Empty Netters Podcast - USA And Canada Are The Two Best Teams By A Mile

Episode Date: February 13, 2026

After 1 day of mens Olympic hockey, no one had a better start than the two favorites, USA and Canada. Macklin Celebrini shined in his Olympic debut. And Brady Tkachuk picked up right where he left off in Four Nations. Brock Nelson had a coming out party and Jordan Bennington is back on his big game bullshit. Plus, the Swedes survived Italy and the Fins stumbled against Slovakia. Are the Swiss and Germans for real? And holy smokes the US Women’s team might be the best team of all time.  CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 07:47 - Sweden / Finland  18:07 - Canada vs Czechia  40:57 - USA vs Latvia  01:06:18 - Womens Round Up  PRESENTED by BetMGM. Download the BETMGM app and use code “NETTERS” and enjoy up to $1500 in bonus bets if you lose your first wager! Thanks to our Sponsors! BetMGM: Use bonus code NETTERS when signing up to receive up to $1500 in bonus bets if your first bet loses. Gambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER (Available in the US) 877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY) 1-800-327-5050 (MA), 1-800-NEXT-STEP (AZ), 1-800-BETS-OFF (IA), 1-800-981-0023 (PR) 21+ only. Please Gamble Responsibly. See BetMGM.com for Terms. First Bet Offer for new customers only. Subject to eligibility requirements. Bonus bets are non-withdrawable. In partnership with Kansas Crossing Casino and Hotel. This promotional offer is not available in New York, Nevada, Ontario, or Puerto Rico. Build a Pulse as unique as your game, in as little as 5 days! Bauer Hockey's MyBauer Quick Turn platform is designed to offer hockey players a highly customizable stick-building experience, with a remarkably fast turnaround. Players can choose from Bauer's most popular colors and patterns to create a stick that gets to your door in record time. Build your dream stick in minutes and get it in days. Head to Bauer.com and check out MyBauer Quick Turn. This episode is sponsored by Betterhelp. Sign up and get 10% off at betterhelp.com/netters GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON'T DIE — In Theaters Now From Oscar-winning director Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean, The Ring, Rango) comes a wild, one-of-a-kind action-comedy about a man claiming to be from the future (Sam Rockwell) who takes the patrons of an iconic Los Angeles diner hostage — recruiting a group of unlikely misfits to stop an impending AI apocalypse and save humanity from the perils of social media. Co-starring Haley Lu Richardson, Michael Peña, Zazie Beetz, and Juno Temple. Rated R. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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So we are back. We are horned up and we are going deep. Finish tonight with some chicken fingers and a few guineasas and ran into you guys. That's where this pod came to life. Ice is ready and bonjourno. Coming to you live from Milano.

We are back with another episode of the MG Netters podcast brought to you by BetMGM. I'm your host, Dan Powers. We're on the roads. That means we got Redmond with us. 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 appease. I got products to wear. But you just don't have to look so dumb all the time. You look great right now. You got good stuff on.

I was going to 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. Yeah, but it is always funny. But then also you can have nice things and then match them horribly. Yeah.

Yeah. Hell yeah. And, you know, that happens. Yeah. Well, guys, we're in Milan and I got to say, I'm absolutely loving it. I'm loving every single thing about it. It's an incredible place. Incredible.

It's, it doesn't. feel like Italy as much as I thought it might. 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 it. Yeah, probably. You're thinking coastal. Yeah. You're thinking. Yeah.

You're thinking like Rome. Because it's like a completely perfectly bustling city out there. What is, what are you saying, dude? You say, you're you talking to you about, you don't think Italy has that in it? I didn't think Italy went, went hard in the paint like that. I thought they were 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'm like, well, yo, 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, baby, while we're here. I mentioned this on the story yesterday. If you guys don't, every time I travel, to Europe.

Yeah. 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 bidet the second I get home. Dude, I cannot begin to describe how nice a bidet is. How hard is that to attach? Is that like an easy job?

They sell them and I don't know free ads, but I am. I'm 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 company you are, slide into our emails, our DMs, and let's get something going here. 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. Is it Tushy? Well, this is the one I, this was just the top hit. The Tushy Classic 3.0, our best-selling bidet attachment. How much do you think it caught? I bet it's $1,000.

$110 bucks. I was about to say $600. Look at that. $110 bucks, and if you get... Two badees. Hold on. You get $60. 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, delete it. Guys? I'm scared of the shuffle.

The shuffle. There's no shuffle required. I'm not. I'm talking about here. We're talking about here. Airbnb. In our room, in our bathrooms, you have a nice shuffle. We all, it's...

The pants around the ankles shuffle. It's just so nice. But you know what it got me thinking? And I promise this, this won't be butt talk the whole time. Do you think it'd be more awkward to walk in on someone pooping or walking on someone bedaying? I think walking it on someone while they're washing their anus. 100%.

