Nutter hits special first in Huskies seventh straight win

The Huskies celebrate a power-play goal from Emma Nutter.

    Defensive defender Emma Nutter hit a milestone moment scoring one of her rare goals in her U Sports career.

    On Friday at Merlis Belsher Place, Nutter slipped home a point shot through traffic for a power-play goal for her University of Saskatchewan Huskies women’s hockey team. That goal came at the 10:27 mark of the first period of a U Sports regular season game against the University of Manitoba Bisons to give the host side a 1-0 edge.

    The fifth-year veteran’s tally held up to be the game winner in a 3-0 victory for the Huskies in a contest played before 401 spectators.

    The marker was the fifth regular season goal of Nutter’s U Sports career. It was the Cochrane, Alta., product’s first game winning goal in 126 career regular season games.

Emma Nutter scored her first career U Sports game winner on Friday.

    “It feels pretty special,” said Nutter. “It is the first one.

    “It is not that common for me, but I have my team behind me. We had practised that kind of formation on the power play all week. It was working for me then.

    “I was not expecting it, but I was hopeful that would happen.”

    Nutter’s goal pushed the Huskies winning streak to seven games as they improved to 16-6-2-1. They have 49 points to sit third in the Canada West Conference standings coming on 14 regulation wins, two extra time wins and three extra time setbacks.

    In Canada West women’s hockey, teams earn three points in the standings for winning in regulation, two points for extra time wins and one point for extra time setbacks.

Emma Nutter is best known for playing physical in her own zone.

    The Huskies trail the U of Calgary Dinos by one point for second in the conference. The Dinos dropped a 2-1 double overtime decision to the Mount Royal University Cougars on Friday in Calgary.

    With that result, the Dinos saw their record move to 16-7-1-2. They have 50 points in the standings coming off 15 regulation wins, one extra time win and three extra time setbacks.

    The Huskies have a game in hand on the Dinos that will be made up on Saturday, when the U of S side goes at it again with the Bisons at 5 p.m. at Merlis.

    The U of Alberta Pandas (18-7) top the Canada West standings with 53 points coming on 17 regulation wins and one extra time win.

Emma Nutter is one of eight fifth-year players on the Huskies.

    The Huskies, Dinos and Pandas are guaranteed to finish in the top three of the Canada West standings and the first and second place squads will have byes to host best-of-three Canada West semifinal playoff series.

    With the Huskies having just three regular season games left on their schedule, Nutter said she knows her squad is close to sitting in a position to gain a playoff bye, but she doesn’t try to get caught up in the possible math involving the standings. She just focuses on winning each game as it comes.

    “Without sounding uninterested, I don’t tend to look at the stats a lot,” said Nutter. “I think for me every game is as important as the next.”

    Individually, Nutter has two goals, two assists and a plus-one rating in the plus-minus department appearing in all of the Huskies 25 regular season games in the current campaign. Both of her goals this season have come on the power play.

Emma Nutter has scored both her goals this season on the power play.

    She is one of eight fifth-year players who are skating through their final campaign with the Huskies. Rounding out the group of eight is captain Brooklyn Haubrich, forwards Elizabeth Salyn, Shyan Elias, Rachel Lundberg and Courtney Cormack and defenders Leah Bohlken and Morgan Willoughby.
    Willoughby is Nutter’s regular defensive partner.

    “It hasn’t hit me yet, and I don’t know when it will,” said Nutter about the notion she is playing through her final season. “I know that when it does it is going to hit me hard, and that is not going to be fun for me.

    “This whole experience I honestly don’t have any words for it. It has been so rewarding in that I get to play alongside 23 or 24 of my best friends. This team this year I would consider pretty close.

Camryn Drever made 22 saves in a shutout win for the Huskies.

    “The group of eight of us is very close. It is going to be sad, when we part ways. It has been a special year this year for sure.”

    On her power-play goal, Nutter said she just trying to get her point shot on net looking for one of her teammates to get a stick on the puck to deflect it home.

    “I tend to shoot pretty low and on the ice just for either a rebound so someone in front can get it or someone can get a stick on it for sure,” said Nutter, who is best known for overpowering opponents in the defensive zone with her physical play. “We worked with that in practice.

