Jesse Pierce

That's an aggressive play.

That's a play where you trust your teammate to do something when she gets it.

And then the finish was unbelievable.

Kind of like Matt Boldy, one of those plays that's kind of a standalone, super talented play.

And I think the icing on the cake for what was a really, really fun tournament to watch.

Yeah, I think the youth on the American side served them really well throughout that tournament.

One of the names, and again, you can rattle off eight of them, but Abby Murphy stands out as a player who plays here locally for the Gophers that had an outstanding tournament.

However, when you get into that one-game format, all the chips on the table, gold medal on the line,

the veteran presence of Team Canada, I thought, made such a difference in that hockey game.

You could feel, literally watching that game, the pressure mounting on the Americans.

So I do kind of think it's fitting that their elder statesperson, Hillary Knight, in her fifth Olympics, she's able to go out there and make the game-breaking play to allow it to get to overtime.

And I think the bottom line is everybody was watching, over 5 million viewers.

And so a lot like what we saw yesterday with the men's gold medal game is hockey's the big winner leaving the Olympics.

I mean, all the Olympics is a great reminder of how much we love sports and how much these storylines are so incredible in all different genres.

But for us specifically, Jesse, who work in the game of hockey, I think the big winner was our sport.

Like, I think we're going to bring more casual sports fans to the game

And what we saw on the women's side and then on the men's side, being that we're here in the States, just made it that much more incredible.

Yeah, the PWHL has been an unbelievable asset for the women's game and the girls game.

You know, I go back to when I was coaching in the late 90s into the early 2000s.

And really the goal for all the top players was would they one day get a chance to play for their country, which is really, really cool.