt like if you just survive the first 0-0 as the U.S. women. You come out in the second with a fresh sheet of ice on a peeper. You just pop a goal there, and then you are off and running, and you still win 5-0. Yeah. What you couldn't do, Dan, to start the second period is give up a 2-on-1 incredible cross scene pass, bang, forehand, backhand, tough job. Shorty down 1-0. You've been scored on once all tournament. That. And you're now down 1-0 in the gold medal game to Canada. That was the most, again, the game was so back and forth that second period. I barely, like I said, it was just a horny couple of days of hockey. That goal was too horny. Christian O'Neill comes in on the shorty. Scores. Nice move. And it was nice. And I do need to shout out quickly. We talk about with the Olympics all the time. You fall in love with people. You fall in love with players, players you weren't familiar with. I mean, I fell head over heels in love with Laura Stacey in that game. Laura Stacey, Team Canada. You were deacon. was she was all fucking over the ice all blocking shots head first she took all hand but she went head first into that all over the ice and on the on the pk had the primary assist on that o'neill goal and i mean just unbelievable but that was a that was a not a death blow obviously but that was a oh fuck moment for usa and then it was just chasing for the rest of it chasing for the rest of it. Canada did such a good job of keeping them out on the perimeter. They really just, USA could not get through the seam. You had great, I mean, there are just so many great players on this team. Taylor Heisey, our homie, friend of the program. Hannah Bilka, friend of the program. Abby Murphy, just great, great players. And no one could really get through. There were a few cross-crease passes, good little one-two setups that no one could get on the end of. And they were just doing a good job of keeping them outside frustrating them we talked about the veteran leadership on canada also need to take a quick moment and shout out our homie aaron ambrose yep best game of the tournament for aaron and i'm so i mean mind-blowing best game of the best game of the tournament for her she was unbelievable it's funny i kind of have it's it's i'm so i'm so close with her and so close with drew and those two humans came in in such uniquely similar circumstance i know where I'm like, oh, you were two Olympian legend Canadian defensemen who were probably your last Olympics. You just want to give it everything. And it's been really funny watching their journeys both be perfect. It's amazing. But so with you, I said to everyone that would listen, I hope USA wins this game. But if Canada wins, I hope Erin scores, and I just hope she plays a great game. And I'm so happy to have finished that and have been able to go up to her and say you were incredible. You were incredible. You did everything you were supposed to do and then some. played so well uh drew two monster penalties for the team including one right there at the end i think it was like six and a half minutes left or something and i she uh aaron drew that penalty and listen could that have been a five minute major so i want to get into that so to kind of get us there i would say halfway through the second the ice did tilt a little bit and the u.s team found their game in a way i didn't think they had at all yeah but so they were possessing it but everything you said is right perimeter perimeter perimeter you go to intermission you're down one nothing now you're tweaking because you come out in the 30 20 minutes rest of your life big to kill yourself you lose this game they come out and dude that clock just goes and goes and goes and you're trying to get one by 10 and then you don't and now it's humming yeah that play happens and they review that and there's six and a half minutes left if that's a fiver this game is hova hova and it was a tough hit aaron's obviously legitimately oh man i mean that knee took a beating yep but and obviously I'm biased, but I'm glad having seen the hit because if it was a clear five minute or I would say, but since it was borderline for me, I'm glad they let the gals decide it. Yeah. With a minor, minor penalty. If you can kill this off, you have a chance to play for the gold medal versus just going, you're killing a penalty for the rest of this game. I'm willing to agree. I'm going to call that one borderline and given the situation I said, I, I, I got to imagine that's not called a fiver because there's six and a half minutes left in the gold medal game and it's a one goal game and i'm fine with that you're like you're already getting a peeper yep usa kills it off now we're in desperation mode we're in desperation mode and what do you know with just over two minutes left who else and they pulled aaron i thought that was an early poll just because in my mind they're thinking we don't want to give up the freebie but smart early poll yeah early yank they get good possession layla edwards i've been saying one of the most electric players all tournament for usa gets a great puck on net and like i said who else captain america that was awesome i mean you got you just big time miracle big time big time players make big time plays miracle shit yeah that was insane hillary knight gets the goal ties it up holy fuck so now we go into ot we're not going to waste precious minutes of this live talking about the fact that in the fucking gold medal game at the olympics we're doing three on three but it is so dumb and i also bad for the player i want to go further and say it is so dumb that we're doing three on three for these ladies who don't play three yeah yeah it's just it's it was mayhem and this this is no knock it was clear that they don't play three on three often because it's just a totally different style game that they're now forced to be playing here in the olympics that said it made the three on three so entertaining it was just truly may it was it was true mayhem and some great chances both ways because i thought the u.s team had the speed advantage yeah and i thought three on three was going to be very one-sided and my god could that have gone either way yeah absolutely could have gone either way uh i think it was abby murphy made made one of i think i got it on film abby murphy made one of the most electric back check breakups of all time it was it was i think it was a two on oh at the very least it was a two on one and the canadian girls are coming down i was like oh fuck you're dead usa dead dunions and abby just came through and it was remarkable the play that she made jesus i was actually laughing because we right behind the bench when she did that she comes all the way back breaks it up us goes down the other way and she comes to the bench gassed obviously and people just kind of let her on and i'm sure she got some taps i couldn't really see but i was like she would have gone to the bench i would have been like thank you you know it's like she needs some respect on that literally crowd surfers insane dude but you said it earlier big time players make big time plays the other captain of this team. Keller comes in, defenseman. Unreal stretch pass from Heise. Unreal stretch pass from Taylor Heise. And just somehow finding the legs, finding the hands in OT, three on three, walks the defender, gets the backhand in to squeeze through the six hole. Game. Called game. Called game blouses. Unbelievable. Rick James quote. or no prince quote prince quote well it's a charlie murphy or it's a dave chapelle playing prince which he says to charlie murphy which he says to charlie murphy yeah blouses yes unbelievable god that was awesome man that was a gross goal it was it was a doodle and and a couple yeah couple of just hall of fame photos coming from that goal too yep but i mean And it feels to me there's a cool, I don't want to even call it changing of the guard, but this U.S. team is very young. There's a new wave of elite, elite talent on this women's team for USA. Obviously, they can play, look at the tournament they just put out. Yeah. But there are a few all-time vets on this team. And the two goal scorers, the two captains are a couple of them. Someone says here in the comments, too, still wild, but after losing, they gave the Canadian team a bunch of stuffed animals. And I will. To be fair, the U.S. team got stuffed animals, too. I know, but I can't believe. I mean, this is the first gold medal game I've ever been lucky enough to go to, obviously. It is a tragedy how long the Canadian team has to sit on the ice and watch all that bullshit. And then to sit there and go through and get handed some stuffed