Word: canadas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Botterill, a forward from Alberta, Canada, scored 37 goals and assisted on 51 others for the season...
...they play on arch-rival national hockey squads, and not just any arch-rivals: Botterill skates for Canada and Ruggiero for the United States...
Once on their respective national teams, Botterill and Ruggiero spent the rest of the year training at the Olympic Oval in Calgary and Lake Placid in upstate New York, traveling for exhibition games against men's teams and other national squads. The schedule included many scrimmages between Canada and the United States, though Ruggiero and Botterill never...
...Nagano, Canada was picked to be among the strongest teams in the tournament, but the United States still had much to prove. When the finals came, however, it was a North American duel. Team USA came...
...There is so much excitement, so much pressure and so much crowd support at the Olympics," Botterill said. "It had been a dream of mine since I was really small to go to the Olympics and represent Canada, so to get there it was incredible...