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    Helene Elliott: U.S. men's hockey decides to go with young players

    by Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times Feb 09, 2022 4 minutes

    BEIJING — The U.S. men's hockey team hasn't won Olympic gold since Herb Brooks' young, energetic college kids overcame prohibitive odds — and the mighty Soviets — before becoming champions in 1980. Hoping to end that drought, architects of the U.S. men's roster for the Beijing Games reached back to one of Brooks' many memorably pithy sayings: The legs feed the wolf.

    Brooks' team wasn't the most skillful in Lake Placid. The Soviets, who trained together most of the year and were professionals by most definitions, were a well-oiled machine and were considered unbeatable. But Brooks made sure his team was the best conditioned, so players had

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