May 20, 2025 • 25 mins
Minnesota Frost goalie Maddie Rooney joins Sarah ahead of the PWHL Finals to talk about being back in the ‘chip for the second straight year, give her scouting report on opponent the Ottawa Charge and reminisce about winning gold with Team USA at the Pyeongchang Olympics. Plus, an historic upset in college softball, the Ballon d’Or folks make a long-awaited change, and an Italian footballer takes saying it with your chest to a whole new level.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we're cooking
up a plate of poutine, pouring a pint of mulson,
and clearing a spot on the old Chesterfield. PWHL finals
are on tonight in Canada. Eh It's Tuesday, May twenty.
At the on Today Show, we'll be chatting with Minnesota
Frost goaltender Matti Rooney about facing off against the Ottawa
Charge in the PWHL finals, plus how she stays confident
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in high pressure moments and why the Frost seemed to
relish the underdog mentality. Plus a top seed topples non
frosty relationships and a CV that sends a message. It's
all coming up right after this welcome back slices, Here's
what you need to know today. Let's start with hockey
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and the PWHL. The best of five Walter Cup Finals
get underweight tonight with the number four seed Minnesota Frost
taking on the number three seed Autawa Charge at Ottawa's
TD Place a seven pm Eastern puck drop. Live coverage
in Canada is on TSN with French Length which coverage
on RDS, and in the US you can watch live
on YouTube or check your local listing to see if
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regional broadcast partners are carrying the game. Ahead of the finals,
the PWHL looked ahead to next season, releasing the rules
and procedures for the upcoming expansion Draft. With two teams
joining the league next season, Vancouver and Seattle, each of
the existing six teams is set to lose four players.
The process the league is using is just a little
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bit complicated, so stick with me here for a minute. First,
each of the original six teams have between now and
June third to protect three current players. Yeah, just three players. Then,
beginning on June fourth, the new expansion teams will be
allowed to negotiate with all non protected players during a
five day exclusive signing window. It's essentially expansion team free agency.
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Both Vancouver and Seattle will be allowed to sign five
players each during this period. Then, on June ninth, the
expansion Draft, Seattle and Vancouver will take turns making picks
until both teams have so elected twelve players total, either
through the initial signing window or the draft. Once one
of the existing teams has lost two players to expansion,
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that team will be allowed to add a fourth player
to their protected list. Finally, all eight teams will take
part in the official PWHL Draft, which is primarily for
recent college graduates. That's on June twenty fourth. Got all that,
Even if you didn't, the good news is you don't
have to worry about it for a little bit because
in the meantime you can just enjoy watching the PWHL Finals.
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More on that later in the show with Matti Rooney
to softball, where for the first time in Division one
softball history, the top seed in the tournament didn't make
it out of the regional round. Number one Texas A
and M was upset by Liberty, losing the decisive game
on Sunday six to five. Now softball's NCAA bracket uses
a double elimination format, meaning that after losing the first
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game to Liberty on Saturday, the Aggies had to win
out the rest of their games during the weekend competition
in order to advance to the Super Regionals. They were
victorious in their first rematch against Liberty on Sunday afternoon,
winning that one an extra innings, but they couldn't pull
off the Sunday sweep. Liberty trailed three to one, but
scored five runs in the sixth inning to secure the upset,
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and there were three other upsets over the weekend too,
with Nebraska upsetting number ten, lsu Ole miss upsetting number
thirteen Arizona, and Georgia upsetting number fourteen Duke. The Super
Regionals get underway this coming weekend with number two Oklahoma
now the highest remaining seed in the tourney. They're looking
for a fifth consecutive Women's College World Series title. We've
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got two WNBA games tonight, both tip it off at
seven pm Eastern, so get out that second screen. The
Indiana Fever hosts the Atlanta Dream and the Las Vegas
Aces host the Connecticut Sun. All teams, but the Fever
looking for win number one on the season. More WNBA
one loose end to tie up from a big opening weekend.
Ahead of their season opener, the Phoenix Mercury announced that
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Kalia Copper will miss four to six weeks out after
undergoing a left knee arthroscopy. Copper, a four time All
Star in the Mercury's only returning starter from last season,
was expected to be a central part of the Mercuries
rebuilt following the retirement of Dinah Tarrassi and Britney Griner's
move to the Atlanta Dream Now. Copper also dealt with
injury during the offseason, playing in just seven of sixteen
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games for her unrivaled squad due to a right leg injury.
The Mercury will also be without Natasha Mack for two
to three weeks as she nurses a lower back injury.
To soccer, Let's talk, Balloon Dior aka Ballon d'Or, the
award given each year to the world's best male and
female soccer players, and beginning last year, also given out
to the best men's and women's coaches. On Monday, it
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was announced that the Ballon d'Or annual award ceremony will
be held September twenty fifth this year, a date that
will better accommodate female players. You may recall that last
year's event was scheduled during a women's international window, meaning
many of the top female players were unable to attend.
In fact, since a women's category was introduced in twenty eighteen,
the ceremony has consistently overlapped with an international women window.
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Emma Hayes, who last year was named the Women's Coach
of the Year, called out event organizers, saying it was
quote like running an Oscars or a Golden Globes without
having any females present. Glad to see they've made the switch.
Now about those weird photos they use every year, We
got to take a quick break when we come back.
