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Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: This is how it sounded yesterday morning on NBC.

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Speaker 1: Wow Jews takes a rabbit call, Gods takes with numbers waacs, it comes.

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Speaker 3: Take this wins it the Golden Doll in the United States.

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Speaker 4: For the first time since the nineteen eighty better Gold in the United States.

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Speaker 5: Takes the gold.

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Speaker 2: Kenny Albert with the call, did a wonderful job. Mike Tarico hosting. It was just a gold medal performance all around yesterday, and it was at this time twenty four hours ago Canada and the United States second period tied at one point one. And if you look at the totality of this, if you were actually judging this like it was figure skating, then you would go, oh, Canada, they won. But we don't judge it that way. We judge it with the bottom line of goals. And you might say, wait a minute, what's happening in overtime? It was three on three. They do that during the regular season in the NHL because they don't they're playing so many minutes, so many games, and once you get to overtime, it's basically their version of a three on three shootout, and now do I like it? In the Olympics, I did not this This is for the gold medal. This isn't hey, you got another game tomorrow night in Toronto and then you know one in New York. This is the Olympic gold medal. But the United States and Canada both had three men on the ice against one another, and the United States ended up winning. Of course, here's John Cooper, the Canadian head coach. Here comes the question, first.

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Speaker 5: Well, how did you see the whole play that led to the.

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Speaker 6: Other times overtime? You take four players off the ice. Now hockey is not hockey anymore. There's a reason overtime and shootouts are in play TV driven and you know, to end games. So there's not you know, a long time. There's a reason it's not in the Stanley Cup finals or playoffs because you know it gets ended in five. But it's still skill players out there making skill plays. And the US team has some skill players and you know, as de we and they they.

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Speaker 5: Made one more play than we did in overtime.

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Speaker 2: So that's the head coach for Canada, John Cooper. Look, he can be right but also be critiqued in this situation, because they had plenty of chances to win that were they the better team, Yeah, they probably were the better team, but and maybe they performed better, But the United States performed better when they needed to. And that was at the very end all it takes. When you get to that point, anything can happen, and a lot of times it can be something fluky, and it didn't feel like anything was really starting to metastasize there for the United States. On that play, you're going okay, ok oh, and then it's over, and you know, you start to think back nineteen eighty when you know the United States beat the Soviet Union. That wasn't for the gold and it doesn't seem like it was forty six years ago, by the way, nineteen eighty but those are a bunch of guys who weren't playing in the NHL. I mean, that was their moment. Some guys played in the NHL, but these were college kids going against professionals. You know, it's different now, these are professionals against professionals. So does it have the same feel, No, but it still feels pretty good when you're watching and how that played out. And then Jack Hughes Eah with teeth missing and a flag around his neck and a gold medal as well, and he talked about scoring the winner. This was such an incredible game to grind out.

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Speaker 7: I mean you're bleeding right through it just looking at you right now.

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Speaker 4: Can you just talk about how difficult this gold medal was to win.

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Speaker 8: Unbelievable game by Hallibuck. He was our best player tonight by mile. Unbelievable game, unreal game by our team. That's just a balls he guts you win. That's American hockey right there. That's a great Canadian team.

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Speaker 2: But were USA.

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Speaker 7: We're so proud to be Americans.

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Speaker 5: Tonight was all for the country.

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Speaker 2: It was You couldn't script it. In fact, if you tried to script it, somebody would say, all right, let's ease off. The guy loses his teeth, Okay, all right, you know, because he did, you know, nearly cost him his team with a bad penalty there in the third period. But that photo, and that photo is going to live on for the rest of our lives, where you just see him smiling with his teeth cracked, and just you know, it meant something. Well, this is this is pride. Now you can talk about the Stanley Cup and Fritzy even said, hey, what would be more important winning the Stanley Cup or the gold medal? And I think it's an interesting question. I'm I'm. You know, it might be one of those where you don't want to say it publicly. Hey, that Stanley Cup might be more important than winning a gold medal because that's a team and a city as opposed to a country. But you know that might depend on what team, what city, what country we're talking about.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, uh, I know in soccer, there's nothing more important than the World Cup. That is the pinnacle, that is like the end.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if the Olympics.

