Will Slattery

You know there's an island in Scotland, apparently, where it's all quarried.

And that's real, Jo.

That's a real story.

So he was just, he had a heroic... He was unbelievable.

It was that kind of performance.

He deserves like the Medal of Honor or whatever.

So it's one of those sports your eye has to be in on, you know?

You need to be watching it regularly to be able to, I think, kind of glean exactly where the puck is at any one time because it is kind of hard to...

to discern sometimes just to add to what Sarah was saying there like to give people some extra context obviously like the NHL is an American based league but it has been dominated for its entirety by Canadian players only three Americans have ever won the MVP I think 60 Canadians have so even though it's an American league played in America it is dominated thoroughly by Canada

I think it's probably very few countries where a sport means more to the people than ice hockey in Canada.

You're probably talking like cricket in India and rugby to New Zealanders in that territory.

So you had that backdrop to the finals.

That's why America were such underdogs, even though they are traditionally the big behemoth of a country.

And obviously, you had the geopolitical elements like Mark Carney has been coming out against Trump and Trump's saying he wants Canada.

So you had all this bubbling away in the background.

And besides all that, America had this unbelievable rearguard action.

I found myself actually wanting them to win, even though they are, I suppose, like the big beast traditionally, because it was just such a good story.

And I'd watched Miracle, the Netflix documentary, and you couldn't help be swept up in that story in just like 46 years on.

It was an unbelievable spectacle.

Canada absolutely battered them from pillar to post.