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00:00But the four nations starts Wednesday.
00:02I know it's a couple of days away, but I know you and I and mafia Carver.
00:06Hi, Luke.
00:07We're all into it.
00:08The hockey tournament is going to be awesome.
00:10Yeah, you know, as it gets here right now, more and more players keep on dropping out
00:15though.
00:16This is a problem.
00:17Uh, Quinn Hughes now out for team USA.
00:20It does start Wednesday and I think once it gets going, Scott, people will get into it.
00:24There's a lot of apathy right now before this and or anger.
00:28The ticket prices are too high.
00:31They're having a hard time selling tickets right now in Montreal for this.
00:34They overcharge people, right?
00:36So they sold, they sold the USA Canada game without any problems, but they can't expect
00:41people to pay $400 to watch Finland and Sweden in Montreal, Quebec, right?
00:46So the NHL PA got greedy.
00:48What a shock.
00:49And the NHL didn't do a good job of promoting this shock point to 2.0 here, right?
00:56I swear, man.
00:57These guys like it's, it's amazing how they just find ways to make things harder on themselves,
01:03but it should be fun.
01:04Scott.
01:05It was, it's an exhibition.
01:06Let's call it out for what it is.
01:07It's not the Olympics.
01:08It's not some sort of world championships going off four teams in here.
01:12You don't have the Czech Republic.
01:14You don't have Slovakia, Slovenia, and you know, and Russia, which is pretty, you know,
01:19Russia pretty good at hockey.
01:20So it is what it is, but Finland and Sweden don't like each other for real.
01:26And Canada and the USA have a burgeoning rivalry right now.
01:29The USA have really, really come on as of late, and it would bother Canada if the U.S.
01:35won this thing.
01:36This is one of these deals where Canada's players are kind of in a weird spot, Scott.
01:41If they win, nobody will care.
01:44People will be like, yeah, big deal.
01:45Good for you.
01:46You won a four team tournament.
01:47Good for you.
01:48Who cares?
01:49If they lose, they're going to get ripped, right?
01:51They're in a no win situation.
01:53The U.S. comes into this, I think, kind of, Canada are technically the favorites, guys,
01:57according to the sports books, a little bit, but I would say that the U.S. have a better
02:02roster than Canada.
02:03I think they're deeper than Canada, but it doesn't mean they're going to win.
02:08Like, and we'll get to it, Scott, all, you know, later in the week and stuff.
02:11Again, start on Wednesday, Canada and Sweden's on Wednesday.
02:14But from a betting perspective, I'm taking Finland at plus 850 to win this thing, right?
02:20There's four teams and anything can happen.
02:23These are all going to be, don't expect track meets either, guys, in this stuff.
02:27It's going to be low scoring hockey games and anything can happen.
02:31They're playing a three game round robin.
02:33There's no semifinal.
02:34They're literally playing a three game round robin and then they're playing a final game
02:38with whoever has the most points in a championship game.
02:41So anything can happen here.
02:43I don't think there's any value with Canada plus 135 or the USA at plus 150.
02:49We'll roll the dice on the fans and we'll probably even sprinkle on the Swedes a little
02:54bit of plus 450.
02:55Crosby's going to play.
02:56And does it remind you?
02:57Are they just trying to keep up with the Johnson's, like the NBA cup?
03:05Crosby is, he's day to day right now.
03:08He said he's playing today.
03:11He's flying, he's there and they're going to take it day by day.
03:13He's going to play.
03:14Is it, you know what I mean?
03:17Is it the end of the world?
03:19They need him.
03:20I mean, let's just call it out for what it is.
03:21The Canada aren't that deep to begin with.
03:23No, they're not trying to keep up with the NBA or anything like that.
03:25They did this.
03:27They didn't know if they were going to the Olympics or not.
03:29The players wanted to go to the Olympics.
03:31The owners didn't want them to.
03:33They ended up agreeing to go to the Olympics.
03:36And this is basically, it's a dress rehearsal for the Olympics, right?
03:41They're not going to have a lot of time together next year before they play for real in the
03:45Olympics for a gold medal, which really does matter.
03:47So this is a chance for them to put the team together, get a little bit of a feel for things,
03:52get the uniform on and then boom, next year, time goes by fast guys, the Olympics will
03:57be here before we know it.
03:58So this is just a dress rehearsal for the Olympics.