Jack O'Callaghan

Yeah, I love your attitude about it because two vastly different situations, obviously, with what happened.

I mean, it was.

It was the greatest David versus Goliath amateur players.

These are pro players, so I love that you can discern this is not what we did.

They're not really comparable, are they?

No, there's no comparison whatsoever.

I mean, we were, you know, if Japan had gone through the Olympics and beaten the U.S.

and beaten Canada and won the gold medal, maybe then you could say, well, that might be a miracle.

But, you know, for us, you know, growing up in the 60s and 70s and as we closed in on 1980, you know, what was going on in the country and the world and everything else, I mean...

it was just a whole different time, right?

I mean, Americans weren't in the NHL, they weren't really well-respected sort of in the genre of like world hockey.

And we really, you know, we broke through that glass ceiling.

What we did in 1980, you know, created opportunities, not just for some of the guys on our team, but for the guys going forward, you know, Chris Chelios, Eddie Olachuk, you know, Keith Kachuk, and

And, you know, go forward for that.

Right.

Mike Madonna.

And then you move into the Patrick Kane world.

And then these guys, you know, Jack Eichel and the Kachuk kids and the used kids and on and on.

Right.

So for us, it's like, you know, we were the descendants of 1980.