Jesse Pierce

And they have some really good players.

but they weren't even expected to be here where they are right now.

So it'll be interesting to see how they handle that.

The U S and Sweden matchup actually is much closer than most people would assume based on some of the stats.

And the U S power play has been pretty grim as of late.

So I think that's the one area where they lack, but other than that, U S should cruise their puck drops here and, or just did drop a little bit ago.

So it's underway as we record, but Canada U S gold medal, and it's going to be the U S for gold, right?

yeah if there's one thing i can confidently say it's i think the women will be wearing the gold i think so too next and you're getting to see some really cool the the thing i've loved about the this tournament in particular is you're seeing that passing the torch you you still have hillary knight you still have kelly panic you still have lee's deckline right the the names that have been synonymous kendall coin um schofield all of those players have been around for so many olympics and so much u.s women's hockey success

but now you're seeing Layla Edwards, Caroline Harvey, you know, Abby Murphy is getting her international shining Taylor Heisey.

This is her first Olympics after being one of the last cut last go around.

So you're seeing that passing the torch and how good they're all complimenting each other, which I think has been tremendous.

Let's talk about it.

You guys know I made the kind of a bold statement that I didn't think the U.S.

men's team would medal in the tournament just because there's something holding me back.

I'm nervous.

We did a live show last week with Judd's Hockey Show and Kirsten called it out.

I get sweaty thinking about it because I should have confidence in this team.

I don't know where the lack of confidence comes from, but maybe it comes from not seeing complete domination.

I thought their best game in the three preliminaries was against Germany.

uh beyond that they trailed to uh denmark right and they struggled against latvia two for two um we're growing uh they get the buy they win group c they were the only undefeated team along with canada uh 16 goals four or five goals allowed in that span they will play the winner of sweden and latvia