...the Raider's zone.
They have the man advantage, they're applying the pressure.
It's Henderson behind the net, looking for somebody to pass to.
Fires it back to the point.
Wilson with the shot.
Garrett makes the save!
The puck is knocked into the corner.
Henderson there, digging for it.
Gets it back to the point again,
and again it's Weasel Wilson winding up with a shot!
He shoots, he scores!
Weasel Wilson has given the Hawks a six to five lead.
The power play paid off for the Waverly Hawks.
They now have a one-goal lead.
It's Morrison, winning the draw.
Morrison takes the puck to the blue line.
Randor, trailing on the play.
Like most kids growing up in Minnesota,
I could skate before I could walk.
So, when my old coach sent a call for help,
I jumped at the chance to come home and coach his team
through the state championship playoffs.
Let's go, Raiders! Come on!
The Raiders had fought
through a hard season to find themselves
in this best of three final against the Waverly Hawks.
All I had to do was keep 'em on track.
The hockey was the easy part.
The hard part was the team's key player,
number 17, Derek Kirby.
He was the team's biggest asset, and my biggest problem.
And, as usual, right there at home in the penalty box.
Kirby, still in the penalty box,
now only has a few seconds remaining...
Kirby dashing onto the ice,
and skating over to his wing,
indicating he wants to pass.
Kirby has the puck, and then passes off himself.
Kirby, skating to the blue line.
Takes the pass.
Kirby heading for the end goal.
Turn around, wrap around! Wrap it!
Kirby shoots, he scores!
Yeah!
Yeah, that's my boy!
Raiders goal scored by number 17, Derek Kirby.
Back only four weeks after the incident in Finland
that led to his expulsion from Team U.S.A.
He's back!
That's the way to show 'em, Derek!
You talk about players that like to perform under pressure...
All right, we can do this. We can do it!
Leaving the ice for just a moment,
let's meet a familiar face I spotted in the crowd.
One of the top NHL player agents, Bret Thompson.
Bret, is there anybody down there on ice level
who can play in the NHL, has the potential to play?
Well, that kid Kirby seems to know where to put the puck.
He might be just the kind of material the Mustangs are looking for.
He's a good one, that's for sure.
Bret Thompson, thank you for joining us.
I know you're gonna be a busy man over the next couple of days.
Kirby and Henderson on the...
Hey, what do you say?
Hey, watch his back, watch your back!
Action along the boards...
Get off of him!
...to apply the pressure, bucking for that go ahead goal...
Keep your head in the game, Kirby!
...could win it for the team
here in the Minnesota State Championship series.
It's a best-of-three.
The play goes behind the net. The Raiders lose possession.
The Hawks have it! Henderson, with the puck,
passing to Wilson in the slot.
Kirby digs into Wilson and gets...
No!
17-white, tripping.
...and now Henderson retaliates
with a shove to the back of Kirby...
This is serious.
Sit down, all of you! Stay put.
On the bench, on the bench!
...on the bench, as a fight breaks out on the ice.
Pushing and shoving...
Break it up!
Go ahead! That kid's a pistol.
That, he is.
Okay, Kirby, that's it. You're out of here!
Me?! What about him, huh?
You have a lot of trouble finishing a game, don't you, Mr. Olympic?
Key player Derek Kirby
has been ejected from this contest
in an instant replay
of the exact infraction
that got him expelled from Team U.S.A.
...what a blow to the Raiders this will be,
with the score tied and less then 30 seconds to play.
Replacement Coach MacGyver doesn't appear happy.
Raider penalty, number 17,
Kirby, a game misconduct.
The Hawks draw the foul play once again
with the score tied at 6 all.
Kirby makes his way to the dressing room.
As the play continues now,
Henderson gets it back to the point,
across to Wilson, back to Henderson.
Henderson winds up with the shot.
Henderson shoots, he scores!
Go Hawks, go! Go Hawks, go!
All right!
Seven-six, Hawks.
Hawks are number one, Kirby.
Forget it, kid.
These jokers don't know what the game's all about.
Some refs will throw you out of the game,
just for breaking a fingernail.
Yeah, and some will do it
when you try to get away with a dangerous stunt like Derek did.
Mr. Thompson, this is MacGyver.
