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The Difference Is Night & Day
by Paul on 02/26/10 at 06:50 AM ET
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from Scott Burnside and Pierre LeBrun of ESPN,
The Americans play at noon local time Friday, which will mark the fourth time they will play the lunchtime special at these Olympics.
Obviously, it requires that players prepare differently than for normal NHL games in the evening or even midafternoon tilts.
“You wake up, you eat breakfast and play. It doesn’t give you a lot of time to think about the game, which can be good. You don’t sit around all day. You just get up and play. I don’t mind it at all. I thought I wouldn’t like it at all, but I do,” American forward Zach Parise said.
One of the other differences has been dressing in rooms that have no clock ticking down to the start of the game. In NHL dressing rooms, there are clocks that allow players—especially those who hold to a firm pattern or ritual of pregame readiness—to know exactly how much time they have before having to take the ice.
Those clocks do not exist here, or at least the clocks in the room have been difficult to follow.
Chris Drury joked that there some players who follow the ritual so closely that he doesn’t think they could survive this tournament.
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