TORONTO - After only two games in the new bright Hockey World Cup 2016, Team USA It has no hope of advancing beyond the three matches in the preliminary round.
Hopeless.
Now there's an idea that resonates in the aftermath of their 4-2 loss soul that aspires to host Canada Hockey Jersey on Tuesday night. Two consecutive defeats have opened uninspired equipment and the process by which he was selected for the widespread mockery.
"I do not worry about those things," US defense Ryan Suter, about to mourn, said after the loss. "I worry about the guys in the room. I think we're all disappointed. I feel like we let our country down. We let ourselves down. It's disappointing. You walk into this not knowing how many more opportunities are going to get, and to be out after two games is extremely disappointing. "
US team He not arrived in Toronto as a favorite in this tournament, but no one expected that he would leave so meekly?
Of course, GM Dean Lombardi and not its management team went out of the network to prevent highly skilled players for players with character, grit, leadership.
Through two games, the Americans show very few of those qualities.
They have scored only two goals and maintained a lead for exactly 1 minute, 30 seconds.
Therefore, it was about picking the wrong players?
Or the coach wrong?
Or both?
One of the most humiliating parts of this debacle is that this team ostensibly US It was built to face the international giant that is Canada. The Americans knew more than they could match the skill of skill, so they expected to hit them with truculence, a favorite term of Brian Burke, who built a team of this type in 2010, which won a silver medal (losing in overtime to Canada in an epic game gold medal).
But if that were the case, why Brandon Dubinsky was not in the lineup against Canada on Tuesday? A sheet of life of Canadian captain Sidney Crosby Jersey, there seemed no reason for Dubinsky to be on this team if they will not play against Canada.
Better to have scorers Phil Kessel, Tyler Johnson or Kyle Okposo.
And Dustin Byfuglien, the great Winnipeg Jets defense was a healthy scratch from the first game, a 3-0 loss to little account of Europe team that put the US in a position of having to win Tuesday night? His game Tuesday partly explains why he was scratched, he lost track of Matt Duchene, allowing the Canadian front to tie the score less than two minutes after Ryan McDonagh had scored the first goal of American tournament .
There have always been problems risks and benefits with Byfuglien, and yet was one of the first 16 players named last March, presumably to provide offense and a physical presence.
And yet, it is as if there were as disconnect between the coaching staff and the management team as to how this team is supposed to meet. When the team was 0-for-4 on the power play in the first game, it seemed that the absence of Byfuglien was a problem.
Then when he was on the ice, his presence was a problem.
Justin have had better defenses Kevin Faulk or Shattenkirk or Cam Fowler, all of which play in Sochi? The answer seems now unequivocally yes.
Even the goaltending choice seemed to have been misled.
Jonathan Quick was stellar in the first game before the team tournament against Canada, which secured the job, even though it was nothing more than ordinary against the San Jose Sharks in defeating first round last spring, while Ben Bishop of Tampa Bay Lightning led his team to the finals of the Stanley Cup in 2015 and then the end of the Eastern Conference last season and has a .927 save percentage in the last two years of playoffs.
They not that Quick had a lot of help, but at one point on Tuesday it had allowed three goals in six Canadian shots.
At the front, which Johnson, a proven playoff performer, would have allowed Captain Joe Pavelski to pass on the wing, which has been very successful for sharks.
But what is undeniable is that the players who were in Toronto just were not good enough.
Defense scoring champion Patrick Kane continued his offensive struggles in these best-in-best tournaments, go without a goal in two games. He did not score at all in Sochi.
It seemed unsure of himself, passing up a glorious opportunity to shoot a 3-in-1 in the second period, the US 3-1 behind to make a pass that went wrong.
"Obviously I did not do my job this tournament and produce crime and help create goals for the team," Kane Jersey said.
Was it the end or never put in a position to succeed?
USA Coach John Tortorella never found the right combination of superb skill players to unleash Kane. Montreal Canadiens captain tried Max Pacioretty, who has had a terrible tournament and James van Riemsdyk and others.
Tortorella is certainly a lightning rod for discontent important with the collapse of America. When he was appointed head coach, who was between jobs and the feeling was that his emotion would serve US team well in a short tournament with so little margin for error.
However, shortly after being appointed to the post, Tortorella got the head coaching job with the Columbus Blue Jackets.
The strange thing is that Tortorella had a coaching staff top-notch work with him, including Mike Sullivan, who comes from a victory of the Stanley Cup with the Pittsburgh Penguins in June, and yet, this team never found any rhythm .
Even small things, like not throwing fast in the third period in the US He was losing by three, but was on a power play.
"Yes, it's disappointing, frustrating," Tortorella of the team's performance so far he said. "All different kinds of emotions. Yes, I think we let some people down. It's on my watch. Certainly I feel responsible for that. So yes, it is really disappointing."
And here's the thing, as Americans contemplate a sense preliminary round game end with the Czech Republic on Thursday (8 pm ESPN2).
Everything was inclined path of the Americans in this tournament to give them the best chance of success.
They were scored on the softer of the two World Cup Hockey pools with lights under Hockey Team Europe and the Czech Republic. They do not have to play games back to back. They have two days off to prepare for Canada.
But whatever the breaks had given them they were not enough to overcome the multitude of flaws that this team possesses.
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