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Molly Hannis went to bed Monday night with a singular goal in mind: parlaying
her top seed in the 100-meter breaststroke into a slot on the U.S. Olympic
team.She woke up to news that broadened her vision.Like so many athletes with
University of Tennessee pedigrees, Hannis revered mold-breaking basketball
coaching icon Pat Summitt, whose death at age 64 was announced Tuesday
morning.Hannis and her teammates at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials in Omaha
were the only Vols in competition anywhere in the country on Tuesday. There were
about 30 athletes from the college program and the post-graduate Tennessee
Aquatics club. The Tennessee contingent caucused and decided to wear orange to
distinguish themselves from the crowd. They snipped lengths of purple ribbon,
the color adopted by Alzheimers disease awareness advocates, to wear around
their wrists.As for the 24-year-old Hannis, I just wanted to honor her with my
race, she said.Hannis fell just short of booking a trip to the Rio de Janeiro
Games, finishing third with a time of 1:06.65 behind Indiana Universitys Lilly
King (1:05.20) and SwimMAC Carolinas Katie Meili (1:06.07). Hannis will have
another Olympic shot, in the 200-meter breaststroke, later this week.Not quite
what I wanted, Hannis said of her effort on Tuesday night. I learned a lot,
though, through all the races. I think I just got a little bit frantic at the
end.Summit touched the lives of thousands of people, changed Tennessee
athletics, changed womens sports in general, said Hannis, who met Summitt at a
football game in 2012, the same year the legend officially stepped down from her
head-coaching position after publicly revealing she had early onset dementia,
Alzheimers type.Its been a very emotional day, Hannis said. I cant say it any
other way other than that she was a truly extraordinary woman and Im glad I got
to know [Summitt] what little I did.Christine Magnuson, the 2008 100-meter
butterfly silver medalist, was Tennessees last U.S. Olympic swimmer.Swimming and
diving coach Matt Kredich, hired to head the Tennessee womens team in 2005, said
Summitt had a profound influence on him and his colleagues.She coached the
coaches, he said, adding that Summitt regularly invited them to her home for
dinner and offered to talk to recruits during their campus visits.I felt like I
wanted to write down and remember and live everything she said, said Kredich,
who has led both the mens and womens swimming and diving program since 2012. She
carried so much gravity.During Kredichs first year as the womens coach, he faced
a thorny disciplinary issue, when some of his swimmers were cited for underage
drinking. Summitt asked to speak with them.She said, The people who came before
you set a standard, and its not your right to diminish that standard, Kredich
recalled. I swear she stared right through every person in that room.
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.com) - The Montreal Canadiens will try to halt their longest losing streak of
the season when they host the struggling New York Islanders in tonights clash at
the Bell Centre. The World Cup of Hockey makes its return in Toronto after a
12-year hiatus. Heres a look at the eight teams involved in the tournament,
which opens Saturday:CANADAThe unquestioned favorites, Canada will try to
recapture the World Cup of Hockey after winning the last edition 12 years
ago.The Canadians boast the deepest pool of talent in the tournament, stacked
with Art Ross, Hart and Norris trophy winners, as well as the last two
goaltenders to win the Vezina. The puzzle pieces should be interchangeable for
coach Mike Babcock with just about every player capable of taking on a role or
position as needed. Twelve of the 13 forwards have scored at least 30 goals in
an NHL season.Canada offered one of the stingiest defensive showings ever at the
2014 Sochi Games, yielding a mere three goals all tournament. The World Cup
defense took a hit with Duncan Keith sidelined by injury, but Shea Weber,
Marc-Edouard Vlasic, Drew Dougthy, Alex Pietrangelo and Jay Bouwmeester all
return. Jake Muzzin adds defensive stability while Brent Burns injects an air of
enthusiasm and offensive pep.Carey Price should be a lock to start in goal.
Canada also has Vezina Trophy winner Braden Holtby along with two-time Stanley
Cup champion Corey Crawford.NORTH AMERICAThe North Americans could be the most
exciting team to watch.Built with players 23-and-younger from Canada and the
U.S., the team has some of the brightest young talents in hockey, from Connor
McDavid to Aaron Ekblad, Jack Eichel, Johnny Gaudreau and Nathan MacKinnon.
