Mark Johnson was appointed coach of the U.S. Women’s Olympic hockey team for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, and that’s good news on so many levels that it’s impossible to list them all.
He wasn’t appointed because he played on the gold medal-winning 1980 U.S. men’s team at Lake Placid, N.Y., where he scored twice in the “Miracle on Ice” team’s upset of the heavily favored Russians — and assisted on the winner and scored the insurance goal in the gold-medal game against Finland.