Slip sliding away
We knew this wasn’t going to be US Hockey’s year when they announced the goaltenders for the Olympics and Rick DiPietro promptly went out and allowed 5 goals. Even though DiPietro has been playing well, the rest of the team has been terrible. The US is now 1-2-1 and will rely on goal differential to clear Latvia and move into the quarterfinals. Thank god there isn’t a Jamaican Hockey team.
The US Hockey team suffers from 2 problems: 1) they’re really old and 2) no one can score. The international game is about wide open ice and quickness and the old legs of Chelios, Modano, Guerin, etc, just can’t keep up. There will be no miracle on ice folks, this thing is dead.