animals. You know what? It happens every Olympics. I'm not paying attention. But I just think I don't want these. Let me be very clear. there are no comparisons going on here. But when you lose in the NCAA tournament, at pretty much any stage, you get given little medals too. It's like you lose in the Elite Eight. They're like, here you go. Final Four, here you go. And you want to fucking rock skip that stupid little fucking medal as far as the eyes can see. Like Hagrid, skipping them across the Black Lake. But it is something that people are like, you're going to want that at some point in your life. Now, obviously, I'm not comparing the stuffed animal to the silver medal. But I'm pretty sure the little mascots are red. Maybe you can look this up. They're called, I think, Mila. I saw one. I think they're called Mila and Tina. Oh, one is called Tina. For like Milan and Cortina. Oh, nice. And I think they're weasels. They're like, no, they're not weasels. No, they're a form of weasel. Somebody in the comments find this out, please. Let me fucking talk. Stop interrupting me. I'm trying to educate you. You don't know shit. I do. I don't know the name, but they're a weasel-like animal that's native to the area, and I'm pretty sure that their fur changes color with the season. So in the winter, they're white, and in the summer, they're brownish, and I think one of them is white, one of them is brown. Yeah, that's cool. And also good names for Milan and Cortina. Incredible names. I saw one. It might be Milo. No, I think it's Mila and Tina. It is Milo and Tina. Milo and Tina. And they do look like ferret-like creatures. Well, anyway. It's a stoat. A stoat. Thank you, chat. Yep. But you're going to want that stuffed animal. You're going to want that stout. Maybe your kids, maybe a niece, nephew, or something like that. Maybe you. You're a big stuffed animal guy. You've got stuffed animals all over your bed. You're a 40-year-old man, and you still sleep with stuffed animals. Explain yourself. You're telling me you don't want Milo and Tina? I'm actually going to get Milo and Tina now. And you're going to stick them on your bed. But I didn't just lose it at gut-wrenching overtime. If someone wants to hand me Milo and Tina right now, I go, thank you. Yeah. Did you, at a point in your life, think, you know, there's a lot of people who make jokes about throw pillows taking up bed space. Yep. And then you have to potentially deal with a partner in your life who's going to go, I fucking hate these throw pillows. Did you at a point in your life realize I'm going to have to explain to a partner that I have a corral of stuffed animals that I sleep with. And then you happened to decide to spend your life with a person who does the same thing. Yeah, that's how you know. That was the moment for you? That's how you know. You went, this is going to work. As long as you're aligned on throw pillow-ness. Or stuffed animal-ness. Whatever it is. I think – I don't think there are that many – I think it's throw pillars or stuffed animals, Chris. Well, you don't know, dude. There's probably some crazy shit going on. There actually might be. And we do not kink shame. So you find your thing. We're a horny pod. You find your pro kink pod. I cannot leave the women's gold medal game without saying Aaron Frankel. Okay. So I wanted to get into this before we move on. Quick stick taps to – well, obviously we're going to get into Aaron, friend of the program. Caroline fucking Harvey. Yes. Caroline Harvey. Olympic All-Star Team. Olympic Best Defender. Olympic Best Plus Minus with a plus 14 How are you Gold Medal most assists most points most points by a defenseman and most valuable player What a fucking tourney for Caroline Harvey. That said, we must also give the Empty Netters MVP of the women's tournament to Erin Frankel. That superhuman could not be scored on. And all, I mean, she gave up two goals all tournament and one in this gold medal game. And the saves that Erin made were in, she made a couple off her head. Dude, many. There were so many bouncing pucks that she's throwing the blocker around the paddle of her stick around. She's literally heading balls out of the fucking crease. It was balls, pucks out of the crease. Aaron was out of this world this whole tournament and that game so the empty netters MVP goes to Aaron Franco incredible I was so pumped fucking crazy crazy shit uh the thing that sucks about the Olympics and about the Stanley Cup and about any championship game is someone has to lose and those Canadian women played an unbelievable tournament and a particularly unbelievable game and it sucks that they had to lose it sucks that players like Aaron Ambrose and Poo have to you You know, not win a gold and potentially their last Olympics, but decorated, decorated, decorated Olympians with gold medals to their names. And a legendary effort. And a legendary game. At the end of the day, it had to be those two teams. I'm so glad it was. I'm glad USA won. We are Americans. So, you know, we've got to back our girls. But, I mean, what a game. I mean, most viewed women's hockey game, women's Olympic hockey game of all time. I think 7.7 million people watching on TV all told. Well deserved, dude. It was just – what a fucking show from the gals. You love to see it. Congrats to our girls. We're going to get a bunch of them on the show here soon. So if you want more of the U.S. women's talk, it's coming. So get ready for that. Can't wait. Can't wait to have them. Let's get a quick ad in here before we jump to the men's games. All right. We're going to our presenting sponsors, and you know who that is. It's BetMGM, the world's greatest hockey players, guys, and gals, have been facing off here on the global stage. And you can join the excitement and make the Winter Games moment when you bet with boosted odds. Activate your odds boost token for any Winter Games hockey bet throughout the entire tournament, and you'll receive a bigger payout if your bet wins. You've got two more men's games coming up, the bronze medal game on Saturday, and the gold medal game USA-Canada rematch on Sunday. So go to BetMGM, pick any bet you want for either of those medal games, and use that odds boost token. Get ready for Puck Drop with BetMGM. If you haven't signed up yet, Use bonus code NETTERS, that's N-E-T-T-E-R-S, and you get up to $1,500. Come on. New player offer on your first wager if it loses. That's a sick deal. That's an unbelievable deal. Let MGM make it legendary. I got to say, I stubbed my pinky toe today. You did. I saw it happen. Really hard. I saw it happen. And as a man with flares for the dramatics, I think I played it off pretty well. I didn't make a meal of it, right? We heard about it, so. But it just happened. Like, I was like, I stubbed my toe pretty hard. Well, now we're hearing about it again. Yeah, everybody's hearing about it. I'm saying it's late. It's past midnight, and I'm flexing it right now, and it doesn't feel good. Yeah. So I'm playing Hurt. Playing Hurt, and you're doing a great job. Thanks, man. That's what I do. Doing a great job. You know who wasn't playing Hurt? Sidney Crosby. Sidney Crosby. Too hard to play. All right, we are getting into the men's semifinal games. Canada versus Finland. Did not go how we expected. and things started brutal sydney crosby not playing um we knew it was coming and frankly there's a bit more optimism about him than i expected even maybe it's all smoke and mirrors but i thought they were just going to say he is completely no i agree from what we were hearing i was i was happy and excited to hear people were like sid is out for this game there is hope that And I'm now thinking, given that we have the gold medal game against USA in what could possibly be Sidney Crosby's last Olympics, I actually really think he's going to play. I kind of do too. I think he's going to play. And what's nuts is there's a part of me that feels like that short-sighted, and I'm like, buddy, the Pens are in the playoffs. We're cup chasing him. We might be able to go out and deal for somebody. that's what i'm saying to you guys just having him on the bench even if he plays five minutes like i feel like as you're 13 forward that's better than no sit at all right agree i'll go out and trade for bobrovsky for most people that people i think a lot of people probably don't know that if you've been paying attention you figured it out but in the nhl you dress 12 forwards and 60 so you dress the even lines yeah and that's it if you lose a guy you're playing short yeah in the olympics you are allowed to dress and two extra guys you can be whatever you want but most people go one