00:00The women's tournament has started, and let's be real.
00:03It's a two-team tournament, point blank.
00:05There's no ifs, ands, or buts about that between Canada and the USA
00:09when it comes to women's hockey.
00:12And it's just been, you know, it's been a dominant run
00:16between these two countries since we've been playing women's hockey
00:21and international playing in the Olympics.
00:23Canada and the USA have met in six of the seven Olympic finals.
00:2623 of the last, think about this, the last 24 years,
00:30they have met 23 of the 24 times in the world championship game.
00:36You know, once a year, the women's world championships,
00:39six of the seven Olympic finals.
00:43Canada have won five times.
00:46USA women's have won twice.
00:49But the pendulum could be swinging now.
00:52Now, Canada are the defending gold medal champions.
00:54They won the last Olympic gold in women's hockey.
00:57But the USA won the world championship this past year.
01:02And the USA have beaten the Canadian women six straight times.
01:07All right?
01:08Now, they play this big, you know, they play, like, this big tournament
01:14called the Rivalry Series every year as well.
01:17Because they're the two best teams.
01:19So, like, they need the competition.
01:20So, they play against each other.
01:21It's called the Rivalry Series.
01:23They'll play two games in the USA and two games in Canada, four games.
01:27And the USA just, like, tore Canada apart.
01:31They played four games.
01:32They outscored them 24-7.
01:34They beat them 10-4 in one of the games.
01:35Canada had never given up 10 goals in women's hockey history before.
01:39And they gave up 10 goals to the U.S.
01:41They got outscored 24-7.
01:44Yet, I think it was a little bit skewed.
01:46And I don't think it's going to be as one-sided now that we're in the Olympics
01:49and it's real.
01:51And now that they've both played a couple of games in the Olympics,
01:53we have a little bit of an eyeball test that we've seen with these two teams.
01:57But they play tomorrow.
01:59And this is one of the big showcase showdown games in North America.
02:02Listen, USA and Canada might not play each other in men's hockey.
02:08There's no guarantee.
02:09And it's almost like false advertising because NBC keeps promoting, like,
02:14oh, Olympic hockey, Canada, USA rivalry.
02:17They might not play each other.
02:19They're not in the same group.
02:20There's no guarantees.
02:21Like, if one of them gets knocked off, that's that.
02:24You know what I'm saying?
02:25So, like, there's no guarantee.
02:27But USA-Canada women's hockey is a seriously intense rivalry.
02:31As anybody that follows hockey knows.
02:34And, you know, right now, whatever, you know, it's just, you know,
02:36the passion and stuff and hockey growing in the USA.
02:39This is a big game tomorrow.
02:41They're playing head-to-head.
02:43Now, it is a preliminary game.
02:45So, the loser's not going home.
02:48They're going to be playing each other in a gold medal game, you know,
02:51next week.
02:52So, we know that.
02:54But it's a statement game.
02:55It's a big game.
02:56It's, like, for first place in the group game and all that type of stuff.
03:00And they've both been dominant so far.
03:03Now, Canada had one of their games canceled.
03:06And thank God this did not turn into a real thing.
03:10But the Finnish women's hockey team had COVID.
03:15It's back.
03:17They had COVID.
03:18They were quarantined.
03:19They had 13 players quarantined.
03:21But they're okay now.
03:23And long story short, they have to cancel their game against Canada.
03:27So, Canada's only played two games.
03:28The USA have played three games so far.
03:31USA have outscored their opponents 15-1.
03:3415-1.
03:36I'm surprised they've even given up a goal.
03:38So, they've outscored their opponents 15-1.
03:41Canada have outscored their opponents 9-1 in their two games.
03:44So, they've both been pretty dominant.
03:46And, in fact, I thought Canada was, you know, Canada looks a little bit better
03:50than I thought they were going to.
03:52I knew they were going to be good.
03:53But they've been flying around, right?
03:57Now, the big deal with this is, like I said, Canada beaten them, you know,
04:01it's 5-2.
04:02Canada have generally beaten the USA in women's hockey.
04:04But there's a little bit of a pendulum that's swinging right now.
04:07The Canadian women's hockey team have, like, a lot of older, and they're not old in real life,
04:13but they've been around a while in the women's game.
04:16They've got, like, a couple of women in their 30s.
04:18Like, put it this way.
04:19Like, Canada have, like, mothers on their team and stuff.
04:22Like, you know, there's a bunch of players on Team Canada women's hockey team that have kids.
04:29And, like, you know, they're married, they have kids, they're adults,
04:32they play in the PWHL and stuff, but they're a little bit older.
04:35They're in their 30s.
04:37The USA team have 12 new players on the team.
04:41They're loaded.
04:42They've got, like, 12 players that are, like, 24 and under type thing.
04:45So the USA just have a bunch of young girls, like, really flying around everywhere,
04:51these NCAA players that are really good, that are really fast.
04:56And then they have a mix with a bunch of the U.S. veteran women also in the PWHL, right?
05:03So they're kind of evenly matched, but I think the USA's youth is the difference right now.
