Our Girls Play Hockey: Inside the Olympic Experience with Hayley Scamurra (Part 1)

Hello, hockey families and friends around the world, and welcome back to another

edition of Our Girls Play Hockey. It's Lee Elias with Scaly? Hayley Scamurra here

today. I've been hearing you called scams for months. I've been trying to say it. It

just doesn't roll off the tongue for me as easy as I want it to. But Hayley, again,

welcome back. Good to have you here. We're going to do a little Olympic Q&A for

the audience today. All righty. I'm excited. Let's do it. I'm excited, too. And just to

set up the audience.

You never disappoint. We put these posts out asking for questions. We get

comments on the post. We get emails. We get text messages to our phones. We

get people responding to you. There's just no shortage of people who want to talk

to you. And we love and thank the audience for allowing us or me specifically here

to be the conduit to ask these questions. So we're going to dive right in today. This

is all about the Olympic experience.

First questions from someone named Taylor Heise. Taylor Heisey, that name

sounds familiar, maybe one of your teammates. Maybe. First off, thank you to all of

your teammates that wrote us and asked questions. Taylor wants to know, I love

this one, what was your welcome to the Olympics moment this time around? Oh,

great question. I was thinking about it because I saw the comment on Instagram.

Because my first time around, I always say it was like the opening ceremonies.

uh this time around it was actually a little different i felt it was like the first game

because we actually had fans this time so in 2022 there was no fans so it was like

it was cool but like wasn't quite the same feel like fans i was like oh this is real like

this is like the olympic spirit is in this rink right now like everyone's so excited to

like see this like this is really happening so i think that was it for me for sure

what a change right like just four years makes right not even i mean that's pretty

incredible because the uh the uh the last olympics were when 22 correct and and

wow that's pretty cool to hear all right uh so the fans did it i i should follow this up

with because you told us before like what was your uh gold medal coming to the

moment moment but i remember you said until you saw that around your neck you

didn't feel that so that's pretty cool all right next question comes from aptly titled

pwhl daily

speaking of fans right uh from your point of view how much has having an official

professional league helped raise the level of competition at the olympics is perfect

segue it it's incredible i it's attributed a lot to having the league all the teams have

elevated their play like i think that's what was also so special about our run this

time around it's like this is the highest competition we've ever faced like all the

teams are incredible but that like we were just that much more incredible as a team

And that was what was so exciting about the tournament. And you can really see

like with the Europeans coming over and everything, like how much better the

overall competition is getting. Like it's so much fun. Everyone's more physical.

Everyone's faster. Everyone's more skilled. Like it's huge. And just to have the

PWHL and be able to continue playing after the Olympics is also amazing. Before

people just didn't get to watch us anywhere. So we have a lot of new eyeballs on

us now. So it's really exciting.yeah you know what else is cool Hayley and again i gotta like remind myself you

didn't get to watch these broadcasts of the games because you're too busy

playing in them uh but it was really cool actually not even just watching usa but

any game in any country like well she plays for pwhl boston she plays for seattle

like you know uh she plays for the charge like that that was pretty cool to hear

right it's uh in previous years wasn't like that here's where i went to college

basically yeah was was what it was so

Yeah, I think that's really great. And then the post-Olympic, and for those of you

listening, we are going to continue our Day in the Life series with Hayley. We're

going to talk about how this has impacted women's professional hockey in general

because the impact is being felt. But just keeping it to the Olympics, that's pretty

amazing there. So let's get into some questions about the actual competition.

Redbird 2 Hockey, again, some of these are just the names we're getting on

Instagram. What were the nerves or jitters like before the gold medal game, and

how did you overcome them?

funny enough i actually didn't feel too many nerves not until i got on the ice for the

game like the night before slept great leading up to it like ate normal sometimes i

get so nervous that i can't really eat as much as i normally would i i felt pretty like

confident in our group and uh i think the biggest difference was like getting on the

ice and all the fans that were there and like you could feel that little

jump up in the level of excitement and i was like okay this is the gold medal game

it's it's happening like a little nervous and then the first shift just kind of i focused

on just keeping it simple doing what i do best and the jitters were gone at that

point yeah you know what's interesting hayley maybe you could talk to the

audience about this a little bit too like when you train for something for so long um

i mean you can even put the lifetime tag on that yeah um once you get there right

the feeling is not

this shocked or like you said it's not even nerves it's like i've been waiting for this

moment my whole life right was there a moment of that of like i belong here this is

where i want to be right now yeah i mean i think it was as soon as i stepped on the

ice with all the fans i was like this is like everything we've worked for and

everything we've been preparing for for our whole lives and like also this specific

year with our team and

It's like, we're ready for this. Like, we've got this. I felt very confident in our team,

especially in how we were playing and just in our preparation leading up to it. So

it's probably the most prepared I've felt for a gold medal game. There's not many

of them in a person's lifetime. So that's pretty cool to hear. You know, and I'll say

too, one of the cool things after that, because it was just such a phenomenal game

in general. We went online afterwards and we put a post up about like, what does

this mean to you specifically to the women's gold medal game?