extra forward one extra d so if you lose a guy they can come or he can just not play yeah all the time yeah so sid could just suit up and be on the bench which would be electric yes kind of a risk is like if you lose someone if you really can't go and then you actually lose someone you're like yeah but i don't know just have his pride dude his aura just oozing down the bench and well you love to you you we all heard uh you know you're not putting sid in the press box sid was just in the the locker room yeah between reports he's in the locker room yeah between periods and was clearly instrumental yeah as he is but this game starts and uh yeah man things did not go as expected um there was one other cool pregame thing where you said it on the story but um you you legally have to have someone wearing the seat yeah for your team when you're playing the olympics so they came out connor mcdavid wearing the seat for team cat i picture the moment where john cooper and co went up to connor mcdavid and they went hey the iihf rules dictates that we need a captain on the ice therefore you will be taking the sea i imagine that situation going identical ah identical we're also getting uh my cousin vinnie quotes in every episode um to the scene in ted lasso where roy kent tells ted that a captain needs to be on the pitch and ted's like well as long as i'm the coach here you are the captain and roy kent is like it's a rule he's like well then you have to pick and he's like i don't want to he's like i insist i imagine connor did that exact same yeah like they were like you're wearing the sea and connor was you went no he goes i refuse yeah they're like well you have to and he's like well no and it's so great because obviously he gets all these questions and he's like this i'm just keeping it warm for sim like he won't even entertain they're like it's a great honor he's like this is fucking bullshit yeah i hate it it is not my sea it belongs to sid and it's a crime that i'm doing this yes like fuck yeah connor that is great and if sid grocery sticks on sunday yeah he will be wearing it yes they will slap it back on his chest and that'll be incredible i i'm not gonna lie i hammered hammered a lot of money on a connor mcdavid anytime goal scorer because i i just felt like captain connor wearing the sea for canada it was just going to just pump him pump him full of you know what yeah to to get on the score sheet so but which by the way he did instantly uh with an assist and became the all-time leading goal which we will get to i loved loved that in this game um they didn't go micmac line to start correct they were like we can go to that if we want but i actually think it's been affecting the other lines a little bit and then jarvie gets up with nate dock yeah you love to see jarvie up there that fired me up dude and that's god dude he can shine there i thought he played a great game i thought he played a great great game so that was really cool um and then i also had an early note in the game and this is so funny considering everyone on earth that plays with conor mcdavid says something like god what an honor it is to play with sure it's so fun to play with conor mcdavid but i actually made a note watching this game early where i said conor must love playing with mac because every time conor looks up max cutting somewhere perfectly and conor passes it and then mac fucking hammers it on net and i'm like like well that Connor must be like that's this kid is so good that's another thing um you and we'll get into this later he he must love it for a million reasons but also the fact that Mac is Mac's just spraying he's oh every time he's he's like he's like a little puppy who's like learning to pee outside still and he's just spraying all over the place and getting shots on net and a guy like Connor who's always looking to pass like he must love it he's like I'm just gonna give it to this kid he's gonna fucking rip it it's absolutely it's unbelievable eight shots today yeah let let let the team i think let all players in shots one again like i said we'll get into that but it's fantastic but we get into this game i think canada all over them one sec everyone's saying no audio but then they're saying they left the video and came back and now it's good so let us know got to be a youtube issue who knows okay keep talking to us if there's no audio but i I think people have figured it out. Yeah, chat, we'll rely on you. What are we? Yeah. So are people saying it must be a YouTube issue? Well, it was a lot of no audios. Everyone lose audio, no audio, no audio. And then people are saying, oh, I left the video and came back, and it's okay. Okay. And everyone's saying, yeah, I left and came back, and it's okay. Or they're saying audio's fine now. Okay, all right. We're back. I think we keep going. Okay. Hey, sharp. Sharp action, CP. Come on, come on, come on. Sorry about that, chat. Heart attack round two today, boys. Seriously. We can't take that. Good luck, chat. Oh, look, we got producer Evan here in the chat now, too. I think he says audio good. Yes. Yep. Ev saying Evbot. Good job. All right. We're back, folks. We never left. Okay. We never left. All right. We get into this game. For my money, Canada's on them. Yeah. But Finland, in the first period, Finland's there. They were getting a couple chances. Didn't get any, in my opinion, in the beginning, super grade A chances. but it's going back and forth. No one looked very tense, but Canada wasn't dominating. And I don't think we ever thought they were going to. This is a very good Finland team. Very, very good team. But it's just a daunting task going up against this Canadian team. Then Finland gets a power play. And, I mean, hilarious. Yeah. Like they literally get a power play. They line up in the offensive zone. Cleanest face-off draw you'll ever see from Sebastian Aho. Cleanest release you will ever see from Miko Rantanen. Just nipped it top corner. And towards the end of the first, just like that, Finland's up 1-0. Okay, a few things there. One, nothing Binner can do. Unreal shot from an unreal player. Absolutely nothing can do. No big deal. Two, Bo Horvat nightmare. Because they go, you are on this team to not even just win a D-zone draw on the PK, but certainly not lose it clean. and and by the way that happens all it's hockey right like they're good yeah yeah yeah it just sucks when you're a bo harvat and you go here we go i'm gonna go do my i'm gonna go do the thing that's the reason i made this team and then they go snap back goal and you go yeah well uh if i could take that one back that would be awesome and by the way that was off of the our our fucking boy sam bennett okay so this is my sam bennett dude that power back on his bullshit back on his bullshit baby he can't quit the game so i wrote he can't quit the game i wrote this down sam bennett you know how you know how uh a bull sees the red yeah thing sam bennett sees the blue sam bennett's is blue sam bennett sees blue paint and he's like no because i gotta fuck it i gotta get in there change the paint i gotta get in there panthers you gotta change the paint of the crease yeah and i bet you could petition the league and just go because it's not blue it doesn't have to be blue yeah i'd be like hey we're doing a color rush thing the crease is now yellow the funniest part was he goes in there against his teammate nico mikola and they could just go careening into the into binner or uh into sorrows yes and i gotta say watching the replay watching it live i thought bennett just well i didn't think he ran sorrows but i was i thought he got pushed i hand up i i was like that was a big collision like i think he got pushed in there but like I think Sam was leading. I mean, listen, dude, the guy gets the net. He's a fucking great player. I, in the replay, and I granted I only, you know, there's a lot going on in the Canada house. In the replay, I thought that was a bad call. In the slow-mo replay, I was like, oh, man. Okay. They're just kind of going hard at the net, but they're just tangled. It's like one of those pass interference plays where they're like, yeah, they both fell, but it just kind of just ran into each other. There was just a lot going on that I didn't love it. I didn't love it. But then immediate goal, and I said to you, Red, I'm pretty sure that was the first time someone in the chat can check this. I'm pretty sure that's the first time Canada didn't score first in every game this tournament. I believe that is true. They are C-Jowns on the Czech team, but this was like, oh, shit. I believe – I'm fairly certain that is true. So period ends. Canada fans feeling a