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The Winter Olympics begin next week in Italy, and my Globe colleagues have a fantastic guide to all the New England connections to the games.
You can read the full guide here, but since Rhode Island deserves to be its own country, and it's the winter games, here's a rundown of the hockey players with ties to the Ocean State.
🏒 Coaches
John Hynes (United States)
Grew up in Warwick • Assistant coach, Team USA men’s hockey
(Currently head coach of the Minnesota Wild)
David Quinn (United States)
Grew up in Cranston • Assistant coach, Team USA men’s hockey
(Currently with the New York Rangers)
🏒 College Hockey Ties
Noemi Neubauerová (Czech Republic) – Providence College
Sandra Abstreiter (Germany) – Providence College
Sara Hjalmarsson (Sweden) – Providence College
Jacquie Pierri (Italy) – Brown University
🏒 Pro Hockey Stop in Rhode Island
Dans Locmelis (Latvia)
Currently plays for the Providence Bruins
🤔 So you think you're a Rhode Islander...
Can you name the founding member of RISD whose brother was mayor of Providence on three separate occasions?
(Answer at the bottom.)
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The Globe in Rhode Island
⚓ The Pawtucket Police Department is again facing scrutiny, this time after officers arrested a man outside their jurisdiction — without first notifying the local police or, he says, showing him a warrant. Read more.
⚓ Rhode Island’s political leaders plan to appropriate $18 million in a reserve fund for The Centurion Foundation, a Georgia-based nonprofit, to finally close the deal to purchase two struggling hospitals in Rhode Island. Read more.
⚓ The Rhode Island Senate is poised to confirm former Senate Majority Leader Michael J. McCaffrey as a state District Court judge despite criticism of his voting record on abortion, same-sex marriage and guns. Read more.
⚓ Brown University has begun making payments required under a divisive settlement agreement it reached last summer with the Trump administration, awarding $3 million this week to two Rhode Island-based workforce development organizations as part of a promised $50 million investment over the next 10 years. Read more.
🎂 Rhode Map readers have sent another round of Happy Birthday wishes to: Casey Mack Raia (1), Cam Dickson, Jennifer Bogdan Jones, Jennifer Ortiz, Uriel Ortiz, Steve Rosa, Carra Beth Baptista, Alexandra Pepin (56), Eileen Sweeney, Kathy Lewis, Seth Kurn, Steve Triedman, Jessica Sheridan (20), Stephen Oliveira, Heather Quimby, Peter Pizzaruso, Jack Dietz, Cassie Dietz,Rebecca Stimpson, Cara Bernardo, Vivian Raposa, Crystal Moniz, Joan Ray, Caroline Padula-Dion, Gail Towner, Sherry Dirocco, and Arthur Henault.
You can check out all of our coverage at Globe.com/RI
Also in the Globe
⚓President Trump said Friday that he will nominate former Federal Reserve official Kevin Warsh to be the next chair of the Fed, a pick likely to result in sharp changes to the powerful agency that could bring it closer to the White House and reduce its longtime independence from day-to-day politics. Read more.
⚓ Will America ever feel normal again? David Scharfenberg writes that a reset is possible. Read more.
⚓ Why would Jayson Tatum have second thoughts about returning this season? Read more.
⚓ Providence College men's basketball is at Villanova at 7 p.m.
⚓ URI women's basketball travels to Fordham tomorrow at 2 p.m.
⚓ Monster Jam is at The AMP tonight through Sunday. I'll be there Sunday at 1.
🏆 Pop quiz answer
Sarah Elizabeth Doyle was a founding member of the RISD corporation and led the campaign for Brown University to admit women. Her brother, Thomas Doyle, was elected mayor three times.
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