It's slightly worse. 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 with the person there like this. Because it feels so good. They're just like, oh yeah, sorry, I'm just... Sometimes I know I'm already clean, but I just keep it going.

It's just great. It's lovely. 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. Love walking. We're getting to walk around a city. And I am here to say this.

Anything that you're seeing on Twitter, anything online of just a bunch of cramudgeons and a bunch of Ebenezer Scroogeye talking shit about this arena. Don't listen to it. Dude. The rink is dope. The rink looks so cool. the jumbo-tron, the whole setup is fantastic. The audio, everything. The guy. The guys are great.

I don't know his name. 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 fired up that guy got for the wave. Yeah. Loved the wave.

Dude, remember when it was coming around the second time and he was like, keep it going. He was like, don't get up. And yamo! I was like, I love that guy, dude. I hope it's him every game. It was awesome. So just so much respect to everyone going right now.

It's fantastic. So some games. Oh, yeah. I haven't had a single piece of pizza yet. Great. We haven't eaten well at all. We haven't eaten well. We haven't eaten enough.

Yeah, yeah. We haven't eaten enough. Let's go ahead and get into some Olympic hockey. Some games have been playing. 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 BetMGM. Brought you by BetMGM.

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Let's get into the first day of the men's round. We got the prelims. We had Finland, Slovakia, 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 Samsung house Yes And the bow at the bowers

Yes Watching on the huge screen And we got And we're doing 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 But then 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 offense, 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 tiebreaker Slovakia 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. Yeah. 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 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 other, with the exception of the ball. It's fun. I like watching. Yeah. But that hurt a little.

that hurt me personally a little bit. Yeah. 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 run, which I will, but that tie

against Sweden, they always say, my God, that was such a crucial point for the U.S. because you need those round robin points. And this, this, it used to be like that. Yeah. I'm like, you don't need shit. And listen, it's not totally pointless. You get a buy.

Determs who you play. Yep. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The seating's huge. But it's not there. You can live. 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 three, but you just could and then be like, where are you? Exactly. But that was a crazy, uh, 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 Czech is the team everyone wants to bring up after that.

And Slovakia came in and went, hey, we're going to tag Finland and you're ice Levkovsky. Yeah. Yeah. Two goals. Like he was buzzing. Yeah. Two goals and an assist.

Yep. And his two goals were nasty. He looked great. And one of the sickest empty netters I've ever seen. That was chaos in the streets. That was a truly mad, mad. That was awesome. Yeah.

Okay. And then Sweden, Italy. Sweden, Italy. They weren't laughing the whole time. No. Before we even get into, because Sweden, Italy was an electric factory for a bit. Right.

Can you look up real quick the name of the Italian goli? Because that fucking animal was out of control. Like, he saved so many fucking shots. It was insane. I think Sweden had 60 shots in that. Is 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 team? I thought that was a mistake when I saw it.

And I literally don't know. Sweden's the only other team besides U.S. 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. Yep. Somebody nasty.

Yeah. Damien Clara. Shelt. Stick taps. Damien Clara, I imagine it is. 20-23 second round pick of the Anaheim Ducks. Let's go. 60 saves.

60? So it was 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 those situations Where you know when you're I feel like I was bring up the Ryder Cup This happens with the Ryder Cup a lot where they go Should we bring this guy? He's nasty He's not playing that well but he's nasty And they go yeah dude he's gross Just pretty

Yeah this is like flip is a guy that I'm like Yeah Was he having his best season 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, won nothing, then go up to 1, then started the second, right off the bat in second period. Italy ties a 2-2. Making it fun for the home time. Dude, I want to shout out my, well, I was just saying my boy. He doesn't even remember me. But this guy on the Italian team,

Tommy Larkin. Yeah, dude, the Italian job. The Italian job. The Italian job. went to Exeter with me. He was a freshman when me and all my friends were on our last year. I was a PGR last year. And he wasn't that good yet because he was a little kid. Yeah. And we were like, oh, Tommy. Like Tommy.

Look at Tommy out here. Him and him in Pooch. And then by the time he was a senior, him and Pooch were gross. Tommy goes to Colgate and he's a incredible career playing. Look at him now. It's amazing. He's still playing for the Olympics. He's been in world championships.

He's got a picture of himself lined up next to Datsuk. It's incredible. And I was like, man, I hope he's. he's not that all, 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 score sheet. It has an apple. It's unbelievable.

Unbelievable. So for Sweden, a 5-2 win against Italy where you go into the third period up 3-2, but it was kind of a sweat. Yeah. Not exactly what you want, but I will say what you want is there are a lot of guys on the score sheet who are so important. Landy scoring, Nealander scoring. Zabanajad, I think, had a goal and an assist.

