U.S. men’s Olympic hockey team to be announced Jan. 1; U.S. women win Four Nations Cup opener
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The 23-man roster for the U.S. men’s Olympic hockey team will be announced Jan. 1 during the NHL’s Winter Classic game at Fenway Park.
The announcement of the team that will compete at the Vancouver Games in Canada will be made during NBC’s national telecast of the Philadelphia Flyers playing the Boston Bruins on a temporary rink set up in the middle of Fenway Park.
‘It’s terrific to have partners like NBC and the NHL,” said Dave Ogrean, executive director of USA Hockey, in a news release. ‘I think by announcing our men’s Olympic team as part of the broadcast of the Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic, we all feel like it will add to the pageantry of what is sure to be a spectacular event.’
The men’s hockey tournament at Vancouver will begin Feb. 16 and will end with the gold medal game Feb. 28.
The U.S. women, who have most of their team in place and will make only a few cuts before Vancouver, continued their Olympic preparation by defeating host nation Finland, 4-0, in the first game of the Four Nations Cup.
Goaltender Molly Schaus of Natick, Mass., got the shutout by stopping 15 shots. The U.S. women took 52 shots and got goals from Monique Lamoreux, Erika Lawler,Jinelle Zaugg-Siergiej and Hilary Knight.
-- Helene Elliott