

You put them in a role they might not be used to and they’ll adapt because they want to play.” “I think what we learned from that tournament is better players will adapt. “We tried to build a team in the sense of including guys who were regular penalty-killers and guys who could shut down opposition players,” the GM says. International-sized rinks are 200 x 100, putting a greater emphasis on skill.Ĭlarke admits he didn’t take this into proper account. The problem, of course, was that this team was not playing in the NHL, where rinks measure 200 feet by 85 feet.

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