He's coaching the Raiders for Turk Donner while Turk's laid up.
Bret here is a, uh, he's a player's rep,
in case you didn't know that.
He's trying to set up my boy for the Mustangs.
From the way Derek played tonight...
I'd say he's just the kind of material they're looking for.
Yeah, well Mustang material is not what I'm looking for.
You didn't get away with banging heads for Team U.S.A.,
you're not gonna get away with it playing for the Raiders.
Now, you try something like that again,
I'll can you myself. State finals or not.
Practice, 2:00 sharp. Be there.
Who in the hell does he think he is,
coming in here mouthing off to you like that...
telling you what to do?
Come on, Pop. MacGyver's just thinking of the team.
- Oh, MacGyver, MacGyver... - Don't worry about it.
If I can get the Mustang coaches to fly down for the next game,
and you play the way you did tonight,
well... you can kiss this little hick town goodbye forever.
All right, Bret.
- We lost. - I know.
Where did you get this?
I have my connections.
The doctor said no excitement.
Doctor's been saying that for six weeks.
I just wish she'd let the boys come in and see me.
Will you take it easy? Your health comes first.
No, the championship comes first.
That's why you're here, MacGyver,
and I appreciate it.
Hey, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. We're down to a two-game season.
We got to win both.
Right, and Derek's our only chance.
You're the coach now, you got to do something with him.
How about canning him for starters?
You know, for every goal he scored,
he spent four to six minutes in the penalty box.
What'd you ever see in this kid
to make you think he was Olympic material?
I saw the next Gretzky,
maybe better.
He's got that fire inside him,
that certain something that can make him a champion.
That same something you took to the Olympics in 1960?
Oh, I see a little bit of me in the kid,
but I also see a whole lot of you, MacGyver.
He has what you had when I coached you in high school.
All he needs is someone to clear a path for him,
to show him the way, and you can do that, MacGyver,
I know you can.
This means more to you than just winning a championship, doesn't it?
Oh, folks around here
could use something to stand up and be proud of.
And you can give it to them, MacGyver,
but it starts with Derek Kirby.
You got to turn him around.
Derek's not here.
- I came to talk to you. - Yeah, so talk.
Talk all you want, I don't care.
I want you to keep Thompson
and the Mustangs away from Derek.
You got to be kidding. What for?
So your son can play the right brand of hockey.
I don't want to see the team lose the championship
just so Derek can showboat his way into a contract
with those goons.
You got it figured out pretty good, don't you?
I want to show you something, MacGyver,
about the right brand of hockey.
This trophy here.
He won that when he was 14.
Most Valuable Player.
97 goals, 112 assists.
And guess what?
He won it without you holding his hand,
so what do you think about that, hotshot?
I think an Olympic medal might have looked good in here.
Yeah, I thought about that.
I did, I thought about that...
until they put an Olympic torch
in my son's hands,
and then burnt him with it.
Mr. Kirby, don't you think Derek had just a little to do with that?
Why?
'Cause my boy plays hard-nose hockey?
'Cause my kid plays to win?
No, because he ignores basic rules of hockey.
And he doesn't give a thought about the team or teamwork.
Derek has nothing resembling Olympic spirit.
Don't you tell me about Olympic spirit, MacGyver.
I've seen my boy cry twice in his life.
Once, when his mama died,
and the other time
was when he got off that plane from Finland.
I ain't ever gonna see him hurt that way again.
I'm gonna do everything in my power,
everything I can,
to see he gets something decent in this life.
And it's hockey, man, I mean it's professional hockey.
That's the only way he's going to get it.
Get what?
A big paycheck for being a hit-man on skates?
That's all the Mustangs are looking for.
At least it's a chance for something better than this, right?
Let me tell you something, MacGyver.
You get in the way of that,
- and so help me, I'm... - Don't say it, Mr. Kirby.
Please... don't say it.
Thanks for your time.
Aim low, hard, and on net, and...
Nice shot!
Sure you don't need a soap box to shoot from, Kirby?
You got something to say, then say it, Chester.
Your hot-dogging for the Mustangs cost us the game.
Hey! Can it, you guys!
- Why don't you shut your face? - Make me do it!
