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NHL Players Battle for Olympics: Best Hockey Vs. Four-Nation
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2/2/2024
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I'm going to give credit to Gary Bettman and the National Hockey League and their owners
00:07
who were really, really didn't want to participate in the Olympic Games.
00:12
The last Olympics, the players wanted to participate and they lost the battle with the owners.
00:19
This time, I think the players were more adamant about wanting to play.
00:23
The NHL responded with coming up with their little four nation thing or whatever that
00:27
nobody cares about and is ridiculously stupid and I'm sure that they regret announcing
00:32
because now they're actually playing in the Olympics.
00:34
Listen, Scott, you can look at this a couple of ways and I understand the Olympics aren't
00:39
supposed to be for millionaires.
00:41
I totally get that.
00:43
That horse left the track a long time ago, Scott.
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Everybody's a pro in the Olympics and the players that were playing hockey in the Olympics
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in the last couple of Olympics, they were pros.
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They just weren't good pros.
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They were pro dudes that were playing in European leagues or whatnot.
01:03
The fact is we want to see the best on best and hockey's been missing out on this.
01:08
Even the National Football League wants in on the Olympics because they see what it can
01:11
do for the brand, man.
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NFL players are going to be in the summer games in LA in 2028 and it's going to be sick.
01:18
It's going to be cool.
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It's going to be flag football, but it's going to be high level, big time stuff and it's
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going to elevate the NFL globally.
01:26
Look at what the NBA does.
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They embrace it, man.
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They embrace the international play.
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Hockey's always been an international play sport.
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The most famous moments in hockey in Canada, the Summit Series, 1972, Russia, Canada played
01:41
an eight game series.
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Let's see who's better, the communist or the free world.
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Let's go head to head.
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It went eight games, bro.
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It was a battle for the ages known as the hockey series of all hockey series.
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The miracle on ice was produced by a bunch of no name kids, but we're in a new world
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right now.
02:00
We want to see best on best.
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I tell you, Scott, that's the best hockey I've ever seen in my life and I've seen all
02:06
hockey.
02:07
I grew up in a hockey family.
02:08
I played hockey.
02:09
I've been around hockey.
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I've covered hockey.
02:12
Some say the greatest game ever was the Montreal Canadiens and the Red Army, Ken Dryden versus
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Tretiak, bro.
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Epic game, two-two.
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It's known if you just punch in greatest game ever played hockey.
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That's what comes up.
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In the old days, guys, it was so effing cool.
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Remember, Scott, sports were cool then, bro.
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The Canadians were like the kingpins of the NHL in the seventies.
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They won six Stanley Cups.
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On New Year's Eve, they would play Tretiak and the Red Army, man, for real.
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In the middle of the season and it was real.
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It was as real as it gets, man, because the Russian guys weren't in the NHL then.
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So now everybody's sort of mixed in together.
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It takes away a little bit of the international shine because, look, guys are teammates that
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play with each other.
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