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Speaker 3: You know, the soccer is also in the Olympics, so it's not exactly the same, like an Apple's to apples comparison World Cup to an Olympic medal, but there is something about playing for your country that's that's obviously.

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Speaker 2: A really really big deal. Yeah, and you saw that, you know, just the pride that they had, and you know, Jack Hughes saying it over and over proud to be an American, did acknowledge the Canadian team. Canadian team had a lot of talent, they really did. But you know, you're just kind of hoping that the United States stays close, and then they get the first goal and you go, okay, that sent a message and really quickly, and then Canada comes back, and then it was going to come down to is somebody going to get a Fluke goal or maybe a Fluke save? Because Connor was unbelievable, Like there's moments where you go, how did that happen? How did he make that save? And this is where they talk about a goalie standing on his head. You know, for mikel Eruzioni, you needed Jim Craig as your goaltender and Jack Hughes needed hell about to get into overtime for him to have that, because those are really the biggest plays. If you don't have a save on you know, there's like three of them. I mean Canada had five on three for a while and didn't do anything, and you could see they had more talent out there. But you get to that point where all of a sudden you start to tense up, you miss shots that you would normally make, and and you know this. I remember when the United States beat the Soviet Union and there were some hockey purists that said, hey, if they played ten times Soviets are winning the next nine, but they don't play ten times. That's the point, you know, of all of the great upsets. You know, if Villanova plays Georgetown again in basketball, or NC State against Houston, but they don't. They played once and that's all you needed to And the women's hockey team USA, now they were favored against Canada and that turned out to be a lot better game than I thought it was going to be. But it was a fun weekend. It was fun to be able to watch it, and it was early morning. And this is what the Olympics does. The Olympics will bring in the casual fan or the non fan, and now you're watching moments like this. It's the one thing that all these sports try to chase, like, how do you get this? It's scarce and the Olympics still is able to deliver that. And you saw that yesterday on display Seaton Poll. Question for the first hour the program is going to be.

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Speaker 3: What, Well, we have a lot of options, a bunch from Paul, we have a bunch from Todd. Probably go with one of Todd's Stanley Cup versus Gold medal.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I think that's a fun one. Well, let's go around the room. Thought, I'll start with you gold medal or Stanley.

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Speaker 7: Cupp Stanley Cup.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I rather have the Stanley Cup.

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Speaker 3: Satan, And I'm trying to weigh because you can only win it every four years, which makes it pretty probably much less peap have a gold medal than have won the Stanley Cup. Right, Yeah, it's more of a rare accomplishment. Yeah, man, it feels like Stanley Cupp. I know, I know, I'm probably gonna go slightly towards the Stanley Cup.

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Speaker 2: I've seen grown men cry around the Stanley Cup. Jeremy Ronick was crying around the Stanley Cup because and he said to me when we were doing our broadcast, I'll never I'll never know that feeling. And it made him cry. One of the toughest guys that you've ever been around, and he was crying around the Stanley Cup. Yes, Todd, are we say it's so uncoffed.

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Speaker 7: I don't speak for Seaton, but I said, it's so begrudgugally and uncomfortably like I'm somehow a bad American that I'm picking the Stanley Cup over the Gold.

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Speaker 2: Okay, it's all right. People dislike you for other things, not this, that's a long list. Marvin, Stanley Cup, gold Medal, the Stanley Cup, Paul not even close the gold medal. Okay, I would say Stanley Cupp certainly. If I'm from Canada, I would say the Stanley Cup. Knowing just how deep that runs the history of that, all of those names, I'd probably say that it's not that we devalue the gold as much as I elevate the Stanley Cup just a little bit higher. Either way, I'd feel pretty good, that's for sure. So the pole question is gold medal or Stanley Cup? First hour, Yeah, we put that one up there. Certainly hit some of Todd's options if you want. Paul's got a few there. What other options does Fritzy have?

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Speaker 7: I had a cute one about showing up to work in a blizzard? Is one of the following pure dedication. Someone give that work or a cookie. Kind of insane and dangerous, but the show must go on. Sports Emmy Worthy, perhaps question mark. And the final choice is so not a big deal, tough enough. What's a couple of feet of snow among friends?

