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Main Street Bank member FDIC Equal Housing Opportunity Lender. We thank you for tuning in this Monday morning, February 23rd, 2026. I'm John Paul Flame, joined by Jason Bishop. The sir. What's up? Johnny Cake Sawvilles here. Hello, everyone. And Eric Bickle. Good morning. Good morning. That is the foursome later in the program. Our pal Alan May is going to join us.

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He'll join us at 9 o'clock as we start looking ahead towards the caps, sprint towards the playoffs, hopefully, and get into the Olympic hockey game, which was awesome game. Yeah, tough day for Al-Mag. He wasn't happy about it. Was he a rough day for Al-Man? Was he tweeting about it? I was texting him back and forth. He thought it was a great game, but he was, you know, he's a Canadian. Yeah, I mean, they kind of dominated play. They really did. I mean, you see shots on goal, those stats? It was crazy. That's fine. Hallibuck was up to the task. Hallibuck was.

He was crazy. That's fine. Hella buck was up to the task. He was an amazing game. I had never heard of Hellebuck. You'd never heard of him? I mean, where does he rank in terms of goalies in the NHL? He's one of the top. He's pretty high. Is he? Yeah. Almost every player. Now I know who you're aware. I said this last week and it worked out for the Americans, but the three on three endings a joke. It's not great, but look, it was the same format for the Canadians as it was for the Americans. I understand. Sorry. Not going to apologize for winning the gold medal. No, no, I'm not going to apologize for it at all. It's a terrible day for all Canadians. I said it beforehand. It's a joke. I heard John Cooper, now he's the losing coach say afterwards. He's like, we don't do this in the NHL playoffs. You don't do it at the Stanley Cup finals. Rules are rules. It's not hockey. These are the rules of this format in the Olympics. But I said this last week. It's not NHL hockey. It's a big winner. The Americans. I said this last week. The World Cup ends in a weird, in a shootout sometimes. Fine. It's a weird bit. You know what? Not crying for Canadians. If you're so good, win it in regulation. It just allows. Don't go force overtime. That's all. Canada, if you're so good, win it in regulation. It just allows.

Don't force overtime.

Yeah.

That's all.

Yeah. Beat us if you're so good. Get us. Get a puck pass. It just allows quick goals. But yeah, you know what? That's what it's designed for. That's what it's designed for. Exactly. It's designed to end quickly once you reach overtime. You know to be defensive about it.

Nobody's saying that the U.S. should feel bad about it.

It's a great win.

Oh, there's a lot of, Oh, there's a lot of Canadians that are basically saying this is a fluke. Anybody that's celebrating it doesn't know anything about hockey. Yeah, we snatch their sport from them. Look, they're upset. I understand. This is your sport. It's what you hold the dearest.

And we snatched it away from you for 40 years. 46 years. Incredible. They apologize for it. Unapologetic. Yeah. I'm not unapologetic. I don't think we should be. Apologetic at all. Yeah, I don't think so. Felt great when they won. Yeah. They had so many opportunities.

I had zero faith the entire game.

Zero.

Hey, but the Americans had opportunities too. Play great first period. From second period on... We looked a lot faster in the first period. We were on our asses the whole time. Very defensive. We didn't deserve to win. We won. But I had no faith. They just had so many chances. I didn't either. I didn't either. I didn't either. But it felt incredible, and I'm pacing around the house watching that thing. And I don't care about hockey in general. Be honest with you. But I was all in on that stupid-ass game. It's awesome. I was all on it. So was I. Olympic hockey is awesome. It really was.

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