The Aussies loved watching the NHL players perform in Team Sweden\u2019s 5-1 win against Team Latvia in the quarterfinals Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou just think of some of their NHL careers,\u201d Lynden said. \u201cFor me, Erik Karlsson. I\u2019m a \u2018D,\u2019 so he\u2019s just so slick out there. \u2026 He just looks unbelievable.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah,\u201d said Punler, a 30-year-old defenseman. \u201cHe was one of their better players last night.”<\/p>\n
The Aussies would love to see the NHL play Down Under again, so kids can see the stars and be inspired to follow in their footsteps.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think in Australia, people don\u2019t realize that, A, there\u2019s hockey there, and B, it\u2019s actually a sport that Australians quite enjoy,\u201d Lynden Lodge said. \u201cIt\u2019s a high-paced, physical game. We have Aussie rules [football], so it\u2019s a bit similar to that, and it\u2019s really an experience.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou go to a rink when normally it\u2019s 40 degrees [Celsius], so people drink beers and then just start yelling. Maybe they don\u2019t know the rules at the start, but by the end of it, they\u2019re pretty locked in.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd so you\u2019ll find that people will come to a game and will keep coming to games and get memberships. It\u2019s really just an awareness thing in the first place, and then once you have people come, it\u2019s probably more likely that they\u2019ll keep coming.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Aussies loved watching the NHL players perform in Team Sweden\u2019s 5-1 win against Team Latvia in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-490985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}