It's Frost goalie Mattie Rooney. I caught up with her
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Monday afternoon. I had a game one of the PWHL
finals tonight. Stick around joining us now. She's one of
the starting goaltenders for the Minnesota Frost at the Professional
Women's Hockey League and won the league's inaugural Walter Cup
with the team last season. She was also the starting
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goaltender for the US women's national team when they won
gold at the twenty eighteen winner Olympics, and she also
went silver with the team at the twenty twenty two
Games in Beijing. A Minnesota Duluth grad, still the Bulldog's
all time career saves leader, She's got a pup named Riley,
and she gets coffee with legendary NHL goalie Mark Andre
Flury every Tuesday. It's Maddie Rooney.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Hi, Maddie, Hey, thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Is Tuesdays with Flurry really a thing?
Speaker 2 (06:07):
No, I don't know why My fiance decided to start
that rumor. But no, I'm shutting that down right here.
It is not true. Though I wish it was true,
but no, he.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Said it with such like certainty and seriousness. He's like, yep,
she gets coffee with him every Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yeah, the amount of times I've been asked that, I'm like, no,
I don't know why he just pulled that out of
his butt.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
But maybe he's manifesting it. Maybe Mark Andre will hear
it and be like, all right.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Him in Yeah, I wouldn't be mad.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Let's talk about this Frost team, the underdogs rising again
second straight year that your team makes the finals as
the number four seed. How similar or different does this
season feel from last year?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
It honestly feels pretty similar, just with kind of our
record going into the home stretch. Like last year, you know,
we're kind of on a little bit of a losing streak,
but we turned it around at the right time and
got hot at the right time, and it feels kind
of the same as this year. We have a little
bit of a downtime after that international break, but we're
heating up at the right time, and I thought we
had a great series against Toronto obviously really did well offensively,
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and I think we're going to use that momentum coming
into this final series here.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Evny guesses as to why the squad seems to peak
end of season and in the postseason.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I don't know. We always joke we do our best
elimination games, but I think I think this group just
has a ton of heart and like we truly just
want to win, so we do what we can to
get it done here in the final stretch and in playoffs.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Yeah, you yourself, You've been in some pretty high stress,
high pressure situations, including being between the pipes for the
USA and those Olympics that I mentioned, leading the team
to gold at just twenty years old, and I'm wondering
what are your tools for staying calm and present because
you are truly the last line of defense for your team.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
You know what I would think of the gold medal game.
I would never think it would come down to a shootout,
So I love shootout. So grateful it came down to
it like that. But there was a lot of nerves.
I think in the moment. I just remember kind of
relying on that bench energy, you know, looking over at
the bench and seeing like my teammates excitement or support
whenever they were yelling. I just try to stay like
as in the moment as possible. Goalie is such like
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a mental game. It's easy to think like, oh, I'm
going into this player again. She's done X, Y and
Z in the past on previous shootout moves. But that
just kind of leads to too much overthinking. So I
think in order for me to stay calm, I truly
just constantly remind myself to just play in the moment,
be present, don't think in the future, don't think in
the past, and it's worked out well for me.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
I can't believe you just said you love shootouts as
a goalie. Why do you love them? You love the
pressure put on you?
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Yeah, I think I do like the pressure and kind
of just being in that position to make or break games.
It's fun.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Yeah, And I guess nobody else is contributing to that
moment except for you. It can't be a deflection. It
can't be a player standing in front of you and
you can't see. It's like just everything on you. But
you're in charge.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Yep, You're in full control.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Yeah. That game against Canada, that twenty eighteen gold medal
is one of my favorite sporting events to watch of
all time. It was so tense but so joyful that
Joscelyn Lamaroue goal, the oops I did it again, reverse
deek in the shootout, and just the back and forth,
Like I can't imagine what being a part of that
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would feel like in those moments. Are you able to
sort of block out how big of a deal it
is and just focus on I'm just playing hockey, and
I play hockey all the time.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Yeah. I think it was a little bit of a
bunch of different things, you know, that being my first
Olympics and haven't gone through the heartbreaks of some of
those veteran players on the team did in previous Olympics.
But it was also just kind of to talk more
about the veteran leadership. There was such good leadership on
that team, and they throughout the whole residency, they made
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us feel like basically we were a part of that
loss in Sochi in twenty fourteen in the previous Olympics,
and I wanted to win it not only for myself,
but I really wanted to win it for those veterers
on the team. And we just had, like I said,
such great leadership and when it came down to it,
it was just a lot of fun playing with that group,
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and yeah, it'll be one of the best memories throughout
my whole career.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
So your two of the p WHL playoffs, How do
they compare it to Olympic pressure?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Honestly, kind of similar. Definitely not quite as high as
the Olympic pressure, but it's similar. I'm playing in these big,
big games against the most elite players in the world. Essentially,
it's a lot, but it's also a lot of fun.
Like it's so competitive. The atmosphere and the with the
audiences and the crowds in the arenas is so it's
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so high level and it's so exciting. So it's just
it's a lot of fun. Like I said, this group
that we have this year, I think we really lean
on each other. Everyone has their own role, and uh,
I think this is the best team to go out
and do it again.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
So, yeah, you mentioned the crowds. It's been fun to
see some sort of organic things start to build in
such a young league of you know, the dance breaks
or the music in certain areas. Is there an opposing
team barn that you most like playing in.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
I really like playing in Toronto. They get a consistent
good crowd each night, and they're loud, they're fun to
play in, or their rink is fun to play in.
