Cooper to guide Team Canada in Beijing, so long as NHL players compete

CALGARY — If NHL players are able to participate at the upcoming Beijing Olympics, Canada will have a two-time Stanley Cup champion behind its bench. Hockey Canada announced Tampa Bay Lightning coach Jon Cooper as the head of its provisional Olympic coaching staff on Monday, with Boston head coach Bruce Cassidy, Vegas head coach Peter DeBoer and New York Islanders head coach Barry Trotz serving as assistants. Cooper, from Prince George, B.C., led the Lightning to their second straight Stanley Cu