Dahlene had like three assists Forsling 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 Now we get into today

We start off It is Thursday I have no idea what I know Dude same holy shit No idea what day it is What time zone I'm in I am other than Milan. We start off the day with

Switzerland, France. Yes. Roman Yosi was all over the place. I mean, just like, good God, that man. Not much doing in this game. Two goals in the first for the Swiss, two goals in the third for the Swiss. A nice comfortable... Took care of business. Four nothing when two Timo Meyer goals.

Shout out J.J. Moser. Yes. Getting a tuck. Love to see that and an assist. But good win for the Swiss, good shut up for the Swiss. And that's another team that I'm like frisky. Yeah. 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. 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 bar. Stutzler. Dry.

Stutzla with two. Did he get another? No, no, no. It was Dry, Stutzla, Stutzla. Oh, shit. Three one win. 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. 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 Stutzla with two, including a power play goal, there's part of me that's like, yeah, if Stutzla Dry, cider and Peturka aren't on the ice, it's a little bit like, They've got a lot to do. I think Denmark out 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, what are you doing? So, again, great win for Germany. Yep. But I, I, I, 16 shots. Like, I'm not, I don't think Germany looked that dominant. Yeah.

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and you can customize your pulse at our dot-com. Unbelievable. Let's talk about unbelievable. Team Canada. Team Canada. Very good hockey team. Very good hockey team. The men's Canadian team.

Very good team. Holy shit. So this is the first game we went to, folks. We did as the Romans do. We did as the Milanos do. We took the public transit. We walked through the city. hopped on the bus.

We got to the arena. We walk in. Place was buzzing. Yeah, dude, it was. And I got to say, listen, they lost five nothing, but the Czech fans were incredible. Dude, they were chanting the whole game and were 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 be. 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 Connor McDavid play live as many times as possible. And I will always be shocked. Yeah. It's like he just moves so much faster than everyone else. It's fucking crazy. Red, 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.

And I looked at Dan Redd. And I was like, whoa, Sid, little giddy up there. And then he was like, Connor. We were like, that was not Sid, Chris. Not Sid. No, he's out of control. I think J.D. tweeted something. It was like, Connor McDavid snorted a Red Bull before this.

game and it did it looked 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 um 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 and benet throwing the body around but connor mac david and dewey and guys just popping people left and right i was like holy Holy shit, we're in one now. Here's a question for you.

David Posternack. Dirty player? In 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. There are no rules here, Dan. He was running people.

Yeah. He was running people. Radco Gudus was running people. Nate Dogg fucking cross-checked a guy's arm into Bolivia. It was unbelievable. So there were two... Was that the second period? Yeah, it was.

They were in the 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, right? They were, you're going to wear that check team down. So as it started to be like, oh, shit, you're going to lose. There were two plays, that Nate Dog Cross check behind the net, and then the too many men, which was lunacy.

The too many men was lunacy. Was crazy. Like, it was a, the guy jumped over the boards. prematurely. We've all been there. Played the puck, and the entire arena was like, oh, too many men. And everyone on the check team was going like this. Oh, yeah. And they didn't call it. And then just kept six guys out for like 30 seconds. They just kept playing with six dudes on the ice. And the rest were just like, we've made our bet.

I'm not calling. No call. I'm not calling this. And, you know, the Czech power play had 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. It was so good. So that first period was just buzzing all over the place.

And then with, with a, what, what was it? Five seconds left. But before that, talk about the Nate goal. The Nate goal that wasn't. I don't have anything to say about the Nate goal. 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 it. Barron down, bang, high glove, crowd, 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. I was sick as hell. No, it was, I'm sorry, it was a nice goal. Yeah. But, like, you keep, like, talking about this moment. Like, I didn't think there was anything special about it.

Nathan McKinn had never been in the Olympics and then he comes firing down the slot and nipped on high glove. I've got news for you. Take anyone on that team except two guys. No one's been on the Olympics. But you want it to be Nate. 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 we get to is equally amazing.

I'm not trying to be a hater. I don't think there's anything special about that. I think we'll hear from the comments. I think you were wrong about this one. I think 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 a hater. No, I think you will go. 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, then 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. Yeah. One of the guys who's been there brought us back. I think Nate and Connor

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 know what? You put. putting Connor equally important, I'm on board. Don't get defensive, dude. You're getting spicy over here. I'm just trying to figure out if that would have been more special than what did happen.

Connor? No. Macklin Celebrity. Yeah, yeah, yeah. With like five seconds left, Macklin 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've got a staff for you. Hit me. Maclin Celebrini has scored in his USHL debut.

his collegiate debut, his NHL debut, and his Olympic debut. Should have seen that one coming. Is there... 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 tweeted Mack on Celebrini first goal score. God. We got... We had to be on that action. I'm pissed.

I'm jumping ahead, but I'm pissed because Locke's texting me and was like, who you got first USA goal score? And I was like, Brady Kachuk. Did you? He always, he always does this. And Lox didn't bet it?