But nothing be playing at home at the Xcel. You know,
whether we only have three thousand fans in the arena
or fifteen thousand, they bring the energy every night and
it's just no matter where we're playing. Truly, the PWHL
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has had so much interest and the women's hockey movement
is still going so strong, so continue I hope we
continue to grow here. But yeah, the atmospheres in every
arena have been really great.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Did you get to play in a couple I think
takeover tour games and was one of those your favorite
places to go?
Speaker 2 (11:54):
I really liked playing in Denver, not only because the
city itself was so it was so cool too, but
the fans were really passionate and it was it was
considered one of our home games. So though it was
a takeover to our game and a neutral sight, we
were there and they had their Frost Frost jerseys, Frost
signs and really made it feel like a home game.
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So I thought that was a really cool experience.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Any opposing team fan base particularly good at chirping you,
as anyone get under your skin a little more.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
I don't think I've really want to be chirped, though
I don't hear them. Maybe someone's out there chirping me.
But I think the hardest kind of rinked to play
in is probably Montreal. Other fans are very passionate and
it gets pretty loud in there. But it's yeah, yeah,
I would say Montreal.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
They're swearing at you in French. You're like, I don't
know what you're saying, but.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
It sounds me help you. I don't know what they're saying.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
All right, take me back to baby Mattie. Why did
we decide to get it in the goal?
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Yeah? So I started hockey rooms age four. My parents
kind of just threw me into a bunch of so
I started off as playing forward for about five years,
six years, and then switched to goalie at age ten.
I really was just intrigued by the equipment, but my
parents knew how expensive the position of goalie was, so
I had to beg for like three years to get
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my dad to finally agree to letting me try out
playing goalie. And so once I tried it, out in
a squirt practice. I never went back.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
You're kind of still a squirt no fence, but you're
very You're a little nugget, you're like five to five.
I always think of the joke when people are like,
why don't they just throw like a sumo in that
that takes up most of the space, Like you're the
opposite of that. Was there ever a question about whether
you were built for the position and to take it
all the way to the pros?
Speaker 2 (13:44):
I don't think so. I think on the women's side
having smaller goalies is definitely more common than the men's side.
I think us smaller goalies kind of make up for
that lack of height with our quickness. Something I focused
on my whole career is having good footwork, movement and
kind of making up for that lack of height with
my agility and speed, able to move well down low
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and like I said, have quick movement.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Let's talk about the PWHL finals starting Tuesday night. Give
us your scouting report on the Ottawa Charge.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Yes, they're a good rush team. I think they generate
a lot of the chances off of rush, So we're
going to have to have a good neutral zone They're
also a very quick team. They have a lot of depth,
but I think we do as well. We're a quick
team and we also have a lot of depth. So
I really think it's going to be a good matchup.
What's going to set us apart, I think is just
our overall grit, like the hungerest to be able to
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score and to be able to want this next win,
to be on the attack every single shift. So yeah,
I think our focus will be speed and physicality for sure.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
What did you see from them out of their semi
final series against the Victoir that you thought, Okay, that's
really something we're going need to watch for.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Yeah. I think definitely their rush chances like I had mentioned,
and also they just looked very very quick, very fast,
they moved the puck well. So yeah, it's gonna be
a good matchup because I think those are some of
our strengths as well.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Any particular player on the other team you're least excited
to see skating your way open path to the net.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
I don't know. They have a lot of skilled forwards.
I think Brian Jenner has had my number on a
few of their power play goals this year, so I
think I'm going to have a extra sense when she's up. Nice. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Yeah, what's it like splitting starts in time with your
fellow frostcool tender Nicole Hensley.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Yeah, we've been goalie partners now for seven or eight
years since that twenty eighteen Olympic team. So we started
training together in twenty seventeen and it's just been it's
just been fun. Like we're great friends outside of the rinks,
so each and every day we're pushing each other to
be better, but we also are just having a lot
of fun. We crack jokes all the time, and we
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just have so much support for each other. I mean,
it's hard being in our position given that only one
goalie is getting the nod each night in the game,
but whoever's in net, we know that the other is
on the bench giving us the utmost support and just
being there for each other. So it's been it's been
really fun and I'm grateful to have her.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
That's very mature. How has it been navigating a friendship,
a teammate relationship in the midst of a really competitive situation.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Yeah, you know, sometimes I don't know how we do it.
Sometimes people like look at us and be like they
shouldn't be friends. Like I know, like coaches that we've
had over the years are like, this doesn't make sense.
But it's just been something that we've been doing for,
like I said, seven or eight years now. We live
together in the twenty eighteen Olympic residency, so I think
there's never really been any you know, tension or like awkwardness.
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It's always just came very naturally, and so I'm grateful
for it.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
How much notice do you usually get as to who's
starting when.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Typically it's maybe the day before or two days before.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Why do you think the team continues to split minutes
and goal instead of deciding on one of you and
riding it out.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Yeah. So I think it showed last year, especially in
the playoffs, that we could both be relied on in
different situations, me closing out the Toronto series and then
Nicole closing out the finals against Boston, and it's rolled
into this year. I think we both just bring a
different aspect on the ice, but both of our styles
have contributed to the team's success obviously, and it's just
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it's for me personally. It's been grateful because you know,
this season can be long and the position is very
mentally tough, so it's been almost like it's just been
a good tantem, I guess to say, like to know
that I can go in and win the game, and
then also Nicole can come in the next night and
win the game. And if one of us is off,
you know that the other might be in that next game,
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and it's kind of just become a natural thing that
we've gotten used to.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Does it feel merit based, like if one of you
is just standing on your head and crushing it, you
stay in for an extra couple of games before making
the switch. Or is it feel more like it's on
a schedule of take a few off, take a few,
take a few off.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Yeah, maybe a little bit merit based, But I think
that's just something we came to kind of expect and
we know that that's probably how it's going to go.