little tense, but nothing crazy yet. Just went through this with the Czech game. We then get into the second period. Canada gets a power play. And it's like, okay, here we go. Canada gets a power play. I forget which penalty this was. Let me check this. I believe this was just a run-of-the-mill penalty because this wasn't Marshy. Yes, it wasn't the high stick. It wasn't the high stick yet. I just forget what call it was. But either way, Canada gets a peeper, and it was like, all right, here we go. Yep. And fucking Eric Holla. Yeah. Eric Holla gets a nice block shot, gets sprung, breakaway, great move, composure, and a great finish. Great finish. Great finish. And we are now, I mean, the air was sucked out of this room, out of the arena, out of Hockey Canada House, out of the nation of Canada. It was now like a, oh, fuck. We're down 2-0. And here we go. Game on. I will be interested to say, because we talked about this, I'll be interested to hear what the chat thinks here. I, because I wanted Canada to win this game very badly. I was less scared down 2-0 because they were never down 2-0. But even down 2-0, I still didn't – I was like, this is not good. But I was like, just score. Versus how scared I was late against the Czechs. I legitimately thought that they might lose that game. I was genuinely never scared a second in this game. And also, I do want to say, Finns aside, our Finnish fans and listeners, this does not pertain to you. But any U.S. fan rooting against Canada, I just want to say this is the matchup we all want. And I get it. If in hockey you're like, oh, it's a rival, whatever. But it's like, this is fun. Yeah. And so many of these players are probably on your favorite team. Yeah. They're great boys. Send them love. It's going to be fun. Rooting for Canada, 100%. But I was genuinely like, and I felt this way with the Czech game too. And we will get into this right now. I was not worried because while I was passionately rooting for Canada for a number of reasons, I don't have the insane emotional connection that I do to other things. But I was just like, this team is too good, man. And you can see it already. That goal came early in the second period, but you could already see it. Finland just didn't have anything going. Yeah. And Canada had a lot going. That second period, I think Canada outshot Finland 14-3 or something. And this... I can't remember talking about the whole time. The entire time. This brings up a great question. And I think there's a lot of good answers and reasons on both sides. But for me, when you're this Finland team, and you go up 2-0 because of an instantaneous power play goal, three seconds into the power play like draw shot goal then you get a not not a lucky finish but whenever you score a shorty it's pretty lucky you get a shorthanded goal now you're up to nothing and you are getting outplayed like crazy you know several you know we get to the halfway mark for the second period and you're getting fist fucked yeah i do not get the coaching strategy of looking at that fucking monstar squad of canada and going like this we'll survive yeah pack it in pack it in boys keep it on the outside i just don't get the mentality of thinking you're going to survive with that strategy and obviously don't be reckless don't don't be crazy and fly the zone and run and gun because then you open up the ice and you're going to get penetrated through the middle and you're going to lose fucking 10 to yeah but virginity take some shots and again we'll keep going through this game but miko randon had a great quote at the end uh or after the loss and he was like listen i'm i we're we're upset that we lost and i'm so proud of this team we fought hard but when you defend for 30 to 25 seconds a shift no one on earth can then go and try and get up in the offensive rush like we are we are pinned in desperate we are we are in a washing machine spin cycle on fucking high, high heat, high speed. And you want me to then go like this. Let's go get on a rush. You just can't survive like that. And there are ways you can win games like this when you get an unexpected two goal lead and you're like, OK, they're probably the better team, but we can survive. We can pack it in. I don't care how good your defense is. I don't care how good Soros is. This Canada team is not a team that you will live against trying to do that. And that is why for me watching, I was like, they're fine. I assure you, they're fine. And we'll get to this in a second, but the only way you're not fine in that scenario is when you run into a hot goalie. And there was a chance that we were touching something hot when I was watching Saros. He was playing great. And he made 36 saves in this game. Saros was fantastic. And Coop had his cheeky little, he quoted his… I didn't love that. Yeah. I love Coop. But I was just like, dude, he played awesome. He played awesome in a semifinal Olympic game. And I think Koop's quote was like, what's that commercial he's in? No goals. And I'm like, well, he gave up three. So don't be rude. Yeah. But he's trying to be like he was unbelievable, which he was. Oh, I read it the other way. I thought he was chirping him. Oh, no. It was like he gave up three goals. And I was like, chill. Oh, no, no. I think he was playing like he was never going to give up a goal. Okay, good. Because I was like, bro. So you did love it. Yeah, and then I do love it. Because I was like, we don't need to kick him when he's down. I love everything about Koop. He is 100% of my love. Sometimes I said this to you too when we saw that quote. When you've won, it's sometimes easy to give a cool guy quote like that. And part of me is like, don't give him a cool guy quote, man. Let him mourn. But Canada is just too good. They're always going to win this game. They get a power play goal. Sick tip by Sam Reinhart. And I love that Sam Reinhart goal. And I believe, Red, this was the marshy high stick, right? Yes, it was. Yeah. Yes, it was. Let's talk about that after this comment. That Sam Reiner goal. Right place, right time, baby. That was a get in front of the net, be a good hockey player, and get in a good position. I don't think he knew shit about that tip. Really? I thought he did that. I thought he went out to get that. Well, I think he put his stick in a good position. I do not think he moved that stick based on where the shot was going. I think he's trying to get out of the way slash screen the goalie with his body. I agree. Interesting. I think that hit his stick and he went, oh, that hit my stick. Dude, because that was gross. But what's funny is the tip. Yes. The tip was, it wasn't like a, oh, it was like kind of like just a straight down bounce. It was like a 45 degree angle change, other side of the net, nasty tip. And I think Sam was like, what happened there? Oh, sick. That was great. Dude, he on the haul of shorty, this was not Sam Reyes' fault at all. Yeah. It was he, the puck was kind of loose on the half wall and he was kind of trying to get to the point and it got chipped by and whatever. And I said to myself there, and it's hilarious that he then gets this gross tip goal. He has completely been this 13th forward on this Canada team. Yeah. Which means he's not in a line rotation. And it's so like it makes sense to me that he's dressed because they feel he's a power play weapon, which he is. he has a couple of power play goals in this tournament yeah but it must be so insane to be in an olympic semi-final game and just plugged on the bench and then they go go go now go play and you have to just be doing everything in like the most high pressure moments i think about a dh in baseball at least those dudes are in the batting cage the whole time like they go down and are taking reps staying loose and then you go oh i'm turning my turn to hit you you real quick you look like a fucking lost boy right now i feel like a lost boy right now sam right i feel like Sam Ryan. I've been sitting here on the bench for hours. Did I need to do something? So credit to him because those are not easy minutes when they go, hey dude, we need a we're losing 2-0 to Finland. We need a power play goal. Have you been sitting there for 30 minutes? And he's like, uh-huh. Go tip one. 