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Duluth Head Coach Shannon Miller was the boss behind the Canadian bench at the Olympics in 1998 when her team won a silver medal. Stacy Wilson, now an assistant coach at Duluth, was the captain of Team Canada. Manon Rheaume, who was Canada's starting goaltender in Nagano and was...
U.S. Nationa Team players, including Harvard sophomore Angela Ruggerio, were absent from college hockey this year and will be gone again next year for the Olympics. Team Canada allowed its college players, most notably Botterill and Shewchuk, to play this year but they will also be away for the Olympics...
It's not the same for Swedish or Finnish players. Niether of those countries have a standing national team, and players from those countries will be allowed to compete in the Olympics and play college hockey next year.
For McAuliffe it was only her ninth point of the season, but with graduation and the Olympics hitting the team hard, she will return next season as the team's third leading scorer amongst forwards.
The 1998 Olympics and the 1997 Three Nations Cup are the only major international prizes that the U.S. has ever won. Canada has won the six previous World Championships.