Mark Johnson
Mark Johnson
Ice hockey coach and former NHL forward who won a gold medal in 1980 with the U.S. Olympic hockey team.
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth22 September 1957
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We thought it would be good to start off with a little bit of action, and secondly, tell a young audience what was going on in England and how disempowered these kids were.
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It can get a bit nerve-racking for a 17- or 18-year-old kid. So with here that was probably the biggest hurdle to get over. You come across Lake Michigan and it seems like you're in California. But I think she was comfortable here from the beginning.
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To do what we have done in four years, yeah, it's a little bit surprising. But at the same (time), if you bring in good players and you bring in kids who are committed not only for the academic standpoint but also committed to becoming better players, things can happen.
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Well, we've been pretty consistent with our statements and what we want to do as a group, and that gets better each weekend. We've certainly made some strides in the early part of September to where we are now, but now it's time to elevate the bar a little bit more. The team has done some real nice things up to this point, and we've won a lot of hockey games, but now you got to keep watering it and put a little fertilizer on it and grow with it.
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Slowly, we're getting healthy. We did a little bit of fundamentals, but we used (the extra day) basically just to heal up.
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It (was) just a matter of each team sort of weathering the storm at different points in the game, ... We were fortunate with about seven or eight minutes to go in the third period they hit the post twice or three times in one shift. So we sort of survived a bullet there and were able to get that goal under five minutes and it gives you a little bit of momentum.
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When you have Nikki and you have Adam, two leaders on both teams, strong-willed kids, that's what makes it unique.
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When people leave Minneapolis on Sunday, they'll only remember the team that won. You only remember the team that won it. That's the mission. We're a part of it, and why not go win it?
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We don't really break the rules in arguments.
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We are urging local residents to avoid U.S. 69 whenever possible, ... It's a bottleneck right now and will be until probably the weekend.
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At that point, I liked Laura, but I hadn't really thought about dating her until she brought up all the reasons we couldn't. I'm a litigator. I wanted to knock these five arguments down.
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At some stage, I heard there were plans to move the story to LA,
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At the end of the day, whoever is in net will do a good job. And that will be what we need.
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The government isn't the end-all for protecting your family,