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Women-in-Hockey Digest Tuesday, April 11 2000 Volume 01 : Number 653
In this issue:
Nationals
Re: Worlds
Sami Jo Small: Globe and Mail
Re: Team Canada Pics And Roster
Hefford as PoG
RE: Hefford as PoG
RE: Hefford as PoG
Brampton
Re: Worlds
Re: WWHC: Gold Medal Game
Re: Worlds
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Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 05:29:11 -0400
From: Debbie Minden
Subject: Nationals
I spent most of last week at Nationals in Troy, Michigan. First of all,
congratulations to the organizers. As an observer and a parent, things
went well, and there were no complaints at all. Troy Sports Center, the
venue was great, clean, easily accessible, and the plan of the rink was
well thought out. When you travel a lot, that is a real plus.
It was an eyeopener to see the variation in skills across the country. We
went from winning one, to a close loss, to a major blow-out (9-0) Some of
the teams were select teams, while others were league teams. Both the
variations of skills and types of teams come from the fact that girls
hockey continues to vary from place to place, and is not yet fully
established in many parts of the country. The level of play among the
highest groups, however, was excellent. From what I could see, it rivaled
the play of boys at the same age. It was incredible to watch some of the
upper level teams live Wisconsin, Assabet, and California do their thing
even though we had to face it.
My only complaint, and it isn't really a complaint, is that there isn't
much mixing among the teams. I guess since they are rivals, and getting
into their tournament space, they don't have much time or headspace to mix
too much with the other teams. It is such a great opportunity to meet, but
I guess that the kind of venue doesn't really lend itself to great bonding.
Anyway, congratulations to all. It was a lot of fun, and a learning
experience as well. I know the girls on our team had the time of their
lives. It as a great way to end the season.
Debbie Minden
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Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 05:11:12 -0400
From: Debbie Minden
Subject: Re: Worlds
>They should think about having the final game in a bigger venue. They
>could have
> easily sold more tickets for the final. Maybe next time.
That is wonderful that the arena was sold out. The attendance at college
games seemed awfully low to me. It is good that women's hockey, at least
at the higher levels, is beginning to draw crowds.
Debbie
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Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 06:47:13 -0700
From: "Phil Cottrell"
Subject: Sami Jo Small: Globe and Mail
> This e-mail has been sent to you by Phil (email@hidden) from the
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> The Globe and Mail, Tuesday, April 11, 2000
>
> Small's big goal in life is to play hockey
> STICKING TO A DREAM After graduating from Stanford, star athlete passed
o=
> n lucrative career in business world
> By Beverley Smith
>
>
> Mississauga -- Little things make Sami Jo Small happy.
> Knowing that the rent to her basement apartment in Woodbridge, Ont., has
be=
> en paid. Sketching and painting portraits of her teammates. A free hockey
s=
> tick. (That's a big one.)
>
> Small, 24, had a front-row seat last week in helping Canada win its sixth
w=
> omen's world hockey championship at the Hershey Centre in Mississauga. And
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> when the week was over, she was chosen top goaltender of the tournament
for=
> the second consecutive year. In her world of flying pucks and mountainous
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> hockey pads, that's not such a little thing.
>
> Hockey has been Small's saving grace. But she's also given up a lot for
it.
>
> To play on the national team, the netminder from Winnipeg has put her
caree=
> r as a mechanical engineer on hold.
>
> Small graduated on a full track and field scholarship from Stanford
Univers=
> ity in California last June, specializing in product design, a field that
p=
> ieces together all of her best interests: design, mathematics and art.
Then=
> she made a difficult decision: To play women's hockey full-time.
>
> "That was the most difficult decision for me to make," she said last week.
>
> "At Stanford, there are top companies in there every day recruiting. Most
o=
> f my friends that I graduated with had starting salaries of $70,000 U.S. a
=
> year. To see that flash in front of you and say, no, I want to pursue a
dre=
> am, is really difficult.
>
> "But it's also very satisfactory. I can't say any of my friends are
enjoyin=
> g what they're doing as much as I am."
>
> And what a time she's having. Small's all-time goals-against average of
0.6=
> 0 and Kim St-Pierre's average of 1.01 rank them as the first and second
bes=
> t goaltenders in that category of any netminder who has played more than
10=
> games on the Canadian women's hockey team.
>
> St-Pierre, of Chateauguay, Que., was Small's partner in goalkeeping at
last=
> week's world championship. She's only 21. She played the semi-final game.
>
> In spite of Small's impressive statistics, she scrapes by. She's used to
li=
> ving on the Sport Canada stipend of $800 a month, eating Kraft Dinner.
Rece=
> ntly athletes got a raise. "I might be able to put meat sauce in there,
now=
> ," Small said with a laugh.
