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00:00But I just thought the game was just fabulous last night.
00:04I watched the first period.
00:07I watched the third period, the end of it, the last minute 50.
00:10And then I just thought the overtime, it
00:13was the most exciting overtime I've seen in years for my money.
00:18I thought both of them made three big saves each,
00:21at least that were all goals, like they were
00:24going to be goals, those shots.
00:26And then I talked about what it meant to me
00:30to see my favorite player of all time in any sport, Lemieux,
00:33get treated that way in his hometown,
00:35and the way they love Crosby, and the way
00:37they boo everybody else.
00:39I just thought it was really special.
00:44If you're the National Hockey League,
00:47you couldn't really be happier after night one.
00:49Now, it's just one game, but it's a short tournament.
00:51There was a lot of speculation about what was this?
00:56What was it going to be?
00:58I knew it was going to be intense.
01:01Just because fans don't care about things,
01:03or don't know about things, doesn't mean the players don't.
01:05And dude, you've got Carter McDavid, Sidney Crosby,
01:08and Nate McKinnon on the same team.
01:11These guys don't joke, bro.
01:13They don't even go to comedy.
01:14They don't watch funny movies, even these.
01:16They don't have a humor bone in their body, these three.
01:20Nate McKinnon doesn't smile.
01:23He barely talks.
01:24Sidney Crosby's a good guy.
01:27He's not the most outgoing and ha-ha-ha type of person.
01:31You know what I'm saying?
01:32You ever seen Carter McDavid smile?
01:34I haven't.
01:36He's all business.
01:37Literally.
01:38Here's your MVP.
01:39Thanks.
01:41These guys are serious people.
01:43And you saw it.
01:44Brad Marchand set the tone last night.
01:46Like you said, Scott, people throw around the best
01:50on best, man.
01:50When it comes to hockey, it really is special, isn't it?
01:53When you see.
01:54When you take out, and I said it last night,
01:57it's better than NHL hockey.
01:58It's like faster than NHL hockey.
02:00Bennington said it all after the game, Scott.
02:02He's played, he won a Stanley Cup.
02:04They said, what was that like being on the ice?
02:06He goes, I don't know.
02:07I can't really describe it.
02:09He goes, it was like the Stanley Cup playoffs,
02:11except faster.
02:13Yeah, it's just better.
02:15He goes, it was like the playoffs.
02:17He goes, man, that felt like the playoffs.
02:18But he goes, it's just so much faster.
02:20And he goes, everybody's so good.
02:22Scott, you don't have any third or fourth liners, bro.
02:25Every guy on the ice is like a first line guy.
02:27Like you notice every pass is tape to tape.
02:31Bing, bing, boom, boom.
02:33There's not a lot of mistakes
02:35because guys are just so good.
02:36It really is the best of the best.
02:38And think about it, bro.
02:40That was just the first game, Scott.
02:42They didn't even play.
02:44They didn't play the exhibition games or anything.
02:46They just got thrown together.
02:48I've seen Canada practice twice.
02:50And if that's them after two practices,
02:52oh boy, wait till we see what they look like next week.
02:56Right, I mean, this tournament's only a week long.
02:58The final's next Thursday.
02:59But yeah, really, really fun hockey.
03:02And both the USA and Finland took notice last night, Scott.
03:06They were like, you know, the players after were like,
03:08oh my God, like this is okay, okay.
03:11Like we know we need to really even bring it more
03:14than even we thought we needed to bring it right now
03:17because that was a high level of hockey.
03:19So Finland and USA have a tough act to top tonight.