PLYMOUTH, Mich. (AP) - Meghan Duggan and her U.S. hockey teammates were on the ice practicing, just where they wanted to be, two days after agreeing to a deal that avoided a boycott - and a little more than 24 hours before playing rival Canada in the world championship opener for both teams.
Slideshow U.S. women's hockey team takes to ice after avoiding world championship boycott
"It's our Stanley Cup in any given year, in a non-Olympic year," Duggan, the team's captain, said Thursday. "To put that on the line initially for us was an unbelievable gut-wrenching sacrifice.