>
> Even though she plays the game at its highest level, with a team that has
n=
> ever lost a world title, Small must buy almost all of her own equipment.
Sk=
> ates are $300. One equipment manufacturer donates some pieces.
>
> Some team members have signed deals with equipment manufacturers. Small
has=
> n't had time to work on that detail yet.
>
> Small's helmet and pants are owned by Team Canada. After the tournament
she=
> had to give them back. Other players must return their pants, helmet and
g=
> loves.
>
> "We use them for two weeks of the year, and they go back into the pool and
=
> are used by world junior teams and other teams," Small said.
>
> Small's university degree has come in handy. She's designed her own
upper-b=
> ody protection. Most manufacturers design it all in one flat piece, but
Sma=
> ll split the gear into two pieces to fit women's bodies better.
>
> An upper flap covers the chest area and a second piece, something Small
cal=
> ls the "abs of steel," covers the abdomen. "No matter what size a woman is
=
> in the chest area, it will fit them," she said.
>
> Small's own protector -- that she did as a senior project at university --
=
> is getting a little threadbare, she said. "I didn't think I'd be wearing
it=
> this long [two years]. It's just a prototype."
>
> Now, the plastics are all falling apart. "I didn't manufacture it with the
=
> best materials," she said. "I just went to the dollar bin store."
>
> She sewed the equipment by hand. It wasn't a weekend project.
>
> It's a wonder that Small played hockey at all. Women's hockey wasn't big
in=
> Winnipeg where she grew up. Actually, there wasn't any that she knew of.
>
> "Nowadays there's five-year-old little girls playing," Small said. "It's
be=
> en an amazing progress that women's hockey has made, just in five years."
>
> But Small didn't have that. She excelled in discus and javelin at school,
a=
> nd she managed to get a track and field scholarship to a fine school five
y=
> ears ago. She'd been on three junior national teams.
>
> "I naively didn't think women's hockey was going to take off," she said.
"I=
> didn't even know that there was [National Collegiate Athletic
Association]=
> women's hockey at the time. . . . It just wasn't publicized then. I
didn't=
> know the options that girls had."
>
> For some strange reason, Small took her hockey equipment with her to sunny
=
> California. "I didn't go down thinking I was going to play hockey," she
sai=
> d.
>
> She played a few times, but it wasn't until after she had two bouts of
shou=
> lder surgery that she rediscovered hockey.
>
> Small felt guilty when problems cropped up in her shoulder during her
fresh=
> man year at Stanford. She recalled throwing a personal best in javelin one
=
> weekend, then the following Monday, feeling so sore she couldn't do
anythin=
> g. Resting the injury didn't help. It only got worse. Neither of her
should=
> er surgeries worked.
>
> "Through all this, psychologically, it was very difficult," she said. "I
wa=
> s on a full scholarship and I couldn't contribute.
>
> "There was definitely a lot of pressure," Small said. "On the weekend,
when=
> the meets were, I would have to take first throw, and then I wouldn't be
a=
> ble to throw for the next week. I couldn't even practise. I really felt
lik=
> e they [track coaches] wanted the points."
>
> But hockey was a way in which Small felt she was able to contribute. She
pl=
> ayed on a men's team. Although the men were supportive, Small's track
coach=
> es weren't. They made her quit on several occasions.
>
> "I kind of played behind their backs," she said. "But it made sport fun
aga=
> in. And throwing at that time wasn't. It was rehabbing every day."
>
> Her track injury didn't hamper her netminding. The injury hurts her only
wh=
> en she throws something, very, very hard.
>
> Small has followed her heart. And on Sunday it led her to the top of the
wo=
> rld in hockey. Last year, in her first appearance at a women's world
hockey=
> championship, she was chosen top goaltender.
>
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Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 07:09:54 -0700 (PDT)
From: Saz
Subject: Re: Team Canada Pics And Roster
Slam Sports Photo Gallery (lots of great photos):
http://www.canoe.ca/HockeyWomen2000Worlds/gallery.html
Canadianhockey.ca Scrapbook of Team Canada players
(there's lots of stuff at this site if you look
around, but it's a bit jumbled):
http://www.canadianhockey.ca/e/teams/womens/worlds/2000/scrapbook/index.html
Stats from the IIHF site:
http://www.iihf.net/9900/WWSA.asp
TSN
http://www.tsn.ca/canadianhockey/womens/
P.S. I agree, Jayna Hefford played awesome. I wonder
if she didn't get in part because of the penalty in
OT. Too bad about that, cause it looked questionable
to me (though I know there were other things that
weren't called).
Saz #42
- --- George Boccanfuso wrote:
> Anyone know where i can get pictures, stats etc. on
> the World
> Champs.......WOO HOO GO CANADA
>
> Jayna Hefford should have been player of the
> game...IMHO
>
>
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Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 10:25:13 -0400
From: "Dawn Elliott"
Subject: Hefford as PoG
I was thinking Jayna should have gotten player of the game as well. Perhaps
the fact that it was her penalty in OT swayed the Powers That Be.
