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TORONTO -- Imagine being Rob Blake over the past 24 hours.As part of Team Canadas management team, he was fully invested in a major win over rival Team USA at the World Cup of Hockey. No better feeling for a former Team Canada star player now turned executive.On the flip side, its not fun seeing his Los Angeles Kings GM Dean Lombardi getting raked over the coals for his decision-making in putting together Team USA.Its a tough position, Blake, assistant GM for the Kings, told ESPN.com Wednesday. I think they all know they have to go through Canada at the end of the day. They talk about it a lot and they probably use it as a way to get the guys motivated and that. But then when it doesnt go that way, theres going to be fallout. Itll be tough on him because he doesnt make any of those decisions without doing a ton of work in the background. That I know for sure, I see him in the office every day doing that. You know, its not like hes throwing a team on a piece of paper and says, Here we go. He put a lot of work into the background and everything.Blake, as of Wednesday afternoon, hadnt reached out yet to Lombardi. He wanted to give him some time, but he was going to give him a call soon enough, as theres also some Kings business to go over together.The narrative now in the wake of Team USAs ultra-disappointing performance here is that USA Hockey needs to rethink its ways. I mentioned to Blake that it was reminiscent to what happened here with Hockey Canada after Canadas semifinal loss to the Czech Republic in the NHLs first foray in the Olympics at Nagano in 1998. That came two years after losing to Team USA in the World Cup finals, Blake part of both of those Canadian squads. Hockeys birth country had a total meltdown after Nagano, and it actually led to a major summit in Toronto assembling some of the games smartest coaches and executives in an effort to rethink how players were developed in Canada.Part of the legacy of that summit was that Hockey Canada did indeed change many of its ways, spawning an impactful generation of players that has since dominated best-on-best hockey with Olympic wins at Vancouver 2010 and Sochi 2014. I think the intriguing thing for both countries right now is the young stars, the North American team, Blake said of the 23-and-under squad featuring Connor McDavid, Auston Matthews and Johnny Gaudreau. Theres a lot of talent on that team for both those countries that are up and coming.But yeah, its no different when we lost in Japan [in 1998], it was like they had to redo everything, Blake said. But I think you want that pressure because youre expected to win these tournaments. Im sure from knowing Dean and their management side on the U.S., they had the same expectations, they were expecting to win. Its no different from the guys in Canada. The expectations are always to win.And when you dont, you accept the fallout that comes with it.Cyber Monday Jerseys . The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruling "puts an end to my dreams of being a top player," the 27-year-old Troicki said in a statement. "I worked my entire life for it, and it has been taken away from me in one afternoon by a doctor I didnt know," said Troicki, whose ranking peaked at No. Cheap Jerseys From China . Clarkson had been dealing with an elbow injury in early January and will be out of action for at least one week. He has three goals and five assists through 36 games with the Leafs this season. https://www.fakejerseyswholesale.com/ . The 25-year-old Japanese star has officially been posted by his club team, the Rakuten Golden Eagles. Cheap Jerseys Fast Shipping . PAUL, Minn. Fake Jerseys From China . Hargreaves began his career in 2008 with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and has played with the Edmonton Eskimos and last season with the Saskatchewan Roughriders.The NFL paid commissioner Roger Goodell nearly $32 million in fiscal year 2015.Sports Business Daily first reported Goodells salary details, citing the leagues 2015 tax filing.Goodells pay is down slightly from fiscal year 2014, when he made $34.1 million. That included base salary and bonuses as well as pension and other deferred payments.In the 10 years in which his commissioner salary has been disclosed, Goodell has made an average of $21.5 million a year and a total of $212.5 million. He became NFL commissioner in 2006.The 2015 filing is the last the league will have to disclose because it has relinquished its tax-exempt status.dddddddddddd. The league announced last year that the nonprofit status of the central league office had become a distraction. That status is what required the league to make Goodells compensation public.The NFLs next-highest paid executive was general counsel Jeff Pash at $6.5 million. His salary dropped from $7.5 million in 2014. ' ' '