Jon Cooper's Take on Facing US & Sidney Crosby's Impact

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00:00head coaches john cooper

00:01uh... always has a lot to say first let's get his thoughts on facing the

00:06united states again

00:07how how much john though is uh... getting another crack at the u.s. been a

00:12motivating factor

00:13for your players after saturday night how about you i can't i can sit here and

00:16say that is the case

00:19but even if

00:20the u.s. wasn't in the final

00:22we wouldn't be like our we don't want to be and we'd we we want in this and this

00:26is we came here for this purpose

00:28and now it's it's when one more game

00:31it just happens to be against the team to be a s

00:33after the fireworks that went off on uh... saturday night so

00:37uh... i think

00:40should be a pretty good made for t.v. event

00:45dot

00:46and uh...

00:47look up obviously whenever anybody wants to say something nice about sydney

00:52crosby

00:53uh... i'm gonna let you hear that as well i hear is uh... a nice long bad

00:58drive from john cooper about how great and amazing

01:01said the kid is and how he keeps doing it uh... at his age

01:05you see somebody from from afar

01:07and then

01:09you don't want to be disappointed when you meet them in person it's like

01:12you know you

01:13to me you're

01:14you want to be here and you want them to be your hero

01:18to be a honestly like a lot of times it doesn't happen

01:21and how many times have you said oh man i wish

01:24you know you look at them in a certain light

01:27with the late the look at sydney crosby is still the same late when you meet him

01:30and

01:32uh... he's

01:33bennett

01:35he's

01:35uh... true inspiration to all the young guys in our locker room and

01:39and uh...

01:41and even older guys he is uh...

01:45uh... you know in our

01:46in our country walks on water and he is as humble as they come and and

01:52you can see why

01:54he arguably is one of the most respected

01:56people in this game

01:59obviously i know him and i've interviewed him a million times and i

02:03think that a lot of it comes from

02:05obviously uh... his parents and his his

02:09youth in in you know nova scotia whatever

02:12uh...

02:14i think that uh...

02:16coal harbor where he grew up right and so uh... i think a lot of the pro side

02:20of it came from mario lemieux

02:22you have to understand when they drafted him he lived with lemieux

02:27and his family

02:29and

02:30you know his wife and kids and that's where he started his career the first

02:34couple years he lived with mario and i think mario taught him

02:38how to be uh... a pro and how to act

02:41and i think he already came from that kind of rearing

02:45and i think it only got

02:47more compounded and i think that he

02:49uh... took it to another level

02:52as a pro the longer he played

02:54the more important he got now the one thing that stands out to me about him

02:57and i think you'll see this

02:59uh... is true is that if you look at him now at thirty seven whatever

03:04he's

03:05no one touches him

03:07he's god

03:08in the nhl he has become wayne gretzky no one ever hit gretzky in his last ten

03:13years in the league

03:15you weren't allowed to hit him

03:17you just weren't he was the

03:19he was the the entire sport

03:21and so he skated around freely doing whatever he wanted

03:25at the beginning of crosby's career people wanted to kill him

03:28because they were like this guy who does he think he is and then they gave him

03:31concussions and everything else

03:34uh... and then once he became brilliant and started winning the stanley cups

03:38one two three

03:40olympic gold

03:41world cup

03:42then it was over they never touched him again you know that's true mike no one

03:46ever hits him

03:47and i frankly

03:48don't think they should

03:50i think the guy should be able to finish

03:52uh... his career

03:53like you know ovechkin is way more physical than

03:56crosby is

03:57ovechkin's a hitter

03:59uh... he's a four checker he's a sniper

04:02and i think that

04:03sid for my money is more of a playmaker

04:06uh... and a great shot he's got a great shot that goes in

04:11but he's more of a playmaker in my opinion and he should just be left to his

04:15own devices

04:16so frankly and i know this sounds soft but let him end his career

04:20uh... healthy and brilliant and let him be who he is he's the greatest

04:23player of the last

04:25twenty years with with ovechkin without a doubt and i think that that's who he

04:29is and

04:30people love him he is that cool like i know him

04:33and he is that cool he is what you see

04:36there's no phony bones in him he's

04:39exactly the way he comes across

04:41and he handles all the responsibilities

04:44of being the biggest star in the league

04:46uh... with a smile on his face you think he wants to meet all these people and

04:49shake all these hands and go to these families houses and give them season

04:52tickets and take pictures with babies

04:54people get sick and tired of that stuff

04:56he does it without ever

04:59complaining or anything ever once he's just

05:01as pure as gold he really is

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