By Dan Burns NORTH HAVEN, Connecticut (Reuters) – As the daughter of a former NHL coach and a two-time U.S. collegiate champion in her own right, Sarah Murray knows a thing or two about ice hockey and its culture. She knows you “pinch” the boards with your body to keep a puck in the offensive zone. You jump over the boards for a fast line change. And you hang on to your stick and helmet during the national anthem. What is second nature to a Canadian like her, though, has sometimes been a foreign concept to the players she now coaches on the South Korean women’s hockey team. Murray, hired in 2014 by Stanley Cup winner Jim Paek, now the head of South Korean hockey, recalls her first world championship tournament behind the bench when her players dropped their sticks, helmets, even gloves to the ice as the national anthem started – a major taboo in the hockey world. “No one had taught them to do it differently. There’s a lot of pieces of hockey culture that they weren’t taught,” Murray said during a recent pre-Olympic U.S. tour. “The first year was a lot of learning as we go,” Murray… Read full this story
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