1.   America was still aglow over its gold medal-winning Olympic hockey team of six months earlier.

2.   Asked whether he would return to play Olympic hockey for Canada, he said that it would depend on whether he would be picked again.

3.   Before the game, he learned his close friend, Bill Guerin of the New Jersey Devils, was added to the U.S. Olympic hockey team.

4.   Before the Olympic hockey tournaments, Canadian workers who make the ice in the E Center placed it beneath the frozen playing surface.

5.   Beginning Wednesday, every pro athlete on Olympic hockey rosters is subject to the same random drug testing as amateur athletes in other sports.

6.   Bettman has tried to persuade NBC to maximize exposure for Olympic hockey, possibly in prime time.

7.   A few Russian men were on the premises, watching Olympic hockey in the dining area.

8.   Both sides have faced the Americans in the Olympic hockey tournament, and both sides have come away victors.

9.   But all the NHL matters will take a seat far in the back when Olympic hockey begins.

10.   But the team that Gretzky announced Saturday still reads like the greatest Olympic hockey team ever assembled.