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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