Jesse Pierce

But those first two games were just very underwhelming.

I was like, you're letting those teams hang around that you shouldn't let hang around.

You're watching Canada drop, what, nine on Italy, 10 or 11 on Italy, another 10 on France.

They don't care.

They got no respect for your team.

They're not going to let you hang around.

They're just going to do what they do and just keep coming, coming, coming.

And they don't even have good goaltending.

I mean, Jordan Bennington's fine, but they don't have the best goaltending.

So I think that's, again, where my concern for the U.S.

is.

I'm like, you're not Canada.

You're just not, which is fine.

That shouldn't put yourself aside.

My question then, too, Kirsten, last week we were very much like, oh, Sweden.

We love Sweden.

We're loving Sweden.

And it's tough because now Sweden is going to be the likely opponent in that quarterfinals for the U.S.

However, Sweden's been also a little unimpressive for a team that's made up of full NHL stock, namely because...

our dear sweet boy, Philip Gustafson, not having a great Olympic Games between the pipes.