declined to name<\/a> a starting goalie for his team’s opener against Latvia on Thursday after the Americans’ first practice on Sunday. <\/p>\n“Performance matters,” Sullivan said.<\/p>\n
“We\u2019ll know soon enough,” Hellebuyck said.<\/p>\n
After a day off Friday, the Americans have a back-to-back on Saturday and Sunday against Denmark and Germany to wrap round-robin play.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the practice in Italy hinted at some line combinations.<\/p>\n
Auston Matthews centred a line featuring Jake Guentzel and Matt Boldy on his wings, while the Tkachuk brothers were joined by Jack Eichel.<\/p>\n
On defence, Jake Sanderson and Jackson LaCombe appear to be the odd men out.<\/p>\n
The top blue-line pair was comprised of Quinn Hughes and Charlie McAvoy, while Jaccob Slavin and Brock Faber teamed up ahead of Noah Hanifin and Zach Werenski.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Intrigue abounds at the Olympic men’s hockey tournament before a puck has even been dropped. Team USA coach…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-467231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}