Word: granato
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...free throws to start the run, the Crimson turned it over and Shubik hit another pair, making it a four-point game. After sophomore guard Jeremy Lin turned it over yet again for Harvard, Sacred Heart forward Brice Brooks hit a three pointer with 1:28 left. Guard Luke Granato hit another pair of free throws to cap the run. Junior forward Evan Harris finally gave the Crimson a score to make it a seven-point game with 1:02 to play, but the team would not get any closer. “The key for us down the stretch...
...game exhibition series preceding the Nagano Olympics seeded the hostilities. In one game, Granato and Wickenheiser engaged in a high-sticking duel. Then Wickenheiser and Ruggiero squared off to fight. By the time the teams reached Nagano, tension had reached Mount Fuji heights. In an otherwise meaningless first-round game, a flurry of illegal body checks-open-ice hitting is not allowed in the women's game-resulted in 48 penalty minutes. U.S.A. rallied from 1-4 in the third period for a 7-4 victory, setting the stage for its gold-medal upset...
...Four years later at Salt Lake City, published rumors had Team U.S.A.'s players stomping on the maple-leaf flag on their locker-room floor in a psych-up ceremony. "There was no validity" to the story, Granato says. "I was highly offended because as captain, I just wouldn't allow that to happen." But the damage had been done. The Canadians were frothing. And during the gold-medal final, U.S. referee Stacey Livingston dealt a lopsided number of penalties to Canada, which added to their fury. "The refereeing was atrocious," recalls Canadian captain Cassie Campbell. "But we expected...
...What's next? Before the 2002 Games, Team U.S.A. leaned on veterans from Nagano, and the squad spent five months playing together. This time around, Smith, no sentimentalist, cut vets Shelley Looney and Granato after the 2005 tryout camp. "In the past six or eight years, we had the same faces," says Smith. "The team now is the future...
...Team U.S.A. is drawn primarily from Title IX-fueled colleges and is characterized by speed and playmaking finesse. But in the current pre-Olympic series, Canada won 8 of the first 9 against the Americans, raising doubts about the wisdom of chopping Granato and prompting Smith to experiment with Ruggiero at forward. In the series finale on New Year's Day in Winnipeg, however, Wendell scored twice in a 5-3 victory. Now the questions: Are the Canadians too old? Have they peaked too soon? Have the Americans lulled them into a false sense of security? "The Americans...