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Home of the Duffer News.  February 8, 2002

There was no game on Friday, February 1, because someone had our ice.  It worked out OK, because they had a power failure.   Rick Feldman (Gilbert)  showed up any way.

We are getting excited about the Olympics in Salt Lake City!  Hitman, Klinger and Beak are headed there after the Peoria game. (We play in Peoria on Saturday morning February 16, 2002.) Beavis and (Vidadontist the Driller) Formica  may join them.  Hacksaw was going to go until his wife, Mira, said she was going to spend as much money as he did while he was away.  He believes her, you may remember a few years back, Thor and Berserk got rich while Hacksaw was gone.  (That is when Thor got another name of "Contractor from Hell")  

The staff at the Bolingbrook Sun is getting ready to run a cover story on the Duffer Hockey team in their March issue.  Be ready for interviews and pictures in the next few weeks.  Lauren Kraft will be at Bono's on Friday. 

Cammi is in this month's issue of Glamour magazine. The Sun Times had an article about her.  For all of you Tribune readers, I pasted the article at the bottom of this page. 


 


 Duffer Christmas party was held at Berserk's Barn on February 2, 2002!  Thanks to Chris and Wendy for their hospitality.Johnny Z came up with the Christmas party in February idea last year because everybody is too busy in December.
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BY GREG COUCH STAFF REPORTER

Chicago has produced a hero for the Olympics (Cammi Granato), a novelty act (Timothy Goebel) and, of course, this city's specialty: the bulk of the U.S. women's curling team.

And don't forget the Greek bobsled team. Yes, both racers on that team are from Chicago.

The Chicago area will be well-represented, if somewhat oddly, at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics, which begin Friday. There are at least 19 Olympians with a Chicago connection.

Granato of Downers Grove and goalie Sarah Tueting of Winnetka, U.S. women's hockey players, are the best bets for bringing back gold. Goebel of Rolling Meadows can jump and twist like no men's figure skater ever has. He will land several quadruple jumps and might bring home the bronze.

Cammi Granato, women's hockey, Downers Grove. One of the stars of the 1998 Nagano Games, she was the captain of the team that won the gold medal and was chosen to be the U.S. flag-bearer during the closing ceremony. It was the inaugural event for women's hockey as a medal sport.

''There was emptiness after losing,'' Canadian coach Shannon Miller said. ''But when they showed Cammi Granato's face on the big screen, I had a feeling of joy go through my body because I realized an Olympic gold medal was being hung on a female hockey player.''

The United States and Canada again are far superior to every other team in the field. They have gone on a pre-Games tour, with the U.S. team winning all eight times they played each other.

Granato grew up in Downers Grove in a family of hockey fanatics. They would flood and freeze the backyard so they could play hockey there in the winter. Her brother, Tony, played in the NHL.

 

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