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SALT LAKE CITY -- Hours after coach Kyle Whittingham said No. 24 Utah didnt sustain any season-ending injuries in its loss to California, the Utes found out that three-year starting center J.J. Dielman will miss the rest of the season because of a lower leg injury.Whittingham said several players were having MRIs on Monday to determine the severity of their injuries. Dielman clearly got bad news, as the school said he was out in a release Monday afternoon. Dielman joins former starting defensive end Kylie Fitts and tight end Siale Fakailoatonga on the sideline for the rest of the season.Utah is coming off its first loss, but it might have bigger problems in its quest for a Pac-12 title. The Utes have been ravaged by injuries at receiver, offensive line, running back, defensive line and in the secondary.Id be here for a half-hour if we start talking about all the injuries, Whittingham said.Former walk-on Lo Falemaka is next in line on the depth chart, but Utah did not make the junior available to media Monday. He had a slow start, with a pair of bad plays when he entered the game last week, but quarterback Troy Williams said they laughed it off.He told me, Hey, man, I just had to get my jitters out real quick, Williams said. I told him I understand fully. We have a great team, great guys all around. Next guy just has to step up and take advantage of his opportunity.Utah lost its No. 1 receiver,?Tim Patrick, starting cornerback Reggie Porter and Dielman during Saturdays game. Patrick said he expects to play this week.Whittingham and Utah give little details about injuries, so Porters status is unknown. Whittingham did mention that receiver Kyle Fulks had to leave the game last week, and both running back Troy McCormick and receiver Tyrone Smith are banged up.First-team All-Pac-12 defensive lineman?Lowell Lotulelei missed the game against Cal after suffering a shoulder injury against USC. Starting slot receiver Cory Butler-Byrd didnt travel to California, and Whittingham said it was a physical issue. The coach hopes he can play against Arizona.Theres about a dozen guys whos in that category, Whittingham said.Sophomore receiver Raelon Singleton had his best game, with career highs in receptions (seven) and yards (98) as the No. 1 option in the pass game after Patrick went down. Williams said he is confident in all his receivers, but Patrick is No. 32 in the country with 429 receiving yards and tied for No. 12 with five touchdown catches. The Utes didnt have a receiver who caught five touchdowns in all of 2015.Utah already lost senior running back Joe Williams to retirement due to lingering injuries. Whittingham announced that sophomore Armand Shyne has been promoted to starting running back over Zach Moss after he rushed for 99 yards and two touchdowns against Cal.The Utes (4-1, 1-1 Pac-12) arent panicking, despite the plethora of injuries. The goal of winning the conference title is still attainable, as No. 21 Colorado (4-1, 2-1) is the lone Pac-12 South team without a conference loss. The Buffaloes host Utah in the regular-season finale. Whittingham doesnt believe anyone in the conference will go undefeated and said a two-loss team will likely win the title.Its easy to let yourself fall into that, like, Why us? Utah safety Chase Hansen said. But then you realize everyones banged up. You look at Arizona, and they have the same thing going on with them.Honestly, it feels like it happens every year. 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The Longhorns (14-4, 3-2) got their biggest win of the season with their third in the row in the Big 12. Moments after the 2002 Olympic gold-medal game in Salt Lake City, Kalli Quinn, her sister, Val, and mother, Sandra, raced by startled security personnel to the Team Canada bench area just in time for the singing of O Canada.As the joyful Canadians posed for a team picture celebrating their countrys first gold medal in mens hockey in 50 years, head coach Pat Quinn grabbed Kalli and brought his daughter out for the photo, a nod to her work as the family liaison during the Games.In some of the photos, if the angle is just right, you can see Val and Sandy on the bench. To view the photo from that perspective is to understand Pat Quinn entirely. Family. Hockey. Country.Kalli and the rest of the Quinn family no doubt will be reminded of that moment in Toronto this weekend when her father is inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. He joins?Eric Lindros, Rogie Vachon and?Sergei Makarov?in the class of 2016.It will be more than a little bittersweet for those whose lives were touched by the big Irishman from Hamilton, Ontario. Quinn, chairman of the Hall of Fames selection committee in his later years, died two years ago at the age of 