QUEBEC CITY, Quebec -- In January 2015, when details were unveiled of how the upcoming World Cup of Hockey would include a Team North America squad, consisting of players under 24 years old,?Pittsburgh Penguins?goalie Matt Murray wasnt necessarily the first goalie who came to mind when thinking about best-on-best hockey.At that point, he was still in the middle of his first full season as an American Hockey League goalie, one that was going quite well. When he saw the announcement, making the team became a personal goal for Murray -- but he also was realistic about his standing in the hockey world.I remember thinking I was probably an afterthought for this team, Murray said after the final practice before Team North Americas first World Cup pre-tournament game. I was probably on the outside looking in.Anaheim Ducks?goalie John Gibson, 23, had the pedigree. He was a second-round pick who came up through the U.S. development program and looked great in four postseason games with the?Anaheim Ducks?in 2014.Winnipeg Jets?goalie Connor Hellebuyck, 23, later staked his claim to the job while leading Team USA to the bronze medal in the 2015 World Championships, making 39 saves in a shutout against the Czech Republic.Murray was, at best, No. 3 on the list. Even when he was officially named to the roster in March, he had played only a few NHL games.As hockey fans know, last spring changed everything. For Murray and for the hopes of Team North America.His performance during the Stanley Cup playoffs not only helped the?Pittsburgh Penguins?raise the Stanley Cup, it made him the most important player on Team North America.His team has the skill to win it all. In Murray, it now has a goalie who has proven he can do it.He was just having his day with the Cup a month and a half ago, said Team North America assistant coach Jon Cooper, whose?Tampa Bay Lightning?team Murray helped eliminate in the Eastern Conference finals.In doing so, the goalie became one of the few players on this young roster to have his own day with the Cup.Between him and Brandon Saad, do we have anybody else? Cooper asked.Nope.Those are our Cup winners, right there, Cooper said. Ultimately, those two guys have something that none of us have. Even our coaching staff.That experience is the great equalizer in this tournament.When he goes against the best World Cup goalies from other countries, he can do so with the confidence that hes accomplished something most of them havent.Last time I looked, Henrik Lundqvist hasnt won a Cup. Neither has Carey Price, said one NHL goalie coach when asked if Murray could hang with the worlds best. So yeah, there are great goalies -- but they havent won for one reason or another.Thats Murrays advantage.His disadvantage is that he doesnt have a large pool of NHL games from which to draw experience. Although it sounds crazy, Murray has only played in 13 NHL regular-season games. He hardly knows anyone on this team mostly because hes still breaking into the league. He was in a couple of Hockey Canada tryout camps with guys such as?Morgan Rielly and Aaron Ekblad, but thats it.The guys on the team who are familiar with him, know him only because he knocked them out of the postseason last spring.He didnt really have that one mistake in a game, said?New York Rangers?forward J.T. Miller, whose team lost to Murray and the Penguins in the first round. He never gave us a chance to get momentum. He played unbelievable.Two rounds later, Murray knocked out Jonathan Drouin and the Lightning.Hes so calm, Drouin said this week of his new teammate. Hes kind of Carey Price-like. He waits for the puck to hit him. Hes relaxed. You can see it in practice.Team North America coach Todd McLellan wasnt committing to any of his three goalies on Wednesday. His goal in the pre-tournament games is to get two goalies playing well and go from there.Its not out of the question that one of the others, especially Gibson, seizes the opportunity. The players from the Western Conference who know Gibson also realize hes capable.Hes underrated, the?Colorado Avalanches?Nathan MacKinnon said of Gibson. Theres a reason they traded Frederik Andersen?and not Gibson.Theres a growing feeling this Team North America squad could make noise as an underdog. Theyre loaded with talent. Theyll be the best skating team in the tournament. Theyre confident.Theyre also going to make mistakes. The forwards dont have the polished two-way game of their more experienced counterparts on other teams. As skilled as the Team North America forwards are, there isnt a Ryan Kesler or Jonathan Toews in the bunch.The penalty kill will end up employing players better known for offense than defense. Its just the way the roster is constructed.Its why the hopes might just hinge on Murray.The North American team will attack the puck a lot, but they might make more mistakes than anyone else, said the goalie coach. Hes going to have to be a goalie who makes timely, timely saves.Hes done it on the biggest stage there is in hockey, leading the Penguins to a Stanley Cup. In early August, his attention shifted from what hes done in his short career to what he still hopes to do.In the short term, its play well enough to earn the trust of his Team North America coaching staff. In the long term, the goal is to show the hockey world that last spring wasnt a fluke.He knows there are people out there wondering if it was.For sure. You dont just want to win one, Murray said. 