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The Valenti Show

Best Of The Valenti Show On 97.1 The Ticket: Why Team USA's Gold Medal Means Less, ABS Challenge System Update, and More!

The Valenti Show

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Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Mike opens this week's Best Of Valenti with his thoughts on why this Team USA Hockey Olympic gold medal doesn't feel the same because of the 3v3 OT rule. Then, the guys get into a conversation about the ABS challenge system and how that's been working out in the minors thus far, they do a CFB Blitz, and much more.

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0:00.0

Oh, you'll see.

0:02.4

Kenny, wonderful work on the drop.

0:04.7

Rico, hello.

0:05.9

We are ready to roll.

0:08.0

We will get to the Pistons later on.

0:13.5

We're going to talk about it because we have some very distinct thoughts about the Pistons.

0:18.1

But we have got to do something different, Rico, because I feel

0:21.8

like people have been sold a lie. Okay. We're going to just briefly bring up USA Olympics,

0:29.7

the men's hockey team, and winning gold. Greatest moment of all time?

0:33.5

You know, we're not doing that. No, because I'd like to tell you, what I mean by that is when you decide the Olympics on a three-on-three overtime in a way that you would never decide an NHL playoff game, nothing means nothing.

0:48.0

That felt so cheap.

0:50.4

And again, I can laugh because I know how much Canadians care, and I don't.

0:55.7

But Rico, deciding that in a three-on-three, I actually walked away agreeing with John Cooper.

1:02.0

Like, they were the better team.

1:03.9

But you didn't settle it playing real hockey.

1:06.9

You settled it in three-on-three, and I am here.

1:10.7

I am standing for hockey elite. If you're a

1:13.5

hockey elite member, you agree with me. So take away the fact that USA won and just look at it

1:20.4

objectionally. It would have been cheap if the U.S. lost in a three on three. It's cheap if you

1:25.3

win in a three on three. Why can't hockey ever just

1:28.8

not be poverty? Why? It's like they walk, they buy a new shirt, they trip and fall in the

1:34.4

mud. They can't do anything right. And Kenny, you can, if you hate this opinion, say it, but if

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