    “(Huskies head coach) Steve (Kook) kind of said to me we want you to be the shooter on that side. I was hitting them in practice.”

Jordyn Holmes scored her first U Sports regular season goal on Friday.

    Nutter’s goal was the highlight of a first period controlled by the Huskies, who outshot the Bisons 10-3 in the frame.

    The Bisons made a push back in the second outshooting the Huskies 9-8, but the Huskies exited the stanza still holding their 1-0 edge.

    With 2:58 remaining in the third, Huskies sophomore centre Kennedy Brown fired home a goal to the top left corner of the Bisons goal while being hooked down to give the hosts a 2-0 lead.

    Sophomore right-winger Jordyn Holmes rounded out the scoring with an empty net tally for the Huskies. The tally was the first career U Sports regular season goal for Holmes.

    Camryn Drever stopped 22 shots to pick up the shutout win in goal for the Huskies. The sophomore more has three shutouts this season and four in her U Sports regular season career.
    Erin Fargey turned away 25-of-27 shots in goal for the Bisons, who fell to 8-16-1 to remain last in the eight-team Canada West Conference.

The Huskies celebrate their seventh straight win on Friday.

    Nutter was pleased with how Friday’s game went for her side.

    “All things considered, we could have come out a lot stronger, a lot faster and a lot quicker,” said Nutter. “As the game progressed, we put our heads down and went to work.”

    With the post-season just around the corner, Nutter said she wants to help the Huskies win a second Canada West title in team history and help the program capture its first U Sports title.

    She has a firm belief that this will be the year those things will happen for her team.

    “Between the eight of us fifth years and the rest of the team honestly, that has been the goal from day one,” said Nutter. “It always has been every year.

    “It is the same goal and same mindset. I think all the younger girls have bought in. They bought in early (and) that is a good sign.”

McVeigh’s OT winner pushes Huskies win streak to eight

Logan McVeigh scored the double OT winner for the Huskies.

    Logan McVeigh’s overtime heroics ensured the U of Saskatchewan Huskies men’s hockey team stayed on fire.

    On Friday at the Wayne Fleming Arena in Winnipeg, Man., McVeigh scored at the 2:26 mark of a second overtime period to give the visiting Huskies a 3-2 victory over the host U of Manitoba Bisons in a U Sports regular season contest. The fifth-year centre’s winner in the three-versus-three session allowed the Huskies to improve their winning streak to eight games and stay in the race for first place in the Canada West Conference.

    The Huskies and their “forever rivals” the U of Alberta Golden Bears both have 40 standings point to sit in the top two spots in Canada West. The Golden Bears (20-5) sit first in the conference over the Huskies (19-4-2) due to winning three out of the four head-to-head regular season meetings between the two sides.

    Both teams have three games remaining in their respective regular season schedules.

    The Mount Royal University Cougars sit third in Canada West with a 17-7-0-2 record.

Taran Kozun made 34 saves in goal for the Huskies on Friday.

    In Friday’s encounter between the Huskies and Bisons, Donovan Neuls and Carson Stadnyk netted singles for the Huskies in regulation. McVeigh picked up an assist on Stadnyk’s goal for a two-point night.

    Sean Christensen and Devon Skoleski replied with singles for the Bisons in regulation.

    Taran Kozun made 34 saves to pick up the win in goal for the Huskies. Tyler Brown turned away 24 shots to take the extra time setback in goal for the Bisons (9-12-2-2).

    The Huskies and Bisons face each other again on Saturday in Winnipeg.

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Thunderbirds steal overtime win from Huskies

Hannah Clayton-Carroll (#22) scores the OT winner for the Thunderbirds.

    The University of Saskatchewan Huskies women’s hockey team was game, but they still had their hearts broken in overtime by the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds.

    In a U Sports regular season contest on Friday at Merlis Belsher Place, it appeared the Huskies were going to send the 434 spectators in attendance home with a thrilling victory.
    Trailing 2-1 with 72 seconds remaining in the third period, Huskies right-winger Bailee Bourassa one-timed home a shot off a backdoor pass from defender Isabella Pozzi to force a 2-2 tie and overtime.

Mathea Fischer set up the Thunderbirds OT winner.

