SOUTH KOREA (WKZO AM/FM) — With the Winter Olympics just days away, Sarah Murray, the head coach for the Korean women’s hockey team, got her first chance to see how her team of South Koreans will blend on the ice with the new North Korean players in an exhibition game against Sweden.
They lost 3 to 1.
According to reports, Murray is required to use at least three North Korean players each game, benching four members of her own team during each of the three games in their group’s preliminary stage.
Murray is the daughter of Western Michigan University Hockey Coach Andy Murray.
The North Korean players were thrust upon her as part of a series of conciliatory measures agreed upon by the war-torn rival governments, to try and warm up relations, and right now is the most talked about team at the games.
