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Ben Armstrong

Ben Armstrong

Sep 6, 2026

33:04
Anything could have happened, but... coming down to the final seconds at what point to you was it literally at the buzzer where you you know felt the excitement and elation of winning was it you know 10 seconds before what went through your mind at those final like let's say the last 30 seconds of the game and then talk us through the emotions of being on the ice to see that very immediate sense of um celebration and elation
33:32
Yeah, so the bench was already full.
33:36
I had no role to play on the bench, so I was standing behind in the tunnels and sort of just beside that bench in that lower tiered area.
33:45
And you're absolutely right.
33:46
I mean, Canberra are a finals team.
33:48
They have played finals many a time.
33:50
And you give them an inch, they will take a mile.

7 MINS LATER

40:52
What's the game day operations manager doing during all of that time?
Samantha FieldsCORRESPONDENT
1:48
That's true of other high-tech products, too, says Ben Armstrong at MIT's Industrial Performance Center.
1:54
Things like magnets, which are really critical for batteries and other core electronic technologies, we've really lost the capacity to build in the U.S
Samantha FieldsCORRESPONDENT
2:13
To recruit and train thousands of workers in new kinds of manufacturing...
2:17
What they often do is they bring people who are experts from where they're based, often in Asia, and they come to the U.S. to train this new workforce and get them up to speed.
2:27
This is a years-long process.

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