Jack O'Callaghan

It's so telling that the memory of Johnny Goudreau, to a point, fueled this team to the level that it did.

You see the celebrations after the game.

And it reminds you like, oh, that's right.

He was supposed to be a part of this.

And I'll tell you, spending time in Philadelphia and understanding the impact that he had in his limited time playing in the NHL and what he meant for American hockey specifically.

And this idea that

Americans were being invested in from a hockey standpoint.

And I got to tell you, it did hit a little bit.

As someone who just was watching this great accomplishment, but in the same time, you can't acknowledge the celebration without understanding the hurdles that some of these players went through when their very good friend was lost in that accident.

Yeah, it was tough seeing the parents in the stands, but it was like...

It's jubilant seeing the players, the kids smiling in the picture, just enjoying the moment, all of that.

So that part was very cool.

It made me think of the hockey parents in general and their...

We all talk about, like, the kids that play hockey look up to the hockey players because they are the elite.

That is ultimately what everybody's going for.

It makes me wonder, too, like, do other hockey parents look up to those hockey parents as, like, superstars in the stands?

Because the people – we all know hockey – I know a bunch of them.

A lot of them have been my family.

Like, if you have kids –

that play hockey you probably know what it's like to live and die with every single moment watching your kids and it crushes your soul if they're 13 years old and they let a goal go through imagine what those parents go through what what the moms and dads were going through watching that game when it was 2-2 in the third period and they ultimately won the game so i thought about the parents as as a in general from that moment