Anyone seeing a country other than the U.S. or Canada seriously chasing Olympic gold?
I've liked Finland at times, but I've been deeply disappointed in Sweden to date, and those two, I'd thought, had the best chance to expand the field of suitors. That could change, obviously, but it now looks like it'll have to come via goaltending theft.
As it is, as stacked as the Americans and Canadians obviously are up front -- Sidney Crosby, Connor McDavid and Nathan MacKinnon on PP1, for God's sake! -- the greatest separator between those two and the rest seems to have been the mobile defensemen they boast, three pairs deep. Once possession's gained, play's flying the other way in a split-second. And no one's been better in this regard than both Zach Werenski and Jaccob Slavin, with a bonus nod to an oncoming Quinn Hughes.
Oh, and can we take up a GoFundMe to help Werenski escape Columbus? To anywhere?
THE ASYLUM
From this morning's Grind:
Anyone seeing a country other than the U.S. or Canada seriously chasing Olympic gold?
I've liked Finland at times, but I've been deeply disappointed in Sweden to date, and those two, I'd thought, had the best chance to expand the field of suitors. That could change, obviously, but it now looks like it'll have to come via goaltending theft.
As it is, as stacked as the Americans and Canadians obviously are up front -- Sidney Crosby, Connor McDavid and Nathan MacKinnon on PP1, for God's sake! -- the greatest separator between those two and the rest seems to have been the mobile defensemen they boast, three pairs deep. Once possession's gained, play's flying the other way in a split-second. And no one's been better in this regard than both Zach Werenski and Jaccob Slavin, with a bonus nod to an oncoming Quinn Hughes.
Oh, and can we take up a GoFundMe to help Werenski escape Columbus? To anywhere?
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