Should have known better than to question a hockey writer from the St. Paul Trib.
I'm self-imposing a double-minor for gross stupidity with intent to distribute.
Posted on 01/05/2006 5:49:56 AM PST by wallcrawlr
On a night filled with honor and fun, the U.S. women's Olympic hockey team faced the Warroad High School boys. The boys won 2-1.
WARROAD, MINN. - Both the U.S. women's Olympic hockey team and the Warroad High School boys' team said their unusual match Wednesday night was about honor.
The boys said they wanted to rise to the honor of facing some of the world's best women players and doing them justice.
The women said they wanted to honor the town and the people who have done perhaps more for hockey than any town in the United States.
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...coaches agreed to a no-checking rule.
But the young Warroad Warriors lived up to the town's long history of hockey honor, winning 2-1 by beating the women at their own game of finesse and speed.
A crowd of more than 2,000 fans packed the 1,700-seat Gardens Arena in this town of about 1,800 on the Canadian border.
In a scene reminiscent of coach Herb Brooks' speech to the U.S. men's "Miracle on Ice" team in 1980, Warroad co-head coach Albert Hasbargen said he told the boys in the locker room that this was a unique opportunity for a high school team to show what it could do against what is probably the best women's team in the world.
He said the boys responded by "playing in the first period probably the best hockey of their lives. We were all over them. They couldn't make their passes."
The boys' winning strategy was to drive the puck as often as they could to the corners of the rink.
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Yes, because some of us male types are unable to comprehend that the games are simply played differently.
I have a daughter playing Division 1 lacrosse in the Big East, and yes, a 14-16 boys team would kick their a$$e$ if the game was played according to the men's rules. If the boys played to the women's rules, I'd be surprised if they scored at all (no pockets in the sticks, very different rules about defense around the goal, and so on).
And I have also watched a few high school baseball players attempt to stand in the batter's box with a pretty fair softball pitcher on the mound. That was a funny sight.
Your post has been submitted to the Thought Police for investigation. As you know, any subversion of the Title IX hegemony will be dealt with severely.
Go watch a women's lacrosse game. Girls can play excellent and high caliber team sports as well.
/ dad of athletic daughter mode
That's probably a part of it. Canada's team plays a regular schedule against Junior level opposition where they are about a .500 team.
Don't forget Nissan Xterras.
If the games have significantly different rules, then you cannot really use sport for comparison: it seems to me that the legitimate comparisons are in sports where the rules do not significantly differ. I noticed in the hockey game cited in this article, they played pretty much by the girls rules.
I think the US women just beat the Canadian women 5-3 prior to this game.
Painting on ice doth not Hockeytown make. Minnesota was producing players for the NHL long before Detroit ever thought to call itself "Hockeytown". Warroad has been "Hockeytown USA" for years, primarily as an advertising slogan for Christian Brothers hockey sticks.
< / Minnesota xenophobia>
I read an article by Rod Laver a couple of years ago, actually it was in a paperback book, where he said Riggs purposely threw the game to King.
Seriously, you've hit on one of the Great Truths of Riding. Your body follows your eyes. If you look down past the horse's shoulder to the ground, your head and shoulders will round over, following your eyes. If you let the process continue, your center of gravity will follow and you will fall off! Even if you don't fall off, your weight will tend to go forward, put the horse on his forehand, and unbalance him.
You should look up and ahead at the next obstacle, the next bit of ground after the obstacle, etc. You have to always be thinking one step ahead of your horse, so you can help him along.
You'll also notice that young lady (who does have a bit of a fixed expression on her face) is sitting well back. The back seat is the place to be on a big drop (it's a good place to be a lot of the time, unless you're actually in the air over a jump).
Should have known better than to question a hockey writer from the St. Paul Trib.
I'm self-imposing a double-minor for gross stupidity with intent to distribute.
I'm that the coaches were afraid that the boys could be hurt.
Women can play men's games if we just make a few rule changes.
ha ha
Was she 46 feet away, or sixty feet away? This argument has always intrigued me. Yes, softball pitchers throw extremely hard, but for a true comparison you'd have to let a baseball pitcher throw from 46 feet. Which I don't think anyone could hit.
I have one sensitive spot in my sports lexicon: Minnesota hockey.
"You go to the box for two minutes, by yourself .. and you feel shame. And then you get free." - Denis Lemieux, Slapshot
Cheers!
The NHL has done quite a bit with rule changes this year. With the way referees are calling penalties, the big hit is becoming the exception rather than the rule.
Unfortunately, I don't think the standard of officiating has raised with the rule changes. I have the Center Ice package and the one thing I've noticed is that referees have no idea how to call hooking.
The "range country" area had long been a center of hockey excellence in the U.S., with descendants of northern European settlers working in the mining and logging industries providing a disproportionate number of top-level U.S.-born hockey players. Four members of the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team are from that area, including Bill Baker (Grand Rapids), John Harrington (Virginia), Mark Pavelich (Eveleth), and Buzz Schneider (Babbitt). It's no accident that the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame is located in Eveleth.
The Warroad area -- located in the low-lying farm country along the Canadian border west of International Falls, Minnesota -- also has a storied hockey tradition. Two members of the 1980 team -- Neal Broten (Roseau) and Dave Christian (Warroad) -- are from that part of the world.
The game may be "under construction," but it is also a completely different game. Women's hockey rules prohibit checking, so the women's game is actually very similar to the game played by young kids in amateur leagues.
Interestingly, I think one sport where women could probably compete on equal terms with men (if not surpass them) is the biathlon -- which combines cross-country skiing and target shooting. Women have a natural advantage because of their lower active and resting heart rates, which means they can often shoot more accurately after strenuous exertion than men can.
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