Jesse Pierce
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Yeah, without the penalty kill, they don't win gold.
It's pretty much that simple.
And to think that they survived a five on three situation against team Canada pretty much blows me away because as I watched the tournament, the one thing I knew watching Canada is if you took penalties and they had a five on four situation, it looked like a video game.
And you couldn't stop them.
And so to give them a five on three for more than 90 seconds and to think that they're going to kill that off.
Yeah, there was a lot of criticism, you know, and I think people we all play fantasy sports.
You know, a lot of us play fantasy football.
We're familiar with that where it's really stats driven.
And so we get into the habit of trying to put these rosters together in any sport.
Based on statistics and that's not how you win hockey games.
Okay.
That's not how you win, um, at that level.
And so Bill Guerin and his staff did tremendous work and it was certainly controversial to not have players like Cole Caulfield, Jason Roberts, and some of those big names, um, not on that team, but, uh,
you don't need 10 or 15 guys to provide offense.
It's got to be some balance.
And they knew that, and they knew that there had to be some grit.
There had to be some guys that could block shots that could go out and kill a penalty.
And the talent on that penalty kill to me hit home the most when we weren't seeing Matt Boldy out there on a regular basis, because watching him on an everyday basis play for the Minnesota wild in my eyes, it's one of the best penalty killers I've ever seen for the hometown team.
and he couldn't even get on the ice.
So Bill Guerin picked the right guys, not the best players for this tournament, and I think he was vindicated with the result we saw culminate with that gold medal yesterday because, again, without the chemistry they clearly had on and off the ice and without the grit that they showed and the special teams that really rose to the occasion when it mattered most, they don't take home gold.