Tage Thompson, Rasmus Dahlin, Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen to represent the Buffalo Sabres at the Olympics
The Buffalo Sabres have three players that are headed to the Olympics in Milan! Tage Thompson, after putting in years of effort becoming a great hockey player and showing out at the World Championships, makes Team USA for the Olympics. Sneaky Joe sees Tage playing wing in the middle-six of the lineup, and likely the team’s second powerplay unit.
Rasmus Dahlin will play a big role for Sweden, but how big of a role? Joe points back to the 4-Nations tournament, where the Swedes didn’t know what they had in Dahlin, and didn’t use him nearly enough. With Mattias Ekholm staying home this go round, will Dahlin be trusted more in big spots?
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen will represent Finland, but he might not just be sitting on the bench. With back-to-back underpar seasons for Juuse Saros, there is a real chance if UPL gets hot over the next month, that he could start the tournament in goal for Finland.
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21 Comments
It’s law that multiple NY Rangers make the Olympic team. Deserved or not. Robertson AND Tuch got hosed.
I’d take Jason Robertson over Brady tkachuk any day
This is huge for Tage! He deserves it!
Will dahlin actualy get respect from sweeden and be their number 1 defenceman? He really would make more of an impact.
Robertson not getting a spot is a scandal. He's easily one of the top 6 forwards in the US.
The "you can't have an All-Star team at the Olympics" is one of most idiotic takes around, considering All-Stars are generally the most talented, highest skilled players. Sure, a player gets voted in here and there based on popularity or support from his own country, but that's not what we're talking about here. Neither Miller or Trocheck should be on the roster at this stage of their career, and if they didn't play in NYC for the Rangers, and instead played for the Kraken or the Mammoth, I highly doubt they would have made the cut.
Don’t forget about Swayman of Boston. He was the World Championship Goalie. I don’t think he was on the 4 Nations team either.
Tage has the hardest shot on this team. U need him on PP1 with the better US players. U do realize that Tage is the 2nd best US goal scorer behind Matthew’s the last what 3 years. More than Eichel.
Don’t forget we have all of January to play games. Someone can get hurt and that will give Tuch a chance.
I feel like TNT could easily wind up on the top 6 of this USA team. He might not start there but I could easily see him just dominating plays and working his way up to it. Part of the reason his season hasn’t been amazing is his linemates. I mean he’s on a top line with Krebs and Doan rn. No offense to them and I like the lineup rn but that ain’t exactly ideal for a top line. I hope USA puts him on that left side on the PP and lets him bang 100 MPH clappers all tournament long.
Upl? Really?
Give UPL a team in front of him like we have right now and he’s going to be one of the best goalies in this league. During this winning streak he’s let in only one goal each game. Two years ago he was one of the best goalies that year also.
better depth and better defence in Canada ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha OK transformer destroys the US forward or defensive even and your goal kills
No way the American goaltending is 10 times better than Canada, what you been smokin
Further evidence that Joe would rather lose game 7-6, than win games 3-2 or 2-1…
Sometimes it's just tahj Thompson playing the system that rough wants played that limits him slightly
No chance kulich plays this year, especially if he had a Thrombectomy and is on thrombolytics.
So Happy for TAGE! He absolutely deserves it… Hope he plays well and they win the GOLD!!! Lastly… just saying I would have loved TUCH or ROBERTSON on this squad ….but hey what are you gonna do. Go Sabres… GO USA!!!
Ukko-Pekka POOPkonen sucks
Joe, i bought a turtle 🐢 neck and I'm wearing it… BUT… Only because I'm in the service of the Emperor. First time I've had a turtle 🐢 neck on since middle school (back in the day) Joe it's kind of like back earlier when our parents would put funny clothes on us and take us to Church, and then take pictures after… And you hated it at the time, but Mom was so proud and then you can all look back fondly knowing you made the sacrifice for Mom, and that moment when she was smiling alongside you is worth more than any dollar amount. That's kind of the sacrifice I'm making now for the Lord 🙏 by wearing the turtle neck. I was an adamant Adams supporter.. but I'll try and make it work with Jarmo. Buts it's really for the Emperor. So let's make this work… Let's envision Blue turtle 🐢 necks on the Blue Jackets… We'll just call them the 'Colombus Blue Turtle Necks'… And let's get the Grinders handing out some ATTRITION PhDs to every Colombus player… No exceptions 👍 🏒 💯 ⚔️
Yeah, I dont see Thompson better at the 200 foot game. He in fact did regress. He only does a 200 foot game right after he gets caught being lazy by not back checking and a goal goes in because of it. If the other team doesn't score…he doesn't change for the next game. Its one of the biggest peeves that I have about Tage.