Haha Torts gets named the Team USA head coach for the world cup of hockey next year? Yikes. I figured they'd give it to someone like Bylsma or Laviolette, who actually currently have head coaching jobs in the league.
I have to agree with Gulitti though. This tournament is a sham and not really a world cup. I'm not against it or anything like he is, and I'm definitely gonna watch it. I'll take hockey in early September any day.
But it is a joke that players under 23 can't play for their country, they have to play on some stupid young stars team. So players like Ekblad, Forsberg, MacKinnon, Strome, Barkov, Eichel, McDavid, and even some other players I'm forgetting cause they seem older than that. Quite a few actually.
Would Larsson even be eligible for Team Sweden? Is it ages 23 and under on the young stars team? Or ages 18-22? If it's ages 18-23, Larsson wouldn't even be eligible for Sweden, as he turns 24 in November 2016.
The only good thing that can come of that is maybe it gives a guy like Andy Greene some recognition and a spot on Team USA, that he otherwise wouldn't have gotten with players ages 18-23 playing on the team. I'm sure the bozo's are still infatuated with and have their hard on's still for guys like Orpik (YUCK!) Paul Martin and maybe even Jack Johnson still. Justin Faulk was one of the younger guys on the Olympics last time, he'll be 24 next year when the tournament happens, so he'll likely make it over Greene unless he bombs this season.
Sadly our very own Ray Shero is probably one of these Team USA guys that loves Orpik and Martin and pushed for them to be on the Olympic team in 2014. I even remember people everywhere arguing that they only got picked because of Shero and Bylsma.
