Jesse Pierce

But yeah, it was good fun.

That's the beauty of social media.

You know, hearing Mike Arruzzione get interviewed, how different it was in 1980.

He said, you know, until we really got back to D.C.

to go see the president and saw the media and all the attention, you know, we were kind of, you know, in Lake Placid.

really sheltered from all of that.

And it's so different now where you've got cameras inside the locker room right after the game, you've got, you know, video of their party at, at the headquarters for USA at the Olympic village and all the stuff you're talking about, you know, we, we feel like we're right there with them.

It can be really good, but, you know, again, it can also put guys in a weird spot.

So they were having a great time, rightfully so.

I think these U.S.

guys, specifically the players we're talking about that make such an impact on a nightly basis for the while, they're probably going to have a little bit of a hangover in terms of their play and the emotion and everything tied into the three games and four nights.

I'll be very curious to see how they play that out.

The bottom line is they've earned a great spot in the standings.

We forget because it's been so long.

They had won five straight games into the Olympic break.

And so they've earned the chance maybe to rest some guys and maybe spread that lineup out a little bit and maybe, you know, let this kind of thing settle in a little bit before they make their big push, try to play their best hockey in April, and then ramp up for that matchup with Dallas.

He hated your jacket.

It was very frontal of you to wear the red, white and blue in front of some of these guys from Sweden yesterday.

And I'm glad that he let you know just how he felt, but we could be overreacting, but he didn't play well.

I'll be the first to admit, like if, you know, if you watched it and did so as an analyst, um,