The International Ice Hockey Federation is staging a Women's World
Championship in an Olympic year for the first time, with competition
due to begin in Denmark tomorrow.
Hilary Knight is unaccustomed to losing, leaving the face of the U.S. national women’s hockey team still feeling the sting of watching the Canadians celebrate their gold-medal victory at the Beijing Winter Games in February.
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) While his players and staff jetted to Denmark in preparation for the women’s world hockey championships, U.S. coach John Wroblewski was left behind in Buffalo, where he is essentially climbing the walls of his hotel room waiting to join them.