"Maybe the highlight of my coaching career, being able to coach in an Olympic Games. It's a pinch-me type moment for me and I'm glad I'm gonna get to experience the whole thing. Because I'm not with a team, we get to get to the village a week early, we get to move in, we get to get things ready and see some other events. Once the event starts for us, as coaches there's not a lot of time to enjoy that experience. So I'm gonna get to do a little bit of that, so it's gonna be awesome, I can't wait."
"The US did the same thing, the same staff that went to the 4 Nations is carried over into the Olympics. We're basically carrying over the same roles that we had. I ran the defence and the penalty, (Cassidy) ran the power play, Tocchet was at the offensive end of the bench with Cooper, did a lot of specialty situations, O-zone stuff. That's how we kind of divided it up."
NHL players return to the Winter Olympics for the first time since 2014, creating many Olympic debuts among top players and coaches. Olympic coaching is described as the pinnacle of international coaching and offers an opportunity to arrive early in the host village to prepare and sample events before competition. The coaching staff that served at the 4 Nations Face-Off will be retained, with defined responsibilities for defence and penalty management, power play coordination, and offensive-zone and specialty situations under a head coach. Maintaining staff continuity allowed analysis of systems and informed adjustments ahead of Milan.
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