Mike Eruzione

So I was going to play that day, but Jack Nicklaus' son ended up playing.

I was going to be the fourth in the group.

So they'd done golfing, and I was sitting at a table, and the president called me over and said, Donovan, we're just talking back and forth about this and that.

And I looked at the president, and I said, hey, boss.

I said, there's a lot of majors between these two guys, but I'm the only gold medalist at the table.

Let's hear it for that.

And he went, that's funny.

Well, you know, first of all, you know, you go into the game thinking you can win.

If you think you're going to lose, you probably will.

So, I mean, we knew it was going to be difficult.

We knew we had to play well.

We had to be smart.

We had to be disciplined.

We couldn't take penalties.

We couldn't get into a shootout because if, you know, we weren't scoring five goals, you know, four, we got four because, you know, if they scored five, we weren't getting five.

right but that again that's the way the game kind of went but as a player you just focus on what you're doing um doing your job do the things that you're you're asked to do go out there every shift play hard play smart be disciplined and you know the game just kind of goes the way it does and you know obviously mark johnson scores a goal with no time left on the clock to tie the game at the end of the first period the end of the first period was a huge goal because we didn't play really well in the first we weren't terrible

But we didn't play well in the first.

Jimmy played great.

So it's 2-2.

Then it's 3-2 them and it's 3-3 us.