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Correct, you would have absolutely zero chance to beat a team featuring Auston Matthews, Clayton Keller, Charlie McAvoy and Casey Fitzgerald on the ice.

But on the virtual ice, it's possible you've already beaten them.

McAvoy recalled how back in 2015, when those four players were together playing for the gold-medal winning United States men's U18 hockey team, they played quite a bit of NHL16, that year's installment of the mega-popular video game, together.

"We all played. We played 5-man EASHL together," McAvoy recalled fondly. "We were all in Ann Arbor together."

McAvoy was likely referencing their time spent at the USA Hockey training facility in Michigan in their time before all four players were selected in the 2016 NHL Draft. EASHL is used to forms teams and leagues for online play.

Later in the video, host Cam Halbert and McAvoy tried to create one of McAvoy's famous goals, an overtime winner against the San Jose Sharks from 2019, using the latest version of the game, NHL24.

The pair were not able to pull off the feat, however. Maybe McAvoy needs to put a call in to some of his former NHL16 virtual teammates.