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Team USA needs a lot to go right
Team USA needs a lot to go right
Team USA forwards Zach Parise (right) and Joe Pavelski (left) celebrate a goal during the 2014 Sochi Olympics.(Photo: Winslow Townson, USA TODAY Sports)World Cup rosters are stocked with top name players and yet the first order of business for the Americans at their training camp in Columbus is to figure out who they really are."I think establishing an identity will be important," said Jim Johannson, USA Hockey's assistant executive director of hockey operations.
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Team USA is amped: 'It always comes down to Canada'
Team USA is amped: 'It always comes down to Canada'
COLUMBUS, OHIO – The veteran players of Team USA, still feeling the two-year-old sting of Sochi, did not wait for Labo(u)r Day weekend to meet up in-person and start discussing September's World Cup of Hockey like the rest of the tournament's entries.Six days in Columbus isn't much time to bond, so the American core—Zach Parise, Joe Pavelski, David Backes, Ryan Suter, Max Pacioretty, et al.—didn't want to sit around until Monday's official training camp opening to begin gelling for a run at revenge.So in mid-July they gathered for a boys' trip in Wisconsin: a little golf, a little story swapping, a few laughs.
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Team USA out for redemption from Sochi Olympics
Team USA out for redemption from Sochi Olympics
Team USA will feature a number of players from the core group from Sochi, and those players view the World Cup, which begins Sept. 17 at Air Canada Centre in Toronto, as possibly their last opportunity to redeem themselves before a younger group of U.S.-born players takes over whenever the next best-on-best tournament is played.It's a challenge they are embracing.Putting on the USA jersey again at the World Cup of Hockey 2016 will give them a chance to erase it.
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