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00:00That was awesome.
00:02A great moment, bringing Lemieux out there.
00:04I had goosebumps.
00:05I mean, as a Penguin guy, I was like,
00:08oh, baby, here we go.
00:104-3 final, but a goal on the first shift
00:13after a penalty that, I mean, it was kind of ticky-tacky.
00:16But listen, that behind-the-back pass
00:18to McKinnon finishing, I jumped off the couch, Mike.
00:21I was ready to go.
00:23It's super lethal, what they throw out there,
00:27Canada, on that power play.
00:28When you talk Crosby, McKinnon, McDavid, McCarr,
00:33all the guys, you know, I guess, you know,
00:36Reinhardt was kind of good.
00:38They have so many guys that they could put out there
00:41and will cause you a lot of problems.
00:42I think the biggest thing people were wondering about,
00:45Dave, going into this thing was, will the players care?
00:49Will it be more of an exhibition?
00:51Will it be?
00:52And you're seeing it.
00:53When you put best on best out there
00:56and you put the flag on the front of the jersey,
01:00I know this doesn't have the importance of the Olympics.
01:04I get that.
01:05But I still think that for a lot of these guys
01:07who haven't gotten to do this before
01:08because there hasn't been the Olympics,
01:11they haven't sent the NHL guys to the Olympics
01:13the last few times, you can tell they're into it.
01:15I thought both games, the Canada-Sweden game
01:18and even the U.S.-Finland game,
01:19although it got out of control in the third period,
01:22I thought both games had high intensity.
01:24I thought both games saw exactly what you wanted to see.
01:27It was excellent hockey.
01:28And it blows away, Dave, any kind of nonsense
01:32that they usually do with All-Star Weekend
01:34and that stuff.
01:36That stuff used to be cool.
01:37When I was a kid, I liked All-Star Saturday night.
01:40But they've just, they've watered it down
01:41and wrecked it so much that this is awesome.
01:45Doing this instead of the All-Star game is great.
01:47I'm not even the first one afraid to admit it.
01:51I don't need to see another NHL All-Star game.
01:53If you're gonna give me this,
01:54sign me up for this.
01:56That was intense.
01:58There were face washes.
01:59There were cross-checks.
02:01There was physical play.
02:04There was a lot of yapping going on.
02:06The intensity was there.
02:08I don't know if this is the answer
02:09for other leagues or what,
02:11but I know for hockey, if you tell the players,
02:15it's gonna be best on best.
02:18And we just throw out a puck on a pond somewhere.
02:21We're playing to win.
02:22And we're gonna hit you
02:24and we're gonna do what we can to win.
02:26You give them this stage
02:28and you put them all together
02:29and you say, you'll have time off after.
02:33It's fine.
02:34Play hard.
02:36Play to win.
02:37I'm in.
02:39I'm sold, no matter what happens the rest of the way.
02:42And we got two great games on Saturday.
02:45I mean, Finland, yes, it got away from them.
02:47And the Kachuk brothers took over hockey last night
02:50for the U.S.
02:51That was great.
02:52And now Sweden-Finland will set up great
02:58for an elimination game.
02:59I mean, Finland can't lose,
03:01and if they lose, they're done because of the point system.
03:05So Sweden getting that overtime loss,
03:09got that extra point.
03:10Now their game with, you know,
03:13the U.S. in Boston will be great,
03:16but the USA-Canada game, Mike,
03:19it's appointment viewing.
03:21Clear the calendar.