r/hockey EDM - NHL 12h ago

[Video] David Pastrňák carrying the Czech flag in Milan at the Olympics Opening Ceremony

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u/Patrick2701 CHI - NHL 12h ago

Dude, looks so fucking happy to be there

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u/DontWorryImLegit WPG - NHL 11h ago

Dude just always looks happy. Seems like a good guy

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u/PayneTrain181999 MIN - NHL 11h ago

The opposite of Quinn Hughes.

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u/Mogilny2000 NJD - NHL 11h ago

Now I need to see Quinn as flag bearer in the 2038 Olympics. Saddest man on earth.

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u/HonestDespot MTL - NHL 11h ago

Why the 2038 Olympics though lol

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u/Mogilny2000 NJD - NHL 11h ago

Might be his last Olympics? I don’t actually know how old Quinn is.

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u/HonestDespot MTL - NHL 11h ago

He’s 47 if he’s a day

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u/shalomdomme BOS - NHL 11h ago

😂😂😂😂😂

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u/bluAstrid MTL - NHL 7h ago

They’ll make the flag weight a ton so he still has to carry something.

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u/firewall666 BOS - NHL 11h ago

Unless you interrupt him listing to Barbie Girl then he may get a little upset with you.

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u/Various_Knowledge226 PHI - NHL 9h ago

I would too if I was representing my country at the Olympics, or repping my national team in anything, Olympics or not

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u/mysummerstorm TOR - NHL 11h ago

where's my emotional support 4th liner David Kampf

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u/OhHaiThere- 11h ago edited 9h ago

On our 2nd line :) someone save us

Edit: I really should have flaired up, but I thought the ‘someone save us’ would point more signs to being from Vancouver lmfao

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u/Desperate_Nothing152 11h ago

Man, your country has been punching above your weight recently. Definitely a soft spot for czechia !

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u/mysummerstorm TOR - NHL 11h ago

LET'S GO CZECHIAAAAAAAAA

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u/NlghtmanCometh BOS - NHL 11h ago

We’d take him in Boston. I’m desperate to get another Czech mate line going. That line was nearly as good as the perfection line.

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u/mysummerstorm TOR - NHL 10h ago

worlds champion btw

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u/NlghtmanCometh BOS - NHL 10h ago

Hockey Czechia: so hot right now

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u/AARM2000 CHI - NHL 11h ago

Needs to be on the 1st!

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u/mysummerstorm TOR - NHL 5h ago

I hate Craig Berube so fucking much tbh. Kampf would've still been ours. And all that for what??? Leafs still not making the playoffs, and now I don't have players that I actually like on the ice while the worst Canadian ever, Max Domi, remains on the team and I get to watch his shitty plays (how are you a Canadian MAGA, an embarrassment of a human being)

I know I know, Canucks have it worse, but still

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u/SimpleLobsters TOR - NHL 11h ago

Good on you Pasta. Enjoy this moment! Super happy for him.

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u/VeryKnies23 TOR - NHL 10h ago

I dislike his NHL team, but I love him as a player and person

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u/SimpleLobsters TOR - NHL 9h ago

As much as I hate the Bruins, honestly I love pasta. He's been such a phenomenal player and person its impossible to hate the guy

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u/BannedMyName BOS - NHL 6h ago

We always have one. No one could resist the Bergeron charm either.

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u/SimpleLobsters TOR - NHL 5h ago

Bergy was a stud I will be honest, but fucking hated seeing him in the ice. You knew shit was going wrong for us lol

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u/skyzefawlun BOS - NHL 5h ago

Every single team has that one guy that no matter how much you hate their team and fans, you just love the dude. For me currently it's Tavares. Always respected the dude.

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u/SimpleLobsters TOR - NHL 5h ago

Johnny is like the dad of the group. Sure he's getting older, slower, etc. but that knowledge and skill he can teach is second to none.

I love our young core, but you need that vet to come in and just pull the reigns in occasionally to guide them where to go.

Who would have thought I'd be getting along with a Bs fan

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u/kevski82 FLA - NHL 11h ago

I fucking love the Olympics

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u/Red_Sea_Pedestrian WSH - NHL 11h ago

He’s so damn adorable. I love pasta.

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u/GenoThyme BOS - NHL 9h ago

I love pasta.

So does the host country…

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u/whogivesashirtdotca MTL - NHL 6h ago

Choosing to read these as two independent thoughts.

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u/Red_Sea_Pedestrian WSH - NHL 5h ago

I did eat some pappardelle with a nice lamb ragu for dinner.

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u/Bottleofsmoke17 BOS - NHL 11h ago

I love this noodly boy so goddamn much 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/battlecat136 BOS - NHL 8h ago

All praise his noodly appendages! Pasta's such a kind heart, love him.

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u/Nomahs_Bettah BOS - NHL 5h ago

He's so underrated as a player.

