Word: canada
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...game five against the perennially-strong Canadian team, Mleczko notched two assists in the final period to seal a U.S. win, dishing to Elizabeth Brown and Patricia Dunn for scores. The U.S. squeezed out a 7-4 victory over Canada this time, but their northern neighbors would later prove that they were down...
Whyte's goal was the last scored by the United States in Nagano; the USA had competed valiantly, and once again topped Canada, this time by a score...
...been watching Nikki since I was a young girl in Canada," said sophomore Ana Cenanovic. "It's an honor to compete against an Olympian from my country, but her presence won't affect my concentration nor my performance...
...Canada has been harboring a grudge since 1966, when the two teams last met and the U.S. shocked its northern neighbor by winning the World Cup. Canadians began to rethink their national plan (More funding? A youth movement? Abandon NAFTA?), but what really upset them was learning that hardly anyone in the U.S. even knew about the contest. It's one thing to import Canadian NHL teams to southern U.S. cities, steal SCTV guys for SNL, infringe on fishing rights, but to beat them at their own sport? This could get ugly...
...Canada is likely to win its first gold since 1952 even without Kariya. And the NHL might not have got all the hype it hoped from him anyway. Sure, his skating would have been incredible to watch on the Olympic-size rinks, but his comments about not feeling very Japanese might not have played well, and his lack of stage presence might have worked against the flashy image the NHL wants to present. That's partly because he looks less like an athlete than that guy from your computer-science class. He's so small he was told he could...