Which Olympian played through a broken arm in the 2002 Olympics?

[VanIslander]

This sticks in my craw. I recall it. My googling this Friday night in a restaurant doesn't find it (the reality of smartphone life). I'll take another stab tomorrow.

Oh, by the way, i mean on the women's team.

(It's odd such perserverance wouldn't be so easily still heralded now as then, thus googled.)

Deep dive before me, please.

I'll be there in the morrow.

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[Gorskyontario]

Keith Tkachuk

 

[Mike C]

This sticks in my craw. I recall it. My googling this Friday night in a restaurant doesn't find it (the reality of smartphone life). I'll take another stab tomorrow.

Oh, by the way, i mean on the women's team.

(It's odd such perserverance wouldn't be so easily still heralded now as then, thus googled.)

Deep dive before me, please.

I'll be there in the morrow.

Melodie Daoust

 

[VanIslander]

Or was it a broken leg?
Wait, on the American team.

(It's 830am here and my memory is a bit better, but not enough.)

Still can't recall the name.

 

[Mike C]

Melodie Daoust

She had broken arm in 2022. Sorry misread.

 

[Mike C]

Or was it a broken leg?
Wait, on the American team.

(It's 830am here and my memory is a bit better, but not enough.)

Still can't recall the name.

You sure you don't mean 2022. Brianna Decker had broken leg for US that year. Daoust had broken arm for Canada

 

[The Panther]

I wanna know who had a broken heart.

 

[VanIslander]

Lol. If i was talking about something i read then 2002 confused with 2022 could happen.

I was a newspaper journalist and rabid hockey fan watching live in 2002. After the gold-medal game, ESPN Sportscenter (still #1 in earliest Internet years) ssid a player played through a broken bone (i thought arm, or leg?) in the women's final. I read a story about it in a newspaper the next day.

I am busy this week, but this query is an itch i still hope to scratch:

Who played with a broken bone in the Canada-US final of the 2002 Olympics?

 

[Mike C]

I wanna know who had a broken heart.

The ref who tried to manipulate the outcome by calling ELEVEN power play chances for the US

 

[Crosby2010]

Yzerman's knees were in bad shape in the 2002 Olympics and playoffs. And he won both of them!

 

[VanIslander]

Yzerman's knees were in bad shape in the 2002 Olympics and playoffs. And he won both of them!

Scoring while limping on one leg. It was incredible. I've never seen an obviously injured player keep going out there, shift after shift, WILLING himself to succeed, easily falling when checked but getting up (like Dino did his whole career - but on one leg).

I was THERE in Vancouver when Stevie Y beat my Canucks ON ONE LEG.

You cannot watch this and not be awed:

 

[Crosby2010]

Scoring while limping on one leg. It was incredible. I've never seen an obviously injured player keep going out there, shift after shift, WILLING himself to succeed, easily falling when checked but getting up (like Dino did his whole career - but on one leg).

I was THERE in Vancouver when Stevie Y beat my Canucks ON ONE LEG.

You cannot watch this and not be awed:

Not to take anything away from Lidstrom in 2002, he had a great postseason, but I was pretty certain that not only was Yzerman the best player that playoff, but he was the most inspirational one too. I thought he had the Conn Smythe in the bag.

 

[JackSlater]

I do not know about what player may have had a broken bone in 2002. Noted badass Wickenheiser had a broken foot in 2014 I think.

Scoring while limping on one leg. It was incredible. I've never seen an obviously injured player keep going out there, shift after shift, WILLING himself to succeed, easily falling when checked but getting up (like Dino did his whole career - but on one leg).

I was THERE in Vancouver when Stevie Y beat my Canucks ON ONE LEG.

You cannot watch this and not be awed:

The best pornography. I also thought Yzerman was a lock to win the Conn Smythe even though Lidstrom (and Fedorov) were more valuable on the ice.

 

[VanIslander]

Stats lie.
Eyes see the truth.

... ... sometimes...