We're not having one meeting about who has been the best player here or anything like that. That's not the purpose of it.

He understood it. It's part of the business. He wishes he could have done more. He?s hoping only for the best for all of us that are involved here. I thought he handled it very well, but it was very emotional for him.

We are extremely pleased with our team and feel very confident that we've put a solid group together that will best put us in a position to compete for the gold medal. The selection process was an extremely difficult one and that's a terrific statement for hockey in the United States. It means our talent pool in this country continues to grow.

He's going to play the first game. If you go back to Jan.1, he's been the best goalie.

We have all of the best American scorers here. But it's hard to score here. Look at the low scores. The defense and goaltending is so good here.

It was the right thing to do at this time. I'm not nervous about it because I'm around our team so much and I know our team very well. I've seen every game this year and I haven't missed anything, so I feel like short-term I'm best prepared to run the bench.

Probably our oldest guy in the tournament was one of our best players.

It's not practical to have four goaltenders dressed for practice, so we felt it best to have Ryan remain at home and be available.