Kenny Albert

And, you know, I just think that the hockey culture has always been great.

That's just one of the reasons I love the sport.

But I love it even more when I see kids buying into what USA Hockey is demanding.

And what they're demanding is excellence.

And they're also demanding sacrifice.

A lot of these guys play 20, 22 minutes for their regular teams.

Some guys get buried on the bench.

And how about Vincent Trocek and Miller?

When you think about what their roles were for USA Hockey,

I mean, their roles were penalty kill.

Bill Guerin said, I got to build a team.

I can't build a team of all-stars.

I got to build a team.

There's got to be role players that do certain things and do certain things well, like face-offs, penalty kills.

Both the men and the women were 100% on their penalty kills throughout the Olympics.

And by the way, this wasn't a seven-game series.

This is what makes this thing so exciting.

It's a one-and-done, and anything can happen in that scenario.

And to think the U.S.

was really just shot for shot early on in this game, keeping up with Canada, the energy was there, and then in the second period, the back-to-back penalties and the five-on-three, and even though the U.S.