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Anton Lundell is getting held like completely completely held and completely tied up now I'm not saying hold as a penalty but completely tied up against the boards his body is pinned and his stick is just sticking out to the side he has no control over it whatsoever and it's about three feet off the ice yeah and Marshy comes in crouched down getting low to dig the puck out and his face runs into the stick yeah and they call a high stick now Lundell's stick hit him in the face yes it did it is it is what it is but the second the content i i think lindell started complaining to the ref before the call before the arm even went up yeah he was immediately like i know i have not fucking moved like you cannot call that yeah and i am just saying i think he has an argument and i'm like yeah that was that was kind of tough because that's a huge that's a massive yeah that's a massive momentum swing. So we'll just keep that in mind. Yep. Yep. Okay. We get halfway through Canada all over. Canada's all over. And they went to the Mic Mac line, by the way. That happened in the second, but they immediately were like, okay, never mind. We got to go back to this. They sure did. And like we mentioned, or we were about to mention, sorry, shots 39-17 in this game. And like halfway through the third period, like you said, it was just, it was all Canada. It was truly, it felt like a matter of time. We get Shea Theodore with the puck, top of the slot, boom, shot goes in. Right before that, Marshy, also in the mixer again, completely takes out Saros. I mean, goes through the crease, gets pushed, absolutely, but not that strongly, and completely takes Saros, comes out of the crease. Saros gets back in, in my opinion, per the rule, certainly does not get reset. Shot comes in and goes in. Saros instantly was like, yo, what the fuck? they don't even look at it no one talks about it face off tie game 2-2 let's move on i'm not here to say it was a bad call i am here to say if you are finland how in the world do you not challenge that i couldn't believe there was the hockey cannon house went so crazy everybody was cheering and then they showed the replay and we were all like oh 100 because it's hard to hear right we were like 100 this is going to come back and they're going to be looking they're going to look at it came back and it was just puck drop and i didn't even hear if the announcers were saying anything no that nobody and it wasn't till who said that made that quote after the game which was a little salty but um tell me a quote right tell me anything joel armia was like they didn't they didn't score the only goal they scored five on five was goal interference yes so clearly the bench had something to say about it which by the way i also i mean shout out uh army he that that's a king's boy got love for him but i was like you guys scored a power play goal on a shorty yeah You didn't score 5-5. He lost 1-0. It was a 0-0 game if you want to count that one out. But to me, again, the thing to talk about with that play is, Finland, what are you doing? And this also goes into, at that point in the game, you're up 2-1. There's less than 10 minutes left. You've survived maybe a little bit longer than most of us thought. You've got to know if you're Finland, you ain't scoring in this game. You are not scoring in regulation again in this game. Yeah. So at that point, challenge that. Give it a fucking bid. Yep. What are we doing? I was just shocked that they didn't challenge. I guess they go. Obviously, the fear is they don't get it. And you get a power play. And then there's another goal. Now we're losing. And now you're not going to. Since we know you're not going to score again, at least now it's two on two. Honestly, dude, it's kind of like the Oilers-Kings thing where you're like, don't. But the other version or the other way, because that Oilers-Kings one was obviously not goal interference. Yeah, yeah. In my – dude, we saw in the USA some crazy soft goal interference calls. Yeah, oh my god. There was one in the USA game today. Yep. You're telling me that that might not have gotten overturned? I think they would have overturned that. I agree. I'm not saying it was. Marchand pulls him over, completely goes out of the crease, and does not get reset. The only question is, did Marchand get pushed? And I'm here saying I don't think it was that significant of a push. I think you had a shot at it. Yeah. But again, you're both right. It was definitely the fear of if we get this wrong and then give them power play and they score. Now we're losing. We look like assholes. I get it. But I just think, I mean, you had the lead and that was very questionable. Maybe give it a go. Yep. So tie game now. Same story. There's really nothing to talk about. Same story. Binner made some great saves again. Binner made some great saves again down the stretch. Also, you know, he didn't see, let in two and only saw 17 shots. But the thing with Benner is like, you know, immediately in the second period, he gives up that second goal and he's just unfazed. He's always unfazed. And that's what you need. But Finland's getting ragdolled. And they're now just like, just make it. Make it to overtime. Let's see what could happen 3v3. And then two and a half minutes left. Nathan McKinnon gets a stick to the face. Let's talk about it. Because I have two very significant takes here. Okay, hit me. Take number one, that was a high stick. Yep. That is a penalty. Number two, Nathan McKinnon sold the shit out of that. And turned to the ref while playing. Going like this. Look what just happened. Yes. Yeah. Both things can be true. Yeah. Both things did happen. And I am here to say if you're a purist and you're like embellishment shouldn't be part of hockey, whatever, whatever. Well, it shouldn't, but. But okay, you're a purist in that regard. In my opinion, it's part of the game. It was a high stick. And I always think when you get hit in the face, you're not, I don't know if it's necessarily, I think kind of it, part of it is a natural reaction. Yeah. Like when you get hit in the face and you kind of like throw your head, I think it's a protection complex. Like you're like, don't keep your face there. It just got hit. Yep, yep, that's right. When something goes in your eye, you're immediately like, ah, fuck. So was there some embellishment there? Maybe, but I also think it's just a reaction. At the end of the day, it was a high stick to the face. It was more the looked for me. Yeah. Just, you know, you go like this, you keep playing. He went like, oh, my God, give us the power play right now. And it was more of a high stick than the one on Marshy, too. Agreed. So it's like you're calling the Marshy one, you're calling this one. What sucks is Mikula, if you watch the other replay, he literally, and, you know, the rules are you've got to control your stick. he swings his stick completely below the knee certainly below the waist but below the knee just a sweep check like this and it just hits i think nate's stick which is at an angle because it's like it's like he's holding a golf club right it hits his stick and just bounces up like nikola's just going like this yeah low and it goes and that and it just kind of like rode up yeah so it's like you know that's a thing too right it's like you need to be in more control of your stick like that's the whole it's part of the rule yep 100 that's how it goes but it was just so tough and i have to say well first i want to give credit to canada because they that's a massive moment in the game obviously and they that was a dominant power play i know they almost didn't score but they they were they were all oh connor oh my god just the way he moves it's like it's poetry snapping it around for two minutes unbelievable felt inevitable that they were going to get one uh and i said at the top i wanted canada to win this game very badly so i'm glad that result happened and i didn't want an overtime for my stress levels for your stress levels anything but once mikola took that penalty who i would have felt this way anyway but as a player i really love i was sick to my stomach i was praying that they would survive that kill and then just lose an ot because it just don't for him to don't don't be the guy in the box for him to have to go back to the boys with 30 fucking seconds left and be like sorry no because he did it right because And it wasn't a malicious high stick. It wasn't even that bad of a play. But 100%, he high-sticked him. And he has to come back and go, you guys, we all just played the game of our fucking lives and have Canada on the ropes. And then I accidentally high-stick Nathan McKinnon with two minutes left, and we've lost because of that. That sucks so much. And I know the boys wanted that kill for him so badly because I've been in those situations both in the box and out there where you're like, we've got to get this kill for our guy. And I literally felt ill because – yeah, I don't even like watching sports sometimes when shit like that happens. It just