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HAMILTON, N.Y.—Colgate assistant captain Kyle Wilson shredded the opposing defense, registering assists on all four Colgate goals as the Raiders defeated the Harvard men’s hockey team, 4-1, at Starr Rink on Friday night. Colgate junior winger Marc Fulton tallied the eventual game-winner with just 39 seconds remaining in the first period, converting from point-blank range on a feed from freshman blueliner Nick St. Pierre. Wilson earned the secondary assist on the play, already his second point of the night after he helped set up sophomore center Tyler Burton?...
ITHACA, N.Y.—With blood spattered all over his jersey, Crimson captain Peter Hafner tallied the go-ahead goal in the Harvard men’s hockey team’s 4-3 victory over No. 6 Cornell at Lynah Rink on Saturday night...
...Hockey players from the NHL know a thing or two about pressure. But how do they stay cool when the reputation--even the identity--of their country rests on their shoulders? The solution, say Canadian hockey stars at the 20th Olympic Games, is to seek out the mundane. As the Olympic hockey tournament began its march toward the grand finale at the Torino Games this Sunday, Canada's finest sought out a little normality by hitting Torino's shopping malls and gorging at local ristoranti. Some players were "itching to play cards--friendly games," says defenseman Adam Foote...
...Should Canadians, who expect nothing less than perfection in hockey, be worried? Upsets, of course, are always part of the equation in any Olympic event. And, says coach Pat Quinn, who also skippered the team at Salt Lake City in 2002 when Canada snapped a 50-year Olympic-gold-medal dry spell: "Talent isn't the only thing that wins here." Proper chemistry and discipline factor into the mix as well, and Canada showed little of either against the Swiss. Canadian forward Dany Heatley put it succinctly: "Things didn't go our way." In order to attain gold, this disparate...
...Other adjustments will be needed. Because the dimensions of Olympic hockey don't match the NHL's standards, the Canadians have to get used to a somewhat different game. With the Olympic rinks 4 m wider than those in the NHL, goaltending and special teams--power play and penalty killing--become even more critical. "Bigger ice surface, totally different game," says Finnish star Saku Koivu. "The NHL guys that are big and strong in front of the net and good in the corners in the NHL don't matter so much here...