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Speaker 2: Yes, we had a blizzard. We're still in the thick of a blizzard here but everybody, most of the backroom guys spent the night and uh, you know, when I was driving in, there was nobody on the road. It was like an apocalypse, and which made it easier to drive to work because there was nobody on the road. You'd have a couple of snow plows, but that was it. But came in and it was like a slumber party for the back room guys. Todd, you stayed at a hotel nearby.

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Speaker 7: I did.

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Speaker 2: I was just a few minutes up the road. Okay, but I'm glad that you made it. And every day it is a super Bowl.

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Speaker 3: It is.

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Speaker 2: It is so this. You know, you can't rest on your laurels.

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Speaker 7: San Francisco is in the rear view mirror. Let's go Milford.

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Speaker 2: We survived the blizzard of twenty six. We did it, all right, We'll take a break. We'll get to your phone calls coming up eight seven seven three DP show.

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Speaker 3: Yes, it's funny that you say that, because just the other day my wife was talking about something and she was just like, oh, well, that was like what like twenty oh ten. Don't like, what was that like twenty oh ten, something like that.

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Speaker 9: Twenty oh ten twenty ten, you mean twenty ten, twenty ten, twenty oh ten, I could fall into that, you know, let's it like nine ten something like that.

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Speaker 2: There's certain things you just don't correct your wife on. Yeah, well they're just you know, I mean, what are you having a laugh at it? I think it's oh, as long as there it's a communal laugh. I wasn't don't you mean twenty ten eightiot? Like I didn't like bark at our years, you know, du or so I.

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Speaker 3: Was like, I don't know what was that nine oh ten eleven something?

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Speaker 2: It was, Oh, it was otonic.

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Speaker 2: Update the poll ARUs results if you can seating.

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Speaker 3: Yep, we still got the two of them up there right now. Which would you rather win the Stanley Cup or a gold medal? The gold medal has still about fifty eight to fifty nine percent of that vote. And whose career would you want? Kurt Russell, Alan Michaels or Jack Hughes. Jack Hughes and al Michaels is very close, very close to a tie. Jack Hughes just barely edging Albino out by about a point and a half.

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Speaker 2: Now I'll ask now that question coming up next hour. The tanking topic was the topic of conversation at the All Star Game. I think the first question the commissioner got had to do with tanking. It's got a real problem because these teams are overt, they're blatant. And somebody brought this up because when I was growing up, there used to be a territorial draft where players who played at the University of Cincinnati would play for the Cincinnati Royals. Oscar Robertson played at Cincinnati, and therefore he went to the Cincinnati Royals. Bob Coosey played at holy Cross, he went to the Boston Celtics. So you had a territorial draft, and somebody brought this up. Could we get rid of the draft as we know it and tanking and have a territorial draft. Well, let me pose this to you and why it would never work. Say aj debansa who might be the number one player in the country, he plays at BYU, Well, then he would go to Utah. They'd play for the Utah Jazz. So what would stop the Utah Jazz from saying to BYU, We're going to give you as much money as you need for NIL to bring in the best players in the country, because we will get them on the Utah Jazz. You could have a collective helping BYU, which would allow that player or players to then go to the Utah Jazz. So it wouldn't work because you would get professional teams who could then help finance college teams. So those players would then have to go to, you know, the team that was in their city. The territorial draft. Yes, Martin, the Charlott Hornets would benefit greatly from that. Yeah, get all those guys from Duke in North Carolina, yeah, they get too many players. But you know, territorial draft while you know, I guess it worked back in the sixties, but it can't work now. Just too much money at stake for these teams. Nil and then all of a sudden, aj De Benza is on the Utah Jazz just because he went to BYU. But people proposed that there's just so many what if everybody's in the lottery, What if your picks aren't protected every team has the same odds. That's been brought up. What if And this is something I brought up to the commissioner, and that is after your team is eliminated, the wins that you get by being competitive will help increase your odds in the lottery. Therefore, you're not shutting down Zach Levine and Sabonis if you're Sacramento or you would like for them to be able to play. But also understand this with these players, the players, you know, theya you're going to be bringing in somebody who's going to take somebody's place on that team, and you know, getting everybody to have a common goal that's challenging here. But there's so many different facets attached to this that I just I don't know if there is a is there a soft landing spot for this topic where everybody is going to be satisfied, And I don't think that's going to be the case. And you know, even if ratings go down, understand, they're in the midst of what a ten or eleven year deal worth billions of dollars. These players, they don't care what's happening in ten years from now or the ratings go down. You got all this money there. The commissioner and the owners are the ones who have a problem here. Now the players, players are going to, hey, I'm going to play fifty five games and maybe in my career by two extra years and maybe make an extra forty million dollars. So I don't know if there's a oh okay that makes the most sense. I don't know if there's that moment yes, ud.

