Canada vs. Team USA
28.02.10
It promises to be the most challenging competitions of the Olympic Games in Vancouver, Canada against the U.S. hockey team. I'll watch because I have some connections to bluster sport.
My mother was born in Vancouver eighty-three years yesterday. Although it does not skip to enjoy it, I know where his mind May be, she is very proud of his hometown and the country remains. His father was an executive at the retailer well known Canadian, Hudson Bay Band. Although she later became an American citizen, she had many fond memories of his childhood, including walking several miles to instill in snowshoes.
I was born in Chicago, the same year, my paternal grandmother saw his first game of ice hockey competent person. Even if she had come to his home in New Orleans for the Christmas holidays, she was able to endure the cold stage in Chicago with great humor. "I went to a conflict and a hockey game broke out, it was reported to have said, laughing.
One of my first memories of hockey was to conquer the United States on Canada at the 1960 Olympics in Squaw Valley. I started playing hockey on an outdoor rink in the Village Park Jewett suburban Deerfield.I played defense and goalie mainly because I was not an agile skater. Most children skated unaware of the bone arctic temperatures. Our brand of hockey was fast, exciting, awkward and uncompromising. I suffered three broken nose while playing, the other with a high stick and the other elbow.
Source: Huffington Post (blog)
Ray McNulty: Ryan Miller has ice in his veins
25.02.10
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When Joan Miller answered the phone up to the minute Wednesday afternoon, she sounded emotionally and physically drained, as if she had upstanding survived a life-and-death ordeal.
“I’m exhausted,” she told me from her accommodation at Martin Downs Country Club, where she and her husband, Butch, watched the U.S. beat Switzerland 2-0 in an Olympic hockey quarterfinal that was still in doubt in the final instant. “I played a hell of a game.”
Not “played,” strictly.
Not from here.
Not at 72 years old.
But Miller, a Canadian transplant and lifelong hockey fan who admits to “screaming and hollering at the TV” during the NHL salt, was as immersed and invested in what was happening on that Vancouver ice as anyone wearing a USA jersey.
And with worth reason: Her grandson, Ryan Miller, is the U.S. team’s No. 1 goalie and one of the heroes of the Americans’ surprising ebb to today’s Olympic semifinals.
He stopped 42 of 45 shots on purpose Sunday night in the U.S.’s stunning, 5-3 victory over Canada — with the win, the Americans grabbed the No. 1 cause in the medal round — then shut out Switzerland.
Source: Vero Beach Press-Journal (subscription)
Perspicacity and Sparks Network are betting interest in turning local ice hockey heavyweights into Lycra-clad dancers is more fitting to come from nations
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So much for stretch invaders and Christmas wrap- ice hockey skates & coke bottle lorgnette. So much for the ignorance of age. I miss you already.
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