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...games already and we just had our first on Saturday,” Johnston said. “It was good playing a fast-paced, high-level game.” This was the third game of an 11-game tour—officially dubbed the Hilton Family Skate to 2006 Tour—for the U.S. National Team as it prepares for the 2006 Winter Olympics. “Our goal is to try to give them a little bit of a challenge on their way to Turino,” Stone said before the game...
...backups could fill. While Grumet-Morris’s 1.63 goals-against average (GAA) of last season will be hard to match, senior John Daigneau and junior Justin Tobe will certainly try.The two split time in Harvard’s 4-3 exhibition loss to McGill last Friday. Daigneau skated the first 30 minutes and stopped all nine shots he faced, while Tobe played the second 30 minutes, stopping nine shots and allowing four goals.“The coaches feel that both of us [Daigneau and Tobe] are good enough to split,” Daigneau said...
...season. And his second score, which tied the game at three apiece midway through the third period, provided the first glimpse of rookie Jimmy Fraser, who assisted on the tally. Senior Charlie Johnson threaded a pass to Fraser through the McGill defense, allowing him and Pelle to skate in unimpeded. Once goalie Mathieu Poitras committed, Fraser—skating with that unit only because senior Dan Murphy had been ejected in the second period—flipped the puck across the crease to Pelle, who tucked it into the vacated net. TWO-MINUTE MINORS Sophomore Alex Meintel was sidelined...
...Anne Carson’s poetry or prose, the author herself defining a quotation as “a slice of someone else’s orange.” Less tactful, her definition of the verbal equivalent is to “suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away.” But risking perilousness, Carson writes that “Brittle failure occurs / of course / when stress on a material exceeds its / tensile force...
...Girls Skate Too In his interview with TIME, skateboard champion Tony Hawk did a disservice to young women everywhere when he noted that his arena tour showcasing the sport is "one of the few events dads and sons can equally enjoy" [May 9]. What, girls don't skateboard? In his offhand statement, Hawk reveals the prevailing mentality: there are places where girls belong and places where they do not. Stop the brainwashing of young girls! Shelly Riley Steamboat Springs, Colorado...