[Kaplan] Adam Fox did not make the U.S. Olympic team. Heard New York Rangers personnel involved with Team USA – GM Chris Drury, coach Mike Sullivan, assistant David Quinn – all pushed very hard for Fox, but they understood the decision especially given depth USA has on D.

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  1. insane decision

    edit: i posted in /r/hockey and the morons arguing he’s not top 3 or 5 clearly so not know puck

  2. You have to think he’s the first injury replacement. Slavin is currently out week-to-week and has only played 5 games this season.

  4. I just think you have to be really fucking stupid to leave the one of the best two-way defensemen in the league off your roster. Like really, really fucking stupid.

  5. pretty funny but I’d frankly prefer no rangers make it, since the team has been so banged up all year

  7. USA can enjoy losing to Canada again because they decided it would be cute and different to leave the smartest defenseman home in a best on best tournament in favor of “Seth Jones” and “Noah Hanifin”

    I’ll be rooting for Mika and Sweden.

  10. i’d like one of our journalists to actually push sullivan on the “drury, sullivan, quinn fought hard” line here…

  11. Okay go lose then, this team won’t even medal. No Robertson or Fox but Trocheck and Miller will make the team. So unserious

  13. Rooting for Sweden. The US will inevitably shit the bed in the Olympics like they always do, anyway, when Captain America fails in the clutch for the 100th time.

  18. “Yeah let’s take Seth Jones over Adam Fox”

    Lane Hutson should have been above Jones on the depth chart. Fox should have been a lock for 1RD

  19. Maybe it’s because I’m too associated with soccer but I find it fucking insane that the coach isn’t the one making roster decisions.

  21. Crazy decision ever. Doesn’t pick Fox, Robertson, Tuch, Caufield, Knies, Logan Cooley, Connor Garland, (no relation to Will)

    BUT, he picks old man Brock Nelson, Jack “Instagram Hockey” Hughes(who can’t use utensils) and Seth Jones.

    Granted, Seth Jones is a good dman. But he’s not Adam Fox

  23. That’s great. Enjoy your silver fellas. Leaving some of the true best of the world at home for Seth Jones, Noah Hanifin and then JT Miller and Vince Trocheck… that’s the USA Hockey way!

  25. Hate this as his fan, love this for the rangers, hate this for the tournament, love this as a Canadian.

  28. he’s a top, if not THE top, US defenseman. they’re so focused on creating a team that can play a physical game against canada…. nonsense

  30. If our team was a contender for the cup (which we’re not) and if any of our players got injured during the Olympics that would be awful! The 4 nations was rough.

  32. “But they understood the decision especially given depth USA has on D”

    It could have been the whole world and leaving fox off would be an atrocity. What the fuck are they even talking about? Why do media members just blindly go with whatever the front office puts out there…. NYR beat help the team gaslight the fans all the time too.

  34. ‘As team USA tell bedtime stories of how the had the right guys on the team to create the miracle on ice, Canada is laughing at us trying the same stupid strategy over and over again with multiple gold necklaces’

    – Liberty Blue Podcast.

  35. Insanely dumb decision. One I don’t mind as a Canadian of course, but incredible he’s being left off.

  41. Include Seth jones but exclude Fox. I cannot wait for mcdavid and mackinnon to skate circles around that road cone

  43. I hope the Wild never win anything of significance while Guerin is the GM. Grade A clown. Just going out of his way to make team USA a bronze medal team.

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