http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/world-cup-of-hockey/team-usa-one-mission-take-canada/
It's going to be so much fun watching this team crash and burn.
?I wasn?t in the Olympics, but being a fan, being a U.S. guy, it makes us want to go after them and win one of these tournaments,? says Dubinsky, a member of the nastiest, grittiest, Tortorellist bottom six in the tournament.
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Gold goes through Mike Babcock?s bunch. So Team USA?s brain trust, helmed by GM Dean Lombardi, looked past skill guys like Tyler Johnson, Kyle Okposo, Phil Kessel and Kevin Shattenkirk and constructed a roster that will attempt to do so, literally.
Head coach John Tortorella calls Dustin Byfuglien ?a renegade,? Jack Johnson ?a patriot,? and Ryan Kesler ?miserable.? These are compliments of the highest order.
The club distributes a daily agenda to its players at camp. One of them this week included a fun ?quote of the day? from Clint Eastwood: ?I have a very strict gun control policy: If there?s a gun around, I want to be in control of it.?
It's going to be so much fun watching this team crash and burn.