DAY 13 DAYTIME HIGHLIGHTS OF NBC WINTER OLYMPICS COVERAGE
“That was one of the best games of the Olympics so far. Sacrifice. Willing to pay the price. What a hockey game.” – NBC’s Jeremy Roenick on USA vs. Switzerland
Team USA Takes Down Switzerland 2-0 to Advance to the Seminfinals in Men’s Hockey
VANCOUVER – February 24, 2010 – Daytime coverage of the Vancouver Olympic Winter Games continued today on NBC with live coverage of the men’s hockey quarterfinal game between Team USA and Switzerland. USA won 2-0 and will advance to the semifinal round, facing the winner of Finland vs. Czech Republic.
Al Michaels hosted the daytime show live from Canada Hockey Place. Joining Michaels for analysis were Mike Milbury and Jeremy Roenick. Mike “Doc” Emrick provided play-by-play, Eddie Olczyk provided game analysis and Pierre McGuire reported from “Inside the Glass.” Below are highlights from the game.
NBC
FIRST PERIOD
OLCZYK ON WHY TEAM USA HAS BEEN SUCCESSFUL: “It’s been the extra effort. The plays without the puck.”
EMRICK ON USA’S CHRIS DRURY AND RYAN CALLAHAN: “Drury and Callahan together have been magic.”
OLCZYK ON SWITERLAND’S THOMAS DERUNS: “Every time Thomas Deruns is on the ice, he’s a heat-seeking missile.”
MILBURY ON USA’S RYAN MILLER: “He makes it look easy.”
ROENICK ON SWITZERLAND’S JONAS HILLER: “The saves that he makes are sometimes acrobatic, sometimes desperation. He finds ways to save the puck.”
OLCZYK ON THIS OLYMPIC TOURNAMENT: “We’ve seen momentum in these Olympic Games. When you have it, you feel it, and you throw everything at the net.”
SECOND PERIOD
OLCZYK ON SWITZERLAND IN THE SECOND PERIOD: “The Swiss are comfortable right now. They know Hiller is on top of his game. They’ve taken the crowd out of it and they’ve taken a little bit of the pace out of it. They’re comfortable in this kind of environment.”
“Penalty killing is about heart and structure. The Swiss have a lot of heart and tremendous structure.”
“You have some guys in white that just play with a whole lot of nasty. They just get in your face and they smack you. They are not intimidated at all.”
MICHAELS ON TEAM USA: “The United States have outshot the Swiss 32-8.”
THIRD PERIOD
OLCZYK ON USA’S ZACH PARISE: “One word to describe Zach Parise. Persistence.”
MCGUIRE ON PARISE: “This guy’s the heart and soul of U.S.A hockey.”
EMRICK ON USA’S RYAN MILLER: “The last shut out by a U.S. goalie was by Mike Richter in ’02.”
OLCZYK ON TEAM SWITERLAND: “It was a gutsy performance by the Swiss.”
ROENICK ON THE GAME: “That was one of the best games of the Olympics so far. Sacrifice. Willing to pay the price. What a hockey game.”
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