makes me so sad. We got to move on. But you're, I mean, it sucks. There's nothing else to say about it. And the other thing that I will say on that is, like I said, I know it was a penalty. I think it fucking sucks when penalties determine games. And penalties determined that game in a big way. Oh, yeah. And that blows. The whole game. The whole game. Yeah, right. Penalties completely dictated and determined that whole game. And that blows. But end of the day, Canada survives. Not the way that Canada, I think, thought that was going to go. But I would like to also mention, Finland deserves so much respect. That is a very good team. Now, I know a lot of people are going to say, imagine if Alexander Barkov was playing in that game. We have to remember Sidney Crosby was not in that game. But at the same time, Alexander Barkov. He's done some things against some good players on that Canada. This Finnish team is fucking holy hell. It blew me away, man. If Alexander Barkov were playing in this tournament, I'm kind of like, I'm not sure I'm going to sit here and confidently say they wouldn't be in the gold medal game. So obviously power play happens. Nathan McKinnon scores with like two seconds left in the power play. Game over. Canada wins. Let's just talk about the result for Canada, but quickly, not Concelebrini. This guy. He's the best player in the world. He's the best player in the world. He's the fastest kid in the world. Per Chris Johnson, shout out Chris Johnson, played 18-02 of the final 40 minutes for Team Canada while they were behind. Everyone remember that. He finished with a team high 25 minutes, 53 seconds of ice time, eight shots on goal. Leading every player on the team. Connor McDavid's on the team. Nathan McKinnon is on the team. We did this last episode. We don't need to do it again. But I just I think it is important to emphasize 19 year old Macklin Celebrini is like the most important player on this team in that game. And this is just it feels like game after game after game. And then another one, we mentioned it earlier. Connor McDavid gets an assist on the first goal. He gets an assist on the second goal, becoming the all time leader for Canada in a single Olympics. Yeah, yeah. Set the record for single season tournament points 13 and is only two behind SIDS 15 for Olympics ever. they're the three best players in the world and they're the it's the best line hockey has ever is it great it's incredible the mic mac line legitimately right now is probably the three best players in the world last thing i have on this uh i said earlier but soros just cannot have enough good things to say about it i thought it was incredible you didn't think mac was offside i didn't i thought well i thought it was inconclusive yeah um pubic hair it was and you actually said chris you were like i think that was the exact same time yeah and i love that call is you know also that was a good job Finland go for it I would have challenged anything I would have challenged anyway but that actually when they did that I was like oh this is a desperation challenge I said it in real time because Conor kind of like fumbled that puck right before they went in and I went ooh that might have been off and then they were just in the zone forever and when they challenged I was like he might have been off anyone who's saying it was definitely off anyone who's saying it was definitely on neither of you are right it's impossible to determine it's the call in the ice stand for me it was too close to people some people are really mad online but that one i just and dude trust me i wanted it to be off so we could go to overtime and we you guys could win there but that is just it's one of those it's they're both on the blue line and then you pan one millisecond and they're both in yeah i'm like we don't have the cameras we don't have the frame rate to see so we're good yeah a whole other can of worms but too but it's like it was a minute yeah it really was so true so true they were always winning that game okay before we move on to the u.s slovakia game thoughts on canada um you're fucking doing that i'm not doing that we got two you want me to do we got two yeah i'll do one okay um the i think that it's good for them i i said before i wish canada won eight nothing every game up until the final so they wouldn't have played a single hard game so i think it's good for them that they've had this experience but now actually i'll save some of this for my finals prediction but they haven't looked that comfortable they played two good teams don't get me wrong but they just haven't looked as comfortable as i have thought the possession numbers are all there of course the shots are there but i and you know i know you're like well dude they they are comfortable because they never are out which is which is very scary but i'm kind of shocked there wasn't like one more gear so far i did they got they've got usa right with their water yeah honestly honest to god it's how i feel i think i know that these guys are they you know they're coming out out of these games they're going jesus christ yeah but i think it's great to have these sketchy games i'm glad usa got the sweden game i think it's great to be up against it and feel that pressure and feel the sweat uh because they they are going to go into this usa game going we've we've dealt with it all we've dealt with every emotion we've been down two we've been down one we've been down late won a game without sid they they they've dealt with every bit of adversity they could expect so i think it's great for canada and again connor said something like he was like i'm i know we've got a whole country of people who are fucking sweating right now, but it's fun. 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As I said, I don't want to sewer this Slovakia team, but Red is going to. you don't have an NHL goalie you have four NHL players half your team probably works up in finance in the other half of the season I don't know what to tell you brother we were so Cinderella has turned into a pumpkin yes we were so impressed with Slovakia's tournament and there was this big narrative going into this game so many people here in Milan as we were walking around I'm talking NHL employees, NBC employees, bunch of U.S. people were like, fuck, man, like this one might be tough. This team feels like a team of destiny. They're playing so well together. They clearly know each other's game really well. And that is true. But what Red just said is also true. And if you were one of the top two teams in the tournament, which USA is, there is absolutely no excuse to look at that Slovakia team and be like this. We're going to get frustrated by that. Yeah. It's like, I'm sorry, dude. No, wrong. You cannot. In this situation, playing the second game where you know what the stakes are. Dude, if you go, we – Canada was waiting for the gold medal matchup that we all wanted, that we all believed we deserved with the roster we put together. And then you have to come home and go, I guess, we actually lost to the Slovaks in the semis. So then we beat Finland for the bronze. I go, you have to be outside your fucking mind. Canada obviously did not want to lose to Finland. But if you lose to Finland, you go, yeah, it was a fucking tough one, dude. Yeah. We didn't have Sid. You know, if this team, this U.S. team lost to this Slovakia team, you can't come home. Correct. They did it. They took care of business. They took care of business, and that's the best part. As we get into this game, the USA was jacking off. Yep. They were jacking off. They were jacking off hard, and we're going to get into the jack-off session. The first thing that you pointed out was the jersey matchup was fucked. There are – this game finished 6-2, and we could so easily just be like, it was a beatdown. There's a lot to talk about. Oh, yeah. the the number one thing as we keep talking about is like this this was a classic going into this game it's the semi-finals and i feel as though so many people in media want to be the cool guy who goes oh i don't know i could i could see slovaks coming in with big punch here and it And I'm like, why? Why be that guy and say, because you want to look like the cool dude who calls it if the one in a million chance that happens. I'm so happy that this USA team went, what the fuck are you talking about? We are much better than this team. Good job. They came in and they just put a beat down on them and that's great. What was not great was the jersey matchup. Ridiculous. That was crazy. that was crazy seeing triple and i loved that it was unanimous people were like i'm getting a headache