Yet Evans is an enormous long-shot in those events, with her recent times ranking farbehind those of younger swimmers that most Americans have never heard of.
He spent 13 minutes on a conference call with reporters Thursday afternoon, one of his lengthier and more cordial sessions of the spring, but he never did reveal any details behind perhaps the biggest story of the series so far: his decision to bench star forward Marian Gaborik for much of the third period in Game 2.