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More NHL offseason: | | | Team USA completed its coaching staff Tuesday morning for the 2014 Olympic games in Sochi, Ru sia, announcing that Peter Laviolette, Todd Richards, and Tony Granato will be a sistant coaches under head coach Dan Bylsma.Laviolette, the coach of the , had to be one of the leading candidates for the head coaching job, so it's no surprise that he's been Nico Radicic Jersey added to the staff as an a sistant. He is, after all, one of the better coaches in the NHL.The only real interesting dynamic about the move (and it won't even matter once the games start) is the sometimes-heated history that's existed between Laviolette and Bylsma (not to mention Tony Granato, who is currently an a sistant with the ) during some of the recent Penguins-Flyers meetings.Like this one back in 2012. Richards, who previously served as coach for Pittsburgh's AHL team in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton and is no doubt quite familiar with Bylsma, has been behind the bench for Columbus since the middle of the 2011-12 season.Before that he coached the during the 2009-10 and 2010-11 seasons. Granato has been Bylsma's a sistant in Pittsburgh since the 2009-10 season after two different tenures as the head coach for the . Finn Walters Jersey |
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