    The Thunderbirds proceeded to end things quickly early in the four-on-four extra session. Huskies captain Brooklyn Haubrich and Thunderbirds captain Mathea Fischer were battling for the puck in the right corner boards in the Huskies zone.

    Haubrich lost her stick allowing Fischer to skate away with the puck. The product of Oslo, Norway, fed a pass to the front of the Huskies goal, and the puck was knocked home by linemate Hannah Clayton-Carroll to give the Thunderbirds a 3-2 victory 23 seconds into extra time.

    Friday’s setback was a tough one to take for the Huskies, who have had an intense rivalry for some time with the Thunderbirds.  

    U of S controlled lengthy portions of the contest outshooting the visitors 24-17. The Huskies went a solid 2-for-6 on the power play.

    The Thunderbirds played like a classic 1980s European hockey team or like former NHL pest Claude Lemieux trying to fall and dive their way to victory by attempting to draw penalties.

Shyan Elias scored a buzzer beater for the Huskies in the first period.

    In numerous one-on-one battles on the ice, it often seemed the Thunderbirds players were light on their skates and went down easy.

    Even Thunderbirds sophomore defender Hannah Koroll, who was once the captain of the ultra-tough Prince Albert Northern Bears female midget AAA team, had a couple of moments where she fell off her skates quite easily during battles along the boards.

    The visitors did their best to get under the skin of the Huskies players, which including tapping U of S star netminder Jessica Vance a couple of times when play had stopped. The most noticeable ones came from Thunderbirds left-winger Jaedon Cooke early in the first period and from left-winger Ireland Perrott early in the third frame.

    At one point in the second, Huskies fifth-year defender Emma Nutter seemed to be wrapped up in a chat with Perrott after a stoppage in play. It didn’t appear the conversation revolved around favourite drinks from Starbucks.

Huskies D Emma Nutter and UBC captain Mathea Fischer mix it up.

    The antics from the UBC side seemed unfortunate, because when the Thunderbirds had the puck, they displayed moments that showed they can play with great skill.

    It didn’t seem like the extra-curricular activities phased the Huskies.

    With that noted, The Thunderbirds got on the scoreboard first at the 15:23 mark of the opening frame.
    Clayton-Carroll broke in on the Huskies goal on a breakaway and put shot off the right post of the U of S net.

    UBC left-winger Emma Hall was trailing on the play and put the rebound home quickly to give the visitors a 1-0 edge.

    The Huskies evened thing up at 1-1 with a power-goal that beat the first period buzzer.

Bailee Bourassa celebrates scoring her equalizer for the Huskies.

    Bourassa fired a shot from midway up the left boards and linemate Shyan Elias deflected home the drive to put the Huskies on equal terms with the visitors.
    Thunderbirds head coach Graham Thomas protested the Huskies goal call by the officials for about three minutes to no avail.

    The Huskies carried that momentum into the second period gaining a couple of key scoring chances.
    Captain Brooklyn Haubrich was stopped trying to slide a puck underneath Thunderbirds netminder Tory Micklash, but Micklash just hung on for the save.

The Thunderbirds celebrate their OT victory on Friday night.

    Bourassa was stopped on a drive from the front of the net.

    In the third period, Micklash made the save of game flashing her glove hand to rob Huskies fourth-year left-winger Emily Upgang, who had a shot pegged for the top right corner of the UBC goal.
    The Thunderbirds jumped ahead 2-1 with 5:31 remaining in the third period, when rookie defender Kennesha Miswaggon fired home a beauty power-play goal from the right slot through a screen to the top left corner of the Huskies goal.

    That set the stage for the dramatics late in the third period and in overtime.

    Vance made 14 saves to take the extra time setback in goal for the Huskies (5-2-2).
    Micklash turned away 22 shots to pick up the win in goal for the Thunderbirds (5-2-1-1).

    The two sides go at it again on Saturday at 7 p.m. at Merlis Belsher Place.

Huskies hold Thunderbirds scoreless in Vancouver

Travis Child posted a shutout win for the Huskies on Friday.

    The U of Saskatchewan Huskies men’s hockey team is starting to hit their stride.

    On Friday in Vancouver, B.C., the Huskies, who are rated ninth in the U Sports Top 10 rankings, received a 27-save performance from backup netminder Travis Child to blank the host University of British Columbia Thunderbirds 4-0 in a U Sports regular season clash.

