David Pivnick
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231 appearances
7 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard Jun 2025
David Pivnick’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That's a great question, Ed. It's an easy answer for me. I haven't been in a couple years, but unless something meaningful has changed in the last couple years, by far what was Assembly Hall in Champaign when I was in law school and is now, I believe, State Farm Arena. But the Illini Basketball Stadium is by far my favorite place to watch a game.
Not a professional sport, but my absolute love the team, love the stadium, and love being down in Champaign. So that's an easy one for me.
I mean, I have Blackhawks season tickets, too. So the United Center is definitely more of a home stadium. But I spend equal, similar amounts of time in both. And for basketball, certainly Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee is my home stadium.
No, and I don't. And I'm scared to ask.
Thanks for having me, Scott.
yeah look great question love to talk about it and i want to start by just i want to touch on what you said at the beginning which is the nhl got something right which i think is something we can all be as hockey fans be excited about and also somewhat shocked because the nhl constantly steps on its own feet and falls all over itself to do the absolutely worst thing for growing the sport
and building the brand of hockey in the NHL and gaining popularity in the States. And they finally did something so right and they deserve credit.
And I love the fact that, you know, at the beginning of last week, right after the Super Bowl, there was a lot of media discussion about how stupid the NHL was for, you know, canceling games effectively for two weeks right in the lull after football and not capitalizing on that gap in the sports scene. And instead, this four nations thing has just been a smash success.
The ratings are through the roof and people are talking about hockey in a way that basically never happens. So as you can tell, I'm pretty pumped about it. And I have to tip my cap to the NHL because they, like I said, consistently get lampooned for doing the wrong thing and not growing the sport.
And they absolutely, you know, this was a slam dunk or a great slap shot as the case would be very well done. In terms of the game coming up, look, I mean, clearly the U.S.-Canada hockey rivalry, so to speak, which I think has become much more of a real rivalry in recent years.
Canadians love to point to the historic records, but it's starting to narrow over the last few years, and particularly at the world junior level where the U.S. team continues to have increased success and the Canadian team has had a couple rough years in the last few go-rounds. It's great to see. This is going to be more of a rivalry and more of an even rivalry in the future. I think that the U.S.
team coming into the tournament, I think we talked about this before, I said I thought they had the best defense and also the best goaltending. That has certainly held up as the tournament has progressed, and I thought Canada's forwards were the strongest defenders. which they have sort of gone back and forth depending on the game. They look pretty anemic versus the U.S. on Saturday.
So I think tomorrow's game is going to be a great game. I think McAvoy being out on defense for the U.S. hurts quite a bit. And I'm expecting Canada to come out pretty inspired, even on the road in Boston, and to get the win tomorrow night. But I expect it to be a pretty tight and exciting game to watch.
I have some inner conflict, actually. I will say I like. Both teams and, you know, if they were playing anyone else, it'd be easy to know who I was cheering for. This game's a little bit tough. It's Kachuk. You were sort of close. I think you managed to mispronounce it two different ways. But, you know, you're in the ballpark, which is good. And I do think, you know, for them...
Playing for the same country their father played for, and obviously their dad, Keith Kachuk, had a great career, you know, makes a lot of sense. And those guys are kind of the heart and soul of the U.S. team. I'm sure you've seen, you know, they were texting, the two of them, you know, Matt Kachuk and Brady were texting with J.T. Miller and basically agreed before the game.
they were going to drop the myths and get a fight going to sort of kick things off. So I view that less as a critique on the booing and the anthem and more on them rallying, you know, rallying behind the stars and stripes and wanting to send the right message in a big game for their team, which, you know, that's a, it's a fun part of hockey, whether you like fighting in the game or not.
And so I'm glad that they kicked it off in that way, in terms of your more political question and, I mean, look, we've talked about President Trump's statements on Canada before. I think much of it is hyperbole that's not likely to lead anywhere.
But, you know, it's not ideal to create distaste in the eyes of, you know, a close friend, not just a neighboring country, but one of the greatest, you know, relationships between two countries, I think, in the world in terms of, you know, a peaceful, unprotected, you know, border, you know, close trade relationship, close partnership on a lot of fronts.
So I think it's unfortunate from that standpoint. But I view that more through the lens of how actual items like tariffs are going to play out rather than trying to evaluate it based on, you know, whether or not the anthem's getting booed. I think if the crowd in Montreal is wants to boo the anthem. You know, it is what it is. There's plenty of things about Montreal that I think warrants booing.
It's a great question. I think Montreal, where most of the people also speak English and they have tried to participate in Canada more generally, is clearly part of Canada. I think there are parts of Quebec that do fancy themselves as being separate, which is why, you know, Quebec has periodically voted separately. to separate from the country.
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