1.   An amateur American hockey team was eighth at Lillehammer.

2.   And forget the even sillier flap over members of the American hockey team supposedly trashing several dorm rooms.

3.   Anita DeFrantz of the United States, vice president of the International Olympic Committee, spoke of the legacy of the American hockey players.

4.   As exhibit A, take Czech Republic defenseman Fran Kucera, an NHL journeyman whose last American hockey gasp was with the minor-league Philadelphia Phantoms.

5.   As for American hockey, Fetisov said he had left it behind, but not forever.

6.   All that stuff might as well be the American hockey version of the Peloponnesian War.

7.   Corkum, while confident that some team would call, had International and American hockey leagues phone numbers handy on his Rolodex.

8.   Having won the World Cup, the American hockey program no longer is the little brother trying to impress the big brother from the north.

9.   Hockey, specifically the NHL and American hockey, learned that all too well.

10.   If ever there was a time for the American hockey fan to step forward, plop down and tune in, last Sunday afternoon was it.