The Whitecaps founder Jack Brodt, Brown's father, was a Whitecaps' co-coach and the general manager.
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Like Brandt, Stecklein grew up playing for the Jr. Whitecaps, and said she saw a certain appeal training among the Whitecaps who fostered her game.
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Brown and Potter, both 38, still play for the Whitecaps.
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Octavio Rivero put the Whitecaps ahead 37 seconds into the match.
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New York Red Bulls host Vancouver Whitecaps F.C. 5 p.m. (TSN).
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New York City F.C. host Vancouver Whitecaps F.C., 220 p.m. (YES).
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The next morning, the three Whitecaps car-pooled to another exhibition.
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Alphonso Davies arrived from Major League Soccer's Vancouver Whitecaps last year.
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Alphonso Davies joined FC Bayern Munich from the Vancouver Whitecaps in 2018.
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She has one goal and four assists for the 6-0 Whitecaps.
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It became clear that the Whitecaps would not be returning in full form.
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Created in 2004, the Whitecaps have remained independent through much of their history.
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Hearing the Minnesota Whitecaps were going to be a thing, I got excited.
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Curtis shares an apartment with her Whitecaps teammates Margo Lund and Sadie Lundquist.
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The white arrows point to what appear to be whitecaps on the ocean surface.
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Afterward, wind whipped the waters around the bridge into whitecaps and hampered rescue operations.
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She joins the Whitecaps for weekend games, boarding with Hannah Brandt, her Olympic teammate.
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Brown said the Jr. Whitecaps have had more than 100 alumni make N.C.A.A. rosters.
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The couple's barbed back-and-forth in "Whitecaps" is overdue, and harrowing to watch.
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The game, against the Minnesota Whitecaps in St. Paul, scheduled for last Sunday, was postponed.
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That was kind of a problem, as the Whitecaps learned over the ensuing three hours.
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And the All-American mural includes one of the Whitecaps co-coaches, Ronda Curtin Engelhardt.
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All three attended summer youth hockey camps run by Winny Brodt Brown, the Whitecaps' captain.
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In December, the Wild held a Girls Hockey Weekend, where fund-raising efforts benefited the Whitecaps.
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The winning Corgi, Baymax, is pictured above with the trophy that the Whitecaps commissioned for the event.
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A good breeze had whipped up foamy whitecaps on the lake and Paul suggested we hurry up.
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While it lacks a big coastal headlands view, Pacific whitecaps are visible from many of the rooms.
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The ocean has deepening shades of blue and little whitecaps suggesting the ideal, exhilarating amount of wind.
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League officials say the Whitecaps are the first team in its four seasons to turn a profit.
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Nigel De Jong did his thing over the weekend as the Galaxy beat the Whitecaps 2-0.
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Kendall Waston of the Vancouver Whitecaps, leaps the highest for a corner and heads it into the net.
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That same motivation drove Allie Thunstrom to become the first player to re-sign with the Minnesota Whitecaps.
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With weekend games and fewer practice obligations, the Whitecaps offered a more flexible schedule for national team training.
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"The Whitecaps definitely have stayed neutral and are pretty much watching to see what happens," Lamoureux-Morando said.
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It nods toward "Whitecaps," one of the best Sopranos episodes ever, but it adds its own Americans-ish twist.
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He was replaced in the squad on Saturday by Yordy Reyna Serna, the 24-year-old Vancouver Whitecaps forward.
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In late April, the Whitecaps held a team meeting where players supporting the N.W.H.L. and P.W.H.P.A. made their cases.
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As for the minor leaguers ... Whitecaps reliever Max Green took to Twitter to thank Yu for the meal afterward.
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Here is an example: while I watched two terrible Major League teams ache their way through a hungover blooperfest of a game on Sunday afternoon, the Midwest League's West Michigan Whitecaps were hosting the first West Michigan Whitecaps Corgi Race Championship at Fifth Third Ballpark before their game against the Lansing Lugnuts.
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The worst soccer experience I ever had was a 2013 MLS game between the Vancouver Whitecaps and the Seattle Sounders.
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Water rose several feet up the stairs of buildings and storefronts, and at one point, whitecaps dotted the makeshift river.
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They emerge as you walk toward them, only to disappear, like whitecaps on a choppy ocean, as you back away.
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Kendall Waston of the Vancouver Whitecaps of Major League Soccer, leaped the highest for a corner and headed it in.
