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Boomer & Gio

Olympic Hockey Recap & Russo On MLBPA's Tony Clark

19 Feb 2026

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Chapter 1: What happened in the Olympic hockey match between the U.S. and Sweden?

0.031 - 15.724 Boomer Esiason

So, yeah, of course, it's Mika tying it up for Sweden late yesterday with the extra attacker. So you get the three on three overtime trip to the Olympic semifinals on the line. And Quinn Hughes essentially waves off the coaching staff to stay out on the ice for a long shift that ended up working in the favor of the Americans.

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17.328 - 35.496 Kenny Albert

Now, Quinn Hughes, we played three and a half minutes in overtime. Fired up Kenny Albert on NBC.

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35.637 - 45.876 Boomer Esiason

I will give credit. Subtle play there by Austin Matthews. I don't know if you noticed that. Yes. Cutting right in front of the, I'm not sure who it was for Sweden, it might have been Gabriel Landeskog, giving Hughes a little space to get that shot off there.

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Chapter 2: How did Quinn Hughes' performance impact the game?

45.896 - 60.481 Unknown

A couple of these goals that these guys have scored have just, I don't know how they get into the net. I mean, they're just missing. Margins are tight. Yeah, just missing shoulders and hips. That one's off the post. That one was unbelievable. That was a great shot.

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60.642 - 79.696 Boomer Esiason

2-1 overtime win over Sweden. First U.S. Olympic win over the Swedes in nine tries, dating back to the 1960 Winter Games, which we mentioned yesterday. They were 0-6-2, so they snapped that streak yesterday. Gio, you referenced your own nerves and the pressure of OT there. And Quinn, after the game, kind of acknowledged that as well.

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79.757 - 89.048 Quinn Hughes

What did that feel like? Yeah, just a relief. Just really enjoying being here with this group and the guys and trying to extend it as long as I can. A relief to clear the quarters.

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89.108 - 106.301 Chris Russo

I mean, this is not hyperbole or I'm not trying to make something up, but it actually felt good to care in that way nervously without a wager on a game. Hell yeah. That's what it's about. Honestly, it's been a while. I've been dead inside. Actually, I would say... Dead inside.

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106.421 - 114.238 Unknown

When it comes to sports. You know why? Because you just haven't been able to get out and swing in a golf club, let's face it. That's really where your depression stems from.

114.258 - 119.509 Boomer Esiason

He says a while, though. I think he's talking years, not months. Well, with sports, I mean, I...

Chapter 3: What emotions do players feel during overtime in crucial games?

120.282 - 136.303 Chris Russo

Actually, I said all the way back to the Vikings. It was probably last year with the Knicks and the Pacers. That's probably what it was. And then prior to that, it was the Vikings and the Rams in the playoffs. But there's large swaths of me not feeling a lot when it comes to these things. And I was into it. I was excited. Got a big swath going on.

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136.624 - 143.112 Boomer Esiason

Large swath. We'd love to hear that. One more from Quinn here, right up Boomer's Alley. We're up in the red, white, and blue.

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143.232 - 157.041 Quinn Hughes

USA flags all over the place. You can hear the chants. What's that atmosphere like? Yeah, it's special. I mean... I love the U.S. and it's the greatest country in the world, so I'm happy to represent it here with these guys, and that's really special. There you go.

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Chapter 4: How did the U.S. team break their losing streak against Sweden?

157.341 - 161.927 Boomer Esiason

Great. Saying all the right things. Well, why wouldn't you? Yeah.

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162.167 - 172.26 Unknown

You've got such an opportunity. You get treated great. You're a part of the larger group of Olympic athletes over there. Why wouldn't you love that?

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172.848 - 174.491 Chris Russo

I mean, these guys, they want a gold medal.

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174.511 - 189.835 Unknown

It's what you fight for your whole entire life to get there, especially in some of these other sports. These guys at least come back and play professional hockey, play for the Stanley Cup, and they play in front of full stadiums. These other people that are in these different sports, I mean, this is it.

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189.915 - 207.86 Boomer Esiason

This is their Super Bowl. They put it all into this once every four years. His buddy, Quinn, that is Dylan Larkin, had the one regulation goal for the U.S. They go back to Quinn's freshman year at the University of Michigan when he was still a teenager. So some of these bonds and ties on the U.S. team are pretty cool. Other side of the bracket, nerves for Canada yesterday as well.

207.96 - 225.748 Boomer Esiason

They actually fell behind Czechia in the third period on a bit of a controversial goal, which we'll talk about in a second, from one of the newest Islanders, Andre Palat. Nick Suzuki tied it for Canada with under four to play. So that game, too, goes to overtime. And the top seed, one shot away from elimination, or as it turned out, one shot away from survival.

225.768 - 237.996 Kenny Albert

Next goal wins, winner on to the semifinals. Knifing through the score! Mitch Marner! Delivers Canada into the semis.

238.016 - 255.418 Boomer Esiason

And you got Brendan Burke there. Quite the individual effort by Mitch Marner to save the day. 4-3 Canada over Czechia. Despite that go-ahead goal from Palat on a play where Czechia had six skaters on the ice for an extended period all the way back into their own end. Yeah, I know. So it did not go. It went unnoticed, I guess, by the officials.

255.458 - 256.559 Unknown

How does it get unnoticed?

Chapter 5: What was the outcome of the Canada vs. Czechia game?

366.779 - 385.138 Chris Russo

I mean, that would be inappropriate. That would be a problem. I mean, if this was his actual sister and they got it on and it was incestual, that would have been a problem. Like a West Virginia situation. Scenario. West Virginia scenario.

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387.38 - 406.862 Boomer Esiason

It's what's inappropriate about it. All right. So he references at the end there, he thinks family versus union. And then Eddie Erickson tried to throw in the life raft about, well, she was employed by the union. So that's where maybe there's a conflict of interest. I think what happened here is I don't know where this was coming from, but he had some sort of conspiracy theory rabbit hole.

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406.882 - 409.605 Boomer Esiason

He was going down short clip here just to drive that home.

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409.625 - 416.593 Unknown

I looked at it as I think to me, it reads more of a coverup with the FBI. That's the way I look at it.

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416.573 - 422.461 Boomer Esiason

Now, I might be dead wrong on it. So he was saying, I think, that he thought the union was kind of throwing shum in the water.

422.641 - 428.049 Unknown

Isn't there something about the Eastern District looking into something?

428.069 - 434.117 Boomer Esiason

That's what he was referencing. There's an open federal investigation into the players' union finances.

435.178 - 438.683 Chris Russo

There's another thing, yes. Well, that's how this became discovered, though.

438.663 - 454.613 Boomer Esiason

Yes, but I think he's saying, like, they outed the... Even though it said it came from an internal investigation, his conspiracy theory is that the union threw this Tony Clark salacious thing with the sister-in-law out there to maybe distract... The cover-up from... From some of the other stuff going on with the federal investigation.

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