COLUMBUS, Ohio — The No. 1 team in the nation, the defending national champion, the new foe for everyone else to target … that group of players and coaches was searching for a reminder last week. Emma Maltais found it in a five-year-old video and shared it with everyone, forwarding that memory to this team of the moment. © Doug Lesmerises/cleveland.com/TNS Ohio State women’s hockey players Sophie Jacques (left) and Emma Maltais (right) and coach Nadine Muzerall (center) at a news conference before their NCAA quarterfinal win last week. It was the reaction of the Ohio State women’s hockey team to earning its first NCAA Tournament bid in the 2018 season, when Maltais was a freshman and coach Nadine Muzerall was in her second season of turning the tumultuous program she inherited into these hard-edged champions seeking more. “Just to see how pure and exciting and how much of a…
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