But it also has kind of allowed us to just
raise the bar for each other day in and day
out in practice. You know, we got to be have
a great work ethic, we got to be doing well,
and just it's just pushing each other and like I said,
there's a lot of support for each other. But I
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think it is like a really healthy environment.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
So I'm so impressed, I have to admit, because there
is a lot of pressure in like, oh, no, I
had a bad game. What does this mean? As opposed
to when you're the starting star and they know they're
counting on you. You know you can get through some
tough times. But I also just think your mental fortitude
to see those breaks as beneficial instead of being on
the sidelines, like, oh, I should be in there. If
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I was in there, this would be happening. Being able
to support your partner, It's really special. That's really really cool.
How much of advantage do you think your team has
having been through this last year and coming out on top,
not just winning it all, but coming from the fourth position,
knowing that you weren't maybe the strongest all season long,
but that you could put it together at the end.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Yeah. I think it's just giving the team a bunch
of belief knowing that we were at rock bottom last
year and we came back to win it all. I
think we went on a seven game losing streak if
I remember correctly, into that Game three of Toronto is
when we turned it around at home. So I think
this year, with going or being in that little down
spot too going into the playoffs. It's just it's just
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like we believe because we know we can do it.
We did it last year, we can do it again
this year. So I think it just gives the team
that extra boost to confidence.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Take us behind the scenes last year for the celebration,
what did it look like?
Speaker 2 (19:50):
It was a whirlwind. I remember postgame in the locker room,
the champagne showers, and then just celebrating with the team
for the rest of the night. But then getting back
to Minnesota, the Excel in the League put on a
great celebration for us back at the Excel Energy Center,
which was super cool. To have family and friends there
and just have one big celebratory gathering with all of
our fans. Super cool. And then just doing kind of
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various media opportunities throughout the throughout the city, and just
the support from everyone across Minnesota and across the across
the country was super special.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Got anybody on a wish list or any place you
want to go celebrate if you win it again this year.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
That's a good question, I think, because we only had
one day with the Cup and I did like a
small kind of family gathering because it was kind of
short notice. I think this year I'd really do like
a big gathering back in my back in my hometown
of Andover, Minnesota, and do it up big this time.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Nice. Well, you know, the Minnesota Wild have never won
the Cup, so it's nice for you to bring that
city something that the guys have never done. I'm a
black Hawks fan, so I've always enjoyed sending the Wild
golfing for the off season. But I love that the
Frost are showing him how it's done, letting them get
some of those Cup celebrations, and then maybe maybe one day,
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maybe one day, they guys will figure it out.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Yea.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
We talked earlier about how your fiance Carson and Taylor
Heies's boyfriend were miked up for a recent playoff game.
You did not approve of his made up story about
your friendship with Marc Andre Fleury. What else did you
make of his commentary? Did you do you think he's
got a future?
Speaker 2 (21:27):
I think he was pretty tame in that, but I
do think him and him and Park would be great.
Great announcers are great commentary.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Whatever.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
I don't know where that rumor started and why he
had the motivation to start that rumor. I was like,
out of all things, that is what came out of
your mouth. So n actually, but I thought they were great.
They're funny, and it's cool to see the Frost supporting
them too.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
So yeah, And it was fun to see them trying
to impress each other with hockey phrases that they kind
of knew.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
That was brutal.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
It's like that one's called a safe, that one's a sick.
Well done. Yeah, do you have a wedding date yet?
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Yeah? This September?
Speaker 1 (22:05):
YEP? Amazing, so exciting. Well, it was really fun to
watch them just be nervous and excited and watch YouTube
play and it's been really fun to watch this team
all season long and the rest of the league. Is
there anything you want to see next season in the PWHL.
Is there a wish that you've seen already year to
year from season one to two that you're like, this
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is the only thing that's missing, or this is something
that could be addedive.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Well, that's a good question, I think, just because it's
on the top of mind right now. I think what
I'm most excited for is to seeing this expansion happen
and knowing that this is going to continue to grow.
Throughout the coming years, this league will continue to grow.
I think it's going to be really exciting, and it's
just overall a really exciting time for women's sports to
see this coming to fruition finally after many years of
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building it. And yeah, it's just great that now the
youth generations have this one league to look up to,
and now it's expand into the West Coast, so it's
going to be going to be really cool.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Any excuse to get to Vancouver for work is good
in my book. Yeah, I love Vancouver so beautiful, and
Seattle's great to well. Thank you so much for the time,
good luck, We're excited to watch.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Yes, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Thanks so much to Maddie for taking the time. We
got to take another break when we return. Were your
accomplishments on your sleeve or your shirt? Welcome back, slics.
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her jersey to make a statement. The thirty seven year
old collaborated with her club and a creative agency to
design a retirement jersey that included all of her professional
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accomplishments formatted like a resume. Yan Ye said she wanted
to make a statement about how professional female footballers have
to find work after retiring from sport, but often don't
have a clear path or opportunities lined up for them.
She told The Athletic quote, after a career on the pitch,
we female footballers are forced to stop and face a void.
We don't have clear pathways into professional life and we
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can't stop working end quote. FC Como posted a video
about Yuani's jersey and the statement she wanted to make.
