Elliotte Friedman for Abe's Door Service (02-24-26)

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Bob Stauffer 0:00

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Bob Stauffer 0:25

All right, many of you jumped in on the Ashley Fine Floors text lines in response to my perspective on what transpired with Canada. Again, they played pretty well, all things considered. I never liked the makeup of the team, especially on the back end after what I saw last year at the Four Nations. Ultimately, they were goalied in the final. And if you had told me back in 1996 that the United States would go 30 years before winning another best-on-best tournament, I would have said you were crazy. Uh, maybe it was just time. Tyler has Texas to say, it's one thing to get goalie. If you take your best possible roster, but when you leave your second best right-handed D at home in favor of aging and lesser players, because they were on company teams seven and 12 years ago, team Canada match management got what they deserved.

Bob Stauffer 1:19

And the players like Connor McDavid ended up suffering and taking undue criticism because of it. That one comes to us from Tyler. at 436 in oil country. We welcome back a guy who's kind enough to join us the entire time he was over in Italy. It is Elliott Friedman for Abe's Door Service, where service is their specialty. Visit abes.ca. Elliot, Canada has had some breaks on winning some of these gold medals. You think back to 2002, what happened with Sweden. You think back to 2010 and Canada beating around Robin and winning an OT in 2014. They got the one bounce in the 1-0 game against the U.S. Is it too simple to say maybe it just was time for the U.S.

What was the initial reaction to Team Canada's tournament roster and performance?

Bob Stauffer 2:03

Elliotte Friedman 2:03

Actually, that's a lot of the way I feel, Bob. Look, I'm a proud Canadian. I wanted Canada to win. I was just as disappointed as anybody else. That game-winning goal, or golden goal, happened right below our set. I could see it coming. When I saw the U.S. come down on that three-on-one, I was like, uh-oh, we're in big trouble here. I saw the whole thing unfold, and You know, I mean, look, like over the last 20 years, Canada's won a ton. We've won three Olympic golds, best on best I'm talking about. We've won three Olympic golds. We won two World Cups. We won the four nations. A couple of those were overtime games. You know, I can't get mad or angry when for once. You know, they lose a game in overtime, a game where, as you kind of talked about there, they played two of their best periods.

Elliotte Friedman 2:58

They played all tournaments. Like, that's just the way it goes sometimes.

Bob Stauffer 3:03

Yeah, you know, they didn't have two of the six players they named initially to the team. Like last year, you guys didn't have Quinn Hughes. The year before, right? And that's the point I'm making. I was nervous about returning the same D because I'm thinking to myself, if the Americans get... They didn't lose this because of the roster.

Elliotte Friedman 3:27

They didn't lose this because of the roster. I'm sorry.

Bob Stauffer 3:30

Did they become a one-line team in the middle?

Elliotte Friedman 3:34

They did, but they did. Sure, they didn't get it. Did they not get enough offense from other people? Yeah, but, like, in that game, are you telling me in that game that... No, I can't believe how... in that game. I can't believe the Vaughn caves scores that goal, which I still can't believe he didn't score. We're not talking about this. Like Connor Hellebuck had the game of his life and the U S found a way like that. Just the way I look at it. Like I think all this other stuff is we're not even talking about if Dave scores,

Bob Stauffer 4:12

Yeah. So here's what I'd share with you. I said to one of the broadcasters before the four nations last year, he was belittling Hellebuck. And I'm like, I'm in Edmonton. I watch Hellebuck put up a nine. I watch Mike Smith lose a series with a 9-12 save percentage. against Winnipeg, and the Oilers lost three games in overtime. Oh, I remember that, right. He was at 950, and he's not going to be overworked.