Chapter 1: What sparked the joy of Team USA's gold medal win in hockey?
A couple of Sundays ago, I joined millions of people around the world to watch Team USA face off against Team Canada for the gold medal in men's hockey. Not gonna lie, I wanted Team Canada to win, and as you surely have heard by now, they didn't, so rough day for me, but a great day for so many friends of mine. One of them, my pal Katrina, texted our group Sunday night.
You should have seen me weeping tears of joy this morning. I texted back, I wept the other kind. But over the course of the following few days, Katrina had buyer's remorse. The joy faded and was replaced by a different feeling altogether. On Tuesday night, she texted again.
Chapter 2: How did the initial excitement of victory fade for fans?
Sean, if it makes you feel any better, basically every single last drop of joy that I received from the men winning the gold has pretty much been eradicated.
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Let's start with the hockey of it all. Here's Sean McIndoo. He's a hockey guy at The Athletic.
The joke in hockey is that there is no, no sports fan has hockey as their second favorite sport. There are the diehards. And then there are the people who don't pay any attention. They don't care. They don't get it. And that has always been a problem for the sport. How do we get more eyes on this product?
How do we break out of just being a product that is loved by the diehard fans and sort of break into the mainstream, into the pop culture world and what have you? And that's why the Olympics is such a great opportunity because you When the Winter Olympics comes along, everybody's watching. Every sports fan, even people who don't watch sports, get involved in the Olympics.
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Chapter 3: What role does the Olympics play in increasing hockey's popularity?
Now, players who typically don't get asked about politics have to be asked questions. And you had Jack Hughes. Again, this is the guy with the missing teeth who scored the winning goal. And instead of being asked, you know, how did it feel in that great moment of your life? He's being asked that.
And also... How do you feel about the women not going?
They got busy schedules, too. I mean, we... I know we're getting a lot... Like, everyone's giving us backlash for all the social media stuff.
Questions like that, a lot of hockey players aren't comfortable with. And whatever answer you give is going to look bad to somebody. And so it just kind of becomes this mess. And again, it's that feeling of... In today's political climate, certainly, we just can't have nice things.
Maybe not, Sean. But maybe check out the PWHL if you're looking for a nice hockey thing.
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