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When Cornell junior forward Joe Nieuwendyk--last year's ECAC Player of the Year--skipped his final year to play in the NHL, the Big Red had to find a legitimate scorer if it was to make a run at the league title...
Jennifer White is coming off a tremendous campaign between the pipes. Her numbers would catch the eye of any NHL scout--1.79 goalsagainst average and a 92.7 save percentage...
...looking forward to the Olympians beating The World at Calgary in February, you had to be encouraged by what you saw. Except for the top teams in the NHL, nobody in this hemisphere plays better hockey...
...inclusion of non-amateurs hasn't turned the Olympics into a Wayne Gretzky festival yet, as the NHL teams are reluctant to let their stars take a year off to go frolic with the Russians. Thus some of the top young talents in North America, such as Joe Nieuwendyk and Tony Hrkac, both Canadians, missed out on the Olympics by joining pro squads last March...
...professional circuit in Communist countries means that the best players in the nation compete in the Olympics, a luxury not available to the Americans and Canadians. Thus it was truly remarkable in 1980 when a bunch of rag-tag collegians thumped the Russian National Team, which routinely beat the NHL All-Stars...