It was like 20,000, 30,000 views pretty quickly and a lot of comments, which was

great. People viewed this as the way it should have been viewed, which is a gold

medal game, period. It doesn't matter if it's women or men. So that was a pretty

cool situation there. So let's talk about the Olympic experience too. So SofiaAlvarez wants to know, and I love this question, what's something fans don't

realize about playing at the Olympic level or about life in the Olympic Village?

I would say being in the Olympic Village, it's like being in college, except it's all the

best athletes in the whole world in one place, which is so crazy. Everywhere you

look, it's like, oh, that's someone who's the best in their field. That's incredible.

You're just surrounded by greatness. And I think that part is really cool and kind of

overlooked a little bit in terms of being in the Olympic Village.

And yeah, there's like a lot of like fun little activities you could do in the village.

Like they had a mindfulness little center. They had this little Corona hut that had

meditation and like a person who would like run you through meditations and

things like that. You can make your own little glass Corona bottle and have it say

whatever you wanted on it. Like Coca-Cola lounge. You can make your own Coke

can with your face on it.

they had like a robot where you could trade pins with it like there's just so many

like fun interactive things uh in the village that can kind of keep you busy and uh

that you get to just have a fun experience doing that you wouldn't be able to do

anywhere else yeah how aware are you there's a question for me now how aware

are you of the media coverage because like we all experience it on our tv right and

it's kind of like it ends you might just change the channel

You know what I'm trying to ask? Is it super obvious that you were all on TV? Well,

not most of the time, but at times, like Snoop walking around, things like that. It

definitely was, especially because the first time around was COVID, so we didn't

really feel the media coverage as off as much.

And it was very like, there were some people there, but it wasn't anything crazy.

And like, you saw it online a little bit, but like this time around, like that was

definitely a different feel. Like we were everywhere, all over social media, all over

TVs. I had people sending me pictures because on Peacock, I was like the picture

for a while with Hillary and Layla. I was like, what is my life right now? Like, this is

crazy. So stuff like that made it feel a little more real too.

Yeah, well, keep starting tournaments with two goals and you'll keep getting ready

like that. All right. Next question is from MacyHockey18. Another great question.

Aside from winning the gold, what was your favorite memory from the Olympics?

There's so many. How do I pick just one? I'm sure she'd love to hear all of them. I

mean.

Just meeting so many incredible people. I mean, I got to meet Snoop Dogg. I met

Jason and Kylie Kelsey. Like, they were incredibly gracious and kind. Like, I think

just having my family there was also just awesome, being able to experience that

with them. Like, when I scored my goal against Sweden, like, I saw my family

behind the bench. I got to, like, wave to them, basically. Like, I could see them,

like, jumping over the barrier, like, wanting to celebrate with me. Like, just things

like that were absolutely incredible and just...

made the Olympic experience that much more special. No, that's a great answer. I

mean, those are indescribable feelings, right? And like the fact that you're gifted

several of them throughout the event is pretty amazing, right? I mean, when wesay life-changing, it's not unfair. All right, next question from Hayley Wynn.

Another one of your teammates.

I'm actually interested in knowing the answer to this one. What was your favorite

piece of clothing you received at the Olympics? Only at the Olympics, not post-

Olympics. We'll get to that at a time. God, there's so much. So I could describe

this process a little bit too. So before you go to the Olympic Village, we go to

something called Processing. And this time it was held at the hotel connected to...