Imagine Auston Matthews paired with fellow No. 1 overall picks Ryan
Nugent-Hopkins and MacKinnon or Eichel teamed with the shifty Gaudreau.The
defense is young and inexperienced, led by Ekblad, the Florida Panthers
20-year-old standout along with Morgan Rielly of the Maple Leafs and Seth Jones
from the Columbus Blue Jackets. Matt Murray, the Penguins Stanley Cup-winning
goaltender, and Anaheims John Gibson could be busy.SWEDENSilver medal winners in
Sochi, the Swedes are a good bet to challenge for the World Cup crown.The
defense is led by superstar Erik Karlsson and all-around Tampa Bay Lightning
stalwart Victor Hedman, complemented by Anton Stralman, Hampus Lindholm, Niklas
Hjalmarsson and Oliver Ekman-Larsson. Every member of the group skates well and
moves the puck easily.Up front, the Swedes are led by the still-productive Sedin
twins as well as Nicklas Backstrom and Loui Eriksson, and emerging talents such
as Filip Forsberg and Gabriel Landeskog.Its a smart, responsible group with just
enough firepower to complement that fine defense and goaltending, which comes
once again from Henrik Lundqvist.UNITED STATESThe Americans have the reigning
NHL scoring champ and Hart Trophy winner in Patrick Kane, the deepest
goaltending in the tournament and a grind-it-out roster run by coach John
Tortorella.The Americans finished a disappointing fourth in Sochi, edged 1-0 by
Canada in the semifinal before getting stomped 5-0 by Finland in the
bronze-medal game. They opted against bringing back Phil Kessel, their leading
scorer from that tournament, and will rely instead on feisty, blue-collar types
such as David Backes, Brandon Dubinsky, Justin Abdelkader and Ryan Kesler.Beyond
Kane, Jets winger Blake Wheeler, Montreal captain Max Pacioretty, Wild star Zach
Parise, and Leafs winger James van Riemsdyk, theres just not the same level of
high-end skill on teams such as Canada, Sweden, Finland, Russia and North
America.The defense is solid, if unspectacular, with Ryan Suter andd Ryan
McDonagh as well as a potential game-changer in Dustin Byfuglien.
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Quick, Ben Bishop and Cory Schneider, the Americans have three of the best
goaltenders in the tournament.FINLANDWith medals at five of the last six
Olympics, the Finns are unlikely to go quietly.This isnt the aging roster led by
Teemu Selanne that won bronze in Sochi. It is brimming with youth, including
Winnipeg Jets sensation Patrik Laine, Panthers center Aleksander Barkov as well
as young defenders like Olli Maatta and Sami Vatanen. Thirteen players on the
23-man roster are aged 25 and younger. That should offer the Finns, who have
always relied on savvy defense and stable goaltending, a little more pep and
excitement.Finland is especially young on the back end, which could put more
pressure on either Tuukka Rask or Pekka Rinne in goal.RUSSIAPerhaps no team in
the tournament can boast game-breaking talent like the Russians.From Alex
Ovechkin and Evgeni Malkin to Vladimir Tarasenko and Nikita Kucherov, Russia is
loaded with offensive talent. Of course, thats usually the case with the
Russians, who have underperformed the past two Olympics, including a fifth-place
showing on home soil in 2014.This squad is deeper though, primarily due to the
influx of talented young players like the 23-year-old Kucherov (30 goals last
season), 24-year-old Tarasenko (40 goals) as well as Artemi Panarin, the
reigning Calder Trophy winner, and Evgeny Kuznetsov, the leading scorer (77
points) for the Presidents Trophy-winning Washington Capitals.Stack those stars
on top of Ovechkin, Malkin and Pavel Datsyuk, the now former Red Wing legend,
and theres plenty to fear here for World Cup opponents.Outside of 37-year-old
Montreal Canadiens stalwart Andrei Markov, the defense is mostly a young
contingent and the goaltending is riddled with question marks as both Semyon
Varlamov and Sergei Bobrovsky had rocky performances last season.EUROPEThe team
represents eight different nations -- France, Denmark, Germany, Slovakia,
Slovenia, Switzerland, Austria and Norway -- and is a predictably mish-mashed
roster tilted toward an aging group of NHL stars, including Zdeno Chara (39
years old), Marian Hossa (37), Marian Gaborik (34) and Thomas Vanek (32).On
defense, Chara will be joined by 38-year-old Mark Streit, 35-year-old Dennis
Seidenberg, and 34-year-old Christian Ehrhoff.New Kings captain Anze Kopitar
gives the Europeans a powerful, two-way force down the middle, but there might
not be enough scoring in this group to be a threat. Hossa, Gaborik and Vanek are
all veterans and Oilers up-and-comer Leon Draisaitl is just 20.Jaroslav Halak is
a solid option in goal.CZECH REPUBLICThe Czechs have a young roster that appears
the weakest on paper heading into the World Cup.Petr Mrazek, the likely No. 1
netminder who was one of the NHLs best for the first half of last season, could
be the difference. The team will need him to be red hot since it does not have
much firepower after top center David Krejci backed out because of injury. Jakub
Voracek fronts a forward contingent mixed with youth, such as 20-year-old David
Pastrnak and 22-year-old Tomas Hertl, as well as aging talent like Milan
Michalek and Ales Hemsky.The group on defense is easily the thinnest among the
eight teams with Maple Leafs defender Roman Polak joined by the likes of Zbynek
Michalek and Andrej Sustr.
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