Team USA completes coaching staff with Laviolette Richards Granato

More NHL offseason: | | | Team USA completed its coaching staff Tuesday morning for the 2014 Olympic games in Sochi, Ru sia, announcing that Peter Laviolette New York Yankees Blank Jersey , Todd Richards, and Tony Granato will be a sistant coaches under head coach Dan Bylsma.Laviolette, the coach of the , had to be one of the leading candidates for the head coaching job, Aaron Hicks Jersey so it's no surprise that he's been added to the staff as an a sistant. He is, after all, one of the better coaches in the NHL.The only real interesting dynamic about the move (and Jacoby Ellsbury Jersey it won't even matter once the games start) is the sometimes-heated history that's existed between Laviolette and Bylsma (not to mention Tony Granato, who is currently an a sistant with the ) during some of the recent Penguins-Flyers meetings.Like this one back in 2012. Richards, who previously served as coach for Pittsburgh's AHL team in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton and is no Don Larsen Jersey doubt quite familiar with Bylsma, has been behind the bench for Columbus since the middle of the 2011-12 season.Before that he coached the during the 2009-10 and Anthony Rizzo Jersey 2010-11 seasons. Granato has been Bylsma's a sistant in Pittsburgh since the 2009-10 season after two different tenures as the head coach for the .