No, 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, can I be harsh to you? Yeah. That is your M.O. Yeah. Not, not like you, 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 yourself. I have an idea. Believe in everyone 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.

God, if Chris had 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 can say it with whatever conviction I want, you guys should start acting on it. Okay, can I challenge you? Yeah. What you just said is you're right all the time.

You're always right. 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 Lox goes who's the first goal scorer for the U.S. You need to go Brady Kachuk, bet it right now, you fucking idiot. Or you will be poor.

Or 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 is. I don't want it. I don't want to bet on it. Well then I don't think you're allowed to peacock around here saying you're right all the time. Did J.D. bent on it when he just,

he said Macklin? No, but he called it. He tweeted it. Yeah, I texted a buddy. I don't tweet. Like, I texted a buddy. You tweet. You tweet sometimes.

Gert jewels, you drink. You drink. I tweet. Then, then, that, that counts. I'm not, like, again, 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 peacock.

I, I, got to get you my credit would go, good job. Because you don't do it with, I don't, 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 prove. Yeah, maybe I'll make an account that's called, you can even, here's a thing. Maybe I'll make a Twitter account that's called, yeah, I kind of think this will happen. No, no. And that person will just tweet things that. That's pretty good. I think people would follow that. Fucking delete that, dude. I don't need anybody no one needs to know about that. That's actually gas. But you know what 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 Macklin Celebrini? No, it's incredible, dude. He's, he's, and he's playing wing. He just goes, sure, what do you need 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. 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 going to be in a 10 of these, you know? Yeah.

Sid's 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, 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. Macklin-Cellarney's 19 years old. I think it is remarkable. I also think there, we talk about this with Sid and OVie all the time. We've talked about it on this show. Macon-Cellebrini and Connor Bardard 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 Mackle and Celebrini. Yeah. That was a really tough moment for them. Yes. All these Blackhawks fans who are like Connor Bedard should be on this team over Celebrini, you're wrong. Yep. That's not me saying that Padard shouldn't be on this team, but you are wrong when you say that he should be on over Macklin. And when

Macklin 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 a tough pill to swallow. Yeah. And I will say it's tough for fans of American hockey

where, God, you fuckers just churn them out. Like here's Sidney Crock. It's unbelievable. Here's Connor McDavid. Here's Nathan McKinnon. Here's Macklin celebrate. I'm like, Take it easy. And here's Connor Breda. Yeah. I'm like,

all right. Here's, here's Gavin McKenna. Yeah. Stop. Chill. Let us have a couple. Yeah.

We'll take a couple. Yeah. I don't even need all of them. So, just give me a couple of them. Before we get into the other goal scores, Team Canada Binner. Yes, bro.

I, I, there's 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 bolognazy sauce. Nice. You could have put that check team over some fucking pastini. That's some Italy shit there.

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 Bauer dinner. There was four calzones on the menu. There was a whole section of the video that said calzones. Z-Line? I was like, oh my God. Calzone would have felt like something like chicken parm to me

But they're like, we don't do that shit I almost got it but I was like they I feared getting made fun of Yeah Everyone in the table orders this like incredible Milan 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 laughed 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 got laughed out.

He didn't know. Yeah, because I was like, I don't think that's a crazy one. No, no, they would. They love an espresso martini. Yeah. He didn't, he didn't know that. Okay. Back to Binner.

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, obviously. But what I mean is they were firing pucks from every angle possible.

In that first period. Just trying to bank shit off him because they were like, anything will go out against this guy. And a couple almost did, by the way. A couple, you know, like stuck up with that. There were a couple like scrappy moments. Yeah. But man, dude, he and this is what 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 Czech team got rolled on today because they did, but that that team is very good. Oh, yeah. Nothing to do with them. That is completely attestimate to how nasty this Canada team is.

Yeah. Where that wasn't even their best, best game and they made that look fucking easy. Yeah. But that check team is good. And Binner, that wasn't a freebie shutout. No. Yeah, that wasn't like, oh, I'm playing. No.

Like I said, they definitely slowed down in the third. Yeah. Like they got ground. we don't need to do this all bit again that would have been Twilight Zone but they did they they got tired but shit man they tested him early

and he just nothing looked like it faced him I mean they're gonna rotate I think LT's gonna 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 said it in our uh if you haven't watched

we released a YouTube video come to the Canada game with us go watch that it's fun. I said at the end, this guy, I swear to God, he unzips himself and he hangs up Team Canada Binner in his closet. Yep. And then he puts on that fucking super suit when it comes to him. He, uh, I had,

we had both been wondering who they would go with because are you 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 until they became ground beef. But the, uh, 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. Dude, so bad news for everyone else. They get into the second period. Their goals. Unbelievable play by Mitch Marner. Putrid. That was nasty, dude. Putrid backhand sauce over the defender,

