Oh man, have I been waiting for this moment. I apologize in advance to anyone reading this, I'll leave a TL;DR at the end.

Okay USA Hockey, I get it. The World Cup of Hockey isn't the Olympics. That much is obvious. Now let me ask you this, does that mean you should produce the product we have seen in this tournament? The answer is not only no, but FUCK no.

First you have the extremely limited wisdom to pick John Tortorella as the head coach of the team. Really? Not Peter Laviolette who has led the Predators and Flyers to success? What about John Cooper who has made the Lightning an excellent team? Or hey maybe Mike Sullivan who just led the Penguins to a Stanley Cup after they were DEAD IN THE WATER AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SECOND HALF OF THE SEASON?! No, you picked the head coach of the Columbus Blue Jackets who has shown to fail there AND with New York.

But hey, maybe you could make up for it by picking the best players. What's that? You're going to put Brandon Dubinsky, Dustin Byfuglien, Jack Johnson, and Justin Abelkader on the roster? Oh, I guess Tyler Johnson, Phil Kessel, Kevin Shattenkirk, Kyle Okposo, Nick Leddy and Keith Yandle couldn't meet your standards because hey, they lack "grit." Who likes players that aren't scrappy, right?

You wanna know what builds great teams? Skill. Skill makes great teams. This isn't the mid 90s, you can't expect to bring guys that have had a mantra in the past for being physical to go head-to-head with the best team in the world that is overloaded with talent. If you do, you get torched. You lose to Europe, and you lose to Canada handedly.

Wasting the talents of Kane, Pavelski, Parise, Pacioretty, and Quick because you want to encapsulate some kind of misguided illusion that this team is the 1980s Miracle on Ice team is shameful. THAT STYLE OF PLAY IS OBSOLETE, IT IS NOT A WINNING FORMULA. GET THAT THROUGH YOUR HEADS BEFORE YOU DECIDE TO DO THE SAME STUPID BULLSHIT FOR THE FUCKING OLYMPICS YOU INCOMPETENT DIPSHITS.

TL;DR- Hire Laviolette, Cooper, and Sullivan, bring your best talent to international tournaments and stop embarrassing our country.