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Can Team USA Handle The Pressure?
by Paul on 02/22/10 at 09:04 AM ET
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from Craig Custance of The Sporting News,
The young Americans are doing it exactly the way Burke anticipated when he built the team. Everybody knows his role, and everyone is filling it perfectly.
Chris Drury and Ryan Callahan are providing energy and have been strong on the penalty kill. Ryan Malone and David Backes are throwing their big bodies around and being a nuisance to opposing goalies. Martin Brodeur was irritated enough to take a swipe at Backes for what he thought was goalie interference, and the Americans scored on a distracted Brodeur a moment later.
At some point, scorers like Paul Stastny and Parise will start producing as well. They’re too good not to.
But now comes the pressure and we’ve learned how that can change everything in this tournament. The Canadians are still dealing with the mountain of expectations that accompanied them to Vancouver. When Jonas Hiller and Switzerland took on mighty Canada and the United States, they were outstanding. Against Norway? Not so outstanding—perhaps because they were expected to win.
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US will play either Switzerland or Belarus
Then if they win, they will face one of these 3 in the semi’s: Finland, Latvia, or the Czechs.
Leaving them to face one of these teams in the final: Canada, Russia, Sweden, Slovakia, Norway, or Germany
Posted by canesice on 02/22/10 at 09:38 AM ET
haha that really narrows it down cane, but the swiss and the czechs are the only teams that have me really nervous right now…
Posted by pgoody on 02/22/10 at 06:19 PM ET
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what pressure?
From my view it is all gravy from here on out… WIN or LOSE…
The only other win that would put it over the top would be against the russians, which I believe would involve a defeat of Canada by the russians, and be the gold medal game..
looking at opponents in the quarterfinal:
US will play either Switzerland or Belarus
Then if they win, they will face one of these 3 in the semi’s: Finland, Latvia, or the Czechs.
Leaving them to face one of these teams in the final: Canada, Russia, Sweden, Slovakia, Norway, or Germany
Posted by canesice on 02/22/10 at 10:38 AM ET