lands right on Mark Stone's sick, who makes a great drive to the net, bangs at home. That is, to your point that you always say, like when everyone's like, how is Mark Stone on this? team. That's a goal that not everyone on this Canada roster can score. Like that Mark Stone is so good. Boer of that, another guy that people were like, should Bo been picked? He was all over the ice. He gets sprung. Very fucking cheeky, forehand, backhand push five

hole. Then the Nate Doug goal in the third period, the power play goal was- That was the dream team. That was, that was insulting. It was just Crosby to McDavid, poised down low, passes it across to McDavid. McKinnon pounds it in and everyone's 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 McDavid had three assists 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. The, I loved, um, Nate obviously got that, but I loved that, uh, you know, Sid had that unreal deflection, like that classic high tip that Sid does that somehow got saved with like four minutes left. But, you know, Sid doesn't even get one. McDavid doesn't get one after having a

ridiculous two on one with Hegel where Hague's double sees him and McDavid has two shots. Two. Where normally he puts that under the bar, both of those, he puts under the bar every night. You have two chances. Can't get either one off. It's crazy. So if you're Canada and you go, we just rolled and Sid missed a grade A, which he created with his skill.

It was like Connor missed a grade A. Kale not really doing much. Yeah, yeah. I'm like, holy hell, did they have such a ceiling. We walked out of that game going, I don't know how anybody, but I don't know how the U.S. beats that team. Who said it was red, I think. It was like, they don't make mistakes.

Yeah, red did say that. That was sharp red. He was like, it's crazy just watching. a team that no one makes mistake. 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 touch the puck, it's just hands moving, feet moving. Yeah. Everybody. And can I give a quick double-rister to our boy? Yes. I thought Dewey looked fantastic. He did. Hold on. Defensively. Yeah. We know Dewey to be a great offensively. And he was fucking dialed defensively. Hamer and people grinded in the

corners. He was hitting, rotating, rotating, you know, that's when the boots come into it. And I'm like, oh, dude, Dewey'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 in possession in the D zone. And he fucking threw the pivot on, got backwards. The offense, I think it was NACIS, got even with him. And Dewey just turned and clapped his stick down on the pass last second and picked it off. And I was like, oh, my God. Because that's pasta in alone. That's pasta in alone without that.

That was huge. That was fantastic. So Canada, I mean, we said it dream, dream start. Yes. It is ridiculous. Okay. Let's hear from another quick ad break before we get into Team USA's game against Latvia. All right.

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Wow, great reference. That's fantastic. That was a wacky element of this game. USA takes on Latvia, who by the way, Red said this to Latvia in the past has upsets against Canada. This is a horseshoe up their ass, really pesky, pesky team. Good players on the Latvian team, good goalies, they got Merzleekins, they got Shilovs. But Team USA gets going. They're buzzing around out there.

And in the first period, who else, man? Who else but the Kachukh brothers? It's incredible. They are so clutch. They're such... 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 games start. There's no doubt about that. They're gamers, man. They're gamers. And we had a nice little play. Zach Wrenski, my boy.

Yep. Gets the puck up to Matthew Kachuk. comes in, puts on the brakes, tosses a lovely cheeky a 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 shit you dream felt. And the reason to circle back, the reason I texted Locks Brady was because of that. I just thought it was too typical

that, you know, Brady could chuck 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 kichuk put the team on his fucking back at four nations it's going to be him it is you know it just that was too perfect it was too it was too good but then things got messy then things get messy USA scores again Quinn hughes nip job Quinn hughes gets a nice puck at the top Beautiful shot through traffic nip, 2-0-0 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 we score? Yep. Can the boys score? Well, Quinn Hughes gets on the board, but then challenge for offsides. 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 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 rounds. We're going to be going to a bunch of games. We're not going to every game. Exactly. Don't forget, folks, we're here via empty netters. 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 hang, we're going to watch this one. We'll go to Canada today. Yep. Watch US.

And we wanted to get the pot 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 Olympics are on. Yeah. USA is playing, the U.S. men are playing their first game. This will be on every TV. In the country. The country. Yeah. Unfortunately, there are no TVs in this country in establishments that serve food and alcohol.

There are three sports bar in this entire city. Where do people watch A.C. 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've 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 we're doing it wrong. Yeah. Tell me. It'd be like, oh, go here. There's a million players, please. We've got a lot of Italian fans now and so many actually people in Milano who have hit us up being like, you're in my home city like, we're begging you. Where should we

go? Where do we watch games? So what's funny is I'm thinking, obviously, the U.S. and Canada, sports bars on every fucking copping. 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. And then the offside. Yeah. So we're, we go to, uh, we go to, uh, we go to the first. We go to, uh, we're going to walk. We leave early, plenty of time. And keep in mind, we're, we're hungry. Yeah. We're trying to eat. We go to the first place. We go to, uh, mine the gap. Scariest bar I've ever been to my time. Remember that barred southy? Remember the review of that bar? Yeah. What the fuck is that place called? No, come on. I got a on we got to know what that place is called there's a bar in southy called fucking there 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 not yet but that was basically this bar we go to this bar mind the gap it's a broom closet it. When we walk up, there are 20 guys outside ripping darts, drinking peronis, and they looked at us like the three biggest scumbags they've ever seen in their fucking damn 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 Arsenal to start. But they, dude, they were truly like, get the fuck. They looked at us and they're like, what are these three

