Rod Brind'Amour

He wouldn't even come close to doing that against the U.S.

You're right.

How are you, Rod?

Thanks for having me, guys.

I appreciate that intro.

Pretty nice.

Well, I was, I was, I can tell you that, but it's, uh, it is, you hear guys talk about this and it's hard to put into words, but you know, as a player, you're showing that there, when I won that thing 20 years ago, it was super special.

It was something I dreamed about as a kid, my whole life.

So I wanted to kind of for me, uh, the first time around, but seeing it from a different view, coaching these guys, you just want it for them.

Cause you know, I've changed your life and,

uh that's what was so special about it and then when they kind of tapped me on the shoulder to grab the thing i just looking at all the players looking at me it was uh you could see how happy they were for me right here like that's what i'm looking at it's just uh it's hard to put into words to be honest there's just so much work that goes into this and that's why uh i'm just so happy for the group because they they deserved it if anyone deserved it these guys did

Wow, it was great.

I mean, listen, we were able to sweep a couple of teams and that's huge because playoffs is about the war of attrition and we were able to stay healthy.

I mean, we've done this a long time, had a real good group for a long time, but we've always hit a snag where guys are dropping.

We would be getting to the conference finals and guys would say, oh, you can't get through that.

Well, we're missing some key pieces.

That's just hard.

This time around, we missed one guy, missed the game.

I can't even believe that when you think about how hard it is.

That's one of the big reasons why we were able to