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About four miles from the Sa Ky, the wind kicked up, turning a moderate sea into choppy six-foot whitecaps.
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Kamara scored 14 goals for the Whitecaps last season and in 2015 netted a career-high 22 for Columbus Crew.
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The Whitecaps stars Lee Stecklein and Hannah Brandt, gold medalists for the 2018 United States Olympic team, appear on both.
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No matter what happens, the Whitecaps, a semiprofessional team founded in 2004, made their N.W.H.L. debut season an unqualified success.
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Live video from webcams posted in Clearwater and Destin showed half-empty beaches, and whitecaps roiled the normally placid Gulf waters.
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Bolaños was penalized for a serious foul in the 62nd minute of the Whitecaps' 3-2 loss to Montreal on Sunday.
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Some members of the Riveters, the defending champions, see the travel problems as a possible advantage against the top-seeded Whitecaps.
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Also, the $13.5 million the Whitecaps received for Davis is $5 million more than their total player payroll for the season.
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Through the window, the late-April sun was milky over the bay, which shone with a steely lightness, no whitecaps today.
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The Whitecaps have deep roots in the area because of their youth programs, started by Brown and Chris Peterson in 2007.
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Whitecaps forward Kei Kamara opened the scoring with a 24th-minute penalty kick, but Jonathan Osorio responded for Toronto two minutes later.
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There will be a match between The Hot Rods and West Michigan Whitecaps at the Bowling Green Ballpark at 10:35 a.m.
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Still, Whitecaps players like Lamoureux keep up with what their Olympic team peers and rivals are up to in the Northeastern corridor.
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Waston, 31, served as captain of the Vancouver Whitecaps during the 2017 and 2018 seasons before being acquired by Cincinnati in December.
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In Ohio, it's illegal for two or more people to wear "whitecaps, masks or other disguises," while committing some sort of offense.
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New York City FC's Chris "didychrislito" Holly beat the Vancouver Whitecaps' Alex "Exraa" Gonzalez in two games, 22-220 and 255-0.
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New York City FC's Chris "didychrislito" Holly beat the Vancouver Whitecaps' Alex "Exraa" Gonzalez in two games, 3-13 and 1-0.
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Now well-rested, many of the Riveters are confident they can defeat the Whitecaps, whom they were 0-4 against this season.
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The longer Brandt examined her options, though, the Whitecaps became a better choice than the four-team, Northeast-based N.W.H.L., she said.
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Meanwhile, the Whitecaps (4-5-2) will be partaking in their Western Conference-most 12th match and already their sixth at BC Place.
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The Wild also have had discussions about hosting a doubleheader with the Whitecaps at its arena in St. Paul, the Xcel Energy Center.
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Who is he: Alphonso Davies is an 18-year-old wunderkind making a name for himself as the top talent at the Vancouver Whitecaps.
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Way over on the opposite shore, beyond the wind-kicked whitecaps, sat his adversary: the hulking, state-run oil plant and its failing machinery.
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On social media, people reacted with incredulity, noting that the water had disappeared where whitecaps were just hours before on Sunday in Tampa Bay.
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On this night in January, she was competing for the Minnesota Whitecaps, a collection of unpaid Midwestern hockey nomads who barnstorm against college teams.
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Bayern paid the Whitecaps $53 million for Davies's rights, an amount that could rise to $22 million if he meets certain performance criteria in Germany.
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In the heart of the winter, the half-frozen sea is gray, sluggish waves too heavy to crest, whitecaps crashing against the pilings and jetties.
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Skating on the same line with Brandt, whom Brown remembers as a toddler, reinforces to her the importance of patience in deciding the Whitecaps' future.
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It had been a long fight, with a 45-mile-per-hour wind buffeting me and blowing spray off the whitecaps that covered the lake.
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Reuters journalists spent more than a year collecting their stories and little-reported data to produce the series, revealing the natural disaster unfolding beneath the whitecaps.
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As they trudge back into the lake, I can see the woman in the distance, just beyond the whitecaps, her smooth, strong strokes cutting the water.
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Sports Briefing | Soccer Red Bulls defender Ronald Zubar and Vancouver Whitecaps defender Christian Bolaños have been suspended for one game each and fined for rough play.
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The pounding whitecaps followed — surgeries, chemotherapies, radiological drains, reoperations — before researchers plucked me up and pitched me into a haven, where I slowly caught my breath.
