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Flamenspiel · 09-21-2016, 10:43 AM

I would not dig that deep into it and NK touched on it last night. The US was probably missing 2-4 of their top players on the NA under 23 team. That would not have been enough to win but would have made them more competitive. Canada has enough depth to overcome that but other teams do not.

The second thing is Tortarella was a bad choice as coach, perhaps they saw that the team did not have enough elite players and needed a tough guy coach like Torts.

09-21-2016, 10:43 AM	#22
Flamenspiel Lifetime Suspension Join Date: Mar 2011 Exp:	I would not dig that deep into it and NK touched on it last night. The US was probably missing 2-4 of their top players on the NA under 23 team. That would not have been enough to win but would have made them more competitive. Canada has enough depth to overcome that but other teams do not. The second thing is Tortarella was a bad choice as coach, perhaps they saw that the team did not have enough elite players and needed a tough guy coach like Torts.