- You want to try me now? - Yeah.
Come on, let's do it!
Show me!
Hey, hey, hey, guys.
Hey!
Come on, cool it, would you?
Knock it off.
Oh, man. Come on!
Back off.
Knock it off, both of you!
Now, we win as a team, and we lose as a team.
That's the way it works, you got it?!
All right, set up for the Fish Hook.
We'll run it as a team.
All right, set it up!
Run the boards, Morrison...
That's it!
Now, move it!
Now, bring it out, Malachuk.
Set it!
Pass it, Kirby, pass it!
Watch the interference.
Get it to him!
All right.
That's working together.
Okay... again.
Esposito's got it at center ice.
Into the corner to Sanderson,
to Orr, coming down the slot, he shoots... off the pipe.
It's out front.
Lanny MacDonald shoots, scores!
Oh!
Unbelievable, off the face mask. Great shot.
You got any more quarters?
No, you've totally cleaned me out.
Come on.
You really love hockey, don't you?
Yeah.
I love it a lot.
So what got you turned on to it?
Well, growing up in Minnesota, it's kind of hard not to,
but right there,
that's what did it for me.
It's Turk Donner's gold medal.
Squaw Valley, 1960.
Turk and his team beat the Czechs.
I was eight years old,
and I can still remember him bringing home that medal.
I couldn't wait to get into high school to play for him.
Yeah.
Coach Donner's the reason I made it onto Team U.S.A.
No, your ability to play the game of hockey is what got you on the team.
The question is, how did you get yourself kicked off the team?
Ooh, no secret there.
The whole country saw it.
That steamroller on Team Finland took me into the boards,
and I gave it back to him.
End of story.
That's not what I'm talking about.
I want to know what went on in your head.
Derek, you have got the talent.
You've got the speed, you've got the instinct.
You know that.
You don't have to bang heads to win.
You know what it's like to be chosen from 400
of the best players in the country?
I wish I did.
They only picked 32 of us.
God, my dad was proud.
I got a letter from the governor,
congratulating me as an "Ambassador of Sportsmanship."
Dad borrowed money from the bank
to throw me this big send-off party.
Filled this place to the rafters.
And then I blew my chance at the Olympics
by playing the only hockey I know.
I got to go for that NHL contract, MacGyver.
I can't let my dad down again.
That's great!
Go for the NHL
But Derek, make a team pick you for the right reasons.
Make 'em pick you for your abilities as a hockey player,
not a fighter.
It's all I can do, MacGyver.
Hockey's in my blood.
I understand that.
Just take the blood out of your hockey.
Doesn't it say something to you when the only team
to show any interest in you at all
is a team with a fairly bad reputation?
You can do better than that, Derek.
Derek.
Let's go, buddy.
Got work to do.
I got to go.
Why don't you save your coaching for the ice, MacGyver?
Welcome to Kerrisdale Arena for game two
of the Minnesota State College Championship.
Face off is just minutes away here on KLMA.
620 AM radio, your voice of hockey.
In the exciting, high-scoring, game one of the series,
the Hawks scored in the final seconds
to beat the Raiders seven to six.
That was just after Raiders' star Derek Kirby was ejected
from the game for an intent to injure penalty.
Kirby's a key factor in keeping the Hawks
from walking off with the championship.
The former Team U.S.A. player has racked out the record
180 minutes of penalties this season,
and yet, still leads in goals with 55.
You know, if Kirby had stuck around in game one,
it might have been a different story.
The puck is dropped to get game two in this best of three series underway.
Raiders take possession and pass it through center ice
...and down the right side.
The all important second game,
and Kirby has come to play in this one, you can tell.
He really wants the puck at every opportunity.
Kirby takes it past to the blue line.
Now heads for the end boards.
This could be the fastest wraparound move from Kirby.
And then he scores!
...His lightning speed in game two
to give the Raiders an early one nothing lead!
As I said, Kirby has come to play,
and he used that move where he goes around the net,
and then tucks it in the short side.
Oh, what a beauty that was from Derek Kirby
to give the Raiders a one nothing lead
in this all-important second game of the series.
That's the lift, the psychological lift,
that the Raiders were looking for.