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When the N.W.H.L. cut player salaries in November amid financial difficulties, the decision by Brandt and some of her Whitecaps teammates looked like a safe one.
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"I think long term, the N.H.L. is the key to a sustained women's league, similar to the W.N.B.A.," said Halldorson, who is now the Whitecaps' coach.
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The third star: The Vancouver Whitecaps – They're the local MLS team, and they figured they could work a fun marketing tie-in with the city's NHL team.
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The item in question was a salad of red-tipped oakleaf and Bibb lettuces, with some fresh and springy croutons and whitecaps of grated Gruyère on top.
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Former Vancouver Whitecaps chief executive Paul Barber last month compared the splurge to "lightning in a bottle" — bright, exciting, very contained and in danger of fizzling out.
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But nothing in the arena acknowledges the Whitecaps' leading scorer, Jonna Curtis, a left wing who was never a Golden Gopher, an Olympian or an All-American.
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Altidore flicked the ball near the penalty spot, where Henry, defending in front of TFC's Tosaint Ricketts, stooped and headed the ball straight past Whitecaps goalie Stefan Marinovic.
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This 16-year-old phenom lives with a host family and still rides the subway to school, while starring for the Vancouver Whitecaps and the Canadian National Team.
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Wright-Phillips chipped in his 17th goal this season, tied for the M.L.S. lead, after Whitecaps defender Jordan Harvey bounced a clearing attempt off him while falling down.
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Vancouver Whitecaps forward Masato Kudo took one of the scariest, most gruesome hits you're probably going to see on a soccer pitch last night against the Chicago Fire.
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A sharp wind buffeted whitecaps below and clouds raced across a dramatic horizon, summoning a vastness that gave me a true sense of the isolation of this place.
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Reuters journalists have spent more than a year collecting their stories and little-reported data to bring you this series revealing the natural disaster unfolding beneath the whitecaps.
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Elsewhere, Steven Mendoza scored in the 73rd minute in a 3-2 win for New York City FC (2-3-4) against the visiting Vancouver Whitecaps (23-5-2).
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Bradley Wright-Phillips scored in the 50th minute as the visiting Red Bulls beat the Vancouver Whitecaps, 1-0, to extend their club-record unbeaten streak to 43 games.
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They won 2-1 last weekend at Portland to clinch the Cascadia Cup that goes to the winner of the three-team competition that also includes the Vancouver Whitecaps.
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A few hundred yards east, whitecaps crashed across Exuma Sound — a 6,43-foot-deep abyss of rolling swells and powerful trade winds that would likely flip our tiny sailboats.
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On other days I swam alongside ropy-armed surfers as far as I could before they paddled beyond the outer reef, where the wind whipped whitecaps across the sea.
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The Whitecaps are considered a professional team, but they do not play in the Canadian Women's Hockey League or the National Women's Hockey League, the sport's two prominent leagues.
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When the C.W.H.L. ultimately decided not to expand beyond its five teams, the Whitecaps took advantage of the abundance of top-level Midwest college programs to create a schedule.
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After she graduated from Northeastern, with a second Olympic appearance in her sights, joining the Whitecaps was an easy decision, she said, helped by a close relationship with Halldorson.
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The 35-year-old Pérez, who plays for M.L.S.'s Vancouver Whitecaps, opened the scoring in the 11th minute before Bolivia's Juan Arce evened the game in the 54th minute.
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One such player, Amy Stech, who joined the Whitecaps in 2010, is nervous and excited about the prospect of expansion, which might not leave roster spots for players like her.
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Steven Mendoza broke a tie in the 73rd minute, and New York City F.C. beat the Vancouver Whitecaps, 3-2, on Saturday at Yankee Stadium, ending a seven-game winless streak.
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While the luster of a professional league continually lingers, the Whitecaps stay closely aligned with and protective of their original mission, to provide a top-quality outlet for women's hockey players.
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Be sure also to see the Season 4 finale, "Whitecaps," in which four seasons of marital woes between Tony and Carmela boil over into arguments as gruesome as any mob hit.
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Canadian Championship A late own goal by the Vancouver Whitecaps' Doneil Henry created a 2-2 tie with Toronto FC in the first leg of the national final at Vancouver, British Columbia.
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The player who may shift the narrative is Alphonso Davies, 17, a left-footed winger who has already made 63 appearances for the Vancouver Whitecaps, the first when he was only 15.
