Or can their national team evolve and improve? To be realistic, I feel the only way the US team will ever improve and be just a little more successful is if one of two things happen: The team is genetically engineered and enhanced with almost superhuman skills, strength, speed, and hand eye which is futuristic at best and a fantasy at worst. Or if the US starts to create its own style. They could use that to obtain an edge over their Canadian and Russian and Swedish counterparts who view defeat and surrender as dishonorable, especially in an Olympic gold medal game or any international tournament for that matter. In other words, the US would have to play hockey similar to the way Bill Laimbeer played basketball back in the 1980s and early 90s. They need to use low, dirty tricks and more physically aggressive and violent tactics in order to make up for the American team’s lack of skill, depth, and genetics. Canada, Russia, and Sweden have very similar cultures where hockey is huge in those countries. Hockey in the US seems to have the back seat and has proven for the most part to be a failure. I think the US should withdraw from the world hockey stage for the time being and diffuse the situation until they can get genetic engineering technology which may take 50 or the next 100 years. Most US player simply don’t have the genetics to develop the skills to compete in those levels. Only 2 percent, or one in a million Americans have what it takes to be able to do so. Patrick Kane is one of those freak American athletes. I’m sorry. I very much want to see the US win another hockey gold medal in the Olympics, or another World Cup of Hockey. But the laws of genetics, relativity, and physics are laws, and they can never be broken. It’s too much. It’s just not physically possible for the US to be able to compete with their Canadian, Russian, and Swedish counterparts the way things are now. They need to get out of there and save themselves. When I look back on the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, the US really should not have been in the tournament to begin with. It just did not have even a slight chance and it was just plain lucky to win a medal because of goaltending alone, and it failed even more miserably in 2014 Sochi. Only advances in bio-genetic technology can help the US hockey team improve, not training or hard work of any sort. The differences between the US and Canada when it comes to talent and skill are totally insurmountable. The laws of physics, and relativity can never be broken.