the airport in italy so we literally had this crazy long travel day we get there and

there's all these different stations you go to to try on like the different like uh

official outfits you get so one was nike one was ralph lauren there was an oakley

station for sunglasses there was a hat station new era um skims so like all this

stuff uh so it all got shipped to the village for us so i had literally

three suitcases filled with clothes okay so there's a lot of clothes um however i feel

like my favorite pieces are probably like the fleece jackets we get so there was one

from nike that had the garden of the gods on it it's like a blue fleece with like that

and they had matching fleece sweatpants that's pretty cool so that was really it

was really really warm and then my other favorite was the other fleece but from

ralph lauren

which was, like, this red, white, and blue fleece with, like, the big rings and the flag

on the back. Yeah. Yeah, that's – so I've got to ask these now. So you've got three

suitcases of clothing, right? Yes. Some of this stuff is really loud. Like, is this stuff

you're going to just wear? I mean, like, I'll preface this. You're in Montreal right

now. You're not going to be walking around Montreal going to Victoire games with

USA stuff on, right? I mean, like, is it more key things? Do you plan on wearing

them again? What they're great for is, like, when I do appearances and stuff.

uh in the states most likely yeah um it's great to wear for that kind of stuff uh it is

very loud though it is very like usa you will recognize that i am an olympian it's

pretty obvious with the clothes um but yeah here in montreal i have not worn any

of my olympic gear outside um maybe like if i'm walking the dog or something like

that maybe i'll throw a jacket on once in a while we'll see but uh right now it's just

kind of stored in a closet

in my suitcase yeah no it's good for appearances on like the kelly clarklin's kelly

clarkson show where you happen to be interviewed by world-renowned musical

artists that have won lots of awards that's a good time to be wearing that that was

a fun interview um let me ask you this question too just on that one um how have

i'm sure there's a good answer how have the victoire fans been with you um here's

again for those who don't know you know Hayley plays with with

hulan like team canada's captain uh right with interesting dynamic obviously yeah

but i'm sure they've you've been well received back in montreal now right yeah the

fans have been great they you know they'll congratulate me they're like we're

happy for you but we're you know sad for canada and i'm like i understand like you

can have both feelings it's all good right uh but yeah they've been very uh

congratulatory yeah look i'll say this too and maybe you can join me in this one uh

because we do have a large canadian listenership to to our programmingAnd I'm like, I promised our Canadian fans, it's not about gloating. We're not trying

to gloat, but you do Canadians, you do know how this feels to win. Yeah. All right.

And I, I, I'm saying this with such respect to defeat Canada, to win a gold medal is,

is like the highest way to do it. Right. Yeah.

and i i hope canadians know that like there is yes we're very loud people in

america but like i hope they understand the respect that comes along with that

right this is not just like some win we got yeah right like it had to be them it had to

be you yeah all right so um i hope that came across the right way i said that but uh

um everybody in the studio is rooting for the victoire now just so yeah all right uh

heli win you're a good friend

One of two questions. So she gets two questions. All right. I'll allow it. This one's

kind of reflecting on the Olympics, right? What were post-Olympic celebrations

like? That's how she wrote it. Oh, my gosh. She's so funny. We had so much fun

because, like, what was really nice about our tournament is our game was on the

19th, and we didn't leave until the 23rd. So we had all that time to kind of

celebrate together, which was really nice and not really have to worry about

anything else. We just got to do, like, you know, our media appearances doing on

the Today Show.

we got to go to a club one of the nights and uh that was really fun like as a whole

team we got to go and the we had these two tables set up and we had other

olympians with us figure skaters speed skaters yeah and the coolest part was that

snoop dog came in

He has his whole posse around him. And then he ended up performing like three or

four songs. So we got like a Snoop Dogg concert, which was literally crazy. What

were the songs? Did you drop it like it's hot? Obviously, drop it like it's hot. I mean,

all the classics, like all the ones you know. And French Montana sang as well. So I

was like, what is happening? Like, this is so crazy. So and just getting to celebrate

with my teammates was just like.

the best like we just had everywhere we went we just had so much fun we got to

support our other athletes too who were still competing and uh yeah it was just the

best time you know did you sleep the night you won that's always a good question

to ask you hear about these people not much there was not much sleep in the last

four days i mean like we just wanted to hang out with each other we just wanted to

do everything so we were up till probably three or four in the morning like most

days i i just i remember texting you and doing the time because you you would get

back pretty quickly

I'm like, it's like two o'clock in the morning. What are you texting me for? I do

respond like as often as I can. I respond immediately. You are like that. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. It's similar to how you play the game too. No, it's cool. Here's another

question for me. I got to ask, right? There's no way you're going to be able to

describe the feeling, the high, like it's just not possible. But are you still feeling

that? Has it, not dim, but has it kind of.

