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A year to remember: at the Olympics, NHL team loyalties will mean nothing, love of country will mean everything, and memories of 1998 will heat up the competition. (Olympic Preview).
Nearly four years have passed, but Brendan Shanahan remembers the advice like he heard it yesterday. He remembers Team Canada teammate Steve Yzerman telling him to take deep breaths before he became the fifth and final participant in a tense shootout against Czech Republic goaltender Dominik Hasek at Nagano, Japan, in a semifinal Olympic game in 1998.
The pressure on Shanahan was severe. Hasek had already stoned Theoren Fleury, Ray Bourque, Joe Nieuwendyk and Eric Lindros. Canada's Patrick Roy had been beaten once--by Robert Reichel--in this tiebreaking shootout. For Shanahan, the mission was simple: Score, and Canada would still have a chance to advance to the ...
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