    The victory was the fourth for the Huskies in their last five games helping them improve to 4-3-2.

Levi Cable scored in the opening frame for the Huskies. Carson Stadnyk tallied for the Huskies in the second period.

    Rookie Jared Dmytriw scored his first career U Sports regular season goal in the third. Last season, Dmytriw was the captain of the Vancouver Giants and helped them reach the WHL final, where they fell 3-2 in overtime in a series-deciding Game 7 to the Raiders in Prince Albert.

    Carter Folk rounded out the scoring for the Huskies scoring into an empty net with less than 20 seconds to play.

    Rylan Toth turned away 23-of-26 shots to take the setback in goal for the Thunderbirds (2-5-2).

    The Huskies stumbled out of the gate with an 0-3-1 record due to a number of injuries they sustained on defence. U of S is still without regular rearguards Sam Ruopp and Colby Harmsworth due to the injury bug.

    The Huskies and Thunderbirds go at it again on Saturday in Vancouver.

Machart leads Huskies Canada West all-stars with record year

Adam Machart was a unanimous Canada West all-star selection.

    Adam Machart set new records for the U of Saskatchewan Huskies football team in rushing yards and all-purpose yards for one season, and as a result, he was a unanimous selection as a Canada West all-star.

    Machart was one of seven Huskies who were named to the conference all-star squad on Thursday.      The skilled and tough running back carried the ball 156 times for 1,334 yards and eight touchdowns during the regular season to break the Huskies record for most rushing yards in one regular season.

    In the passing game, Machart caught 20 passes for 204 yards and three touchdowns. He piled up 1,538 all-purpose yards to set a new Huskies team record.

    Two of the men who allowed Machart to pile up his yardage made it to the all-star squad from the Huskies offensive line in left guard Mattland Riley and centre Connor Berglof.

Colton Klassen was named to the Canada West all-star team.

    Utility player Colton Klassen was named to the Canada West all-star squad as a receiver hauling in 37 passes for 456 yards and two touchdowns. Klassen’s reception and yardage totals were team highs for the Huskies.

    In the running game, Klassen carried the ball 10 times for 86 yards.
    The fourth-year member of the Huskies is out for the U Sports playoffs with a severely injured right leg.

    One the defensive side of the ball, fifth-year defensive tackle Evan Machibroda, defensive end Nicholas Dheilly and defensive back Nelson Lokombo all earned spots on the all-star squad as well.

    Machibroda had 22 total tackles, five sacks, two forced fumbles and one fumble recovery. Dheilly recorded 17.5 total tackles and five sacks.

    Lokombo posted 23.5 total tackles, 2.5 sacks and four interceptions. He returned two of his interceptions for touchdowns.

    The Huskies (5-3) host a Canada West semifinal playoff game against the U of Alberta Golden Bears (4-4) on Saturday at 3 p.m. at Griffiths Stadium.

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Huskies’ Lundberg first time lucky in triple OT

U of S advances to Canada West semifinal series

The Huskies celebrate a triple OT winner from Rachel Lundberg, middle.

    Rachel Lundberg made her first career U Sports post-season goal a big one.

    On Sunday, the fourth-year right-winger drove home the winning tally with 10.7 seconds remaining in triple overtime to deliver the University of Saskatchewan Huskies women’s hockey team to a 2-1 victory over the Mount Royal University Cougars in Game 3 of a Canada West quarter-final playoff series.

    The win before 420 spectators at Merlis Belsher Place allowed the Huskies to take the best-of-three set 2-1 and advance in the U Sports playoffs to a best-of-three Canada West semifinal series against the University of Alberta Pandas. Game 1 of that series is set for Friday in Edmonton.

    “I can’t describe it,” said Lundberg. “I think I blacked out.

Rachel Lundberg scored the triple OT winner for the Huskies.

    “Everybody was around me. It was so good to be done the game. (I’m) very tired, but I’m so happy that I could do it for my team.

    “Everybody was contributing. They were doing great, so I am happy that it ended well.”

    Lundberg’s goal was her first point in 18 post-season games. Normally a checking forward, the Calgary product had one assist in 27 regular season games this season and two goals and five assists in 99 career regular season contests.