The Raiders' replacement coach, MacGyver,
seems to have really worked wonders with his star center,
or is Kirby trying to earn his ticket to the NHL
by impressing those two Mustang coaches
that are sitting with his dad in the stands.
And now, the Raiders come out of their own zone.
They've got a two on two situation
as they hit the blue line
and shoot the puck in.
Kirby has the puck.
He drives toward the end boards, stops, turns around,
comes back to the point.
Now he's picking up speed, striving towards the net.
Kirby taking a vicious whack from Wilson. Kirby...
Call it, Ref!
14, Hawks -- cross check and let's go.
...taking a dive on the play.
What's interesting here is that Kirby...
Don't just lie there -- get after him, son!
This is most unlike Kirby.
Maybe he's hurt, maybe he's really shaken up.
No!
Kirby is back on his skates.
The clock is stopped with two minutes
and eight seconds remaining in the second period.
The score -- still Raiders, three, Hawks, one.
Two of those Raiders goals coming from Derek Kirby,
who surprisingly enough, has yet
to receive a single penalty in this game.
Way to go, MacGyver!
14, Hawks -- two minutes.
Cross checking.
Hawk's penalty -- number 14,
Wilson, cross-checking, two minutes.
Kirby is happy.
Raiders have the man advantage.
And this is a key face-off just inside the Hawk's blue line.
Kirby and the Raiders are set.
They lose the face-off, the Hawks get possession.
They play it behind their own net.
...Up the center right right to the stick of Kirby.
Kirby at his own blue line.
He wheels, passes to himself.
What a great move by Derek Kirby!
A bit of a showboating move, but it certainly worked,
as Kirby passes to Malachuk.
Maluchuk... but something's happened.
He's got a man over behind the net.
Malachuk plays him around the boards.
The Raiders still have possession.
Back to Kirby at the point.
Kirby, wheeling and dealing just inside the blue line.
Set it up.
Looking for somebody to pass to.
The Raiders have them at advantage. They're on...
Let's go, boy!
They lead by a three to one score.
Kirby still looking for somebody to pass to...
Watch him now -- he's gonna make his move.
...But he's not passing.
He's hanging onto the puck.
Kirby is looking into the stands at the players and at the scouts.
Kirby, what are you doing?
I can't believe it.
He's showboating for the fans and the pros.
He fakes the shot, moves in towards the net.
He's got an open lane, but again, he won't shoot,
and he won't pass. He's...
Stop the hotdogging!
Deep move by Kirby to get by the defense man.
And he still won't pass the puck.
He's got players open all over the ice.
Henderson moves in.
Oh. He gets the puck away from Kirby.
It's a two on one break...
It's Baxter and Henderson.
Henderson took the puck, plays it to Baxter.
Baxter shoots! He scores!
Oh, boy!
A bad move on the part of Kirby.
He held onto the puck far too long,
and it cost the Raiders.
Henderson poke-checked it free.
Damn it, no!
He and Baxter went in on a two...
Turk, I told you, no hockey.
No excitement.
Now wait a minute, doc.
Are you telling me that I'm getting out of here in a week,
and I can't even listen to a game on the radio?
'Cause if that's what you're telling me,
you may as well pull the plug right now.
'Cause the first thing I'm gonna do
when I get out of here is find a hockey game,
and I don't care if it's peewees on a pond!
You are a real big pain, you know that?
'Course I know that.
What's the score?
We're up by one.
Pull up a bed, doc, and sit down.
How's Kirby doing?
Well, he'd be in the dressing room about now,
and if I were MacGyver, I'd be saying to him,
"Why didn't you follow the play, Kirby?
Johnson was wide open!"
Why didn't you follow the play, Kirby?
Johnson was wide open.
I lost it, all right?
No, it's not all right.
They scored because you didn't follow through on the play.
The play we set up as a team.
Now you want to play for the Mustangs, that's fine with me,
but you wait until you're on their team!
You got it?
I got it. I'm sorry.
Okay, two minutes, Raiders.
All right, we've got 20 minutes left to do it.
Let's go!
Now, ladies and gentlemen,
for the third period, your Raiders!
You can go, Raiders, you can go.
You can go, Raiders...
What do you call that out there, boy?
Just let me play.
