Greenfield Recorder – Keep the score with Chip Ainsworth: Bernardstons knows in Europe with Team USA

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Any inclination that Vladimir Putin has if he taught a peace agreement with Ukraine would probably help demonstrate the Russian hockey team at the Olympic Games of the next year. The Russians have been excluded from the international hockey competition since the invasion more than two years ago.

A forerunner of the games is the International ICE Hockey Federation World Championship, which started in Northern Europe on Friday. Doug Weiss from Bernardston flew from Bradley last week to act as a teamoric doctor and orthopedic surgeon.

Others with Bay State Connections are the former strikers Cutter Gauthier in Boston College and Will Smith – now with Anaheim or San Jose – the defender Cole Hutson and Bruins defender Andrew Peeke and goalkeeper Jeremy Swayman.

The team is headed by Clayton Keller, who was the twelfth place in the league this season in the league for Utah. The alternative captains are days Thompson-a 44 goal scorer for buffalo and defenders of Nashville Brady Skjei.

The head coach is Ryan Warsofsky from Marshfield and the San Jose Sharks.

In a pre-tournament tendency this week, the Americans beat the Germans 5-2 and overshell them with 37: 23.

“We have a really good team, but Canada and Sweden are stacked,” wrote Weiss. “Our list is not complete, so we will see.”

The Americans are summarized with Denmark, Czech Republic, Hungary, Germany, Kazakhstan, Switzerland and Norway and will be looking for their first IIHF World Championship since 1933.

Weiss was the team doctor when she last reached the podium by winning the bronze in 2021. “You come here and see how every player loves to fight his country,” he said. “It's a playoff pace.”

Canada has won 28 gold medals since the beginning of the tournament in 1920. The boys from the north of the border have a squad led by Columbus Blue Jackets Coach Dean Evason, to which Sidney Crosby (Penguins), Ryan O'reilly (Predators) Brandon Montour (Kraken), Nathan Mackinn (Avalanche) and Veteran Vetrogen Secretary (Penguins), the Vetrogen venture, and the venchan venture) led.

The defense of the Champion of the Czech Republic is the presence of David Pastrnak. Last year, Pastrnak arrived in time to achieve the winner goal against Switzerland. The game was in Prague, only 200 miles of the place where Pastrnak was born in Havirov.

The team USA played Denmark on Friday and on Sunday at 6:20 a.m. on Sunday against Hungary on Monday at 10:20 a.m. and on Mittwwn at 10:20 a.m., followed by Puck drops against Germany, Kazakhstan and the Czech Republic. All times are east.

The quarter -finals are located on May 22nd in Hernig, Denmark and Stockholm, Sweden, and the semi -finals and the final will take place on May 24th and 25th in the Globe Arena in Stockholm. All games are broadcast in the NHL network.

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Thoughts on The Sox: In 38 games last season, the Red Sox 19-19 were on the way to the end of 81-81. This season they are 19-19 and on the way to who knows where, but in 200 games they are 100-100 and the epitome of mediocrity.

In this font, they led the league in bats, doubles, slugging percentages and strikes and were tied with Seattle for stolen bases, but they still turned with their bikes. Why? Of course pitching. The Hurler of Boston are the ninth place in the league in the ERA (4.01), a place in front of the mighty Chicago White Sox.

Alex Bregman and Wilyer Abreu have 40 percent of Homerun production of the team. Bregman strikes third parties, just like Carl Yastrzemski, Big Papi and Mo Vaughn. He is an MVP candidate and a committed weapon, and $ 40 million may not be enough to keep it here.

The Leadoff -Hitter Jarren Duran is a Rickey Henderson on the last day. Durran can run, beat, beat for power and steal. The only thing he can't do is walk – six times since April 12, when he sat down against the White Sox.

Abreu was constantly cleaning up on the job of seventh on the opening day until Cora put him in fifth place behind Roy Candidate Kristian Campbell.

Trevor Story was falling to sixth place in the order. The story was the Giancarlo of Boston for three years and played in only 163 out of 486 regular season games. He missed three games this season and gets an A to stay healthy.

Ceddanne Rafaela beats .225 and is absolutely unnecessary; The Catching Corps by Carlos Narvaez and Connor Wong beats .201 with three homes and completely unforgettable. Boston gave up one of the best catch prospects in baseball for a pitcher, the speed of which is the first sign of arm problems.

After the Red Sox lost to Texas on Tuesday, Jason Kelly said in the Bastards of the Boston Baseball podcast: “I have never heard that so many people call in sports radio that Alex Cora has to be released.”

One way to keep the wolves away from the door of the clubhouse would be to give people what they want and to bring Rafael -Devers to the first basis. It may not work, but you will never know until you try. Tristan, we hardly knew you.

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Fifty years ago they wanted to set up a nuke work at the Connecticut River in Hinsdale, but the city said no and they built it over the river in Vernon. This was followed by protests and vandals, a Vernon exit sign on the I-91 to read verbyl.

Vernon had the green, but the Hinsdale High School had the gold. In 1971 the boys' football team won the state championship. It was the first of 18 state titles and six second -placed people in 20 years either in football, basketball or baseball.

“All coaches and most players are still alive,” said Joe Sarsfield, who broke out in all three sports from 1968 to 1972. Many of them will be in Keene on May 31st in the Branch and Blade Brewing Company to search photos and press excerpts and to remember the good times. The event takes place from 12 noon to 4 p.m. and everyone is invited.

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Chloe Rourke von Northfield helped the West Texas A & M Horse Team last month at the National Championship of the National Ranch Association in Amarillo to win his first DI championship.

The Buffaloes exceeded the four -time defending champion Texas Tech and other schools such as Texas A & M and New Mexico State.

Rourke and four of their teammates in the second year and in the top 10 in Ranch Reining, Stock Horse Pleasure, Ranch Trail and Cow work, he provided the top 10.

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The former NFL linacker Brandon Copeland from athletes.org spoke to Ross Tucker about organizing a player association like the NFLS this week. “Thirty-five percent of college soccer players who said that they promised money have never received it,” said Copeland. “These are not small schools. These are top 25 schools. The players come there and the schools find a way not to pay for it.”

“And most children are too afraid to say something,” said Tucker.

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Squibber: Before the Knicks-Celtics series started, Mike Francea criticized betting apps to spend crooked chances: “At the moment the Celtics are minus-835 to win the series. There is no reason why bed goals should earn $ 835 $ 100 $ 100 in the Celtics.” Is I bent on the derby? ” I think so. “… Pablo Sandoval of the Kung Fu Panda, who published himself from Boston and plays for the Staten Island Ferryhawks. … A tendency makes sense why Bill Belichick has his 24 -year -old girlfriend in the spring practice, is that she can help Mr. Grouch refer to the young players. … Jamaican Sprinter Usain Bolt is equipped after an employee after an employee At Stocks and Securities Ltd. … BC Football has sold out its season ticket allocation. The Eagles moderator California, Uconn, Clemson, Notre Dame, Smu and Ga.tech this season. … Joe Maddon to Bob Costas about fighting words between Tigers Pitcher Tarik Skubal and Engeln Rookie Zach Neto: “I loved it. Skubals as an old school as it will be and Neto gives the angels a kind of cultural shift in terms of toughness.” … as the big bob Gibson said what it takes to win: “In a world full of hate, prejudice and protest, I find that I am also full of hatred, prejudices and protest.”

Chip Ainsworth is a award -winning columnist who has written his observations on sports in the Pioneer Valley for decades. It can be reached at chipjet715@gmail.com