“We are going to break them down, shift by shift, and demoralize their living soul every time they step on the ice,” she said during her pregame speech. “One — one breath at a time, one timeout at a time, one period at a time, play as a unit of one, one mind, one heart, we leave no doubt, and you will forever have a legacy.” A few hours later, after Ohio State dominated possession on the way to a 3-2 win over Minnesota-Duluth that clinched the first national championship in program history, Muzerall looked like a soothsayer. But her prognosticating abilities go even further back. When speaking in front of a gathering of the entire athletic department earlier in the year, the outspoken head coach told her fellow Buckeyes that her team was going to win the crown for the first time ever. She would go on to echo…
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