San Jose Hockey Now Podcast · Sheng Peng, Keegan McNally, Bleav

Couture Talks Celebrini’s Olympics | USA-Canada Gold Medal Game Reaction EP 120

·1 hr 50 min·5 clips

Canada was the better team, and Connor Hellebuyck still kept the game close.

It's been a while. The hosts open by saying the wait was worth it because Logan Couture is back on the pod. He comes on to talk about the epic U.S.-Canada gold medal game. The show also digs into Macklin celebrating his Olympics. Before the hockey really takes over, the call gets tangled up in basement tech problems, computer updates, and the kind of setup chaos that makes it feel lived-in. Couture is joining from a basement in Afghanistan, and his computer is still updating. The jokes start early and never really let up. The conversation shifts into dad life when Couture talks about having two young kids and how some days it is hard to get out and play. He says the kids grow up fast, so the time with them matters. That leads into advice for a host expecting his first child any day now. The advice is simple: sleep when you can. The room latches onto a naming bet tied to the game-winning goal, and a daughter might have ended up with a hockey middle name if the bet had broken another way. Jason Demers comes up in the same off-air-bet spirit, along with Jack Hughes jerseys and the question of what the odds really were heading into the game. The panel pushes back a little on whether Canada was actually the favorite, and they keep at it until the memory of the game and the numbers line up. Eventually the talk circles back to the Sharks and the pre-trade-deadline mood. There is also a prospect detour centered on Ivar Stenberg and how his Swedish scoring stacks up against the great names in that pipeline conversation. He gets compared with the Sedins, Nick Backstrom, Leo Carlsson, and William Eklund. It ends the way these shows usually do, with thanks, goodbyes, and more pre-trade deadline hype.

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A loose, funny Sharks check-in that still lands on real hockey talk.

Logan Couture anchors a long-awaited Sharks check-in that moves easily from dad life and computer trouble into a lively stretch of hockey talk.

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