Jesse Pierce

We're going to talk about men's Olympic team in a little bit, but I want to start with the women's team, Kirsten.

They are moving on, as we all expected, to the semifinals today against Sweden.

Sweden, a huge upset over the Czech Republic, 2-0, but the U.S.

women have been top to bottom.

the queens of this tournament right the kings even they have just been outscoring every opponent they had four shutout games in their five play they've only allowed one goal um you know they played canada downed them pretty easily they've got thursday's gold medal game on the line i'm going to be shocked absolutely shocked if the u.s doesn't just cruise on through as they've done throughout this entire tournament so far

No, I mean, I think the biggest surprise comes to the Canada and U.S., right?

Like, you're seeing the U.S.

as of late, not just in the Olympic Games, but even in the Rivalry Series or in World Championships, other iterations of international competition.

The U.S.

is not getting pushed down.

And naturally, Canada was without Marie Pouillon or Marie Philippe.

I'm really bad at saying things, so I don't want to say it wrong.

MPP.

Oh, Czechia has been one that I can't.

Czechia.

Czechia.

I say Czechia for some reason.

And then Czechia and Latvia.

Latvia.

You know how many times I practice this on the regular Latvia and my brain still will not switch it.