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Women-in-Hockey Digest Sunday, April 2 2000 Volume 01 : Number 642
In this issue:
Re: Tryouts for Chiefs and other NWHL teams
US players vs. Canadian players
RE: US players vs. Canadian players
Re: US players vs. Canadian players
Re: US players vs. Canadian players
Re: US players vs. Canadian players
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Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 21:10:00 -0500 (EST)
From: Spiro Papuckoski
Subject: Re: Tryouts for Chiefs and other NWHL teams
Just pointing out another camp being set up by the
Durham (Clearnet) Lightning.
From my story on the team at the end of their season:
However, while that is being done, the team has set up
an elite rookie camp for April 29-30. The camp
includes six hours of ice time each day and off-ice
conditioning. The team hopes to see some new faces
from the Durham community.
"We're hoping that our own players and other players
to come out and have a chance to see what the game is
all about."
http://www.canoe.ca/HockeyWomen/mar4_lig.html
Spiro Papuckoski
SLAM! Sports
- --- Andria Hunter wrote:
> Most of the NWHL teams will be holding tryouts in
> May 2000.
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Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 19:12:29 EDT
From: email@hidden
Subject: US players vs. Canadian players
I've been doing alot of reading up on current and past players of Team USA
and Team Canada's national teams and one thing really strikes me as odd.
Several US players retired after the Olympics after winning the gold medal.
They decided to move on with careers and relationships rather than to keep
training and playing. When it comes to Team Canada, however, it's the same
old faces all the time with very few rookies making the lineups! They quit
jobs regularly and probably give up normal life activities just to keep
playing. How could someone give up a good job with seniority just to keep
training and playing? Is it that important? More important than to keep a
quality job in the real world? Jobs aren't easy to come by, especially good
jobs! There has to be a time when you have to say enough is enough already.
The kind of money they receive from Canadian Hockey to train is peanuts. It
seems to me that US players have more sense when it comes to making a
critical life decision like when to stop playing and to move on with life.
The only rational I can come up with for this behavior is that they just
cannot live with that Olympic silver medal and will go all out to try and
regain a gold. Pretty sad in my opinion.
Kelly #24
Mesa Munchers
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Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 16:30:37 -0700
From: "Phil Cottrell"
Subject: RE: US players vs. Canadian players
Kelly said:
>The only rational I can come up with for this behavior is that they just
cannot live with that >Olympic silver medal and will go all out to try and
regain a gold. Pretty sad in my opinion.
How's this for a rationale: Love of the game (and competition) and a fire in
the belly that just won't go out, other commitments notwithstanding. I don't
know, maybe you'd have to be Canadian to understand. No offence to the
American hockey-lovers here, I know Kelly doesn't speak for you.
Sad? We'll see you on the ice :)
Phil, Victoria, BC
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Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 19:54:54 EDT
From: email@hidden
Subject: Re: US players vs. Canadian players
Well, I'm American, and I would do anything to play at the national level.
Jennie
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Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2000 17:49:31 -0700
From: Anne Paulson
Subject: Re: US players vs. Canadian players
At 07:12 PM 4/2/00 EDT, email@hidden wrote:
> When it comes to Team Canada, however, it's the same
>old faces all the time with very few rookies making the lineups! They quit
>jobs regularly and probably give up normal life activities just to keep
>playing. How could someone give up a good job with seniority just to keep
>training and playing? Is it that important? More important than to keep a
>quality job in the real world? Jobs aren't easy to come by, especially good
>jobs! There has to be a time when you have to say enough is enough already.
I couldn't disagree more... but then, I've never wanted to be "normal" and
I'm a big believer in doing what you love and the heck with what someone
else thinks. If these elite athletes love playing, want to continue
playing and can continue playing, more power to them. Soon enough, they'll
be surpassed by younger players.
Oh, and at least where I live, good jobs *are* easy to come by.
- --Anne Paulson
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Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2000 17:56:09 -0700
From: Anne Paulson
Subject: Re: US players vs. Canadian players
>At 07:12 PM 4/2/00 EDT, email@hidden wrote:
>> When it comes to Team Canada, however, it's the same
>>old faces all the time with very few rookies making the lineups! They quit
>>jobs regularly and probably give up normal life activities just to keep
>>playing.
I have another thought on this. The Canadian players, at least the ones in
eastern Canada, keep playing because they can: there is an elite-level
women's league. The American players don't have that luxury, so they are
forced to give up top-level competition in the sport they love. Perhaps in
a few years there will be US-based top-level women's leagues, maybe even
North American pro leagues, and both Americans and Canadians can keep playing.
- --Anne Paulson
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