Have you come down from it at all? I don't think I have. Literally anytime I get to

talk about it, like I can feel my smile, like the same as I felt it on the ice. Like I getright back to that moment. So like, no, the high has not worn off. Like I still feel

incredible. It's still amazing. Yeah. Well, I hope it lasts for a very long time. Me too.

Because you've earned it. All right. Next question here comes from Nolan Harvey,

who is KK's brother.

You get a lot of support from Team USA players and families. Let's go. Good

question here. What was your favorite piece of motivation from Coach Stoop? For

those of you who don't know, that's Hayley's boyfriend, right? And super

motivator. He's been a guest on the show. I should mention that you both run a

motivation, a mentorship program together. The information is in the bottom of the

show notes. You should check that out.

Kelly and Nick work with youth athletes all the time. But your favorite piece of

motivation from Coach Stoop, LFG, for those you want to follow? There's so much.

I think the biggest piece was, like, he is always so confident. And he was just like,

you've already won it. Now you get to just experience it. And I think that was so

helpful in times where I was, like, maybe doubting myself or maybe doubting the

process or, like, starting to worry, like, what if, what if? And it's like, why are you

doing that? Like, it's already done. Like, you've won it.

now just experience how it happens like so I think that really took like a lot of the

pressure off of the whole situation as a whole and yeah I felt that I kept that

confidence kind of throughout the whole tournament and felt that I was able to

kind of give that to my teammates as well Hayley you did I mean your play was

such poise I mean thank you I think I've told you that before but yeah like I don't

know if you ever get to go back and watch I'm sure you probably don't like love

watching yourself play

But really, there was just this calm poise. I actually talked to you about a practice

recently, talked about you at a practice recently, about poise and how we've

mentioned this on the air, I think, once before, but how we tell these kids to go

100% all the time. It's not about skating 100%. It's about the mind and

understanding your role on the ice at 100%.

And I mean it. You did that to perfection. Thank you. It's something I've been

working on this season. So it's kind of funny. I've been hearing that I have poise a

lot this season. That's not something I normally am told. And I think it's because

I've been very intentional about it this season. It's something that I've been

wanting to work on.

I always go 100%. Like that's never been a problem for me. The only problem has

been like sometimes I'm like quick to cough the puck up or I'm quick to like make a

play because I don't want to mess up. It's like, no, have poise, like relax. You can

like wait a second, then make the play. And sometimes that opens it up more,

obviously. So I do appreciate you saying that because it is something I've been

really focused on this season. I'm sure it was very noticeable to everybody. I mean,

look, we always say the words like read and react.

I mean, you were doing that. I mean, even in the PWHL, there's very few times

you're just not in the right, you know, you're in the right place. It seems like you're

always in the right place to make the right play. So again, a lot could happen inhockey, but that was pretty cool. I'll tell you this too, for those listening, you know,

Nick Hayley's boyfriend, you know, we talk sometimes too.

And yeah, even before you left, it was, oh, this is not happening. This happened. I

got to tell the audience this too. Those of you got to remember in that gold medal

game, it was 1-0 Canada late. Yes. Late in the game. Quite late. And I remember, I

think I swear to you around the three minute mark, I even said, sorry, Canada, I

even said USA is the gold medalists in ice hockey. Yeah.

Yeah. And then, you know, I don't know if the captain heard that, but, you know,

it's just like, you know, it makes you sit back like, wow, there is some magic out

there. All right. Yeah. I don't want to make this whole episode me gushing again.

All right. This one is from Brennan, who's an elementary school hockey player on a

scale of one to ten. How happy were you when you won the gold medal? Just one

to ten. I don't know. Yeah, it was.

Your relation is like the only thing I can think of to describe it. It was just absolutely

incredible. Everything I've ever dreamed it would be. That's awesome. I imagine, I

mean, I don't have to imagine it. It's got to be one of the greatest feelings you will

have anything ever experienced in your life is that moment. And that's never going

to change. I'll say this, Brennan.

you know when i say i love you to my kids my my son actually came up with one of

the greatest uh uh i love you's back to me because you know i said i love you 10 i

love you three whatever he goes i love you to the end of numbers he said that to

me one time so i think that that might be applicable here on a scale of one to ten

how happy route to the end of numbers that's hilarious yeah it was a pretty pretty

uh cool dad moment for me but please take it Hayley for your gold medal all right

next one is uh this is one from william uh

easy one for you but uh well you might have to count this one over your career

how many medals have you won i believe i've been to six world championships and

have gotten a medal for all i think i'm three and three three gold three silver and

then silver medal gold medal so eight and then i mean who knows when i was

younger i'm sure there were some medals in there when i was younger but

I guess as in my USA career, eight medals, I believe. That's pretty good. No bronze

though. You're not a fan of bronze medals. No. Gold and silver are my colors.

