Blahoski is now an assistant coach with the women's hockey at Mankato. She also works part-time with Minnesota's new NHL team, The Wild, and trains with an eye on making the 2002 team. You know I try to explain it to kids, because everyone wants to know what's it like to win. You take your best day, where everything is absolutely perfect. You feel great.
Nothing can be wrong.
For Blahoski, the year that began with the highest of highs would end with the lowest of lows. Just before Christmas this past December, while training with the National Team in Boston, she got word that her father, Wade, had suffered a heart attack. The man who first put her on hockey skates, was dead at 51. Going through some of his things, now he saved every college schedule of mine, every article, every printed word about me or hockey or one of my teammates he hung on to. He was just the ultimate fan.