    Her winning goal was created thanks to some hard work on the forecheck by Huskies left-winger Shyan Elias. Elias stole the puck from a Cougars defender in the right corner of the Mount Royal zone, circled up the right side wall and fed a crisp pass over to an open Lundberg in the left slot.

    Lundberg quickly fired the winner to the low left corner of the Mount Royal goal to end a contest that lasted 109 minutes and 50 seconds.

    “I had come off the bench, because Abby Shirley had changed,” said Lundberg. “I saw that she (Elias) was turning it over and everybody seemed to be looking at her.

Shyan Elias assisted on the Huskies triple OT winning goal.

    “I just got into the slot and got ready for the pass and was screaming her name.”

    The Huskies most famous overtime win came back in March 2, 2014, when they claimed the Canada West title 2-1 in double overtime in a series deciding Game 3 against the University of Regina Cougars at the ancient Rutherford Rink. In recent years, the Huskies have felt misfortune in overtime.

    In last year’s playoffs, they dropped a 1-0 overtime heartbreaker to the University of Manitoba Bisons in Game 1 of the Canada West Championship series. The Bisons swept that series and ultimately won the U Sports national title.

    Huskies head coach Steve Kook believed his side wouldn’t experience any disappointments against Mount Royal on Sunday.

Tatum Amy scored to allow the Cougars to force overtime.

    “We’ve been in too many of these that have gone the other way,” said Kook. “I honestly had the feeling that it was going to be undeniable for us tonight.

    “Just the way the girls were on the bench. For the first time in an overtime game, I wasn’t nervous. It felt enjoyable being out there.

    “The girls carried the play. We (the coaches) didn’t have to do much today.”

    The Huskies finished fourth in the Canada West Conference during the regular season with a 16-10-1-1 and were favoured to beat the Cougars, who finished fifth in Canada West with a 12-14-2 record. The two squads split their four head-to-head regular season games.

    After a scoreless opening frame on Sunday, the Huskies took a 1-0 lead at the 1:53 mark of the second period, when right-winger Bailee Bourassa blew home a beauty feed from captain Brooklyn Haubrich.

    As the Huskies held a big edge in shots on goal and spent lengthy stretches in the Mount Royal zone, it appeared Bourassa’s goal would hold up to be the winner.

Bailee Bourassa scored the Huskies first goal on Sunday.

    With 5:02 to play in the third, the Cougars were able to go on the power play. Shortly after that power play expired, Cougars sophomore centre Tatum Amy drove home a goal that evened things up at 1-1 with 2:59 remaining in the third period to force overtime.

    During the three overtime periods, the Huskies outshot the Cougars 34-10. Despite the fact they had chances to end things numerous times early in the three extra sessions, Lundberg said the Huskies never got discouraged.

    “I think we were pretty poised, because I think we controlled quite a bit of the game,” said Lundberg. “We didn’t give up a lot of opportunities especially throughout overtime.

    “I think we knew that if we just stayed on our path that good would come from it.”

    Jessica Vance stopped 24 shots to pick up the win in goal for the Huskies.

The Huskies press trying to get the winning goal in overtime.

    Zoe DeBeauville turned away 58 shots to take the setback in goal for the Cougars.

    Going forward, the Huskies playoff journey will increase another level in difficulty. They will be underdogs in their Canada West semifinal series against the Pandas.

    The Pandas finished first in Canada West with a 23-5 record, and they are rated first in the U Sports Top 10 rankings. U of A claimed three of four head-to-head regular season encounters with U of S in the current campaign.

    For the moment, the Huskies just wanted to take some time to savour their overtime win on Sunday.

The Huskies celebrate their triple OT playoff victory on Sunday.

    “This almost rivals the one that we won in 2014,” said Kook. “Not quite, but this was pretty close.”

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Bohlken delivers in clutch for Huskies in 3-2 win over Dinos

Leah Bohlken scored the winning goal for the Huskies on Saturday.

    Leah Bohlken has developed a habit of being in the right place at the right time for the University of Saskatchewan Huskies Women’s Hockey team.

    On Saturday night at Merlis Belsher Place, the Huskies found themselves in a 2-2 tie in the third period with the visiting University of Calgary Dinos in a U Sports regular season contest. While working on the power play, Bohlken, who is a fourth-year defender, swooped down from the point to collect a loose puck in front of the Dinos net.