We'll link to that in our show notes. Now it's
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Thanks for listening, slices, See you tomorrow. Good Game, Mattie,
Good Game, PWHL You people already get caught up in
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Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we're cooking
up a plate of poutine, pouring a pint of mulson,
and clearing a spot on the old Chesterfield. PWHL finals
are on tonight in Canada. Eh It's Tuesday, May twenty.
At the on Today Show, we'll be chatting with Minnesota
Frost goaltender Matti Rooney about facing off against the Ottawa
Charge in the PWHL finals, plus how she stays confident
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in high pressure moments and why the Frost seemed to
relish the underdog mentality. Plus a top seed topples non
frosty relationships and a CV that sends a message. It's
all coming up right after this welcome back slices, Here's
what you need to know today. Let's start with hockey
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and the PWHL. The best of five Walter Cup Finals
get underweight tonight with the number four seed Minnesota Frost
taking on the number three seed Autawa Charge at Ottawa's
TD Place a seven pm Eastern puck drop. Live coverage
in Canada is on TSN with French Length which coverage
on RDS, and in the US you can watch live
on YouTube or check your local listing to see if
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regional broadcast partners are carrying the game. Ahead of the finals,
the PWHL looked ahead to next season, releasing the rules
and procedures for the upcoming expansion Draft. With two teams
joining the league next season, Vancouver and Seattle, each of
the existing six teams is set to lose four players.
The process the league is using is just a little
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bit complicated, so stick with me here for a minute. First,
each of the original six teams have between now and
June third to protect three current players. Yeah, just three players. Then,
beginning on June fourth, the new expansion teams will be
allowed to negotiate with all non protected players during a
five day exclusive signing window. It's essentially expansion team free agency.
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Both Vancouver and Seattle will be allowed to sign five
players each during this period. Then, on June ninth, the
expansion Draft, Seattle and Vancouver will take turns making picks
until both teams have so elected twelve players total, either
through the initial signing window or the draft. Once one
of the existing teams has lost two players to expansion,
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that team will be allowed to add a fourth player
to their protected list. Finally, all eight teams will take
part in the official PWHL Draft, which is primarily for
recent college graduates. That's on June twenty fourth. Got all that,
Even if you didn't, the good news is you don't
have to worry about it for a little bit because
in the meantime you can just enjoy watching the PWHL Finals.
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More on that later in the show with Matti Rooney
to softball, where for the first time in Division one
softball history, the top seed in the tournament didn't make
it out of the regional round. Number one Texas A
and M was upset by Liberty, losing the decisive game
on Sunday six to five. Now softball's NCAA bracket uses
a double elimination format, meaning that after losing the first
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game to Liberty on Saturday, the Aggies had to win
out the rest of their games during the weekend competition
in order to advance to the Super Regionals. They were
victorious in their first rematch against Liberty on Sunday afternoon,
winning that one an extra innings, but they couldn't pull
off the Sunday sweep. Liberty trailed three to one, but
scored five runs in the sixth inning to secure the upset,
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and there were three other upsets over the weekend too,
with Nebraska upsetting number ten, lsu Ole miss upsetting number
thirteen Arizona, and Georgia upsetting number fourteen Duke. The Super
Regionals get underway this coming weekend with number two Oklahoma
now the highest remaining seed in the tourney. They're looking
for a fifth consecutive Women's College World Series title. We've
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got two WNBA games tonight, both tip it off at
seven pm Eastern, so get out that second screen. The
Indiana Fever hosts the Atlanta Dream and the Las Vegas
Aces host the Connecticut Sun. All teams, but the Fever
looking for win number one on the season. More WNBA
one loose end to tie up from a big opening weekend.
Ahead of their season opener, the Phoenix Mercury announced that
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Kalia Copper will miss four to six weeks out after
undergoing a left knee arthroscopy. Copper, a four time All
Star in the Mercury's only returning starter from last season,
was expected to be a central part of the Mercuries
rebuilt following the retirement of Dinah Tarrassi and Britney Griner's
move to the Atlanta Dream Now. Copper also dealt with
injury during the offseason, playing in just seven of sixteen
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games for her unrivaled squad due to a right leg injury.
The Mercury will also be without Natasha Mack for two
to three weeks as she nurses a lower back injury.
To soccer, Let's talk, Balloon Dior aka Ballon d'Or, the
award given each year to the world's best male and
female soccer players, and beginning last year, also given out
to the best men's and women's coaches. On Monday, it
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was announced that the Ballon d'Or annual award ceremony will
be held September twenty fifth this year, a date that
will better accommodate female players. You may recall that last
year's event was scheduled during a women's international window, meaning
many of the top female players were unable to attend.
In fact, since a women's category was introduced in twenty eighteen,
the ceremony has consistently overlapped with an international women window.
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Emma Hayes, who last year was named the Women's Coach
of the Year, called out event organizers, saying it was
quote like running an Oscars or a Golden Globes without
having any females present. Glad to see they've made the switch.
Now about those weird photos they use every year, We
got to take a quick break when we come back.
