Thoughts on the tournament? Do you want more teams?

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Canada wins #4nationsfaceoff 3-2 against U.S.A., in OT, on McDavid's GWG. Thoughts on the tournament? Do you want more teams?

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00:00I would have I that's something I would have enjoyed this morning after last night. I I attended the game last night

00:06Did you actually stay for the whole game Greg shine? I stayed for the entire game Wow

00:11And overtime, that's a long. That's impressive

00:14I gotta give you some credit there, but it was not meant to be for Team USA last night in the four nations face-off final

00:21It was first of all the building was as Courtney would say electric

00:27A lot of a lot of

00:29Canadians there last night or at least fans of Team Canada. It looks like that on the broadcast

00:35Were they friendly or aggressive?

00:38They were friendly. I generally run away from any kind of physical confrontation. I go. It's not my thing

00:44It doesn't have to be physical. They could just you know trash-talking. Yeah

00:50But I don't know they played I don't know how you feel shy I'm I they I

00:55Felt like if they played the way if Team USA played the way they played in overtime in regulation

01:01They would have won that game last night. It was like dump-and-chase

01:04Yeah, I I felt like it just it was I mean you obviously you were there in person

01:10It seemed like you know great atmosphere great game

01:12And and it was one of those games where you know, you thought maybe USA would be able to pull it off

01:17but I mean Milbury said at the end of the day yesterday that they have an

01:22Unbelievable scoring talent when you leave Connor McDavid in the slot wide open. Yeah. No, I mean you can't you cannot let that guy

01:31Get out there and be wide open and have a shot at you

01:34I mean, I I'm guessing that's the way the NHL would have written it up is that he scores in overtime to win it

01:41Yeah, it was a success. So I guess that's all that matters the tournament actually was a success and is this something that they'll

01:48Continue to do every year in replace of the All-Star game. Yeah, I why wouldn't they I mean

01:54I the only you brought it up a million times. They just need to add nations

01:58Yeah, so it needs to go to sick day six nations or eight nations or whatever. Yeah, whatever, you know

02:04There's because it seems like there's there's a lot of different nations in the National Hockey League that could form teams

02:11And you could really have it, you know, we you saw it would form it was really a seemed like it was a great event

02:17So could you imagine if we had six or eight? I mean has the world forgiven Russia yet?

02:22Can Russia well, do they have to forgive them for them to be in the tournament? Not really?

02:29I will say though

02:30I wonder when you look at some of the guys who are these really high-profile stars like McAvoy and then like Matthew

02:38Kachuk like what is the extent of his injury gonna be that he sustained and then was trying to gut through last night

02:45Unable to does that start to become more of a conversation of hey, it's great this really an exhibition tournament

02:52That's that's best on best has is generating so much buzz for the sport

02:58but also

03:00From a club perspective for the NHL like we really want these guys going out there and trying to play through injuries

03:08Yes, we do we do I'm saying we do

03:12Professional clubs want that the NHL must love it

03:16I'm guessing that you're probably right where there are gonna be owners and

03:23GM's and coaches who don't love it because they're without a guy that they would not be without if it weren't for the tournament

03:31Well what they should do would be pretty cool

03:32And I don't know if you could necessarily do it

03:35you might be able to is where you could play the

03:38Tournament and then have them have like a week to ten days off after and that be the trade

03:45Kind of like the trade period, you know what I mean?

03:47so teams could if maybe guys did get nicked up and they need a place they could trade for guys and then guys would get

03:53Some rest because I mean what's today?

03:57Friday and all day long, right?

04:00Don't they have that they right back at it tomorrow like with NHL game

04:04So it'd be if you gave them like a week to ten days off after this four nations tournament

04:09I think it would be a maybe a little bit better and clubs wouldn't mind NHL teams would be like

04:14Oh, that's a little bit wiki. Then aren't you like you're kind of creating it?

04:18Did it matter what I think matters is how much the return on investment of this tournament is like obviously?

04:25Probably in part because some of the international political stuff going on like it's it's got a huge

04:32Spotlight on it this time around. Yeah, but do you want to start rearranging the NHL schedule around an exhibition game?

04:39Like does it continue to generate this much buzz after next year?

04:43They have the Olympics and then after that

04:45Does it continue to generate this much buzz where then you're rearranging and saying?

04:50You're saying there won't be as much drama once Canada is the 51st state. Well, yeah, of course, you know

04:58All drama's gone. Maybe we could if we also own Greenland by then we can get them in

05:03Yeah, it is too big to be one state really isn't

05:07What is the biggest state I would say, Texas incorrect

05:13Time I knew I have a guess, California

05:17It's probably California, Alaska, it's Alaska

05:22Full flex from you this morning

05:26But that's the biggest stage is based on size

05:30Population. Have you ever played Pokemon go in Alaska? I wish great. I've never been to Alaska. I would love to though

05:35That sounds like a blast. No, I mean also if you add nations you have to add time to it, right?

05:40I understand that but I think that no matter what to answer your question mego

05:45I think because it's nations versus nations. It's always gonna be a

05:52Giant buzz fans are gonna be into it. It's kind of like FIFA's World Cup, right?

05:57So team you are USA fans are gonna be into it Canadian fans are gonna be it

06:01So I think it's good for the NHL because it just creates more and more

06:07Publicity for them. Yeah, and so if you were to say hey, is there reward a benefit to giving these guys a week off?

06:14I think it at the end of the day would be you know, they would say

06:17all right, we'll just kind of pencil in a week after the four nations and

06:22But we look at all the pub will be able to get when we do at other nations in and we'll be able to generate great

06:28Club for our NHL league. How did you feel about the response to Oh Canada last night?

06:34I didn't realize they changed the words

06:38I

06:40Know that lady was not good

06:43She's

06:45She was not great. I don't know and I don't understand why they bumped the great Todd

06:51Anjali yeah hours before that game last night. It was hours before. Yes

06:57Why would they do that? He would have at that place would have exploded

07:00Yeah, there's no explanation for it. And it's it was like a driving into the garden situation

07:06Oh really for him like and I don't and that was that was an NHL decision. Oh, so

07:13Demanded the Boston Pops

07:18Strange demand

07:21Have the classical music I didn't mind the early booze I thought you know

07:28Might have sounded different on TV

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