Well, you'd better start playing,
and I mean I want to see some hard and fast action.
I didn't haul those Mustang coaches down here
to watch you try out for the Ice Capades.
Look, we can't win with me in the penalty box.
Who cares if you win?
You're making a fool out of me and your old man.
Now I want to see some of the hard-nose hockey
that's gonna prove you're Mustang material.
You got 20 minutes to go out there
and bash some heads.
Hey, let's go.
Get on the ice.
You're off limits, Thompson.
The third period about to get underway
here at the Kerrisdale Arena.
The Raiders continue to lead the Hawks
by a score of three to two,
but in the best of three championship series,
they trail one game to nothing...
The Raiders with the draw.
They get it back to Malachuk.
Malachuk, across to Johnson, Johnson ahead to Kirby.
Kirby spots Randar on the right side...
Randar with a break!
He shoots!
It's wide on the mark.
Kirby goes up to the boards to retrieve the puck
and is hit heavily by Henderson.
There's no love lost between these two players.
But once again, Kirby refuses to retaliate.
He backs away.
That's unusual for the feisty Kirby.
- Bust him one, son! - Most times, he'd sooner fight.
- Let him have it! - He seems a little confused.
Unsure of himself.
Kirby moving in to the hot zone.
He's tripped Henderson.
Kirby, no!
A tripping penalty if ever there was one.
Kirby against Henderson.
Henderson moves in to shove Kirby.
Now the gloves are off, the helmets are down on the ice,
these two are going at it...
All right...
On the bench. Stay on the bench!
Henderson and Kirby going at it.
Henderson is taking a couple of sharp lefts from Kirby, and now...
Come on, Derek...
...against Henderson. He's had enough...
Enough.
Kirby shoves Henderson.
Better call the paramedics.
He's still in a coma.
Have his parents been notified?
His mother's arriving in the morning.
Will he be all right?
The blow to the head caused a skull fracture,
and there's some hemorrhaging around the brain.
Depending on how long it takes him to come around,
well, he could be disabled.
Disabled?
Oh...
I'm gonna check in on Turk, let him know what's happening.
You all right?
Uh, yeah.
I'm sorry, Eddie.
Nobody was supposed to get hurt.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey! Stop!
What are you doing? Take it easy out there.
Hey, son, you...
you can't let what happened to Eddie get to you.
I mean, that, that was an accident.
His head is mush!
They can't just bang out the dents
and give him a new paint job.
He's as good as dead, and it's my fault.
Come on now; hey, come on.
Did you tell Eddie to, uh, pick a fight?
Did you tell him that?
Did you tell Eddie to take off his helmet?
No.
No, well, then, don't eat yourself up over it.
Ah... I know you're hurting, son.
I mean, I can see that.
But punishing yourself isn't going to,
isn't going to change anything,
right?
He's tough --
like me.
Hey, Walt, Derek.
Hey, Bret!
Well, break out the champagne.
You are in.
Congratulations, kid.
Welcome to the Mustangs and the big leagues.
The coaches went for him?
Are you kidding? They ate him up!
Way to go, kid. I knew you'd come through.
So, when does he start, Bret?
Your first game is in Philly tomorrow.
The owners can't wait to see you take a notch out of the Fliers.
Look here... what do you think, huh? Huh?
Whoa! Tomorrow?
Well, you guys move fast, I got to tell you. Whoo!
What about the Raiders and the state finals?
What, do you want to go on the ice and risk an injury?
Blow a six-figure deal over a lousy state trophy?
Come on, it's only one more game.
Look, kid, I had to nail them to their seats
after the second period to get them to stay.
If you hadn't come through with the goods in the third,
you'd be history; now, don't push it.
Wait a minute.
Are you saying that if I hadn't have put Eddie in the hospital,
the Mustangs wouldn't have anything to do with me?
You're starting to sound like that MacGyver.
It's my question; answer me.
What is this?
I bust my butt to get you on an NHL team.
Now you want to play 20 questions?
Either you're in or you're out.
Look, don't worry about it, Bret; you got yourself a deal, man.
The hell he does!
I don't want your blood money. Get out of here.
Have it your way, kid.
Hey, come on, Bret.
No, no, no, I've wasted enough time here already.