cake eaters doing? It was. if we were going to go inside. Like, yeah, yeah. Dude, and I looked inside. I found it, bro. You found,

you found the bar? Yeah. What's the bar called? Croke Park. Croke Park, dude, that's right. Croke Park in Southie. Skechiest 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? Do you have to read the whole thing and 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. Proke 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 and the two aliens attack him before Obi-Wan Kenobi steps in and cuts the guy's 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 know tell me this place has gone downhill since the original owner, Whitey McGrail died. And he was shot one day while bartender. 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 greatest review of all time.

Oh, fuck me. That's incredible. Incredible. So that was our first stop. Yeah. Mind the gap. That was mind the gap. We then go on to the football pub.

We get to the football pub right in time for Punk Drop, like I said. We didn't even look inside yet, or as far as the people, we looked in. and just saw the game on TVs 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.

That person's in line to receive his table. But sure enough, it was the door. Yeah. And we then slid in and wouldn't you know it? For some godforsaken 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 football pub.

And I said, in their defense, I said they were fuming mad that there happened to be a fucking USA Latvia game on. True. And we have overrun their football pub. And they were like, I thought I was going to sit here in peace. And now I have dude's asses sticking out 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're actually just Canadian. Those guys were Canadian? Yeah, they were all decked out heads tall.

So there's a bunch of Canadians pretending to root for Latvia. There was a couple of Finns pretending to root for Lafia. There was a table full of U.S. fans. And one of these buffoons kept going, blame Canada blame Canada Like from the South Park movie He was trying to chirp the Canadian dude

Who was cheered for Latvia But it just was getting unruly But and it just It wasn't a good chirp Yeah 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 on TV We're back on track I didn't think you could overturn And we can't hear anything either So we're just like The one view they kept showing us

Brock Nelson is entering the zone and J.T. Miller gets in the way of the puck. You can't see the puck. And again, maybe there was an angle on 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. Krasenberg scores and then U.S. 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. So that is something these players need to know. Increase, got you.

If you were in the crease, anywhere near the goalie in international play rules, that shit is goalie interference. So beware, folks. J.D. said, I don't know, I'm going to pronounce this horribly, but the Latvian coach, Pateras, something like that. Pateras Grom's incredible challenges. Oh. I was like,

what are you doing? Because I asked if you get a penalty with this too, and I think you do. So it was like, if you give that up, now you're down, and then the U.S. scores again. And I'm like,

oh my God. And so I couldn't believe the balls to hit those. Brass balls. Just hit them. 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 hitting the post. Dude. And then there was a crossbar. This poor guy.

Yeah. It was a crossbar. bar to close out the first also. But 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 U.S. to second goal and then immediately scores to tie it. Yeah.

And the U.S. scores their second goal again. And then Latvia challenged 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 to race to goal and then scored. And Matt Boldy flying in out of nowhere got a stick on that one to deflect it. Unbelievable block. That was actually a massive play in that.

Unbelievable block. Massive play. So period ends 1-1. And I'm going to say in that moment, I was like, okay, here's classic Latvia being a pest. Yeah. And this is going to be a mental toughness game for the U.S. And I won't lie. I was sitting there going,

I'm a little I feel a little uncomfy about Connor Hellebuck Oh really? I actually think I guess an all said and 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 Krastenberg's

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, really? 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, he felt a little uncomfy. So speaking of uncomfy, at the end of the first, we were a little uncomfy. Yes. So we were like, we got to get out of here.

But again, it was actually hilarious. If you open up Google Maps, it's like your blue dot. where you 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 and a bunch pop up. But, but Italy is a, it's weirdly a closes not that late city, but also open until late city. 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 pump. Yeah. It looks like it has a ton of TVs online. So we,

immediately get an Uber. 15 minute. How long is intermission, Red? 15 minutes. I'll tell you. 15 minutes. How long's the ride to the offside pub? 15 minutes.

We said, we can do it. We ordered the fastest Uber you've ever, these eyes have ever seen. 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 glass windows, like a mirage, like a perfect elasis. Olympic hockey on TV. And we go, thank. 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. Nude. It smells incredible in there. And I go, this is the best, this is where we always should have been. I was born in this bar and I will die in it as well.

We literally look at the server. Bonjono. Yeah. Can we sit here? Yeah. Absolutely you can. we look up, it's the Germany game. But the U.S. game's not back yet.