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Speaker 7: And what if the team is really trying and they're just not good enough and you want to have parody, but this team that's actually not tanking, they just don't have a good enough rouster and now they have the equal chance of getting the top picks as the better teams than where does that leave you in terms of trying to make teams more equitable or have a chance in the next couple of years to win a title like the NFL tries to do.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're they're looking at lottery odds allocated based on two year records. Lottery extended to include playing teams, flatten the odds for all lottery teams. No longer allowing a team to pick in the top four in consecutive years. Teams can't pick in the top four the year after making the conference. Fine, they're just throwing out as anything and everything.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, see it sounds a lot like how HBO determines the Hard Knocks team. Well, you have to do this, but you can have done it in the last four years. But then you have to have a bad rug.

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Speaker 2: But you have to win this. Yeah, it's a big problem, big problem.

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Speaker 2: Let's bringing Al Michaels the Hall of Famer Thursday Night Football on Prime. I'll look at you with your La Kings hat. All right, hockey.

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Speaker 5: Season, come on, we have we have Panera now from the Rangers. So here we go.

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Speaker 10: Oh, we lost, we lost in the Olympics. But that's all the NHL talk. Let's go to the Olympics.

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Speaker 2: Okay. Let me ask you the poll question, would you rather win the Olympic gold or Stanley Cup?

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Speaker 10: I probably rather win the Olympic goal. But if I was Ken Morrow, I might take the for Stanley Cup that he won with the New York Islanders in the wake of his gold medal in Lake Placid.

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Speaker 5: But I mean, there's nothing like an Olympic gold medal that's going to be at the very top.

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Speaker 10: You know.

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Speaker 2: The first professional hockey game I saw in person was Ken Morrow's goal at Madison Square Garden, and my producer, who was from New York, says, just to let you know, not all hockey games are like.

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Speaker 5: This, No, they're not.

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Speaker 10: You know, I was thinking last night, dan is hockey the only sport where at the end of the game the fans are more exhausted to the players. It's I mean. And also I keep thinking. Jason Gay had a fantastic column in the Wall Street General, number of them past couple of days, but the other day he described hockey as croquet for people who like running on the tops of speeding trains.

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Speaker 5: It's perfect.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna take a little wing like visualize that. But you know, hey, but of all the sports, hockey always delivers more consistently than the other sports when it comes to a big game, you know, Game seven, playoff hockey, It's just there is something about it that's different than every other sport.

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Speaker 10: Especially when it ends at like one in the morning. We've shaved a few of those games. It's phenomenal. The other thing about hockey, he said, it's so continuous. I mean, I was texting with Doc Rivers, my old NBA partner in the Milwaukee coach yesterday.

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Speaker 5: And I'm going, is anything better than hockey?

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Speaker 10: And he goes, well, the NBA, I said, Doc, I said, the last two minutes of a hockey game can take two minutes.

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Speaker 5: The last two minutes of an NBA game. You need a calendar. And he said, I know.

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Speaker 10: And as I talked to Adam about it all the time, they got to fix that.

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Speaker 2: Didn't you do play by play at all when you're watching yesterday?

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Speaker 5: Uh not really.

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Speaker 10: I'm just you know, I just enjoyed the game sitting back and you know, being a fan it's the edge of the sheet that Kenny did a tremendous John Kenny Albert and Eddie oldcheck is is phenomenal.

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Speaker 5: Eddie's the best. What did Eddie say yesterday?

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Speaker 10: You know when Brad Marshan, you know who gets in the face of the American team right in front of the bench, and Eddie was talking about how much Brad likes to talk, and he said he can talk a stamp off an envelope, which was a phenomenal line.

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Speaker 2: Tifth great, it doesn't seem like it was forty six years ago that you gave us miracle on ice.

