Reply With QuoteIf memory serves there was a previous article written about the Brandt sisters, but this one's brand new, having just been published in today's StarTribune:
Seoul sisters
https://www.startribune.com/seoul-sis...ams/431432173/
And in the end, it doesn't matter.Originally Posted by ARM
If memory serves there was a previous article written about the Brandt sisters, but this one's brand new, having just been published in today's StarTribune:
Seoul sisters
https://www.startribune.com/seoul-sis...ams/431432173/
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The USA and Canadian women face off in their first meeting leading up to the 2018 Olympic Winter Games, today at 2:00pm ET. The game will be televised live on the NHL Network. Should be some great hockey!
https://teamusa.usahockey.com/news_ar...rrer_id=695820
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They'll probably pick up the TSN feed, so say hi to tOSU grad and daughter of a Techer, Tessa Bonhomme.The USA and Canadian women face off in their first meeting leading up to the 2018 Olympic Winter Games, today at 2:00pm ET. The game will be televised live on the NHL Network. Should be some great hockey!
https://teamusa.usahockey.com/news_ar...rrer_id=695820
FINAL: Canada 2 Canada's pants 5The USA and Canadian women face off in their first meeting leading up to the 2018 Olympic Winter Games, today at 2:00pm ET. The game will be televised live on the NHL Network. Should be some great hockey!
https://teamusa.usahockey.com/news_ar...rrer_id=695820
Where are all those geniuses that whined about Stauber being the coach? Tim?
Canada only has to win the last game to call it a successful vs. USA series. The USA has the same issue and the 1,000 lb monkey on its back.
No doubt but given what I have seen of Canada's fans, particularly their behaviour in Plymouth this spring, my guess is their coach may not be given a chance at that lsat game if the team plays like this again soon.
BTW - NHL network is going to replay the game at 7:30 EDT in case you missed it & want to see
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The two teams play an entirely different style, and that's coaching. It's only one game, but it's clear the Americans' emphasis on puck possession is serving them well...so far.
I really enjoy watching women's hockey played at the highest level, like we saw today. As the Olympics approach and each team's systems are refined, the level of intensity on both sides will only ratchet up further, which for all of us women's hockey fans will make it even more fun to watch .
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USA reminds me of the Soviets. Regroup until you can spring the attack.
I was thinking the same. The similarity would be even greater if they could draw their opponent in a little more, only to spring a crafty forward (or two) getting open and in for a breakaway (or a two on one).
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In the Olympic year, when a player is selected to the Olympic team, do they get an "Olympic Pass" on their eligibility with the NCAA? I would imagine this to be true and that they would not have to burn a red shirt year for this correct?
With that asked, which players will return and what year will they be in upon that return.
I apologize if this has already been discussed.
Yep. But if the team wins, the NCAA players cannot appear on the Wheaties box.
There are two things I remember about the old Red Army team (an my memory may be faulty, it has proven to be so before). One was that they never had as many SOG as you would expect an elite team to have yet they had more goals. I would love to see an 'efficiency' number, the ratio of shots per goal. If I am right their numbers would be really low. The other was the impression that they didn't so much shoot as they passed the puck into the net. I remember watching them play 'tic-tac-toe' with the puck & thinking the poor goalies must have felt like they were stuck in a pinball machine with multiple balls in play.
The very best womens teams, like US & Canada, do that same thing. Great movement from side to side. I'd want my pads strapped down tight & probably a couple of dramamine before the game!
Indeed, they shot less than North American teams, and shot less hard. Ice hockey became a serious sport in the Soviet Union after World War II, an era of extreme austerity. Anatoli Tarasov, tasked with creating Central Red Army and the national team, had to come up with systems for winning with teams that couldn't afford to replace broken sticks. So, no slapshots. Tarasov also found the passing style to be aesthetically pleasing. Combined with grueling drills and training methods unheard of for hockey teams elsewhere, it produced a very different style.
It's also worth noting that personality-wise, Tarasov was almost the exact opposite of his successor Viktor Tikhonov. He demanded everything from his players, but he had a sense of humor and took an interest in them off the ice, too.
One aspect of the 1980 US Olympic team that allowed them to stay with the Russians was their stamina. Because of their youth, and because of Herb's insistence on conditioning, they pulled away from each of their opponents, including the Soviets, in the third period. They trailed after two periods in more than half of their Olympic games, but caught and passed everyone (well, except for the Swedes).
The opening game of "The Time is Now Tour" will be televised by the NHL Network this Wednesday at 7:30pm ET.
