Lamoureuxs Olympic Run

[star2city]

Star and Tribune: Hockey and a Marine

[Pony1976]

http://www.fightingsioux.com/ViewArticle.d...DB_OEM_ID=13500

[Teeder11]

Lammy twins had a solid day in the 4-Nations tourney today in Sweden, beating the hometeam 8 to zilch. MLK had 2 G and a helper and JoLam had 1 G and 2 assists ( I believe, something like that). Canada took care of Finland 5-0 in the first game.

[farce poobah]

Game 2 of Four Nations - Canada 3, USA 1.

Jocelyne L. with the USA goal:

http://www.hockeycanada.ca/index.php/ci_id/75138/la_id/1/game_id/174190/season_id/172879/ss_id/170713/

[Teeder11]

Team USA beat Canada today in the 4-Nation's Tourney in Sweden 4-3 in an overtime shootout. JoLam had 2 assists and MLK had an assist in the victory, which avenged USA's only loss in the prelims. Way to go, USA! Sweden took bronze, defeating Finland and UND's Michelle Karivinen 2-1 in overtime. Karvinen was held scoreless in the game.

There's a big drop off talent-wise between USA-Canada and Sweden-Finland, and an even bigger landslide from the aforementioned four to the rest of the international women's field. Need more parity or this sport will go the way of women's softball and will be dropped from Olympic competition.

One radical proposal might be to divide Teams USA and Canada into four teams (Team USA West, Team USA East, Team Canada West and Team Canada East), at least, until the rest of the world can catch up. Team USA West would comprise players who hail from hometowns west of a predetermined meridian that runs down the eastern border of Ohio, i.e. players from Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, etc. Team Canada West would comprise players from Manitoba to British Columbia.