watching this game it was difficult it was genuinely if we had like a serious high res and what the the contrast or whatever was like really bright where we were watching and i was like this is a good god almighty i can't see who's who but usa could see who's who and they just came out flying first period Dylan Larkin gets it started my boy getting better as the games get more intense oh yeah Dylan Larkin like this dude boom scatterplot game intensity on the y axis Dylan Larkin's play on the x-axis look at this Larks gets it going early TNT gets it going right after that assisted by Eichel and Quinn Hughes just a beautiful beautiful power play one tee did you see the curve in that stick have you seen that photo which one tige thompson's one clap titty daddy that went in like the teeniest little slot to get in there the curve in his stick i mean good lord almighty uh and it was just it was all bets off after that second period we're jacking off um jack jack hughes goal jack eichel goal jack jack hughes goal jack-off session. The United States of America was jacking off in the second period. I wanted to talk about the McAvoy goal interference. Did you like that call? I think so too. I don't know why he kind of clipped him, but he was going. McAvoy was like, what the fuck? And then later he had that high stick and then he's going again. Chucky, I love you. Listen, I don't get mad at these NHL players when those goalie interference gets called because I don't think that's goalie interference in the NHL. Actually, maybe that was goalie interference. But, dude, you know, never let a penalty go. Yeah. Never let a penalty go. And I like that Chucky was giving it to him. And then Chucky's high-sticking penalty when he was like, what the fuck are you talking about? I was like, he was like, here you go, Harry Potter again. He was the troll in the dungeon swinging his club around. He smacked someone in the face. I was like, what are you talking about, Charlie? I need to know what he was saying. I know. I just need to know if he was like, dude, you don't understand. Someone pushed my stick or something. I love to find out that sometimes it's the scene from Billions and he's going like this. That's a great call. I just need to look pissed off. I fucking smoked him in the face. Yeah, the team needs it. And then, dude, I just wanted to touch on this because I hate this shit so much. The fucking delay of game that Wierenski takes. You actually had an amazing comment in the Finland game where I stand by this. Saros played one out and it almost went over the glass. And I was like, oh, shit. Goalies should not be allowed to get delay of game calls for a puck over the glass. Incredible take. If you, as a goalie, can get that puck high up and over the glass, no penalty. They're going to be doing it all the time then. But I think it should be rewarded. If you're hemmed in the zone and the goalie gets out, they got the stones to get their puck on the stick and flip it out, get a clock stop, reward them. And then this one, and I know this is so hard, it's objective, but Wierenski literally poke checks a puck. I that was crazy and flips into the crowd and they're like delay of game and I'm like that obviously is not in the spirit of this fucking penalty I know like it's again there's no way to be like I bet too when the refs call those ones they're like sorry that was fucking bullshit dude that made me so mad yeah and I have a USAPK comment later but that was one of those moments where I think it was only one nothing still and I'm like great here comes the Slovakia power play goal yeah bullshit um okay so yeah like you said Tej Peeper you know go into second amazing and then um oh oh there was also uh eichel in the second had one of these um he wheels in on the backhand and takes it behind the net and then played it off the back of the net oh it's beautiful and i was like jack is self-passed that's even more of a jack off session they were jacking off jacks were jacking awesome i loved that um the fucking ice high stick i said um oh uh we got the boldy to genzel goal that was waved off uh because he clearly kicked it in yes that was funny But the USA house feed was going crazy when that was happening. So it was like, Baldy, go. And like the video cut out. It froze as the ref was like, what the fuck happened? What happened? That was insane. I loved that. Oh, I want to ask you this. They pulled their goalie, as in yanked him. Yes. Went the fourth one. Fourth, fourth. And the announcers were going, you got to keep in mind, because this is their stud goalie. They want him for the bronze medal game. And I was like, that's kind of a tough white flag wave. Like, obviously, we did roll on them, but I was like, man, that's a little early. Oh, I disagree. The game was over after the first Jack-Jack goal. So you're like, pull him anyway. I mean, I don't necessarily – I wouldn't necessarily pull him. I mean, I don't think it was a white flag wave, though. The game was over. Yeah, yeah. I thought the game was over after the second goal, frankly. But I agree, if that is your guy, yanking him is kind of like a little bit of a morale de-boost. He was pissed. He punched the glass barehanded. Once he took his – If you're the goalie coach, we go, we're pulling you to save you. And then he goes like this, breaks his hand. You're like, dude. Dude, why did you do that? We did this for a very specific reason. That was so funny. I kind of forgot. In that moment, I was like, oh, his Olympics tournament is over. So I get it. I kind of forgot in that moment to have another game. And then he broke his hand. You got to calm down, dude. Okay. I'll get to that in a second. The Jack Hughes first goal was fucking nasty. Gross. And do you count? A little shimmy. That was some Quintin' Hughes body movement. We have all said, Jack's been great, but show me against the good teams. Does this, which bucket does this go in? Because we all agree that this isn't a good team, but this is a semifinal game. It's a big moment. Yeah, it's a big moment. It's a semifinal game, and he was good all game. Great. He was great on the, Jack Hughes drew the penalty that led to the Tate Thompson goal. And it was, we mentioned it on somewhere on our socials. the poise he had in the D zone held up the play then made a great rush to get it in then he dug the puck out drew the penalty like he was great all game early before the game was over and then obviously he started jacking off and only got better but Jack there's nothing you can say about and frankly obviously don't go in there and shit down your leg there's nothing bad anyone can say about jack hughes there's no way jack hughes is playing this well looks this healthy and mentally is this clear right now and is going going to go in and be terrible in this gold medal game even against canada so if you are a jack hughes hater it is time to stop hating because he has proven everyone wrong he's been brilliant in this tournament he deserves all of his flowers um he deserves to be jacking off yes he does in public you want to in public stop what is the fucking um this is the end scene i'll jerk off wherever i want to no i was raising a house of women oh god um last thing in the second period outrageous interference hit on jake gets oh my and then and then the that the double or the hack across both legs of dylan lark and larks got up and he was like that's a fucking penalty too that ended the second period and i i was like maybe that was just a finishes hit he passed that puck so early he there was a good four four full seconds before he got it blew him up good hit jesus blew him up uh okay i don't want to rush through this game but i mean like you can keep going through your bullet points here like game game at six two slaft slaftoski gets a goal love that slaft played great this tournament he deserves a little stick tap for sure but game's over yep six to win easy stuff brady kachuk double breakaway got it on the second one but that's it game over let's talk about what's going on here tage thompson does not come out to start the third period i'm absolutely terrified about that so at the end of the second period that penalty the gensil hit the the larkin hack it was clear the slovakia was like oh my god we're getting buried and there are two things i don't like about this game for usa number one for the love of god tage thompson do not be hurt i don't know if this is management thing maybe you got like a little knock and there's like dude the game's over there's no reason for you to keep playing just get out of here that would be fine but if he's hurt i'm fucking furious did not like when it