It's Frost goalie Mattie Rooney. I caught up with her
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Monday afternoon. I had a game one of the PWHL
finals tonight. Stick around joining us now. She's one of
the starting goaltenders for the Minnesota Frost at the Professional
Women's Hockey League and won the league's inaugural Walter Cup
with the team last season. She was also the starting
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goaltender for the US women's national team when they won
gold at the twenty eighteen winner Olympics, and she also
went silver with the team at the twenty twenty two
Games in Beijing. A Minnesota Duluth grad, still the Bulldog's
all time career saves leader, She's got a pup named Riley,
and she gets coffee with legendary NHL goalie Mark Andre
Flury every Tuesday. It's Maddie Rooney.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Hi, Maddie, Hey, thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Is Tuesdays with Flurry really a thing?
Speaker 2 (06:07):
No, I don't know why My fiance decided to start
that rumor. But no, I'm shutting that down right here.
It is not true. Though I wish it was true,
but no, he.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Said it with such like certainty and seriousness. He's like, yep,
she gets coffee with him every Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yeah, the amount of times I've been asked that, I'm like, no,
I don't know why he just pulled that out of
his butt.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
But maybe he's manifesting it. Maybe Mark Andre will hear
it and be like, all right.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Him in Yeah, I wouldn't be mad.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Let's talk about this Frost team, the underdogs rising again
second straight year that your team makes the finals as
the number four seed. How similar or different does this
season feel from last year?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
It honestly feels pretty similar, just with kind of our
record going into the home stretch. Like last year, you know,
we're kind of on a little bit of a losing streak,
but we turned it around at the right time and
got hot at the right time, and it feels kind
of the same as this year. We have a little
bit of a downtime after that international break, but we're
heating up at the right time, and I thought we
had a great series against Toronto obviously really did well offensively,
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and I think we're going to use that momentum coming
into this final series here.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Evny guesses as to why the squad seems to peak
end of season and in the postseason.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I don't know. We always joke we do our best
elimination games, but I think I think this group just
has a ton of heart and like we truly just
want to win, so we do what we can to
get it done here in the final stretch and in playoffs.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Yeah, you yourself, You've been in some pretty high stress,
high pressure situations, including being between the pipes for the
USA and those Olympics that I mentioned, leading the team
to gold at just twenty years old, and I'm wondering
what are your tools for staying calm and present because
you are truly the last line of defense for your team.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
You know what I would think of the gold medal game.
I would never think it would come down to a shootout,
So I love shootout. So grateful it came down to
it like that. But there was a lot of nerves.
I think in the moment. I just remember kind of
relying on that bench energy, you know, looking over at
the bench and seeing like my teammates excitement or support
whenever they were yelling. I just try to stay like
as in the moment as possible. Goalie is such like
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a mental game. It's easy to think like, oh, I'm
going into this player again. She's done X, Y and
Z in the past on previous shootout moves. But that
just kind of leads to too much overthinking. So I
think in order for me to stay calm, I truly
just constantly remind myself to just play in the moment,
be present, don't think in the future, don't think in
the past, and it's worked out well for me.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
I can't believe you just said you love shootouts as
a goalie. Why do you love them? You love the
pressure put on you?
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Yeah, I think I do like the pressure and kind
of just being in that position to make or break games.
It's fun.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Yeah, And I guess nobody else is contributing to that
moment except for you. It can't be a deflection. It
can't be a player standing in front of you and
you can't see. It's like just everything on you. But
you're in charge.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Yep, You're in full control.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Yeah. That game against Canada, that twenty eighteen gold medal
is one of my favorite sporting events to watch of
all time. It was so tense but so joyful that
Joscelyn Lamaroue goal, the oops I did it again, reverse
deek in the shootout, and just the back and forth,
Like I can't imagine what being a part of that
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would feel like in those moments. Are you able to
sort of block out how big of a deal it
is and just focus on I'm just playing hockey, and
I play hockey all the time.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Yeah. I think it was a little bit of a
bunch of different things, you know, that being my first
Olympics and haven't gone through the heartbreaks of some of
those veteran players on the team did in previous Olympics.
But it was also just kind of to talk more
about the veteran leadership. There was such good leadership on
that team, and they throughout the whole residency, they made
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us feel like basically we were a part of that
loss in Sochi in twenty fourteen in the previous Olympics,
and I wanted to win it not only for myself,
but I really wanted to win it for those veterers
on the team. And we just had, like I said,
such great leadership and when it came down to it,
it was just a lot of fun playing with that group,
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and yeah, it'll be one of the best memories throughout
my whole career.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
So your two of the p WHL playoffs, How do
they compare it to Olympic pressure?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Honestly, kind of similar. Definitely not quite as high as
the Olympic pressure, but it's similar. I'm playing in these big,
big games against the most elite players in the world. Essentially,
it's a lot, but it's also a lot of fun.
Like it's so competitive. The atmosphere and the with the
audiences and the crowds in the arenas is so it's
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so high level and it's so exciting. So it's just
it's a lot of fun. Like I said, this group
that we have this year, I think we really lean
on each other. Everyone has their own role, and uh,
I think this is the best team to go out
and do it again.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
So, yeah, you mentioned the crowds. It's been fun to
see some sort of organic things start to build in
such a young league of you know, the dance breaks
or the music in certain areas. Is there an opposing
team barn that you most like playing in.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
I really like playing in Toronto. They get a consistent
good crowd each night, and they're loud, they're fun to
play in, or their rink is fun to play in.
But nothing be playing at home at the Xcel. You know,
whether we only have three thousand fans in the arena
or fifteen thousand, they bring the energy every night and
it's just no matter where we're playing. Truly, the PWHL
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has had so much interest and the women's hockey movement
is still going so strong, so continue I hope we
continue to grow here. But yeah, the atmospheres in every
arena have been really great.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Did you get to play in a couple I think
takeover tour games and was one of those your favorite
places to go?
