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While athletes tallied up their Olympic medals in Torino, an hour's journey east in Milan another kind of Olympics played out last week: the style games. And, just like Olympians, Italian fashion designers divide into opposing teams - but instead of medals, they compete for the attention and the dollars...
Yet Gretzky dismissed distraction as an excuse, which then left him facing questions about the suitability of Canada's roster for the Olympic Games. The tried-and-true roster, earning nearly $100 million in NHL salaries and including 19 players with 2002 Olympics and/or 2004 World Cup experience, failed to...
Finishing third in the round-robin stage brought the consequence of facing Russia in the crossover quarterfinal. At the Torino Esposizioni--a barn-like arena typical of the Olympics that may have reminded many of the players of their junior hockey heritage--Canada couldn't convert eight power play opportunities...
In the 1990s, culminating with a no-medal performance at the 1998 Nagano Olympics, Hockey Canada analyzed the problems with the sport's development at home and adapted some European techniques to improve the style of play. But the Europeans learned how to hit like Canadians and yet continued to...
Canadian captain Cassie Campbell, who played in her third and very likely last Olympics, looks at video from the women's debut at Nagano in 1998 and thinks, "it's crazy how much bigger and better the game is today." She recalled the boost given hockey in the U.S. by...