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Speaker 10: No way, man, no way. But it's you know, it it comes and it goes. I mean, the story is still great. People still love the story. You know, it'll resonate, you know, for the rest of my life clearly, and a lot of other people's lives. But it's it was just it could not be replicated, you know that because that game was so much more than a hockey game. You needed to know nothing at all about hockey or care about hockey. That was all about us and our arch enemy. And we're actually playing with amateurs and they're playing with in effect professionals in our home country in a game where somebody asked me, what you know, DraftKings might have had that game at back in nineteen eighty, fifty to one, sixty to one, you name it.

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Speaker 5: It was a massive upset, massive.

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Speaker 2: But the fact that it wasn't for the gold and the amount of pressure that was now on Team USA that you can't come miss bar and you don't win the gold medal. But can you remember what that feeling was like or what these players talked about.

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Speaker 10: Well, I remember vividly in the next game against Finland Sunday morning in Lake Placid, they were down two to one end of the second period, and that's the famous Herb Brooks quote before they took the ice of the third period. If you lose this game, you'll take it to your eff and grave. And he said it again, and the boys basically said, Herb Brooks never swore, but that was the one time he swore. And if you think about something that rang so true, if those guys had gone through the rest of their lives and had lost the game to Finland, people would go, Now, let me get this straight. You beat the Soviets and you lost to Finland. So you know they came back and won the game. Had you know, they had to kill a penalty toward the end of the third period leading three to two and got a short handed goal. So that was gigantic. People, you don't forget in those years, it wasn't like it is now where you have a semi final game and then the final. They had a round robin. We played the Soviets on Friday, Finland on Sunday, and here we go forty years later.

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Speaker 2: But what would that have done to your call if they don't win the gold medal?

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Speaker 5: Do you believe in debacles?

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Speaker 10: I think I think that's what the Soviet announcer must have said at the end of the right. Yeah, think about that. I don't even want to think about that. None of those guys do.

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Speaker 5: Uh. That would have been just horrendous, Yeah, horrendous.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Did you have a backup call for do you believe in miracles?

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Speaker 10: Dan? I walked over to the arena with the great late Ken drive in the day and I said to him, I said, Kenny, we can only hope to keep an audience that the game is something like three to one, no worse than three to one middle of the second period. Otherwise knowing Ruin Oarliche running ABC Sports in those days, you would have he would have brought you, you know, women's ordinals or something, or you know, ski flying or something, or she jumping. Uh, they would have cut away from from our game. So I had there was no chance the US could win that game.

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Speaker 5: None.

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Speaker 10: Kenny and I had been to the Soviet Union. He played against them, We saw them. We weren't a match for them. So when that game, you know, is one to one, two to two, three to Soviets, then we get a Tian goal, then a Rouzioni scores at the ten minute mark of the Now it's like WHOA. So I'm not thinking about anything to say at the end of the game because this is so crazy, this can't be happening. But at the end of the game, the Soviets were putting intense pressure on the US, and I'm just calling the game because that game could have ended with a goal by the Soviets or a great save by Jim Craig.

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Speaker 5: So I don't have in my mind.

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Speaker 10: I can't think of something to say because I'm going to call that game right to the very end. And I got very lucky when the puck came out to center ice without five seconds to play, and now I knew the Soviets couldn't mount another attack. And the word that came into my head was miraculous. It got morphed into a question and answer. I had no idea of the impact of what I said, or even what I should at the end of the game.

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Speaker 5: I was working in such an intense state of concentration. But here we are. It's you know, I guess I put a pretty good code on the game.

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Speaker 2: Did you ever hear the Soviets call?

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Speaker 5: Well, that might have been the debacles call. No, I never heard that call.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I haven't either. I'm curious though, how that. Because of the importance of hockey, and you're a hockey power, and sure you know, people pay a price in some of these countries when they disappoint, and I'd be curious how the Russian announcer called that. I think he had to be sunned. First of all, they never lost, so people also forget that the Soviets down by a goal and putting the pressure on in the American and never even pulled the Goldie because they probably never practiced it. Well, they don't lose, so they could have had a six on five at the end of the game. But you know, you know what dancey things I'm thinking about this morning too. So when I'm a kid in the fifties and sixties in New York and I love the Rangers, and in the NHL in those years, there were like two or three or four guys born in America, And in nineteen eighty, I think I looked it up, there were like eight percent of the rosters were American born.

