Canada and the United States had deliberate to fill their males’s hockey rosters for the Beijing Games with N.H.L. stars. Then the league’s resolution in December to withdraw from the Olympics left each groups scrambling for gamers elsewhere.
But the stitched-together squads are exhibiting loads of aggressive pluck in their preliminary spherical sport on Saturday in Beijing, have been they’ve traded targets and fearsome hits at National Indoor Stadium.
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