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Mark Johnson hopes his women’s hockey team will make its own memories

The gold medal Mark Johnson won as the leading scorer on the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team is sitting somewhere in the computer room of his home in Madison, Wis. “I couldnâ??t tell you exactly where,” he said, smiling.

He didnâ??t bring it with him to Vancouver for a second Olympic experience as coach of the U.S. womenâ??s hockey team, an opportunity thatâ??s as exhilarating for him as it was unexpected.