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Speaker 10: Now it's thirty percent. So what eighty did and I think what yesterday did is it makes kids more excited. More kids are going to play hockey now because of what took place yesterday. Wow, look at this and they play it all around the country now and again, when I was a kid, the number one draft.

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Speaker 5: Choice in the NHL would always be a kid.

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Speaker 10: Born in moose Joicekatchewan or in Northern Manitoba. But one of the seminal moments to me was the American captain Austin Matthews, who was drafted number one by the Toronto Maple Leafs about ten years ago. And you know, played extremely well in the Olympics. Austin Matthews grew up in Scottsdale, Arizona. It's a long way for Moose Justice, scatchuw On. So that's where the sport of hockey is coming.

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Speaker 5: Is great.

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Speaker 2: We're talking to al Mochiel. Al Michael's the Hall of Famer. It's almost like what the Dream Team did to the rest of the basketball world, maybe the nineteen eighty Olympic hockey team. What that did to US hockey.

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Speaker 10: Oh, for sure, no question, because I mean even Jeremy Ronick, who went into the Hall of Fame had a great NHL career. Jeremy said that he would watch that tape and that would inspire him to play hockey and be a great hockey player. And I'm sure he's not alone in that regard. So there's no question that that in nineteen eighty that made a lot of kids more interested in playing. I thought HBO did a fantastic documentary in two thousand and one that helped. Miracle came out in two thousand and four with Kurt Russell. That's certainly helped because all the kids have now seen that and now well you have it. By the way, Netflix has a documentary which has been out about two weeks called Miracle of the Boys of eighty, which is phenomenal. They brought all the guys back to Lake Plasted, you know, four and a half decades later, and you know, you see parts of the game obviously, but you hear about those guys in their lives and what that meant to them.

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Speaker 5: It's a phenomenal documentary. Netflix.

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Speaker 2: Did you save notes from the Miracle on Ice?

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Speaker 5: You know, I.

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Speaker 10: Think I have some in a folder, probably in a storage bin or something, but you know, I didn't have that many notes.

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Speaker 5: I just you know, you did it on the fly.

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Speaker 10: So we were doing a lot of games, so I had to all all of those other teams to in Norway, Sweden, Czechoslovakia who we beat in that game. But I had done that, you know, and people said, well, how did you get all those names down?

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Speaker 5: I said, hold on a second. I started my career.

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Speaker 10: In Hawaii doing a number of sports, including high school basketball where he had five samoens on a fast break and the ball is loose and it's going back. I said, believe me, that paid off in the Adirondecks for me.

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Speaker 2: How many more hockey games did you do after the eighty Olympics, After.

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Speaker 10: The eighty Olympics. I did well. I did the eighty four Olympics. We did, but our team wasn't very good. So Kenny Dryden and I did those games, but they would, you know, come to us for like fifteen minutes at a clip because.

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Speaker 5: We were always losing.

00:31:16
Speaker 10: And then in eighty eight I did it again in Calgary, but we weren't very good, so it wasn't it bore no semblance to Lake Classes. And then when ABC got the NHL rights in the mid nineties, Nnis Swanson asked me to do a couple of games. So I did two Kings Calgary playoff games I think in ninety three, and then I wanted to do Wayne Gretzky before he retired, so the Kings were playing in Chicago. I always wanted to do a game in Chicago Stadium, and that's it.

00:31:44
Speaker 5: That's it.

00:31:45
Speaker 10: So I've done a handful of games, but I love hockey. You know, I'll be there. I want to see coconom McDavid in person, so that Surgeon and Edmonton at the Kings, I'll be there.

00:31:54
Speaker 2: How many hockey games had you done prior to the eighty Olympics.

00:31:57
Speaker 10: One in nineteen seventy two, I think I told you. I've told you this story about I'm on a staff. Remember it's I'm the kid on the staff. It's Mount Rushmore, Howard Cosell, Jim McKay, Keith Jackson, Frank Gifford, Bill Fleming. I'm the kid, so one am I I wanted speed skating because Eric Hyden was going to be the big star, and he did win the five gold medals, but they gave that to Keith Jackson, and they gave me hockey, and I said, you know, I'm thinking Winter Olympics. It's always good to have an indoor sport, right for starters. And I loved hockey. And I was the one guy on that staff. Nobody else had done the game. I hain't done one game, and I knew what icing and offside were, and that's how I wound up putting that assignment at Lake Placid.

