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Dump ‘n Chase: Sullivan’s friendly USA assistants

Welcome back to the conversational feature about Penguins and Penguin-related happenings. Not too much as we crawl into late August, but a few interesting topics abound.

Q: What to make of Team USA’s newly named assistant coaches under Mike Sullivan in the upcoming international events?

It would be foolish to round out Sullivan’s staff with people he is unfamiliar with for very short tournaments, and the connections are obvious being as it’s a small hockey world in the first place — smaller still when rounding out a coaching staff for the Americans.