You can tell I'm desperate for hockey talk when I read an article about the
Gophers closely enough to pick something like this up...
 
Pam writes (quoting from the _Minnesota Daily_ article):
 
>Gophers coach Doug Woog officially started practice Monday at
>Mariucci Arena -- and he wasted little time in making his players
>work hard.
>
> [...]
>
>The team had been skating together for the past two weeks, so the
>focus was on puck handling and shooting.
 
Just a point of clarification -- I'm going to guess that this means the
Gophers were doing the skating on their own, with no coaches present.  (That's
probably what "officially started practice" means, at least I hope so)
 
--
Bill Fenwick                        |  Send your HOCKEY-L poll responses to:
Cornell '86 and '94.5               |  [log in to unmask]
LET'S GO RED!!                                                  DJF  5/27/94
"Cozza, there's a train leaving at 4:00.  Be under it."
-- from a letter that Yale football coach Carm Cozza is supposed to have
   gotten when he lost his coaching debut in 1965