BUFFALO — When Sabres forward Josh Dunne recently traveled to Italy to watch his sister, Joy, a forward for Team USA, and his girlfriend, Ella Shelton, a defenseman for Team Canada, compete in the Olympics, he set some ground rules for when the countries faced each other.

“I was sitting with my family, and my girlfriend’s family was right behind me,” Dunne said of the Feb. 10 meeting, a 5-0 shellacking the heavyweight Americans laid on the Canadians. “And I was like, ‘You know what? I’m not standing up at all, only if Ella or Joy score. I’m not going to make a single emotion.’”

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