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February 8, 2002
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Mounsey making name for himself following in sister’s hockey footsteps
New Hampshire sophomore defenseman Mick Mounsey could have an interesting response to an opponent who tries to get under his skin by saying, “You skate like your sister.” Mounsey just might say, “Thank you.” Mick’s older sister, Tara Mounsey, is a defenseman on the U.S. women’s Olympic team. “She used to babysit me and beat up on me,” quipped Mick, who is three years younger than Tara and is having a pretty good season in his own right. Through New Hampshire’s first 22 games, he led the team in plus-minus at plus-22 and had one goal and 12 points. Despite his solid play, he occasionally gets chided by an opponent who tells him he isn’t as good as his sister, but the 6-foot-1, 200-pound Mounsey has no problems being the proud little brother. “She’s pretty…
PRELIMINARY ROUND: GROUP A
Lack of size a huge problem for Latvia RECENT HISTORY The former Soviet republic, which produced the speedy Helmut Balderis, known as ‘Elektrizhka’ (the electric train), made its World Championship A pool debut in 1997 earning ties with both Canada and Sweden, and has qualified for its first Olympics. STRENGTHS Core of team has played together in the last five World Championships. Intense national pride and an experienced coach in Swede Curt Lindstrom, who guided Finland to a bronze medal in the 1994 Olympics and its first World Championship gold medal in 1995. WEAKNESSES Overall lack of size has a tendency to cost the Latvians in battles for the puck in the corners and along the boards. Many forwards are 5-foot-10 and under. BEST PLAYER Arturs Irbe: The 35-year-old Carolina Hurricanes netminder, who has…
Unhappy birthday this year for Messier
Mark Messier has had happier birthdays. He spent his 41st birthday Jan. 18 as one frustrated athlete. The New York Rangers captain was battling a shoulder injury that wouldn’t heal. “Any time he works out and lifts real hard, it gets real sore again,” Rangers coach Ron Low said. “They said it takes a long time. It could be four days, four weeks, four months.” Messier sat out nine games in a row after Low ordered him out of the lineup in Denver Jan. 3, and his absence threatens to get longer. Messier, just three games shy of becoming the fourth player in history to play 1,600 regularseason games, has what the team’s medical experts call rotator cuff impingement syndrome, an inflammation of the rotator cuff tendon group. He has been injected twice with cortisone,…
One final chance for great generation
It took a minor miracle for the United States to win gold at the 1960 Olympics. It took a major miracle for the U.S. to repeat in 1980. Divine intervention had nothing to do with the U.S. victory in 1996 at the World Cup of Hockey. That took worldclass talent, and lots of it. Granted, good and even great American players had excelled on the world stage before that NHL-driven tournament. Never before had America had so many top players on top of their games. The 1998 Olympics in Nagano was supposed to be an encore for the World Cup alumni. After embarrassing themselves on the ice and in the Olympic village, the same core players will represent Team USA again in the 2002 Olympics. With or without a medal, this is last call for…
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