Jesse Pierce

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.

Gus has allowed five goals on 45 shots, a 2.5 goals against average 0.889 save percentage ninth in the games overall, uh,

Samuel Havala, Halava, Halava, that's how we say that one, has allowed six goals on 91 shots in the tournament and is ranked like top six ahead of Gus, who, again, Halava, a Minnesota Wild prospect down in the American Hockey League.

Yeah.

It's Gus just hasn't looked solid.

Right.

And team Sweden, I think is you're missing a Jonas Brodine, right?

You're missing some of those guys on the backend, certainly, but Sweden, another team that you're like, wow, I kind of expected them to run through.

You, you knew it would be a good game against Finland.

It certainly was, but, uh,