11.   It sure appears as if the gold medal, or any medal, seemed vaguely insignificant to the American hockey dudes.

12.   Other than that brief moment of physical dominance, a group of American professional hockey players proved little more than the four groups of unsuccessful amateurs that preceeded them.

13.   She especially enjoyed working up a good mad at the American hockey players who trashed their room.

14.   The American female hockey players can live with that.

15.   The American hockey players never really seemed to understand that in Nagano.

16.   Where was Markell going to find players who might be willing to come to the hellhole of American hockey, Ohio State?

17.   Forward Derek Armstrong and goaltender Vitali Yeremeyev were recalled by the New York Rangers from Hartford of the American hockey League Thursday.

18.   Less than three months after U.S. Olympians trashed some dorm rooms in Nagano, American hockey is on the brink of another embarrassment.

19.   The USOC wants random out-of-competition testing for American hockey players to begin as early as possible.

20.   Two American hockey teams appeared in a conflict over rival governing bodies in the US.