I'm

ASEAN

BASAW The Hey, everyone, welcome to the Pirates Fan Forum here on DK. Pittsburgh Sports Podcast Network.

I'm your host, Gary Morgan, fully electrified this week so that we're actually able to do the show

with my broadcast partner, Jim Stam. How are you doing, brother? Yeah, we're back, man, and a lot to

cover now. And let's forget about baseball for a second, Gary let's let's talk about hockey real fast how awesome

was this last week with uh the men's team and the women's team and um man it's great it was just

great pretty awesome i mean first of all like we're the the perfect age to remember before hockey took off here in

Pittsburgh it was so hard to find places to play I mean there was no place to play here

there was no rinks all over the place I mean I played because I had three ponds near me

and it froze, you know.

And then we had North Park, which was like a 45-minute drive where you could skate at that little rink.

You know, that was all we had.

You didn't have floor hockey, street hockey, none of that.

And then the Penguins won.

Those 90s teams won. and then hockey took off here

in pittsburgh and it really changed and after team USA won in the 80s it really took off in the

country you know it wasn't just this Canadian sport that we had some some u.s teams where i think

it's going to bring more interest to the

game it's wonderful both USA hockey's come a long way and congrats to mike solomon too

yeah really proven that he can still coach just you know it needs to be in a short stretch i think where everybody is really good and pulling in the

same direction you know and that's kind of what you get with an olympic hockey team no yeah it's it's

...