The name can come off this jersey
just as easy as it went on, you know.
Come on, give us another chance.
Are you nuts?!
Do you realize what you just did?!
Something I should have done when I got back from Finland.
What the hell are you talking about, Derek?!
- I'm quitting. - Oh, Derek...!
The Mustangs, the Raiders -- the whole works.
Come on!
I can't do this anymore.
You can't just up and throw it all away, son.
I mean, you wanted this your whole life.
No! You wanted it!
Me? I wanted it?
I had you in a half nelson since you were eight years old?
You didn't want any of this stuff?
You didn't want the medals, the championships,
all these beautiful trophies?
You didn't want any of this stuff, is that it?
No!
What kind of trophy do I get if Eddie dies?
I'm finished.
No more.
I'm finished, too!
You hear me?
Finished with all of it!
You're late.
I know. Sorry.
Listen, Kirby's in the dressing room.
He says he's quitting.
Take over.
Okay, let's go.
So, when the going gets tough,
the tough quit, is that it, Derek?
I've had it, MacGyver.
I don't know who to play the game for anymore.
If I play the way you and Turk want me to,
my dad's all over me
and I lose a contract with the Mustangs.
If I play the way they want me to,
I practically kill Eddie.
I'm finished.
It just isn't fun anymore.
So, what happens now?
I don't know.
Finish college.
Get a job someplace, I guess.
And wonder for the rest of your life
whether you could have made it or not?
What do you suppose Eddie's wondering about these days?
Quitting is not going to change what happened to Eddie.
And maybe if you got out there and showed people
the way the game is supposed to be played,
that kind of thing wouldn't happen.
Look, MacGyver, you don't have a clue how I feel.
I know how you're going to feel
about ten or 15 years down the line.
What is this, another pep talk?
Trust me, it's no pep talk.
When I got out of high school,
I could taste the Olympics, and a pro career in hockey.
And then I managed to get myself busted up.
How?
Playing hard, playing stupid.
The point is, my injuries were bad enough
that I convinced myself that it just wasn't worth it.
And I quit.
And now every time I lace up my skates and go out on that ice,
I got to wonder whether I could have made it or not.
And you know something, Derek?
I'll never find out.
You don't get many second chances, Derek.
Don't make the same mistake I did.
Because if you quit, that's it.
You'll always wonder.
Let's go, set it up. All right.
Go!
Right to me, George.
Coming to you, Derek.
That's it! Next three.
Move!
Come on, let's go!
Stay on him, stay on him.
Eddie, next three.
- Pass to the wing! To the wing! - I got him, I got him!
Whew! It's going around.
Right to me.
Look...
I've been pretty mixed up lately.
I was trying to please everybody, and...
I forgot what was best for the team.
I let you guys down.
I'm sorry.
I won't blame you if you don't want me back...
but we got a pretty good shot at winning
that state championship tomorrow night.
I just hope you'll let me be a part of it.
Is this you talking, Derek,
or are you just trying to set up another dog and pony show for your dad?
He's, uh...
he's out of the picture.
For good.
All right!
Let's run it again.
Next three up.
Here we go!
All right. All right. Let's do it.
That old compressor again, huh?
Why don't you let me give you a hand there.
I think I've had enough help from you, MacGyver.
Now, there's your problem.
The spring.
Oh, that's terrific.
I'll order a new one, it'll only take a month to get here.
Oh, maybe not.
You know, when something's broken,
the easiest thing to do is just throw it away
or forget about it.
But if you just... step back,
take a look at what you got,
sometimes you find a totally different way of making it work.
Try that.
Seems like you got a knack for fixing things, MacGyver.
Well, there is one thing I'd really like to be able to fix, Mr. Kirby --
the split between you and your son.
Yeah, well, he didn't come home last night.
That doesn't surprise me.
He's not quitting.
He's going to play tonight.
Tonight?
All right.
Well, let me tell you about the last 12 years, Mr. MacGyver.
The long drives on icy roads to games and practices.
Watching your eight-year-old take a frozen puck to the face.
And holding his hand while they sewed up his chin.
And the, the hockey clinics every summer.
Every summer, 1500 bucks a throw.
You think I went through that whole thing
just to see that kid rot in a stinking little town here?
