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Tage Thompson, Rasmus Dahlin, Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen to represent the Buffalo Sabres at the Olympics
The Buffalo Sabres have three players that are headed to the Olympics in Milan! Tage Thompson, after putting in years of effort becoming a great hockey player and showing out at the World Championships, makes Team USA for the Olympics. Sneaky Joe sees Tage playing wing in the middle-six of the lineup, and likely the team's second powerplay unit.
Rasmus Dahlin will play a big role for Sweden, but how big of a role? Joe points back to the 4-Nations tournament, where the Swedes didn't know what they had in Dahlin, and didn't use him nearly enough. With Mattias Ekholm staying home this go round…
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