91.   The women can play.

92.   The women often played in smaller, outdated gymnasiums before a handful of spectators who got in free.

93.   The women onstage play loud, often gloriously sloppy, hard rock and metal music.

94.   The women will play a four-month pre-Olympic tour against international and college teams.

95.   The women will play an average of three games a week from now until early February.

96.   The women play late-night games, compare notes, make up dopey songs, analyze one another and generally bond.

97.   The women played exciting hockey.

98.   The women played their preliminary rounds on Friday.

99.   Their years of hard work paid off for all of us because they proved that women play great hockey.

100.   The U.S. women play Canada one more time before heading to Gavie, Sweden, where awaits first-round matches against China, Denmark and Australia.