That boy has a gift.
God-given talent, MacGyver.
And it could earn him a good living.
And he's throwing it away.
I mean, you're worried about one game.
I'm worried about the rest of my son's life.
The rest of your son's life...
starts with tonight's game.
Yes, Mr. Kirby,
Derek has talent. He's got a lot of talent.
But right now, he needs a father.
There always seems to be a way to fix things.
All right, listen up.
Uh...
I consider myself pretty lucky
to have worked out with you guys for these last few weeks.
You've made me feel like part of the team,
I appreciate that. It's been an honor.
But right now, I think it's important that we remember
who got you here in the first place.
Turk Donner.
When I played for Turk back in high school...
he used to read this at the top of every season.
It's the Olympic oath.
I think he'd appreciate it if I read it now.
"In the name of all competitors,
I promise that we will take part in these games,
respecting..."
"...Respecting and abiding by the rules that govern them
in the true spirit of sportsmanship,
for the glory of the sport
and the honor of the team."
Let's play some hockey.
Please welcome your Raiders!
MacGyver!
Are they ready or what?
Turk, what are you doing out of the hospital?
I told 'em I'd crawl here on my hands and knees
if they didn't spring me loose for the game.
You ready for this?
Don't worry.
Somebody's always got battery cables
in case I need a jump-start.
Hey, I've got good news about the Henderson boy.
Doctor says he's out of a coma.
He's gonna be just fine.
Oh, that's great.
That's terrific.
MacGyver, this is Tony Ellis,
director of player personnel for Team USA.
MacGyver.
Ah, the coach has told me a lot about you.
Same here. I guess we've both had our moments with Derek Kirby.
I, uh, lobbied him a little.
He agreed to give Derek a second look.
If I like what I see, I'll recommend
the coaches give him another shot.
Gentlemen, you care to join me?
We've got a championship game to play.
We're into the final minute
of the third period
here in the third and deciding game
of the college championship series at the Kerrisdale Arena,
and a huge goal by Weasel Wilson
for the Hawks has given them a four-three lead.
Their fans can sense victory,
as Kirby is taken in along the boards hard.
Kirby has undergone a lot of rough treatment from
these Hawk players, especially in the third period.
They realize his importance to this Raider team.
The Raiders try to gain control.
Less than 20 seconds to play.
It could be the last chance for the Raiders.
The Hawks would appear to have a lock on this one.
Brandar bringing it down the right side.
Brandar at the blue line, and now the Hawk fans begin to chant.
Only five seconds to play.
Kirby, moving in.
He passes into the slot.
Five seconds, and Johnson ties the score!
Chester Johnson has sent this game into overtime.
Raider goal scored by number five,
Chester Johnson.
In the last five seconds, Kirby passing to Chester Johnson
and Johnson, with deadly accuracy,
picking his spot.
We are going into overtime for only the third time
in the history of this championship series.
The face-off at center ice.
The Raiders win the face-off and move into the Hawk zone.
Maybe they can end it quickly.
No, the Hawks break it up and come back.
The Hawks moving into the Raider zone now.
A chance for them to wrap it up in overtime.
Kirby steals the puck and slams into the board
behind the Hawks' bench.
Kirby, thrown to the ice.
Get up! Get up!
Come on, get up!
It's tied at four.
We're in overtime.
Kirby is back on his skates.
He appears a little shaken on the play.
Kirby taking a pass from Morrison
as he crosses the blue line.
The pass goes to Malachuk.
Malachuk fires it around the board
as the Raiders have it behind the net,
they're trying to win this game in overtime.
Kirby calling for it.
Kirby has the puck.
Kirby, back out to the blue line.
The defenseman comes on to try and block the shot.
Kirby fakes the shot.
The defenseman goes around. Kirby moving in.
He's holding on, holding onto the puck.
Is he holding on too long?
Kirby makes the pass.
Johnson is moving into the slot.
Johnson has the puck, lots of time to tee it up.
Johnson with the shot.
He scores!
Yes!
Raider goal
scored by number five, Chester Johnson.
...Derek Kirby, a great team effort!
Way to go, coach.
Excuse me, gentlemen.
I have an important call to make.
To Team USA.