Looking at the full schedule, the following four games will unfortunately require a paid streaming subscription to "HockeyTV". Obviously this cannot possibly help build a wider audience for women's hockey leading up to the Olympics.
https://teamusa.usahockey.com/page/sh...nted-by-toyota
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This is a very important observation. That difference between two teams can create results as different as night and day.
Allow me to share a story as an example.
Many years ago I was “involved” with a women’s elite soccer team for four years…age level 13 thru 16 over the four years.. This was the most magical sports team that I have ever witnessed on a personal level. For four years there were only 2 or 3 changes/temporary additions to the line up with the additions being somewhat less capable than the core players and for the most part they didn’t play much.
The core players, meaning virtually all of the players, were elite caliber but in addition to that they all got along phenomenally well and socialized together with never an argument…very good friends on and off the pitch…17 players…one mind. Dynamic synergism when added to top level ability in virtually every player created, what I remember often thinking, something akin to a religious experience as one watched them play.
In addition they were extremely well coached and the coach was a fanatic about conditioning…extremely serious conditioning.
The first year, not yet having been together more than a couple of months, they went to the Schwann’s mini tournament in Blaine, Mn. because the deadline for the regular full blown tournament had passed. They didn’t fare overly well…only played 3 games (short weekend tournament) and were 1-1-1 as I recall…one game was vs. a team from Alaska…talk about a road trip for that team!
Apart from that mini tournament this team, as you’ve similarly mentioned in your comment, might have their opponents play level with them for the first half but the second half was the half of champions and as their opponents faded they continued on cruise control.
The following year they entered the Schwann’s regular tournament and blew everyone away and played, oddly enough considering that there were teams from all over the planet, in the Championship Game against a team from Saskatchewan (neighbours)…and crushed them 5-0...the play wasn’t even close.
(Regular season record over four seasons 84-2...not counting playoffs, International Tournaments such as Schwann’s and National Championship Tournament appearances). And these tournaments such as Schwann’s were always viewed as tune ups for the National Championship Tournament…they had to plan well in advance.
Here’s what I was impressed with the most.
The third year they entered a tournament in Denver for which the team arrived two days before their first game…the significance of which was not lost on us but it was what it was. They made it thru to the Championship Game vs. the Colorado Selects and I ended up standing among the Denver team’s parents during that game. As the game went on the change in the attitude of those parents was priceless entertainment indeed…going from total confidence, almost arrogance, that their team was going to win even before the game had begun (I think they were the tournament favourites, if I recall) to questioning what was going on on the field because their team wasn‘t dominating ours as they had expected and assumed would happen…to “where’s that other team from?”…”you ever heard of them before?”…“they’re from…where?”…As in “how can a team that we have never hear of before be making this an anybody’s game kind of a game with our kids?” But their was more to their thinking process.
The anguish of their endless unanswered questions became too much so I thought I would help them out by answering some of them. Several parents gathered around to join in the conversation when they realized that I was from the other team, as play on the field continued, and they ended up telling me that it was unheard of for any non local team to play anywhere near this well, at altitude, without first having had at least a week to acclimate themselves to the reduced availability of oxygen. They were literally in shock when I told them that the team had arrived two days before their first game. (They were probably thinking “what could this team do to our team if it wasn’t playing with this huge handicap?”).
Anyway, it was a very close game, anybody’s game, and the Colorado team managed a goal in the second half and ended up winning the Championship Game 1-0.
At the final whistle about half a dozen of our players literally collapsed onto the ground, our players having suffered from oxygen deprivation for at least half the game. Watching the game it was obvious that they were all suffering tremendously but they played on with fierce determination. After the game, in addition to the comments from the Colorado parents, the respect on their faces and on the faces of their players was incredulous. And it eerily overwhelmed their victory.
This is what conditioning can accomplish.
The opening game of "The Time is Now Tour" will be televised by the NHL Network this Wednesday at 7:30pm ET.
Looking at the full schedule, the following four games will unfortunately require a paid streaming subscription to "HockeyTV". Obviously this cannot possibly help build a wider audience for women's hockey leading up to the Olympics.
https://teamusa.usahockey.com/page/sh...nted-by-toyota
The teams also play Dec. 3 in St. Paul, Minn., Dec. 5 in Winnipeg, Dec. 15 in San Jose, Calif., and Dec. 17 in Edmonton.
So we play the Canadians 6x on NHL ice. Who has the advantage on Olympic ice??
FINAL: USA 1 USA's pants 5
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