00:00You're going to have two really fired-up teams here with Slovakia and Germany.
00:05Slovakia, not in a million years, thought that they were going to be in this position.
00:09You know, they believed in themselves, and they did win a bronze medal in the last Olympics without NHL players,
00:14but to be in a situation where, like, look at the other teams.
00:20Like, Czechia have to play Canada. Sweden have to play the USA, or they have to play each other.
00:25Even Finland and Switzerland. Switzerland aren't bad. They're good.
00:28Like, if you're Slovakia and Germany, you've both been given this, like, blessed opportunity by playing each other.
00:35I mean, one of you are going to the semifinals.
00:38There's point blank. Germany or Slovakia, one of you are going to have an opportunity to be playing for a
00:41medal.
00:42And they're going to be aware of this.
00:44So I ask you, Slavkovsky's the best player on Slovakia, Montreal Canadiens.
00:50Number one pick on the draft, like, three years ago, whatever.
00:53And he's really playing well.
00:55Like, people are saying that he's been, like, the standout player, like, on the European, all the European teams.
01:03Slavkovsky's been amazing.
01:04But Germany have more.
01:06They've got Leon Dreisaitl.
01:08They have Tim Stutzel.
01:09They've got Philip Grubauers, their goalie.
01:12You know, the Germans are sneaky good.
01:14I talked about them before the tournament.
01:16They're a sneaky good hockey team with star power up front.
01:20They're disciplined at the back.
01:21They've got good goaltending.
01:23They're going to find a way to beat the Slovaks here.
01:25The game is essentially a pick-em, right?
01:28And it's kind of flipping back and forth, to be honest with you.
01:31Like, Slovakia were minus 120, and Germany are minus what it is.
01:34Like, now suddenly the Germans are minus 115.
01:37It seems as the game approaches, and this is the first game up at 6.10 a.m.
01:42Eastern time, 3 Pacific in the morning, West Coast.
01:46It seems like everybody in the hockey world has taken Germany because they've got Leon Dreisaitl, right?
01:53Leon Dreisaitl is one of the best players in the world.
01:55No disrespect to Slavkovsky.
01:57But we're going to go with the Germans here to get it done.
02:00Canada and Czechia.
02:02We'll lay the two and a half with the Canadians.
02:05Czechia are going to be a problem for Canada, in a sense.
02:08But Czechia look tired already.
02:10They're not themselves.
02:11They don't have any real offensive spark, this Czechia team, right now.
02:15They have a really good goalie, the Anaheim Doug goalie.
02:19Dostali is really good.
02:22But when it's all said and done, Canada is going to be too much.
02:25They already played in the opening round.
02:27It was 5-0.
02:29Neches was joking that we let them win because we knew we couldn't beat Canada two times in the same
02:34week.
02:35He was joking.
02:36He said it with a laugh.
02:37He goes, no, no, we let them win earlier in the week because we knew we couldn't beat them twice
02:40in the same week.
02:41He said, you'll see you tomorrow.
02:43But it's funny because I heard the Czech players talking about playing Canada after they played them already.
02:48And they said it was harder than they thought even.
02:51So they said, yeah, we knew they were going to be good, but they were even better than we thought.
02:55Canada is going to win.
02:56Same thing.
02:575-0, 4-1, 5-1.
02:59You know what I mean?
03:00Canada rolls, lay the two and a half in that hockey game.
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