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...Bright Hockey Center, these students included the three Hobey Baker Award Winners and fellow-Olympians Scott M. Fusco ’85, Mark E. Fusco ’83, and B. Lane MacDonald ’88, as well as other Olympic contenders such as Donato and many NHL players.Donato, who Cleary described in 1990 as having “a lot of poise” and making “things happen all over the ice,” in turn characterizes Cleary as “someone who brought excitement and fun to playing hockey at Harvard...
...just his second NHL game, Pittsburgh Penguin Noah Welch ’05 did the unthinkable: he beat his own netminder, Marc-Andre Fleury, and notched a goal for the opposing Montreal Canadiens...
...star in his first season with Pittsburgh’s top minor league franchise, the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, Welch was tapped to replace suspended NHL defenseman Eric Cairns for three games in late March. And wouldn’t you know, Welch’s own-goal made SportsCenter’s “Not Top 10”—in fact, it was the No. 1 blunder...
...Wednesday's four medals--all by women--were promptly buried in the avalanche of gloom accompanying the loss that night by Canada's defending Olympic champion men's hockey team. Some $90 million of NHL talent was bounced from the Games by Russia, a turn of events team boss Wayne Gretzky called "absolutely devastating...
...Canada's gold-medal female hockey players don't dream of NHL careers. Its cross-country skiers have few chances to parlay their athletic prowess into pro-sports careers. "They're not going to get that, and they know it. It isn't about the money," says Lofstrom. "They're in sport because it's their passion and, corny as it sounds, for the love of sport." Lofstrom expects the female fortitude to continue in 2010. "The depth of the women's field is great. To have experience at these Games going into the next Games on home soil...