Welcome to Michigan Hockeycast 8.17.

Jack Hughes, Jack Hughes.

Oh, and Connor Hulled up, too.

Yeah. All right, Alex, I have a story to start this one.

You got your curling story a little bit ago, and we'll see how your experience plays into this.

So I went to the Duke game on Saturday and flew out on Friday night, and that's going to impact a little bit of what we're going to talk about with the hockey games, because I saw portions of some of them and not other portions. But anyway,

so I went to the game and then I was going to stay all day on Sunday with my cousins and

see them and stuff and then come back at night. But alas, all of the snow in the world was

apparently going to the northeast and my flight got canceled before the game actually happened, and it got rescheduled, unless I wanted to say until Monday,

for early on Sunday morning. And then I did not think about it completely, but that was when the

gold medal game was also going to be.

So I got up and watched a lot of the first period before I'd leave for the airport.

Second period was actually standing.

This was one of the coolest things.

Because there just are only so many events that like everybody gets into.

And I'm like when the U.S. plays in the World Cup, it's like, the country doesn't stop,

but, like, people tend to, like, try to watch it. Like, people aren't watching every Yankees game, you know? Sure. And so I'm standing outside of a bar grill in the DC airport, and, like, there's, like, 10 people standing around. And, like, a couple of the dudes are, like, really into it and like commenting on it and we're all reacting to what's going on. That was like the second period when the US barely survives and it feels like they're going to like probably give up three goals, but they somehow kill the five on three. But then McCarr scores right at the end. You're just like, oh no. Like now it's now going to third. but so I had five minutes to use a bathroom and then board.

So when I get on the plane and I pull out my phone and I'm watching it. And there's like three or four people around me also watching the game on their phones as we're sitting in this. Because it's a little puddle jumper. Like a lot of, like, I fly Delta generally. And, like,

if you go far enough, you get, like, the screens in the back of, and so then you just watch, like, I watched a Slovakia game that way. It was perfect. Because you're just killing time. You're like, well, it's like the famous, you've ever seen the, like, the flights where the people, like, I'm on a flight during the Super Bowl

and show like the back of the plane

and it's the whole plane

everyone's watching.

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