That's fine. We don't need to add bronze to that anytime soon. Okay. Next one's

from MacyHockey18. Great question. What Olympic hockey player did you look up

to growing up? I honestly didn't have an Olympic hockey player. I wasn't aware of

it.

I didn't watch it. I didn't see it on my TV. So the closest I had was probably when I

got older was Hillary Knight. I was eventually aware of her once I got like to, I got

maybe like late high school, early college kind of days. And then she was probably

the most like out there.

celebrity if you will for women's hockey but other than that there wasn't really

anyone I could see my idols were always like different sports so I had soccer Abby

Wambach I had Mia Hamm when I was younger Serena Williams people like that

were kind of who I looked up to and I just transferred it to hockey I was like I'll justbe them but for hockey yeah I mean you're one of them now kid yeah

We talked about this before the show. I brought my team of girls to meet you this

year. You're here to all of them now. It must be a weird thing to hear. They talk

about you. They feel like they know you. That seed's been planted. I think that's

just so cool. It's so crazy. I love it. I got to ask you now. We found out that Hillary

Knight was injured the entire tournament. I also found out that you guys knew

about that.

look she was gutsy prior to knowing that i mean can you talk about that for a

minute and then um how did you i mean i'm just gonna guess it was just you know

full steam ahead no matter what with that right yeah i mean it was you know hard

to see her in that position uh knowing hillary though i knew she wasn't gonna take

a second off like i knew she was gonna play through it uh obviously not ideal to

have to play through an injury in your you know last olympics

but if anyone can do it it's Hillary and she handled it so well and I thought she still

played incredible the whole tournament and it was inspiring to kind of watch her

throughout the whole thing I think I found that I got a lot of energy from her

throughout the tournament like there was times where like maybe we weren't as

dialed as we needed to be and she like kind of got the bench going and I could like

feel her energy in her like in her face

and like the way she was speaking um and then like when she got that goal in the

gold medal game like there's pictures of her and you could just see her just

screaming like so excited but you could feel it throughout the whole bench like we

were freaking out too and like uh it her energy went through all of us for sure you

know there i don't know if it's a skill or if it's something that's just given to you at

birth but the ability for for players like her to show up

at the peak moment of need and stress and just to show up. And we talked about

this too, not just make any like little tip. I mean, it was an unbelievably good tip.

We're not talking about it enough. Yeah. Yeah. We're really not. Again, it wasn't, it

was not a lucky tip. No. That will always me. I wish there could be more studies

into how athletes like that show up in moments like that.

And Hayley, again, you do this too in a lot of different ways. But it's like, I mean,

again, and she's dealing with the pressure of last Olympics really have to win. All

right. I mean, and then there's the chatter of like, is she over the hill? You know

what I mean? Short answer, no. No. I'm a medalist now. So I want to talk about

that. All right. A couple more questions here and we'll end this one. We've got a

whole nother Q&A episode with Hayley coming out soon too because you guys

love to ask questions.

I wrote this one down. So the effect of both the women's and men's team winning

gold, we're just starting to feel that. I'm interested if there was a moment at the

Olympics where you started to realize how celebratory the entire nation was.

Because when you're there, you're winning. You're not with your teammates. You

get the crowd. But the country is celebrating with you.

Was there an aha moment of that? Probably when we got back to the States. I

think just seeing how many interview requests we were getting, like people goingon Saturday Night Live, I got to go on the Kelly Clarkson show. And then just

seeing the outpouring of love and support all over social media, all over different

brands posting about us, different celebrities reaching out. We've had so many

sponsors kind of wanting to reach out and gift us things.

There's just so many showings of that. And I think that's when it kind of really hit

like how historical and incredible this moment was for sure. And then honestly,

when we got to celebrate with them after their win, like at the dining hall, I think it

kind of kept hitting home. I'm like, this is so cool. Like we're the first teams to ever

do this for the United States. And here we are just chumming it up at the dining

hall, just chatting around. So it was a lot of fun. Yeah. I hope as time moves on.

