PYEONGCHANG, SOUTH KOREA—Around this time four years ago, as the men’s hockey tournament at the Sochi Olympics was about to begin, the plot line didn’t promise much suspense. Canada finished the tournament having allowed only three goals in six games, a new Olympic standard for stinginess. To no one’s surprise, a similarly-manned roster of Canadians made it three straight best-on-best championships by capturing the 2016 World Cup of Hockey in Toronto. Thirty-seven-year-old Chris Kelly, who won a Stanley Cup with the Boston Bruins a few years back, has played more than 800 NHL games. “In this tournament, anybody can win,” Willie Desjardins, the ex-Vancouver Canucks coach who’ll be the man in charge behind Canada’s bench, has said.

Source: thestar February 07, 2018 20:25 UTC