Posted on 01/05/2006 8:49:52 AM PST by Rakkasan1
WARROAD, Minn. — Dennis Fermoyle has coached in state championship games. He has prepared his teams to face some of the top players in Minnesota. But nothing could prepare Fermoyle, the Warroad boys hockey co-coach, for Wednesday night. "I've had more butterflies today than I usually do," he said. Who could blame him? Even some Warroad 8-year-old hockey players such as Dryden Thompson and Cayne Kimble were picking against the Warriors when they played the U.S. women's hockey team in the Gardens. "I think the girls are going to win," Thompson said. The Warriors pulled out a 2-1 victory against a hard-charging U.S. team in front of more than 1,500 fans.
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3 minutes! That is quicker than the NFL reviews!
I remember one such goal in the NHL several years ago. A player blasted a slapshot at the goal, it hit the boards, and play continued as normal.
Several minutes later play was halted, a goal awarded, and the clock reset.
The puck had actually gone into the goal, but had ripped through the netting, thus hitting the boards and no one realized it when it happened.
For reference:
Battle of the Sexes in Hockeytown USA (Womens Olympic Team loses to High Schoolers)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1552286/posts
This article is not written very well. Is it saying that a team composed of 8-year old boys defeated the US Woman's Hockey Team?
read link with post 4. it's more better. ;)
I saw the Women's Olympic Hockey team play the University of Wisconsin a few years ago. I was stunned at the power and speed of the Olympic team, as well as their abilities to shoot and pass. It got to the point where the UW team was cheered if they actually managed to get the puck out of their own defensive end. I can see where they'd give a University men's team a hell of a game.
they weren't playing hockey. they're were playing women's hockey. it's like football and touch football.
Hockey ping-pong.
Thanks, Robt., xs pinged us to this from class.
Not the way my daughter played it. If she hadn't gotten a roughing or checking penalty by the 3rd period, she went out and got one.
Once she got pissed off right at the end of a period at one of the opponents. At the beginning of her shift at the next period she jumped on the ice, ignored the play, skated across the ice, knocked down the offender, and was halfway to the penalty box before the ref got his arm up.
I do agree, though, that there is a difference. They should allow the girls to check.
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