So I was like, oh, yeah. And there's a lot of TVs in there. Yeah, Germany games on a lot of them. And we go, is there a chance that the U.S. 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.

I was like, what do you feed? And we were now like, dear Lord Almighty, what are we going to do here? And then an angel. Yeah. Oh, yeah. An angel from Italy. Yep. Swooped down over it, literally over my shoulder.

I don't know if you heard this, Dan, by the way. He works for Eurosport. For Eurosport. Yeah. This Italian gentleman bespectacled 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, yeah. and leaned his phone against said Karaf with the USA game on, and he said, till I finish my beer. Yes. And then we said, oh, wow, thank you so much. And did you hear what he said after that?

No. He goes, Olympic spirit. Yes, that's, yeah, I did hear that. So we were able to watch the game on this gentleman's phone. Yep, it's unbelievable. 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, I 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. But Dan and I realized that between our two phones, there was only 60 minutes. So we just double... We just double-tapped free trials, baby. Finish the game. It had to have a hell of a meal.

Only to get home and discover that in our beautiful apartment here. It's just on TV. We could have just been here the whole time. 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. No, I was starving. That might add it to it, but that thing was, that was unbelievable. Okay, so it's two.

It's one one. It's one. We go into the second, we get halfway through the second. Yep, and then it's getting tight. Then I started thinking if they still are 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. Yep. Looks fantastic. And if you go back and the, the Brock Nelson goal, that goal, no, the disallowed one. Yeah. Sorry, the disallowed one. Yeah. That goal was made possible by Jack Hughes. Uh-huh. Great, great possession of the puck slowed down the play on the sidewall, then dishes a nice pass up to the point and gets it to, shot gets off, Brock tips it in. I was like, Jack Hughes looks great. Yeah. After some flat.

from four nations. He's been hurt this year. Playing on a low line. He looked great. And then bang. Brock Nelson gets a nut. Dude, hands team.

Population Brock on that, the second goal of the game. Oh yeah. My God, dude. I was like fucking Brock. But a great play by Jack Hughes. So bang.

There you go. 2.1 U.S. Then get a little peeper with three minutes left. 25 seconds in. Quinn Hughes, Jack Eichel, Tatech 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 Four Nations team, he is, I was upset. So many apologies from so many people. And you and I are at the top of that list. Dude, my boy, Kyle, Big Island's guy, he always talks to me about this because he's like, buddy, take it easy on Brock. He's nasty. Yeah.

And when he got picked for Four Nations, I was so pissed. And he had a fine tournament, but 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? And they're like, 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. Yeah. 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 his best player on our team He was buzzing He was absolutely buzzing

And then I heard this dude I almost told you in real time And you said what was that? I said I'll tell you on the phone I think I know it Dude Brock's Uncle or great uncle So Brock's

Brocks Grandaddy Played on the 1960 team Correct Then his uncle Dave Christian Played on the 80 team Played on the 1980s

Gold Now we got Brock Nelson Can you imagine if we didn't select Brock Nelson Like this We might have locked up fucking gold with this pick, dude. I am gonna, Evbot, we might have to

have you splice this in. We, we dogged, not we, the hockey world collectively dogged on Brock Nelson for his Four Nations team photo. 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. That's a picture of Brock. And the photo he took for his Four Nations team, you're telling me that's not the same guy. Are you kidding me? That's him. That's just Brock. I got news for you, Playa.

That's just Brock. I wonder if they put a picture of his granddaddy by accident at 4-N-N-Nscience. They might have. They might have. But he looked fucking phenomenal. He's best player 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 Kachuk goal, Matthew Kachuk, Marensky assist too, but Brady, Matthew. Next goal, Brock Nelson, Jack Hughes, assist. next goal, Quinn Hughes assist. Next goal, Jack Hughes, Matthew Kuchuk assist.

Final goal, Quinn Hughes assist. The brothers were going all over the stat sheet. All over the stat sheet. And then, yeah, third period, we got another power play.

Quinn Hughes, Jack Eichael. 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 Austin Matthews. Oh, my God. I knew it. Austin Matthews. I fucking knew it.

I fucking knew it. Austin Matthews. Austin Matthews, who wasn't the buzziest in this game. He caught a little shot up high and he looked like he was in a bit of pain on the bench. Oh, good call. I meant to bring that up. That scared me. That was scary.

He was getting checked by the trainer and I was like, this is the last fucking thing. We and he needs. It's a fucking concussion against Latvia and now we're fucked. Austin Matthews getting a goal and the first game, that's big. Massive. But also, you know what I really loved? It was a nice dish in the slot right where he lost Connor McDavid in the four nation's final. Nice. I like that. And he gets his slot goal to exercise some demons. Yeah.

