Kenny Albert
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And one thing I will say, it's really hard to beat a team twice,
When you're playing them in a tournament like this, because the other team, the team that lost, Canada, they lost 5-0.
They pulled their goalie in the previous game against the United States.
Now Canada knows exactly what they're facing.
They saw the speed up close and personal.
Their goalie was great yesterday.
They get that shorthanded goal, and you could see that the Americans were pressing.
They were trying.
They were trying.
They just couldn't get the puck past.
And then all of a sudden our girl Hillary Knight comes up with a huge deflection, six on five late in the game, which was amazing.
And just to watch that pass, I can't get over the pass to Keller because that pass had to travel almost, what, 150 feet or 120 feet or whatever it is.
And somehow she found Keller along the boards, and she does that incredible move.
So, yeah, what just an absolutely exhilarating game that was.
And by the way, the last time they played Slovakia was in the 2022 Beijing Olympics, and Slovakia beat the United States.
But the real inspiration is her dad.
Her dad left China after the Tiananmen Square protests and came to the United States with nothing and basically found his footing and watched his daughter win a gold medal.
Cool stuff, no doubt.