was getting chippy because i was like if you get hurt in this game i know like that's a disaster so let's pray tage is okay the other one you can you can say that a beatdown like this people talk about the tune-up game all the time yeah i don't believe in that fucking bullshit at all there was a point in this game i think it was five nothing the boys were just yucking it up yep and it felt like point night it genuinely felt like go out there and get your cookies and that is not the game in my opinion that is not the game you want going in to play fucking canada easily i mean no offense sweden but like they're canada is a much stronger team than sweden and it's just like you were about to go in and face the most intense competition of this tournament you have not faced them before this was not the game that you want to warm you up for that so i didn't love it for that i don't think that's going to get in these guys heads but i am like fuck me i also didn't love and this was nobody's fault really but if you're going to play this and now i'm like talking shit about the slovakia team because they're they're they've had an incredible tournament yeah but if you're gonna play this game where it's like a bullshit blowout in the semi-finals i wanted is stupid not stupidly just aggressively i wanted the shutout for heli because i want him to just be like yeah i'm seeing fucking everything no one is throwing on me again for the rest of the tournament and the first one he just misplayed it behind the net so i kind of don't even care about that one which was slaff and yeah yeah credit to slaff because what a tournament i was actually really happy for him that he got the goal yeah but then you know they kind of got one behind our d again and then they go top cheddar on heli and I'm just like, damn it. And again, who cares? But I just wanted him at the least to come out of this being like, I'm a fucking brick wall. And then it's like, well, they got to win. I know. I didn't like those either, but I do think he's a brick wall. He looks very dialed. Yep. And I think also when you're in the middle of a tune-up game like that, it's easy to fall asleep. Yep. I'm not saying Hellebuck fell asleep, but I have no issue with those goals because I think he's just like, whatever, dude, get me out of this game. Brady Breakway, you got that. Can I, because we're live, so I don't know, because there'll be no editing of this. Can I voice my gripe about the crowd we were watching the game with? Yes. Okay, so we – Hey, keep it cute. This is my biggest fear about going into the final against a nation like – Instead of a criticism, let this be a rallying cry. The Canada House, which we've been lucky enough to go to many times for games, has been passed. 15 out of 10 no notes and the um when we got there for this game it was much less crowded than the past games and i thought to myself oh of course everyone's far enough into this tournament that if you're still here you're going you're finding a way to get to this game but the crowd that was there at the candidate house today was rocking i mean you saw our stories our grid posts like i'm panning the camera around like people are going nuts and we hadn't been able to get into the usa house this whole time we've been actually trying to go and we haven't been able to get into and then very luckily we got to go for this game and i was pumped to see it and i was actually blown away how sick it was oh like so sick what is it the uh winter house yeah the winter house um just unbelievable setup different little rooms gorgeous interior picks of all the greatest u.s achievements across every sport yep uh on the walls food spread sick bar like everything at starbucks yeah yeah yeah attached to starbucks but like every level it was incredible utterly incredible winter house can't wait to go back i mean jesus what a setup what a setup and the um the the figure skaters were doing an incredible presentation like current olympian gold medal there were gold medals oh yeah for me to christy yamaguchi yamaguchi yeah like legends huge presentation everything's awesome and then the game starts and there's a million screens and the huge screen and i was like this is going to be a vibe yeah right at puck drop i actually was like this is about to be the most rip viewing experience we've had and dude then people were just chilling they didn't care and there were some rooms where people weren't were had their had their back you know how you don't turn your back on the on the uh on the emperor maximus never and there people had their backs to the screen and i was like this is this this attitude is why we have a hard time competing with canada and i'm not criticizing i'm imploring change for the gold metal match if there's the game if there is anyone who was at winter house who is listening to this or or does listen to this we're just here to say the the behavior was a bit you were behaving like toffee nosed snoots and i don't want you to do that it it felt like there was just a significant lack of support and a lack of care and we need all everything we need all the support and care especially from other olympians and families of olympians like we need you desperately so again this is a this is we're on our hands and knees begging in the pouring rain support the boys dude the the this isn't some throwaway game up in rochester has been over quoted obviously way too many times here but i literally wanted to scream that at the winter we're in the semi-final the olympics dude this isn't a fucking throwaway game turn around your usa men are playing in this game so rallying cry everyone in the states it's like this is you know get up for this game uh okay i i only have a few things left to say if you are ready to close out unless you have you you're giving me a look like no finals predictions that's it i don't want to do that you can do it all right we already we already did it actually obligate we already did our finals predictions i don't want to do it again we've refreshed it every round that was the whole point you hear your predictions they were wrong here's your next predictions just hit a score just give me a score Yeah, okay. 3-2. Oh, you're not saying who? Nope. Oh, that's funny. Red gave me an L. Soft. No, he was saying give a score. That's it. Yeah. He said give a score. I just said 3-2. Cop. That's insane. You gave me a directive and I gave an answer. Just saying. All right. You've got to give Red a score or you've got to give me a team. You don't have to give me a score. I need a team. I'm giving you a team already. No, I need a team from Dan. I don't need a score from Dan. I just need a team from Dan. No, no. I'll do it. I'll do it. I'll do it. You want me to do it? Is that what you're looking at? I want high scoring so badly. I just don't think we can get it. Goalie's too dialed. I think it's going to overtime. And God, I would love a 3-2 OT like Four Nations, but I think unfortunately it's going to be 2-1 Canada. Okay. Wow. I'll go 3-1 Canada. Fuck you, Red. fuck you empty netter okay okay okay i'm gonna do a combination of both yours for for balance of the show i actually think it's going to be four two with an empty netter i actually was toggling us that would be so sick i just want the goal so badly i hope you guys are i hope i'm dead wrong because i want it's just so fun when there's a lot of action um that really fires me up one last bullet point i had about a fear of mine actually it'll be an interesting data point for the game when canada gets on the power play i mean the fucking canadian i guess they get up but the canadian power play saved their ass tonight right and when they get it they look so lethal usa only team in the tournament that has not given up a power play goal killed like five more tonight four or five more tonight um unstoppable force immovable object type shit because there's going to be a few penalties and i think actually if that holds if that's that holds i i do like our chances like if you guys don't get a single power play goal i'm kind of like you guys also haven't played the four best players in the world in the same shift before i'm just saying we haven't got a power play goal yeah so if that holds i kind of do like our chances that would be a huge that's i also hope there are minimal minimal penalties in this game me too give me zero that would be amazing give me zero that would be absolutely make these guys play five of them yep uh okay a little housekeeping before we wrap up don't leave yet a few things number one we will be at the gold medal game, of course, on Sunday. 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