00:32:45
Speaker 5: And less is that.

00:32:48
Speaker 2: Would you rather be Mike h Ruzioni or Jack Hughes. Oh it's interesting, well, this morning, probably Jack Hughes. But over the course of time, Michael Rouzioni, I heard you before. You guys have a poll going on where you'd rather be? Use me or Kurt Russell.

00:33:08
Speaker 10: Yeah, well, I'm going to take whatever votes I get, and I'm gonna I'm gonna apportion them to a ERUZIONI Craig and Herbrooks. Yeah, there you go, there you go. Yeah, if elected, I will not serve. What can I tell you?

00:33:19
Speaker 2: And I don't I mean, Jack Hughes probably doesn't even realize how big this is. This, you know, this is one of those viral moments. This is this is forever. That look that deal his teeth being chipped, you know, drafted in the flag. Your brother's there, you know, the Goudreau moment. I mean, it was it was.

00:33:42
Speaker 5: Movie like the interview with Catherine Tappan. How was that? How great is that?

00:33:49
Speaker 10: You know, at a time when so much is politicized and you know, and people are going this way in that way, and with a lot of people are going I don't hear that. And what Jack Hugh said at the end of the game, I thought it was phenomenal. Couldn't have scripted that, you know, how much it meant to him, how much it meant to being a part of this country and the affiliation that he has, you know, and what it means.

00:34:10
Speaker 2: It was.

00:34:11
Speaker 10: I mean, you're right, you couldn't have couldn't have put that in a movie. But the question now is is Kurt Russell does he play Mike Sullivan in the next.

00:34:18
Speaker 5: Movie or what? You know? This thing goes on and on, doesn't it.

00:34:23
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it does forty six years ago.

00:34:26
Speaker 10: Forty six O whoa, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's it's insane. Everything's forty six years ago. I mean, now it's wild. He you know, you and I we lived in our love of Johnny Bench and I announced, you know, for the Reds, and you were such a fan. So this year, this past baseball season, there was a game that had ended on catcher's interference fifty four years ago, and I'm going, wow, that's a long time ago.

00:34:51
Speaker 5: Maybe you know Bill Dickey played in the game or something.

00:34:53
Speaker 10: And I looked it up and I said, wait a minute, I did that game and Johnny was the guy in nineteen seventy one Red Dodgers. That's the game I called you. You know, I said, Johnny, this is insanity. I couldn't help him.

00:35:07
Speaker 2: Think about how close Canada came to winning yesterday, and how close Toronto came to winning the World Series.

00:35:15
Speaker 5: No question.

00:35:16
Speaker 10: Yeah, and think about you know, how about how close Seattle came to advancing in baseball, right, and what a tough loss that was for the Mariners. And then at least, you know, the Seahawks table to get their championship. But I mean, but it's it's hockey. And it's like I say, you're exhausted because you almost score, they almost score, and this goes on for sixty minutes of action. So and the and then the double post that I'm thinking that you know, uh, Kenny or Eddie could have called it. You know what Chris Collins was called the Cody Parky field goal that was a double deyt yesterday that could have won the game.

00:36:00
Speaker 5: That's sports. That's why we love sports, right, Dan.

00:36:02
Speaker 2: Are you playing golf today?

00:36:04
Speaker 10: Of course is closed? You want to talk to the groundskeeper. It's Monday. It's Monday. I'm not happy. First of all, what do I need to you know, my my list of swing thoughts? Right, So I showed up to Rory mac I showed up to Rory McElroy a couple of years ago.

00:36:23
Speaker 5: He goes, what.

00:36:25
Speaker 2: I told you, it's Johnny Johnny Miller.

00:36:29
Speaker 5: That's it. Four syllables, right, Johnny Miller. But the problem I have is I go back?

00:36:36
Speaker 10: Johnny, Johnny myself, Johnny gentlemanly, thank you for sharing as always, h.

00:36:47
Speaker 5: Danny anytime every forty six years will do this. We'll try.

00:36:52
Speaker 2: Thank you man. That's oh, Michael's a Hall of Famer