Jack Hughes's overtime goal to win Olympic gold is hockey history, maybe the single most important physical object in American hockey history. The Hughes puck is a pure distillation, the sudden-death difference between defeat and world-champ status in one small, black disc of vulcanized rubber and entrance-fee bait.
Brad is a great coach and an even better person, which is why today is extremely difficult. This decision was made after a review of the program on and off the ice. We expect to contend at the highest level in every aspect of women's college hockey, and right now we are not doing that.
Obviously, the game wasn't the result that we wanted, but playing in that game was so much fun and I think that's what I feel coming out of that game. That was the most fun I've had in a hockey game in a very long time. Coming back, there wasn't a lot of downtime. We've gotten right back into our season, and so we've played a couple games.
Oscar Cluff scored 21 points, Trey Kaufman-Renn had 20 and No. 18 Purdue topped No. 3 Michigan 80-72 on Sunday for the Big Ten tournament championship. Braden Smith had 14 points, 11 assists and three steals as Purdue (27-8) added to an impressive turnaround after closing the regular season with four losses in six games.
Raphael Veiga's 20th-minute strike was enough to separate the two sides on Tuesday, though the Union squandered multiple chances to level the tie in front of their home fans. After a quiet start from both teams, Veiga scored with the first shot of the match. He flicked up a pass from Brian Rodriguez before lashing his powerful attempt in off the crossbar, leaving Andrew Rick with no chance of making a save.
I wish the hits would stop coming, honestly. It is tiring. My mouth, honestly, couldn't feel worse. But I'll get some work. We have a really good dentist here who is great. I am just really happy we got two points tonight.
They became the first men's team to defend the T20 World Cup and the first to win it at home after drowning New Zealand in a deluge of runs in Ahmedabad in front of 100,000 giddy and almost universally blue-clad supporters. New Zealand looked forlorn while conceding 255 and wretched when attempting to chase it, and after meandering through much of their innings with defeat already a certainty they were still 96 behind when it ended.