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LONDON -- Medical data from some of the worlds leading athletes has been posted to the web and the World Anti-Doping Agency says Russians are to blame. Even the hackers seem to agree, adopting the name Fancy Bears -- a moniker long associated with the Kremlins electronic espionage operations.But as cybersecurity experts pore over the hackers digital trail, theyre up against a familiar problem. The evidence has been packed with possible red herrings -- including registry data pointing to France, Korean characters in the hackers code and a server based in California.Anybody can say they are anyone and its hard to disprove, said Jeffrey Carr, the chief executive of consulting firm Taia Global and something of a professional skeptic when it comes to claims of state-backed hacking.Many others in the cybersecurity industry see the WADA hack as a straightforward act of Russian revenge, but solid evidence is hard to find.Whats known is that it was only days after scores of Russian athletes were banned from the Olympic Games that suspicious looking emails began circulating . Purporting to come from WADA itself, the booby trapped messages were aimed at harvesting passwords to a sensitive database of drug information about athletes worldwide. Among other things, the Anti-Doping Administration and Management System carries information about which top athletes use otherwise-banned substances for medical reasons -- prize information for a spurned Olympic competitor seeking to embarrass its rivals.On Sept. 1 someone registered a website titled Fancy Bears Hack Team. A few days later, a Twitter account materialized carrying a similar name. Just after midnight Moscow time on Sept. 13, the Fancy Bears Twitter account came alive, broadcasting the drugs being taken by gold medal-winning gymnast Simone Biles, seven-time Grand Slam champion Venus Williams and other U.S. Olympians. It followed up Thursday with similar information about the medication used by British cyclists Bradley Wiggins and Chris Froome, among many others.There is no suggestion any of the athletes broke any rules, but Russians seized on the leak as evidence that U.S. and British players were using forbidden drugs with the blessing of anti-doping officials.Hypocrisy Russias embassy to London tweeted in reaction to the news. Kremlin channel RT broadcast a cartoon showing a WADA official picking up a bulky American players steroid bottle with a smile. All good! Youre cleared to compete!! he says.ddddddddddddCiting law enforcement sources, WADA said the attacks are originating out of Russia. Russian officials dismissed the allegation; in an email, WADA said it wouldnt be commenting further.With little to go on, independent investigators have still made some intriguing connections.Virginia-based intelligence firm ThreatConnect said that whoever compromised WADA did so using websites registered through an obscure domain name company that also set up the fake sites used in a variety of other hacks blamed on the Kremlin, including the one that hit the Democratic National Committee. In a telephone interview, the companys chief intelligence officer, Rich Barger said he had been cautious at first about tying the WADA breach to Russian hackers but that confidence is certainly growing as more and more people weigh in and lend their voice.Even the meaning of the name Fancy Bears is unclear. California-based threat intelligence firm CrowdStrike has long applied that nickname to an allegedly Russian state-backed group, but the hackers adoption isnt necessarily a brazen acknowledgement of CrowdStrikes research. It might be an attempt to hold it up to ridicule. Which interpretation the group favors hasnt been made clear. Repeated messages to email addresses associated with Fancy Bears have gone unreturned.Fancy Bears website doesnt necessarily provide any more insight. Some its artistry appears to have been lifted from a Russian clip art page. But tech podcaster Vince Tocce also found Korean script in the sites code -- characters which vanished shortly after he made his discovery public . In a telephone interview, he said that showed how difficult it was to take anything for granted.Some pieces of Fancy Bears infrastructure were almost certainly structured to sow confusion.The site, for example, appears to be hosted in California but was registered at an address in the town of Pomponne, east of Paris, under the name Jean Guillalime.A man residing at that address, Jean-Francois Guillaume, told The Associated Press the registry information was bogus and that he was mystified as to why the hackers had picked on him.I have absolutely nothing to do with this, he said, adding that he ran a consulting shop and a flower business and wasnt particularly interested in sports. I dont know any Russians, he said. 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