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On Tuesday, the four-team N.W.H.L., which was founded in 2015, added its first expansion team: the Minnesota Whitecaps, a longtime independent franchise that has featured many of the top American players.
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Last weekend, the Whitecaps, with 22 Minnesotans among 220 players in uniform, secured the N.W.H.L.'s regular-season championship with back-to-back victories at the Boston Pride and the Connecticut Whale.
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Chris Wondolowski can continue closing in on the all-time MLS scoring record when the San Jose Earthquakes visit the Vancouver Whitecaps on Wednesday night in search of a second consecutive away victory.
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The rebuilding Vancouver Whitecaps are still searching for their first win of the season, but it won't come easy at home on Friday night against the L.A. Galaxy and, most likely, Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
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Bob Lenarduzzi, the president of the Whitecaps, said his team tried to mimic European clubs like Ajax and Lyon, who are successful because of the players they develop, not the players they buy.
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He signed a 3½ year designated-player contract with D.C. United and is expected to make his debut July 63 when the team opens its new stadium in Southeast Washington against the Vancouver Whitecaps.
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With the second selection Cincinnati took forward Kei Kamara from Vancouver Whitecaps and immediately traded the Sierra Leone international to the Colorado Rapids in exchange for an international roster slot for the 2019 season.
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At times, that unconventional arrangement has nearly led to the team's dissolution, but as the Whitecaps persevered, their members were able to cultivate a nuanced view of the women's hockey world shaping around them.
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The Whitecaps is a team that stands on its own, belonging to neither the National Women's Hockey League nor its rival, the Canadian Women's Hockey League, though it plays exhibition games against teams in both.
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Instead, the Whitecaps had to settle for a 2-2 draw after twice coming from a goal down, the second time tying it through Kendall Waston's goal in the fourth minute of second-half stoppage time.
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The sandy-haired Blair, with his blue dress shirt, necktie and immaculate black windbreaker, steps up to the port-side gunwale of his boat, adjusts the zipper on his jacket, and leans out over the whitecaps.
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MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Whitecaps, the newest and possibly best team in the National Women's Hockey League, occasionally practice in an arena that is the closest thing to a women's hockey museum in this hockey-loving state.
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Battaglino, the league office and players on the Riveters, the Whitecaps and the Beauts, who won their semifinal matchup against the Boston Pride on Saturday, had to figure out when and where to hold a makeup game.
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Thunstrom, though, said that the Whitecaps' fan support and success as league champions last season convinced her that the team was on the right path in the N.W.H.L. "Others reached out and said, 'Thank you,' " she said.
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Vancouver Whitecaps FC, the third seed, on Wednesday welcome the sixth-seeded Earthquakes, who punched their playoff ticket after Costa Rica international Marco Urena fired a shot that deflected off a Minnesota defender and into the net.
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So, Yu -- being the generous rich dude that he is -- pulled out the checkbook and bought a massive spread of steak, salmon, sides and some bomb ass cookies for his team and the opposing West Michigan Whitecaps.
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An N.T.S.B. timeline of the accident — using information from the boat's data recorder — showed that it took five minutes between the time that the boat entered the lake on calm water until winds increased significantly and whitecaps suddenly appeared.
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It was, Whitecaps Promotions Manager Matt Hoffman told me, the most significant expenditure of the day, alongside a $200 gift card to "a doggy boutique in Grand Rapids" which we can only hope Baymax has already blown on upscale chew toys.
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That the unheralded Curtis, 93, leads in the Whitecaps in goals (eight), assists (11) and points (19), rather than one of the team's three Olympic gold medalists — wing Kendall Coyne Schofield is the third — illustrates the deep statewide talent pool.
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The league's first expansion team and its first franchise outside the northeastern United States, the Whitecaps sold out all eight home games at Tria Rink, the practice facility for the N.H.L.'s Minnesota Wild, which has a capacity of 53,200.
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Yura Movsisyan's penalty in the 70th minute earned Real Salt Lake a 2-2 draw against visiting Portland while New England Revolution scored a 2-1 win against the Vancouver Whitecaps when Kelyn Rowe converted Teal Bunbury's cross in the 55th minute.
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Juan Manuel Martinez scored in the 55th minute to give Real Salt Lake a 1-0 win against the Vancouver Whitecaps while in Seattle, Jordan Morris put the Sounders two up in the 73rd minute in a 2-1 win over visiting Philadelphia.
