Jesse Pierce

is very much second best in this, based on the scoring, based on that.

I think for me...

something I ironically enough, Kirsten, we've seen a lot with the Minnesota wild Canada or excuse me, the U S just slow to start.

Like Germany was the only game where they were ready to go, where they scored first, they jumped out to a two nothing lead and they kind of held onto that the first two games.

And maybe that's because you're still feeling it out.

Right.

And that's what the preliminary games are for is to kind of figure things out, switch some lines up.

I mean, you've got Jack Hughes on that fourth line.

You're trying to figure out the top line.

I think the Kachuk brothers have been really good together.

Austin Matthews finally has showed up.

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.