i'm talking decades i'm not just talking uh right now what's what's special about

this specific year okay um because women have won gold prior okay don't get me

wrong there's something special about there being a professional women's league

you're winning gold now obviously the men winnings for the first time since 1980

is pretty special that mix of winning

is going, it's already doing it. I mean, the inspiration of a whole new generation of

hockey players, both men and women, boys and girls is happening. I'm seeing it

already in youth hockey. And we talked about what's so amazing, Hayley. And

again, we all play a role in this is the pride that I have as a coach of there's a whole

new generation of hockey players that I get to be.

you know an ambassador for now to help them find the game and enjoy the game

everyone involved in the game is involved it's not just me all right like we're all

ambassadors and you all created that and and again i wasn't around in 1980 to feel

what that was like right um you know this is this is the closest thing and it's

probably 10 times larger than that just because the way the world is now yeah um

but i i actually think that question i just asked you is one we can revisit every year

for a long time um because

The gold medal is obviously amazing, but the echoes this will have on growing the

game of ice hockey, I don't know if we can put a medal on that. It's amazing.

Again, I'm sharing thoughts. No question in there. It's a cool thing to feel like

you're part of that, right? Yeah. And just kind of bring this back to the question.

We were not on the ice winning that game, obviously, but we all feel like we shared

it, right? You know how people say we won?

And people go, you weren't on the ice. Well, you were representing the United

States of America. I'm an American. You know, we won. Yeah. You know, it's a

pretty amazing feeling. So thank you for that. Of course. Well, that's what makes it

so special is that we're sharing it with the country. So I think people are right in

saying that. Like, that's why.

it's such an amazing feat to accomplish because it's like we do know the world is

watching we do know our country was watching and they're so proud of us and

yeah that's the only message i've been receiving uh everywhere i go either online

or in person like i went to the buffalo sabers game and got to do some stuff back

home real quick and i did like the interview the broadcast interview after the first

period and um so many people came over to watchyeah you can't hear anything and they just like this huge group just comes over to

watch and then i get out and i'm like all right picture and you know picture time

right and just so many girls came up to me and told me like how inspiring it was to

them and how much it meant to them to see me there and like i mean tears in their

eyes like i couldn't believe like that level of impact i was having like it's like i know i

was but to like see it right in front of my face like that uh it really hit home and

uh yeah i was getting emotional too and it was just absolutely incredible so it's like

we do love sharing it with the country and it's pretty amazing oh that's beautiful

and and uh by no surprise you win a gold medal and the buffalo sabers happen to

be very good now all because of you so awesome yeah i attributed it all to me

The Skimora family. I should let everybody know, too, because we've been asked

this a lot. Nike did restock the USA hockey jersey, so you can go get one now. And

one of the funnier stories didn't make enough. I was one of the lucky few who got

one. But they're available for those of you who won them. And, yeah, I'm glad you

got to do that in Buffalo in your home and things like that. I'm sure it's the first of –

well, not the first. You can have many of those coming up in the future.

All right. Our last question is from Mira. She is a goaltender. Great question here.

What is your best advice for a girl who wants to reach your level? Because my

dream is to become a PWHL goalie. Oh, I absolutely love that, Mira. I mean, I think

the best piece of advice I always go to is to just keep having fun. Remember, it's

just a game and everyone's journey is their own journey. Like you don't have to.

be the same as some of your counterparts like do whatever works best for you and

uh whatever is meant to be will be and uh if you have the strong work ethic i have

no doubts you'll you'll make it to where you want to get to one day i love it i think

that advice goes for any kid out there who has a dream with anything that's always

going to be the right steady advice that you get so yeah all right that brings us to

the end of our olympic questions uh for those of you listening if you did put

another question down

We are going to ask them in another Q&A episode. So please know that we do ask

pretty much every question that we get. But Hayley, great. Another gold medal

performance by you in the Q&A episode of Epics. I just think it's so cool that

you're willing to share all this stuff with us. You know, it feels like we're there,

right? And I know that I have received...

so many messages from our listeners about you, which is really cool because they

all feel like we all feel like we were there with you. It's really special. So thanks so

much again for the time. Yeah. Thank you for the support and thank you all of our

audience for the support. I appreciate it. I love it. All right. Listen, that's going to

do it for this edition of Our Girls Play Hockey. Remember, Hayley's going to be

staying with us for episodes in the future. So keep coming back. Make sure you

follow her. Make sure you check out her mentorship program as well. All right. It's

excellent.

It's a little different than what I've seen out there, which is another thing that

makes it special. Again, we'll put that information obviously in the show notes here

as well. But for Hayley, I'm Lee Elias. We'll see you on the next Our Girls PlayHockey, everybody. Take care. Have fun. Enjoy your hockey.

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