Bill Guerin is a big proponent of team chemistry and said it was a determining factor selecting the players to represent the United States at the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026.<\/p>\n
The Minnesota Wild general manager, who was in charge of putting the United States Olympic roster together, liked how the players jelled at the 4 Nations Face-Off last February, and is going back with a similar group seeking its first gold medal since 1980.<\/p>\n
“I liked the way we played,” Guerin said Friday, after the United States roster was announced. “Everybody was together, everybody played the right way, adhered to the game plan that Mike [Sullivan] and his coaching staff brought to the table. But I think the biggest thing for me was the chemistry.<\/p>\n
“I think the chemistry allowed the guys to play the way that they did; the willingness to accept their role, the willingness to do things that maybe on their NHL team, they’re not asked to do. Take a little bit less ice time, play a different role, all of those things went into it. But the chemistry was one of the biggest things.”<\/p>\n
Of the 25 players named to the United States roster Friday, 21 played at 4 Nations. The United States lost 3-2 in overtime to Canada in the championship game, but won its three previous round-robin games. That included a 3-1 win against Canada in an emotional contest at Bell Centre in Montreal on Feb. 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bill Guerin is a big proponent of team chemistry and said it was a determining factor selecting the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-384484","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}