#26 — Vanek! with a Jurco

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Re: Game day thread 20 September 2016

[(Anonymous)]

I'm sure they will add more younger players. What I don't think is that different people will be in charge of the team or claim to have changed their philosophy.

Re: Game day thread 20 September 2016

[(Anonymous)]

I don't just mean adding younger players though- the philosophy they have in terms of their development program is far beyond just #grit or whatever, and that makes me think that at least some people that work for them are going to be displeased with the team/personnel chosen for this tourney. USA hockey isn't some kind of truculence monolith, in other words.

Re: Game day thread 20 September 2016

[(Anonymous)]

The ADM emphasizes skill and athleticism, and also not focusing on specializing too early. And the NTDP takes a lot of small, skilled kids - there's someone on the U17s who's 5'3", for example.

Re: Game day thread 20 September 2016

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Finally, a hockey player that isn't taller than me!

Re: Game day thread 20 September 2016

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, I don't think Lombardi/Burke/Holmgren/Poile are a grit and truculence monolith either. I do think they chose players that Tortorella has supposedly worked well with in the past like Dubinsky, but their stated goal with this team was to find good team guys who would do what their coach asked of them. The problem with that is that guys who get that rep, get it because they aren't throwing up huge points — if they were, that's what people would be talking about. I've already seen far too many narratives about how Team USA looked flat, they didn't seem to be trying, etc. instead of the truth: they picked a bunch of slow dudes, and of course, they got outskated.

tl;dr I don't think they left Phil Kessel off because he lacks truculence; I think they left Phil Kessel off because the Toronto media has successfully painted him as locker room cancer.

Re: Game day thread 20 September 2016

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Kind of funny to think that if they kept Poile from Sochi they might have gotten that philosophy change, at least based on how he's built the Preds since then.