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Chasing Glory 2014
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NEED TO KNOW FOR SOCHI
IN SOVIET RUSSIA, RULES learn you. Not really. Anyone wanting the best possible Olympic hockey experience needs a major refresher. When the tournament travels outside North America, there’s a lot to grasp, from time differences to rule changes. Here’s your Sochi need-to-know. WHAT IS THE TOURNAMENT FORMAT? The same as Vancouver 2010. Teams play a three-game round-robin within their group. The winner of each group plus the best second-place team make the quarterfinal, while the remaining eight teams play a qualification game to determine the other four quarter-finalists. A team could lose all its round-robin games and win the qualification game to get into the quarters. The semifinal winners meet in the gold medal game and the semifinal losers play for the bronze medal. WHAT ARE THE TOURNAMENT GROUPINGS? The men’s Olympic field consists…
JUST HAPPY TO BE HERE
TEAM CAPTAIN TOMAZ RAZINGAR, ONE OF SLOVENIA’S GREATEST players ever, was in tears. He not only had witnessed a miracle, he had just been part of one. Ranked third in its four-team qualifying tournament with Belarus, Denmark and Ukraine in February, the Slovenians clinched their first Olympic berth in their history with a dramatic 2-1 win over the Danes. What’s more amazing, the ‘Risi’ (lynx), as they are sometimes called, did it without their best two players: 2012 Stanley Cup winner Anze Kopitar of the Los Angeles Kings and Detroit Red Wings prospect Jan Mursak, who both will play in the Olympics. Although the Slovenian team, coached by Kopitar’s father Matjaz, will be in tough at Sochi in a group with Russia, Slovakia and the United States, it does have some talent. The Rodman…
DOUGHTY’S WALK OF FAME
WHEN TEAM CANADA was assembled for the 2010 Vancouver Games, quick chemistry was needed and Chicago blueliners Duncan Keith and Brent Seabrook were a natural fit. But that’s before the youngest member of the squad began to soar. In the end, Los Angeles Kings defenseman Drew Doughty ended up playing with Keith on the team’s most effective pairing. Figuratively speaking, Doughty’s movement that season was up, up, up. In just his second NHL campaign when the Olympics rolled around, he was a huge asset to Team Canada. And that was on a D-corps with Hall of Famer Scott Niedermayer and future Hall of Famer Chris Pronger. “When I got named to the team I was a little surprised at first,” Doughty says. “I thought I deserved to be there, but I didn’t…
OVERLOADED OLYMPIAN
SOMETIMES AN ELITE NHL goaltender has far more to deflect and absorb than just enemy pucks. In his ninth season with the Rangers, the man known as 'The King' has been dealing with personal and professional issues as multi-layered as a Swedish royal family wedding cake. Consider the high-profile life of 31-year-old Henrik Lundqvist: • When the face of the franchise arrived at training camp, approaching the final season of his contract, negotiations on a new multi-year pact were crawling along, with each side saying it wanted the marriage between Lundqvist and the winter cohabitants of the newly renovated Madison Square Garden to continue for years. But Lundqvist tired of the media questions and, just before opening night said he wouldn’t further address the negotiations, which will result in a lucrative eight-year…
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