I like that. So 5-1 win for USA, and I'm here to say this, I think that was a perfect game for the U.S. I got to tell you, I think that 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 Brock Nelson I'm mad we unveiled Brock already I wish didn't other teams Oh I love the notes I love it You got a guy like Brock

who you're like Is Brock belong You bet your ass he does You got a guy like Jack Hughes Who wasn't that Buzzy in Fort and he was fantastic And then that was also

Only 18 shots for Lafia But Connor Hellebuck You know Let's up that one that you're kind of like, ugh, 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 Canada 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. Yeah. But half for 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 by Canada. Yeah. 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 looked at every level that we can hang. It was, okay, let's fucking fight, dude, let's go. It was just so, so, so, I had a question to you, I'm shocked, and I haven't,

I got to look up their numbers again, but I'm shocked that Latvia went Merslikens in goal. I agree. I thought she loves should have started. Only because, What was the, what did he win?

Was it a world juniors or a world championship? She loves? Yeah. Yeah. Something. I think championship. 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 lob 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%. I go, he's done that to these same countries. He beat these people already.

So it 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. I just noticed one save eventually. We were like, oh, shit, she loves it. So whatever. But I'm, I'd be, I'm interested to see if it's him moving forward

because I would have definitely given him the bid at the upset in that one. Agree. So Canada, dream start, dream start. USA. Dream start. Pretty close, yeah. I think Dream Start. I'll give it to them. I'll give it to them.

I'm telling you it's the adversity. I'll give it to them. 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. You're going to be seeing all the content coming out. But we're going to close this episode out talking about the ladies.

Yes, sir. Because the ladies are buzzing. We're going to go back to when we got here, the 10th. We got, you know, a few days here to get through just because there were big results. Yes. Sweden. Four nothing against Japan. Sweden four no. Dude. The Sweden ladies are fucking wheeling. And 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're just all over the place. You love to see it. They won four nothing. Germany, 2-1 over Italy. I think we might have discussed, did we talk about this? I thought so. Right before, because we talked about the U.S. thawking. Did we?

I thought we hadn't got. 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, uh, God, where were when that game was on? I don't think, I don't think we talked about it. No, we couldn't have because we were in Italy.

Yeah, we were talking, we talked about the, um, 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. stake. USA always so tight takes down Canada 5-0-0

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 Bilka Bilks with two goals in the game unbelievable stuff

Kristen Sims on the score sheet again and then also dude I think Layla Edwards is the most electric player in the tournament right now. Just doing it all over the ice I think it was at a

no not a power play Sims was a power play goal but Layla gets the fifth goal to like really break the back of Canada in that third period about halfway through and that was one of the most dominant US wins over Canada women's

that we've seen in a long time Aaron Frank was pitching a fucking shutout and Canada goes okay we're not going to score anyway fuck five two was insurmount and also friend of the program Aaron Frankel Frankl looks

completely unflappable in net it's hysterical 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 net And she's just going Already been here Saw that coming Glove was there the whole time Pat two pad stack

There the whole time She's just fucking dialed The event we went to And I won't say any names But the event we went to After that Yep There were Canada

women there. Yes, there were. US women there. And there were women from a ton of the teams. Sure. And everybody was being so friendly and nice and buddy-buddy, but the Canada and US girls were not talking. No, they were dialed. Like they were like, don't look at me. They were dialed. Yeah, it was, I was like, oh shit, you could feel the

iciness in the air here because that game stinks, 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 insane. It was crazy. So I was like, man, 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 of the US game. And one of the US women sees it on TV and she was, oh, let's go. Yeah. I was like, fuck yeah. So Finland gets their first win. They took down Switzerland, 3-1. And then yesterday, Slovakia beats Finland, 4 to 1.

So the 12th, as we talked about, Canada was able to get it back. Yep. And they get their third win, only loss was to U.S., 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 U.S. Canada. It feels like for sure.

But this is what we said at the top, the Sweden women are fucking firing. Yeah. Oh, my God. I cannot stress that enough. Four and O. And now the quarterfinals are set. So when you're listening to this on Friday, they'll be playing Sweden against the Czechs,

Italy against the U.S., 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 matchup for Canada. You've got to expect that they'll be able to take, I think Germany 2-1-0-1 in their four games through the prelims.

Yeah, that's the toughest matchup on it. That has got to be the toughest match. Like Canada, that's tough draw for them. Yeah. I'm like, oh, okay. But the Italians with two good wins, love to see that on home ice. But that's a matchup that USA wants. I think that Sweden check game is going to be a should be win for Sweden because of how good they've been.

Yep. But Czech is always, always scrappy. Yeah. They have been, they haven't a great tournament. They only beat Finland, I think, who's been so bad. So tomorrow, today for us. Today. By the time you're listening to this, to this.

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. This is the quarterfinals. Quarterfinals getting knocked out now. Sweden, Czechia, Italy, U.S.

And the U.S. women are fucking crab. Crab. Crab wagon. And they are blowing everyone out of the water. So those are the games to dial in. All right. We got to get some rest. We got a ton of shit to get to.

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