T.J. Oshie

Yeah, I don't know.

That was never an issue with...

I guess with me, I feel like if I had any chance of playing, there's no way a coach or a team could keep me out of it.

I just am kind of more of an in-the-moment kind of guy.

But I guess I can see where that could maybe be a factor.

Yeah, no, and I don't know.

I think it's almost a little bit the culture of the game of hockey.

Like, if you can play, you're playing.

You know what I mean?

And even leading up to it, I'm sure there's some guys right now that are banged up, but you work with your team all season long to try to get yourself into a place where you can make playoffs, even if you have the Olympics coming up.

In the end, you're really playing for your teammates, so I'm sure once the guys are with their local teams, they're doing everything they can to help that team, and when they get to the Olympics, they'll do the same thing.

Yeah, I could definitely help.

I think there's a certain thing that there's little tells that I used to look for when I was going down the ice.

Certain ways, certain kind of fundamental things that anyone could kind of incorporate into their moves.

But really when it comes down to a shootout, there's a lot of feel to it.

You can't just make up your mind on what you're going to do and then just close your eyes and hope it works.

Yeah.

goalies are goalies are too good so you got to have a natural flow about how you make your moves to have a backup and then a second backup depending on what happens so um i mean there's no doubt in my mind shootouts are one of the like my favorite things in the world to do so i think i could help you know if anyone wanted a pointer i'm sure i could find figure something out but uh

There's also a natural component to it that I think the best in the game and the best that have been around are the ones that I'm sure we're going to see at least one shootout in the Olympics.

The ones that it comes a little more naturally to, those are the ones that will have the most success.