Speaker 2 (11:54):
I really liked playing in Denver, not only because the
city itself was so it was so cool too, but
the fans were really passionate and it was it was
considered one of our home games. So though it was
a takeover to our game and a neutral sight, we
were there and they had their Frost Frost jerseys, Frost
signs and really made it feel like a home game.
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So I thought that was a really cool experience.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Any opposing team fan base particularly good at chirping you,
as anyone get under your skin a little more.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
I don't think I've really want to be chirped, though
I don't hear them. Maybe someone's out there chirping me.
But I think the hardest kind of rinked to play
in is probably Montreal. Other fans are very passionate and
it gets pretty loud in there. But it's yeah, yeah,
I would say Montreal.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
They're swearing at you in French. You're like, I don't
know what you're saying, but.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
It sounds me help you. I don't know what they're saying.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
All right, take me back to baby Mattie. Why did
we decide to get it in the goal?
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Yeah? So I started hockey rooms age four. My parents
kind of just threw me into a bunch of so
I started off as playing forward for about five years,
six years, and then switched to goalie at age ten.
I really was just intrigued by the equipment, but my
parents knew how expensive the position of goalie was, so
I had to beg for like three years to get
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my dad to finally agree to letting me try out
playing goalie. And so once I tried it, out in
a squirt practice. I never went back.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
You're kind of still a squirt no fence, but you're
very You're a little nugget, you're like five to five.
I always think of the joke when people are like,
why don't they just throw like a sumo in that
that takes up most of the space, Like you're the
opposite of that. Was there ever a question about whether
you were built for the position and to take it
all the way to the pros?
Speaker 2 (13:44):
I don't think so. I think on the women's side
having smaller goalies is definitely more common than the men's side.
I think us smaller goalies kind of make up for
that lack of height with our quickness. Something I focused
on my whole career is having good footwork, movement and
kind of making up for that lack of height with
my agility and speed, able to move well down low
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and like I said, have quick movement.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Let's talk about the PWHL finals starting Tuesday night. Give
us your scouting report on the Ottawa Charge.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Yes, they're a good rush team. I think they generate
a lot of the chances off of rush, So we're
going to have to have a good neutral zone They're
also a very quick team. They have a lot of depth,
but I think we do as well. We're a quick
team and we also have a lot of depth. So
I really think it's going to be a good matchup.
What's going to set us apart, I think is just
our overall grit, like the hungerest to be able to
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score and to be able to want this next win,
to be on the attack every single shift. So yeah,
I think our focus will be speed and physicality for sure.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
What did you see from them out of their semi
final series against the Victoir that you thought, Okay, that's
really something we're going need to watch for.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Yeah. I think definitely their rush chances like I had mentioned,
and also they just looked very very quick, very fast,
they moved the puck well. So yeah, it's gonna be
a good matchup because I think those are some of
our strengths as well.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Any particular player on the other team you're least excited
to see skating your way open path to the net.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
I don't know. They have a lot of skilled forwards.
I think Brian Jenner has had my number on a
few of their power play goals this year, so I
think I'm going to have a extra sense when she's up. Nice. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Yeah, what's it like splitting starts in time with your
fellow frostcool tender Nicole Hensley.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Yeah, we've been goalie partners now for seven or eight
years since that twenty eighteen Olympic team. So we started
training together in twenty seventeen and it's just been it's
just been fun. Like we're great friends outside of the rinks,
so each and every day we're pushing each other to
be better, but we also are just having a lot
of fun. We crack jokes all the time, and we
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just have so much support for each other. I mean,
it's hard being in our position given that only one
goalie is getting the nod each night in the game,
but whoever's in net, we know that the other is
on the bench giving us the utmost support and just
being there for each other. So it's been it's been
really fun and I'm grateful to have her.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
That's very mature. How has it been navigating a friendship,
a teammate relationship in the midst of a really competitive situation.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Yeah, you know, sometimes I don't know how we do it.
Sometimes people like look at us and be like they
shouldn't be friends. Like I know, like coaches that we've
had over the years are like, this doesn't make sense.
But it's just been something that we've been doing for,
like I said, seven or eight years now. We live
together in the twenty eighteen Olympic residency, so I think
there's never really been any you know, tension or like awkwardness.
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It's always just came very naturally, and so I'm grateful
for it.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
How much notice do you usually get as to who's
starting when.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Typically it's maybe the day before or two days before.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Why do you think the team continues to split minutes
and goal instead of deciding on one of you and
riding it out.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Yeah. So I think it showed last year, especially in
the playoffs, that we could both be relied on in
different situations, me closing out the Toronto series and then
Nicole closing out the finals against Boston, and it's rolled
into this year. I think we both just bring a
different aspect on the ice, but both of our styles
have contributed to the team's success obviously, and it's just
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it's for me personally. It's been grateful because you know,
this season can be long and the position is very
mentally tough, so it's been almost like it's just been
a good tantem, I guess to say, like to know
that I can go in and win the game, and
then also Nicole can come in the next night and
win the game. And if one of us is off,
you know that the other might be in that next game,
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and it's kind of just become a natural thing that
we've gotten used to.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Does it feel merit based, like if one of you
is just standing on your head and crushing it, you
stay in for an extra couple of games before making
the switch. Or is it feel more like it's on
a schedule of take a few off, take a few,
take a few off.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Yeah, maybe a little bit merit based, But I think
that's just something we came to kind of expect and
we know that that's probably how it's going to go.
