“Johnny and Matty ought to be right here,” he informed reporters after the sport, per Folks, “and that’s nonetheless the largest loss that every one of us at USA hockey, their households, our household, has gone by means of.”
However the 29-year-old discovered a heartwarming silver lining, theorizing that the late Columbus Blue Jackets winger could have had a hand in Group USA’s success on the ice.
“I feel a part of the puck not entering into our web was one way or the other, that he’s standing there doing one thing,” he continued, joking that Johnny and Matthew had one way or the other “put a spell round our web the place that puck didn’t go in.”