Dawn
#14
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Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 07:46:14 -0700
From: "Phil Cottrell"
Subject: RE: Hefford as PoG
Agreed. Hefford just plain old took the game by the scruff of the neck and
turned everything around with her first goal, a superb individual effort. Up
to that point, the "team" hadn't done a thing, but she brought the crowd
back into it and turned the tide. Though I'm sure she sweated out that OT
penalty, she was very deserving of recognition.
Phil
> I was thinking Jayna should have gotten player of the game as
> well. Perhaps the fact that it was her penalty in OT swayed the Powers
That Be.
>
> Dawn
> #14
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Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 11:23:31 -0400
From: "Cindy Goodman"
Subject: RE: Hefford as PoG
I agree she definately should have been player of the game. There would have been no overtime without her. As well, based on what was allowed by the ref throughout the game, including numerous hits from both sides, that penalty should not have been called. It was not consistent with what was previously allowed.
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Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 12:00:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: email@hidden
Subject: Brampton
Hello,
Anyone out there on the Ithaca, NY, Toronto Tornados, or Colombus, OH teams going to Brampton (Senior CC division, I think)?
I'll be there playing for Green Machine
(from Boston, Mass).
Does anyone know the rules at Brampton for senior divisions regarding mouth guards, neck guards, etc?? Last time I went, I seem to remember that neck guards were mandatory but that
mouth guards weren't...
- -Jill
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Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 13:47:00 EDT
From: email@hidden
Subject: Re: Worlds
We had to let you win! After all, it's the ONLY sport you Canucklheads have
that you're good at! We wouldn't of wanted a mass suicide, or murder, of your
national team if we won because we need someone to kick the hell out of for
the next Olympic Gold Medal (the one that really counts for something)! :-)
Kelly Marie #24
>>Way to go you bums and princess', you made us all proud, not to mention
much easier to make a posting to the list today. I'll sign off now, I
wouldn't want Kelly to read anything into this. <<
>>You (Kelly) went to great lengths explaining how you could not
understand why Team Canada was made up of veteran players. Well there
was one thing you forgot to mention; that Team USA trains together for
at least the last year. So either these women have jobs in their home
towns and fly everyday to the training site or MAYBE USA hockey provides
them with house and lodging and don't have to work. And that 14 of the
players were on the Olympic gold medal team. So now who should we feel
sorry for? <<
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Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 14:42:59 -0400
From: Louise
Subject: Re: WWHC: Gold Medal Game
At 01:30 AM 10/04/00 -0400, Dawn Elliott wrote:
>For those who watched the game on TSN, did Cammi not look EXTREMELY pissed
>when she went to get the plate from Mike Harris?
I really hope that somebody explained right away to the players and staff
of Team USA and other teams that the overwhelming chorus of boos and
laughter during Mike Harris' presentations was for Premier Harris, not for
Team USA. (Part of a team liaison's job is to sort out cultural
misunderstandings, but I bet they never expected this one!) Could you hear
the booing on TSN? Did the commentators acknowledge it?
Louise
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Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 15:07:27 -0400
From: Louise
Subject: Re: Worlds
At 07:45 AM 10/04/00 -0400, Cindy Goodman wrote:
[about World's]
>They should think about having the final game in a bigger venue. They could
>have easily sold more tickets for the final. Maybe next time.
I wondered about that. At the first World's in 1990, there were about
twice as many fans at the final game as there were this year, but the arena
wasn't full. There's something exciting about being in a noisy sold-out
arena that's kind of missing when you can see empty seats up top.
This year, they probably could have sold out the Air Canada Centre for the
Gold Medal game, but I don't imagine they could have afforded to rent it
for any of the other games. And it probably would have been a logistical
nightmare to move everybody from the Hershey Centre to downtown Toronto
between the Bronze Medal game and the Gold Medal game.
Next year, how far apart are the US Nationals and the Worlds going to be?
Will there be any scheduling changes to either event to accommodate people
who want to play/watch US Nationals and also watch Worlds? It seems to me
like this could be a unique opportunity to raise awareness and increase
publicity both for local competitive hockey programs from around the USA
and for international hockey: Worlds organizers could sell tickets to
teams and families at Nationals who might otherwise get very little
exposure to international-calibre female hockey, Nationals might get more
publicity than usual because of the media in town for Worlds, some of the
Nationals players could participate in the between-periods demonstrations,
delegations from other countries, especially from Europe and Asia, could
find out more about how local competitive female hockey works in the USA
and maybe take home some hints, Worlds players from other countries could
be invited to perform ceremonial duties at Nationals, and everybody could
sell more souvenirs ...
Louise
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