    The loose puck was the result of a rebound from a shot taken by Huskies third-year forward Emily Upgang.

    Bohlken got to the puck and fired it into an empty cage with 5:53 to play in the third period. 

The Huskies celebrate Leah Bohlken’s winning goal.

    Her goal stood up as the winner to allow the Huskies to skate away with a 3-2 victory before 504 spectators.

    “That was nice to put that one in,” said Bohlken, who leads the Huskies with three game-winning goals this season. “Upper (Upgang) came up to me after, and she was like, “Finally, I assisted one of yours,” so I thought that was pretty funny.

    “She is always down in front of the net working hard. Our coaches have been telling us to get into those gritty spots. It is not going to be nice to be there, but get there.

    “I just kind of crashed the net. I was in the right place at the right time, so it was good.”

    Saturday’s win allowed the Huskies to sweep their weekend series with the Dinos. U of S claimed Friday’s encounter at Merlis Belsher Place by a 3-0 final.

Diane Hitchings celebrates giving the Dinos an early 1-0 lead.

    The two contests were the first games for both sides since returning from their respective Christmas breaks.

    Besides sweeping the weekend series, the Huskies won all four of their regular season encounters with the Dinos in the 2018-19 campaign.

    With Saturday’s win, the Huskies improved to 11-6-1 to remain fourth in the Canada West Conference. The Dinos fell to 2-14-2 to remain last in Canada West.

    “Whenever you can get a sweep over another team, that is huge, especially in our league with it being as close as it is,” said Bohlken, who has team high seven goals to go along with four assists appearing in all of the Huskie 18 regular season games. “Especially coming back after Christmas, you want to start your second half out well.

Shyan Elias had a pair of assists for the Huskies.

    “I think that we did that.”

    The Dinos, who upset the Canada West leading 15-3 University of Alberta Pandas last Nov. 23 in Calgary, proved to be pesky against the Huskies on Saturday.

    U of C jumped ahead 1-0 on a goal by fourth-year forward Diane Hitchings, who potted the rebound of a shot taken by linemate Taylor Beck.

    Before the first period ended, the Huskies evened things up on the power play at 1-1, when sophomore forward Abby Shirley fired home the rebound of a shot taken by linemate Shyan Elias.

    The Huskies finished the night going 2-for-7 on the power play. They were 2-for-5 on the power play in Friday’s win.

    “To put some in off the power play, that is huge,” said Bohlken. “The second night is always tough, because they have a chance to look at your power play and see what you do and see where you put the puck.

The Huskies mark Abby Shirley’s second period equalizer.

    “It is hard to adjust that. Maybe the first couple of power plays we were kind of getting used to like how they were playing us differently and taking away seams. We realized that we need to just calm down a little bit and find different seams.”

    The Dinos retook the lead at the 6:02 mark of the second, when a turnaround shot by U of C forward Sage Desjardins fooled Huskies rookie netminder Camryn Drever to give the visitors a 2-1 edge.

    Just when it appeared the Dinos were going take a one-goal advantage into the third period, Shirley tied things up at 2-2 with her second of the night coming with 48.5 seconds remaining in the second period. Again, she fired home the rebound of a shot taken by Elias.

Emily Upgang tried to score the winning goal on this chance.

    That set the stage for Bohlken to net the winner in the third period.

    Drever stopped 15 shots to pick up the win in goal for the Huskies. Kira Wasylak turned away 28 shots to take the setback in goal for the Dinos.

    With the sweep of the Dinos complete, the Huskies turn their attention to their next two games against their provincial rivals the University of Regina Cougars (8-7-3).

    The two teams meet this coming Friday at 7 p.m. at Merlis Belsher Place and this coming Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Co-operators Centre in Regina.

    “Coming off two wins is great,” said Bohlken. “Regina being our provincial rival, it is going to be a tough game. It always is.

The Huskies celebrate their 3-2 victory on Saturday.

    “One home game and one away game, which is a nice change up from playing either two at home or two away. I think we just have to start focusing for it. We kind of have momentum now.

    “We know what we are doing is good, and it is working. We just need to go and refine what we have been doing, make those like little passes and make a few tweaks and get ready for Regina.”

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