2010 Winter Olympics: Assessing Team USA’s Chances At Hockey Gold

Posted: 16th February 2010 by Will Jefferson in NHL
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It has been 30 years since the Miracle On Ice. Since then a lot has changed. The Cold War ended,áhockey players from behind the Iron Curtaináhave come toáAmerica and earned millions playing foráNHL teams, andáTeam USAáis no longer the hockey underdog it was in 1980. So, what are the chances this incarnation of theáU.S. OlympicáMen's HockeyáTeam can bring home the gold medal? Well, given the format of this Olympic tournament, the draw shouldn't beámuch of a factor. Every team in the Olympic hockey tournament will survive the preliminary round-robin. Other than to allow teamsáthatáhave never previouslyáplayed togetheráa chance to iron out kinks, the main purpose of the round robin is to establis ...

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