To me, it looks as if the U.S. is going the way of the Czechs. They won last year and for the next 5 or 6 years, the U.S. will just be average (middle of the pack- with the likes of Slovakia, Sweden, and Swiss). I feel sorry for middle of the pack teams as they have to wait 5 or 6 years for a solid team to emerge. Besides Schneider, who is the next solid goaltending prospect of the U.S? They have Jack Johnson for a solid D-man and Kessel for a solid scoring forward but who do they have after that that will lead them to be a dominating country in the WJC?