31.   Not to wish bad stuff on anyone or anything, but I want Ted Donato on that plane when the Olympic hockey team lands in Japan next February.

32.   The agreement also could diffuse a dispute over the U.S. Olympic hockey team.

33.   The Canadian people want their Olympic hockey team to take a stand.

34.   The guys told us to wait, that they were learning the tricks of the big ice of Olympic hockey.

35.   The Olympic hockey tournament continued Friday with the semifinals pitting Canada against the Czech Republic and Russia against Finland.

36.   The round-robin phase of the Olympic hockey tournament, which ended on Monday, was not decisive because no one could be eliminated.

37.   The sleeping lions of Olympic hockey are at it again, and already, our neighbors to the north are bracing for another colossal letdown.

38.   THE STRATEGY With as many as eight matches packed into two weeks, the Olympic hockey tournament is not just a talent test but an endurance test.

39.   The United States Olympic female hockey players celebrating their gold-medal victory at the XVIII Winter Games in Nagano, Japan.

40.   They come from Chamonix and Amiens and Grenoble, and Herb Brooks spent all of three weeks with them before he and his French Olympic hockey team arrived here.