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U.S. Women’s Hockey Beats China 12-1 — Again (WSJ.com: The Daily Fix) Submitted at 2/14/2010 4:47:22 PM
Brian Burke: A Father's Love Story by Lisa Olson (FanHouse Main)
bet on Burke's plucky squad or give the man a hug. It was comforting to watch Submitted at 2/15/2010 12:28:00 AM Burke on the dais alongside head Filed under: USA, Ice Hockey coach Ron Wilson and four V A N C O U V E R , B r i t i s h Team USA players as they held Columbia -- This was a relaxed their first press conference of the Brian Burke, a cheerful Brian Games. For close to an hour Burke, a feisty and defiant Brian Sunday in a room off the Burke. The general manager of glorious waterfront, Burke talked the U.S. men's Olympic hockey shop with fellow hockey lovers, team -- aka the little team that and it made him smile, especially believes it can knock off the when he got to tweak the Canadian and Russian machines Canadians, and maybe for a nano -- was working off the cuff, -second it made him forget. charming and lecturing a room Five days ago, Burke buried his full of journalists who weren't 21-year-old son Brendan, who quite sure if they should place a was killed in an automobile
accident on a snowy Indiana road Feb. 5. If Burke had any qualms about fulfilling his Olympic duties, they were shushed when he looked around at his son's funeral and saw thousands of mourners, many of them from the tight-knit hockey brotherhood, guys he had played with in college and scouts and broadcasters and general managers from nearly every NHL team -- they had come from all corners of the world to say goodbye to an extraordinary young man.
The women kicked off U.S. hockey’s Olympic Games with a 12-one defeat over China, led by a hat trick from Jenny Potter and two goals from Meghan Duggan. AFP/Getty Images Not a bad way to start the Games, especially for a team filled with potentially jittery rookies. But given the U.S.’s record with the Chinese — at their last Olympic meeting in Salt Lake City, the score was also 12-one – it didn’t come as much of a surprise. China had only 7 shots on goal in the entire game, while the U.S. had a whopping 61. The lopsided scoreboard didn’t stop fans from getting into the action at the UBC Thunderbird Arena: There was the requisite
cow-bell jangling, and a boisterous crowd of Canadians cheering for both teams. Vice President Joe Biden stopped by. When Fengling Jin scored China’s one and only goal in the last minutes of the game, the crowd roared to life. Her glory was short-lived: the U.S.’s Julie Chu scored one final goal with less than a minute left of play. Next up for the U.S.: Russia on Tuesday and Finland on Thursday.