“It definitely started at 4 Nations, because at that time I’d never played in a playoff game, and it started in those big games that just, the best way I can describe it is I just got addicted to those feelings of getting up and that nervous excitement, that little anxiety you get going into the game of, ‘holy cow, this is a big game,’” Tkachuk explained. “And it kind of translated to that first playoff run, and then into the Olympics, where that Olympic final was the biggest game that I’ve ever played to date, and just not realizing the impact that it would have on our lives.”