But it also has kind of allowed us to just
raise the bar for each other day in and day
out in practice. You know, we got to be have
a great work ethic, we got to be doing well,
and just it's just pushing each other and like I said,
there's a lot of support for each other. But I
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think it is like a really healthy environment.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
So I'm so impressed, I have to admit, because there
is a lot of pressure in like, oh, no, I
had a bad game. What does this mean? As opposed
to when you're the starting star and they know they're
counting on you. You know you can get through some
tough times. But I also just think your mental fortitude
to see those breaks as beneficial instead of being on
the sidelines, like, oh, I should be in there. If
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I was in there, this would be happening. Being able
to support your partner, It's really special. That's really really cool.
How much of advantage do you think your team has
having been through this last year and coming out on top,
not just winning it all, but coming from the fourth position,
knowing that you weren't maybe the strongest all season long,
but that you could put it together at the end.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Yeah. I think it's just giving the team a bunch
of belief knowing that we were at rock bottom last
year and we came back to win it all. I
think we went on a seven game losing streak if
I remember correctly, into that Game three of Toronto is
when we turned it around at home. So I think
this year, with going or being in that little down
spot too going into the playoffs. It's just it's just
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like we believe because we know we can do it.
We did it last year, we can do it again
this year. So I think it just gives the team
that extra boost to confidence.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Take us behind the scenes last year for the celebration,
what did it look like?
Speaker 2 (19:50):
It was a whirlwind. I remember postgame in the locker room,
the champagne showers, and then just celebrating with the team
for the rest of the night. But then getting back
to Minnesota, the Excel in the League put on a
great celebration for us back at the Excel Energy Center,
which was super cool. To have family and friends there
and just have one big celebratory gathering with all of
our fans. Super cool. And then just doing kind of
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various media opportunities throughout the throughout the city, and just
the support from everyone across Minnesota and across the across
the country was super special.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Got anybody on a wish list or any place you
want to go celebrate if you win it again this year.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
That's a good question, I think, because we only had
one day with the Cup and I did like a
small kind of family gathering because it was kind of
short notice. I think this year I'd really do like
a big gathering back in my back in my hometown
of Andover, Minnesota, and do it up big this time.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Nice. Well, you know, the Minnesota Wild have never won
the Cup, so it's nice for you to bring that
city something that the guys have never done. I'm a
black Hawks fan, so I've always enjoyed sending the Wild
golfing for the off season. But I love that the
Frost are showing him how it's done, letting them get
some of those Cup celebrations, and then maybe maybe one day,
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maybe one day, they guys will figure it out.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Yea.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
We talked earlier about how your fiance Carson and Taylor
Heies's boyfriend were miked up for a recent playoff game.
You did not approve of his made up story about
your friendship with Marc Andre Fleury. What else did you
make of his commentary? Did you do you think he's
got a future?
Speaker 2 (21:27):
I think he was pretty tame in that, but I
do think him and him and Park would be great.
Great announcers are great commentary.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Whatever.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
I don't know where that rumor started and why he
had the motivation to start that rumor. I was like,
out of all things, that is what came out of
your mouth. So n actually, but I thought they were great.
They're funny, and it's cool to see the Frost supporting
them too.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
So yeah, And it was fun to see them trying
to impress each other with hockey phrases that they kind
of knew.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
That was brutal.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
It's like that one's called a safe, that one's a sick.
Well done. Yeah, do you have a wedding date yet?
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Yeah? This September?
Speaker 1 (22:05):
YEP? Amazing, so exciting. Well, it was really fun to
watch them just be nervous and excited and watch YouTube
play and it's been really fun to watch this team
all season long and the rest of the league. Is
there anything you want to see next season in the PWHL.
Is there a wish that you've seen already year to
year from season one to two that you're like, this
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is the only thing that's missing, or this is something
that could be addedive.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Well, that's a good question, I think, just because it's
on the top of mind right now. I think what
I'm most excited for is to seeing this expansion happen
and knowing that this is going to continue to grow.
Throughout the coming years, this league will continue to grow.
I think it's going to be really exciting, and it's
just overall a really exciting time for women's sports to
see this coming to fruition finally after many years of
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building it. And yeah, it's just great that now the
youth generations have this one league to look up to,
and now it's expand into the West Coast, so it's
going to be going to be really cool.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Any excuse to get to Vancouver for work is good
in my book. Yeah, I love Vancouver so beautiful, and
Seattle's great to well. Thank you so much for the time,
good luck, We're excited to watch.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Yes, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Thanks so much to Maddie for taking the time. We
got to take another break when we return. Were your
accomplishments on your sleeve or your shirt? Welcome back, slics.
We love that you're listening, but we want you to
get in the game every day too, So here's our
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When aliawan Yie, captain for Italian Serie A club FC Como,
retired from soccer earlier this month, the Italian player used
her jersey to make a statement. The thirty seven year
old collaborated with her club and a creative agency to
design a retirement jersey that included all of her professional
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accomplishments formatted like a resume. Yan Ye said she wanted
to make a statement about how professional female footballers have
to find work after retiring from sport, but often don't
have a clear path or opportunities lined up for them.
She told The Athletic quote, after a career on the pitch,
we female footballers are forced to stop and face a void.
We don't have clear pathways into professional life and we
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can't stop working end quote. FC Como posted a video
about Yuani's jersey and the statement she wanted to make.
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