Ben Smith
Ben Smith
behind great left players teams
Great players are left behind when teams are selected. This team is no different than any other team.
best chance game means might players
Of all the players here, she might have the best chance of being here in 2010 or 2014 because of what the game means to her.
forward named players start stepped
The players named themselves. They stepped forward with the way they played. I think we'll start to take on a personality now.
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We are excited with the talent assembled for our U.S. women's national team. The festival featured a deep pool of players and really highlighted the tremendous development of women's hockey in the United States.
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The young players coming up in our team are really remarkable. That's one thing I hope people will remember about this year for this team: That we gave several young players a chance to take ownership and assert their place for the United States. ... I realize everybody has an opinion, and a lot of those opinions favored Cammi. But that's part of my job.
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I think they're ready to except the responsibility of being the leaders of this team. The natural feeling for players is to hang on too long. But time marches on. We're setting the clock to players that are playing at the highest level right now.
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Well, you saw why she's here. She's one of those players that's scored in every sport at every level she's played at. She's always had that particular knack.
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The core is pretty much intact from the world championship team. We think we have players of equal or greater ability. We still have a lot of experience. Their hockey knowledge is solid because of their backgrounds.
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In Shelley's case ... she's left parts of her body in rinks all over the world. Now it's up to the players left in the program not to fill that footprint -- those are special players -- but just to be able to line up alongside it.
breathing demanding early gave olympic
We had those early Olympic jitters, and their goaltender got into a zone, which made it a demanding afternoon. (Dunn's goal) gave us some breathing room.
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When I stand up in that (locker room) in front of 24 athletes, there aren't a lot of reassured faces looking up. They did a good job of keeping that out of their everyday psyche, but it's got to be present in people's minds. Even some of the people that you think were locks, they didn't think of it that way.
game miles plenty sleep
There's plenty of miles to go before we sleep. It's just another game in the books.
bit exercise figured last
We figured we'd get in one last bit of exercise before being cooped up for days.
bit fit personnel practice trying week
We put in some things in practice this week that fit our personnel a little bit more than some things that I've been trying to force-feed to them recently.