USA, World's dominating force on ice.
Feb 25, 2002 21:21:34 GMT -5
Post by Cranky on Feb 25, 2002 21:21:34 GMT -5
Somebody get the Popiel Lobotomatic.......Herb Brooks needs some, uhh, help...................... 
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Please not start with anti American rant, however, feel free to say whatever you want about Larry Brooks.
A nasty and sarcastic letter is due. BadCompany will you do the honours or shall I? Any takers? Remember, you get points for sarcasm, witt and humour. No swearing please. No anti-American rant. Just direct it at Larry and his vast knowledge of hockey.
The rules are that you post what you wrote in the letter to the editor.
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Larry Brooks
February 24, 2002 -- THEY are on the brink of not only the gold medal but of stamping this country as the world's dominant force on ice. After capturing the World Cup in 1996, the United States is a victory away from its second championship in the last three international best-on-best tournaments.
Just think of it.
A win today in Salt Lake, and this will be known forevermore as the American Generation of Hockey.
And nothing Wayne Gretzky or Slava Fetisov might have to say will ever be able to change that.
Nearly every one of the best and brightest players our country has ever produced will be on the ice this afternoon against Canada, which hasn't won a whole-world's-watching event since 1987, two years before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Mike Richter, the greatest American goaltender who has ever lived, will be in nets. Brian Leetch and Chris Chelios, the greatest American players of all time, will be on defense. Brett Hull, the greatest U.S. scorer ever, will be in the trigger position.
Take a look down the bench of the post-Miracle tapestry, at emerging leader Billy Guerin, at the splendiferous Mike Modano, the redoubtable John LeClair; at Phil Housley, Doug Weight, Keith Tkachuk, Jeremy Roenick, Scott Young, Tony Amonte and Gary Suter.
It is a group that has worn and bled Red, White and Blue for the last two decades. It is a living, breathing American Ice Hockey Hall of Fame.
Take a look behind the bench, too. Because if this is America's team, it is just as surely Herb Brooks' team. He has constructed and instructed it, both, naming a squad early enough-and amid much criticism-to allow it to bond even while going about its NHL business separated by thousands of miles.
Brooks entered the arena last week with a glittering portfolio. He is a victory away from walking away from the rink as the greatest coach in the history of international competition. Of that there can be no argument.
While the Americans have been brilliant for all but about 40 minutes of the tournament, Canada has reached the summit by taking advantage of a confluence of fortuitous circumstances in the draw. The Canadians have neither beaten so much as a single formidable team nor have played so much as a single outstanding game.
The Canadians keep talking about how they've found harmony, how over the last week they've become a team. It sounds as if they're trying to convince themselves every bit as much as their homefront and the world. The Canadian team that lost the World Cup in 1996 didn't have Mario Lemieux, Paul Kariya or Rob Blake, who, with Scott Niedermayer, Adam Foote, Joe Sakic and Steve Yzerman have been its best players in Salt Lake. But Pat Quinn's team - Pat Quinn? - will need far more from far many more in order to fulfill its charge this afternoon. And they will need Martin Brodeur to have the game of his life.
It is all on the line this afternoon. All of it. Gold - and world supremacy.
It is Canada, which simply must win. Against the United States, which simply will win.
We are living in the American Generation of Hockey.
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.......... ;DPlease not start with anti American rant, however, feel free to say whatever you want about Larry Brooks.
A nasty and sarcastic letter is due. BadCompany will you do the honours or shall I? Any takers? Remember, you get points for sarcasm, witt and humour. No swearing please. No anti-American rant. Just direct it at Larry and his vast knowledge of hockey.
The rules are that you post what you wrote in the letter to the editor.
www.nypost.com/postopinion/letters/letters_editor.htm
<><><><><><><><><><><>
www.nypost.com/seven/02242002/sports/olympics/39507.htm
Larry Brooks
February 24, 2002 -- THEY are on the brink of not only the gold medal but of stamping this country as the world's dominant force on ice. After capturing the World Cup in 1996, the United States is a victory away from its second championship in the last three international best-on-best tournaments.
Just think of it.
A win today in Salt Lake, and this will be known forevermore as the American Generation of Hockey.
And nothing Wayne Gretzky or Slava Fetisov might have to say will ever be able to change that.
Nearly every one of the best and brightest players our country has ever produced will be on the ice this afternoon against Canada, which hasn't won a whole-world's-watching event since 1987, two years before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Mike Richter, the greatest American goaltender who has ever lived, will be in nets. Brian Leetch and Chris Chelios, the greatest American players of all time, will be on defense. Brett Hull, the greatest U.S. scorer ever, will be in the trigger position.
Take a look down the bench of the post-Miracle tapestry, at emerging leader Billy Guerin, at the splendiferous Mike Modano, the redoubtable John LeClair; at Phil Housley, Doug Weight, Keith Tkachuk, Jeremy Roenick, Scott Young, Tony Amonte and Gary Suter.
It is a group that has worn and bled Red, White and Blue for the last two decades. It is a living, breathing American Ice Hockey Hall of Fame.
Take a look behind the bench, too. Because if this is America's team, it is just as surely Herb Brooks' team. He has constructed and instructed it, both, naming a squad early enough-and amid much criticism-to allow it to bond even while going about its NHL business separated by thousands of miles.
Brooks entered the arena last week with a glittering portfolio. He is a victory away from walking away from the rink as the greatest coach in the history of international competition. Of that there can be no argument.
While the Americans have been brilliant for all but about 40 minutes of the tournament, Canada has reached the summit by taking advantage of a confluence of fortuitous circumstances in the draw. The Canadians have neither beaten so much as a single formidable team nor have played so much as a single outstanding game.
The Canadians keep talking about how they've found harmony, how over the last week they've become a team. It sounds as if they're trying to convince themselves every bit as much as their homefront and the world. The Canadian team that lost the World Cup in 1996 didn't have Mario Lemieux, Paul Kariya or Rob Blake, who, with Scott Niedermayer, Adam Foote, Joe Sakic and Steve Yzerman have been its best players in Salt Lake. But Pat Quinn's team - Pat Quinn? - will need far more from far many more in order to fulfill its charge this afternoon. And they will need Martin Brodeur to have the game of his life.
It is all on the line this afternoon. All of it. Gold - and world supremacy.
It is Canada, which simply must win. Against the United States, which simply will win.
We are living in the American Generation of Hockey.
