Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have an intense dislike and an intense rivalry," said Canadian coach Shannon Miller after seeing 20 penalties in a preliminary game, on Valentine's Day, that officially meant nothing. But when the American women beat her team for the second time in three days, Miller looked up and "had a feeling of joy going through my body. Because what I realized was an Olympic gold medal was being hung around the neck of a female hockey player...
...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...
...definitely do think that we're going to keep doing that in the future," Stone said. "We've been attracting kids like Kiirsten Suurkask '01 and Tammy Shewchuk '00, who both were in competition for spots on the Canadian team...
...Kariya, 23, a fourth-generation Canadian of half-Japanese heritage, isn't part of the first 125 NHL players to participate in the Olympics. The man Hockey News named the best player in the world was stateside nursing a concussion received on Feb. 1, when he took a stick to the head while celebrating a goal. Kariya was grounded by doctors last Thursday. It was, he told Team Canada general manager Bob Clark, "the worst day of my life." The guy who held the offending stick, Gary Suter, despite an NHL suspension, will be playing for the U.S. That makes...
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...