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Ingeniously (and secretly), Le Gray would combine two negatives that he had made — one for the sky, one for the water — to produce a finished print of a seascape that, as in "The Great Wave, Sète" (210), revealed both whitecaps and clouds.
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Like a ship wading through rough waters, Harvey encountered his share of whitecaps, but he finished in good condition, striking out seven in six innings while allowing two runs and seven hits, as the Mets defeated the Reds, 5-2, at Citi Field.
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The other opening day matches include D.C. United hosting the Colorado Rapids, Montreal Impact welcoming the New England Revolution, FC Dallas playing host to the Philadelphia Union, Real Salt Lake visiting Orlando City SC and the Vancouver Whitecaps hosting Sporting Kansas City.
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"In my opinion, there's no ideal place to be in women's hockey once you graduate college, where you're practicing five times a week, getting good quality games every weekend," said Jocelyne Lamoureux, a United States National Team player and forward for the Minnesota Whitecaps.
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In other action around MLS, Real Salt Lake pipped Colorado Rapids 1-0, thanks to a late goal by Joao Plata, and DC United snapped a six-game winless streak dating back to last season with a thumping 4-0 triumph against Vancouver Whitecaps.
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" While financial support from the N.H.L. would be important for women's professional hockey, Lamoureux-Davidson said the N.H.L., like the Whitecaps, seemed to be in a wait-and-see mode, because "it doesn't make sense on their end to support one league over the other.
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In 2014, after a stellar career coaching women's hockey at Minnesota, Laura Halldorson was asked by Brodt and Brown to help gain entry into the C.W.H.L. Halldorson said the Whitecaps, a nonprofit, received funding for travel from a small base of contributors and family foundations.
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The commissioner announced MLS would be willing to subsidize a fourth designated player spot for the league's three Canadian franchises Toronto FC, Montreal Impact, and Vancouver Whitecaps, to bring Canadian international players to the league, an overall attempt to create stronger brand within the country.
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There's also support bubbling up on the outskirts of the three MLS markets—just this month, prospective supporters' groups in Quebec City and Mississauga, Ontario, have made themselves known, while a rumoured CPL team in the Fraser Valley could draw support from erstwhile fans of the Vancouver Whitecaps.
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At the port of Hay River I loaded my canoe with peanut butter and oatmeal and video equipment, and over the next 40 days, through thunderstorms, whitecaps, blazing heat, and yes, even snow at the end, I paddled and camped, stopping at villages and fishing camps along the way.
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Through the salt-streaked windshield of the power boat, the anthropologist, Joseph Genz, took mental field notes — the spotlighted whitecaps, the position of Polaris, his grip on the cabin handrail — while he waited for Kelen to radio in his location or, rather, what he thought his location was.
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Many Whitecaps see the best future for women's hockey as a similarly clear route: a merger between the C.W.H.L. and N.W.H.L. In 2015, entering her senior year at Minnesota, Brandt was taken second over all in the inaugural draft of the N.W.H.L., the first professional women's hockey league to offer salaries.
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After Sebastian Giovinco scored twice for Toronto FC (4-4-53) to overcome a two-goal deficit, Kekuta Manneh scored his second of the game midway through the second half and Pedro Morales scored two minutes to put the visiting Vancouver Whitecaps (6-5-2) up for good in a 4-3 win.
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The Whitecaps (0-3-1, 1 point) finally got their first point of the season last weekend when they kept Pacific Northwest rivals Seattle off the board in a 0-0 draw at BC Place, preventing the Sounders from winning four straight to start the season for the first time in franchise history.
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Groomed in the Whitecaps' academy and the pride of a recent M.L.S. focus on so-called homegrown players, Davies was poised to emerge as the league's brightest young star until last week, when Vancouver and the league announced that he would join the German powerhouse Bayern Munich in January in the most lucrative player sale in M.L.S. history.
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Kicking off with footage of a whale shark, the largest fish in the sea, the relaxation-fest stitches together calming clips of stingrays dappled with refracted sunbeams, dolphin pods breaching over whitecaps, sailfish corralling cyclonic schools of fish, blooms of jellyfish drifting with the current, and a lone tortoise making its way across the pelagic expanse.
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The most talked-about markets and ownership groups right now are in Los Angeles, where LAFC will begin play in Major League Soccer in 2018 (and Mia Hamm is an active part of the ownership group), and Vancouver, where the Whitecaps could operate the NWSL team similarly to how the Portland Timbers run the Thorns, or Orlando City SC runs the Pride.
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