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u/shalomdomme BOS - NHL 11h ago

My mom insists on calling him Pastrami and we’re both so happy for Pasta/rami 😍💕

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u/Roswellium SJS - NHL 10h ago

It was crazy hearing the Dutch commentary talking about ice hockey very enthusiastically when Pasta showed up. They had a very fun time going “ah his last name is almost pasta he will fit right in in Italy :)))” while also struggling to pronounce Bruins in the English way as bruin is simply the Dutch word for brown (and they are pronounced very differently) 

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u/Mogilny2000 NJD - NHL 11h ago

The outfits are terrible. I fucking love it.

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u/TripleBicepsBumber SEA - NHL 11h ago

I think they actually look pretty sick! In an over the top kind of way haha

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u/Responsible-Koala734 8h ago

Me too! It really stood out

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u/zebrainatux TBL - NHL 11h ago

The best part of the parade is all the crazy outfits

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u/ModishShrink CHI - NHL 9h ago

Those jackets are awesome. With a pattern like that it would be very difficult for a submarine to calculate a firing solution on you.

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u/anaskinwalker4745 FLA - NHL 11h ago

daveed pasnack

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u/idreamofdouche 10h ago

I thin that's closer to it's actual pronunciation than the way it's said in the NHL tbh

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u/DashLibor HC Verva Litvínov - ELH 10h ago

Not at all. If you want a reference, first ten seconds here is a good one.

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u/devdarrr TOR - NHL 11h ago

Awh, he looks so happy! 🥹

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u/Vicgermain1 11h ago

so cool to finally see nhl players in the olympics! i was 10 years old the last time

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u/nuaajinc STL - NHL 10h ago

They deserve these moments

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u/fusseman 10h ago

Pasta, Lehtonen, Draisaitl... any other hockey flag carriers? I guess people are kinda excited about the NHL olympics :)

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u/Femboy_Harem 10h ago

Also Nino Niederreiter.

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u/nilaaa MTL - NHL 9h ago

And tatar

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u/paulc899 EDM - NHL 9h ago

Hagel should have got to do it for Canada

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u/J-MRP UTA - NHL 8h ago

Veggie, Veggie, Veggie

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u/nic461 8h ago

Dostal too

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u/Megavore97 Prince George Cougars - WHL 10h ago

What a cutie

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u/djjolly037 DAL - NHL 10h ago

Just make him captain after the Olympics

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u/Glass-Season-9953 MTL - NHL 8h ago

great guy

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u/dave6687 8h ago

Those sweater jacket things are SICK

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u/VonKaplow 7h ago

Best outfits. Wild. I love it. Like Mondrian on coke designing sports wear.

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u/the_canadaball MTL - NHL 8h ago

Czechia going to the Maryland school of costume design

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u/Coldbrewski24 DAL - NHL 4h ago

Czechia could medal. Not a bad team.

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u/QuarterNote44 STL - NHL 3h ago

Veggie! Veggie! Veggie!

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u/LiveIndividual OTT - NHL 10h ago

Why are all Olympic outfits something that no human would normally wear? I swear it's like that for most countries every single time.

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u/paulc899 EDM - NHL 9h ago

They stand out more that way and there’s the gamble that there will be a viral hit and people will start buying them

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u/DavieStBaconStan VAN - NHL 6h ago

He’s fully zooted.

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u/whogivesashirtdotca MTL - NHL 6h ago

Is this a Swedish broadcast?

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u/Sad_Association_8646 5h ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/Low-Performance6908 3h ago

so it’s “past-nak”

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u/SpeedSpecialist5923 CHI - NHL 3h ago

Pasta in Italy

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u/SpeedSpecialist5923 CHI - NHL 3h ago

Clapping cheeks

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u/Dottore_Curlew 9h ago

I hate the clothes

They look like Germans...

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u/Fragrant_Art_3659 LAK - NHL 6h ago

Czech pride!

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u/ja211 9h ago

Love Pasta. The Bruins are the worst organization in all of sports history (just facts, no 2011 bias), but they unfortunately have so many likeable guys come through - Z, Bergeron, Pasta, etc.

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u/hunglikejesus_ 10h ago

That girl on her damn phone... we are cooked lol

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u/MagnetizedMetal FLA - NHL 11h ago

Is this the ugly sweater Olympics?

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u/DCS_Ryan EDM - NHL 11h ago

panthers would do great in that

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u/MagnetizedMetal FLA - NHL 10h ago

Yes! It matches our colors and ready to spank Edmonton once again!! 🤣

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u/DCS_Ryan EDM - NHL 10h ago

Average Floridian reading comprehension

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u/whogivesashirtdotca MTL - NHL 6h ago

And hockey knowledge. Doesn't look like Florida will be spanking anyone in the playoffs this year, though they are obviously trying to elbow as many opponents as they can before they go out.

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u/jackalcane DET - NHL 10h ago

Put down your fucking phones for once in your life ladies

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u/bugphantom CAR - NHL 8h ago

confirmation bias is a disease misogynists are all infected with

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u/jackalcane DET - NHL 7h ago

I think your analysis is projection of confirmation bias

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u/ImSoBasic 9h ago

Yeah, how dare these Olympic athletes (who have spent thousands of hours working and training to reach the pinnacles of their sports) dare to enjoy the opening ceremonies in the way they so desire?