71.Kalli figures she knows how her dad would react to the honor. Me? With those guys? No way.Ive thought about it a lot, Kalli said. To be recognized for doing something that he loved. ... It wasnt a job to him. It was something that he loved to do.There were, in fact, many, many things that Pat Quinn put ahead of Pat Quinn.Guys who played for Pat Quinn all said the same thing, Wayne Gretzky said. It was all good.There was no more pressure-packed coaching job, perhaps in the history of the game, than coaching Canada at the 02 Olympics. Finding roles for each member of a roster brimming with future Hall of Famers was no small feat, yet Quinn handled the task with aplomb.Calm in the face of turmoil? Indeed.Canada lost its first game against Sweden 5-2, and an entire nation went into full panic mode. We were all pretty down about it, recalled Gretzky, who was executive director of Canadas Olympic effort at the time.Not Quinn.In the days leading up to the Olympics, a popular commercial portrayed a bunch of Canadians going across the border into the United States with nothing to declare but a can of Whup Ass. In Salt Lake City, Quinn took an aerosol can and taped over the label with a hand-drawn label reading Whup Ass.And after that first game, I was standing there, we were all obviously devastated. And he said, Wayne, dont worry about it. I got a big old can of Whup Ass here, Gretzky recalled, laughing at the memory.Canada would go on to defeat the United States in the gold-medal game, setting off one of the most spontaneous national celebrations in the countrys history.Bob Nicholson, the longtime head of Hockey Canada, first met Quinn when Nicholson was working in minor hockey in British Columbia and Quinn was with the Vancouver Canucks. Nicholson and Quinn became fast friends, often spending summers together sitting at the end of a B.C. dock drinking red wine and smoking the ever-present cigars that were as much a part of Quinns persona as his great physical presence.Nicholson recalled how, in the hours before the gold-medal game in 2002, Quinn suddenly dropped his trousers to show off the lucky underwear and socks his grandchildren had decorated for him -- and which hed been wearing throughout the tournament.?Neither Nicholson nor Gretzky could contain their laughter at the memory of the bedazzled garments.He was very proud of those, Gretzky added.Ken Hitchcock was part of that same Olympic staff. Hed first met Quinn when Quinn was the general manager in Vancouver and Hitchcock was coaching in the Western Hockey League. After being invited to take part in Vancouvers training camp, Hitchcock got up at 3 a.m. and drove to the rink, expecting to be sharing the ice with other coaches -- only to find he was the only one out there with 40 players.In the stands, Quinn and director of player personnel Brian Burke watched, bemused, as Hitchcock used up his entire repertoire of drills in about 25 minutes because the pace was so fast.They laughed about it for 10 years, those clowns, Hitchcock said.The two lifelong coaches became pea-pod close, playing off each other as they shared some of the countrys most memorable hockey moments, Quinn oftenn referring to Hitchcock as a mad hockey scientist.ddddddddddddHe was such a good man, Hitchcock said. Every day you came to work, you didnt want to let the man down.The two stayed in close contact until Quinns phone was turned off for the last time two years ago.It was really emotional for a lot of us, Hitchcock said of Quinns death. It was really hard.Quinn played 606 NHL regular-season games for the?Toronto Maple Leafs, Vancouver Canucks?and Atlanta Flames, and was remembered for his hard-nosed style that included a bone-rattling check on Bobby Orr that made him a hated man in Boston for his entire career.But it was in coaching and managing -- the science of team building, if you will -- where Quinn would make a lasting and undeniable impression.Quinn coached five teams: the?Philadelphia Flyers, Los Angeles Kings, Canucks, Maple Leafs and Edmonton Oilers, compiling a W-L-T-OTL record of 684-528-154-34. Jacques Martin coached his first game in the NHL against Quinn in 1986. Over the years their paths would cross many times, most notably in heated playoff confrontations between Quinns Toronto Maple Leafs and Martins Ottawa Senators. ?But the two also worked together during international tournaments, and Martin fondly recalls end-of-day gatherings on the benches outside the Olympic village in Salt Lake City, where Quinn would contentedly draw on a cigar and talk hockey with the rest of the coaches.When I think of Pat, I just remember him as a person with a presence in the room, in a dressing room addressing players, Martin said. A real classy individual. And a highly competitive individual. Thats what drove him. He was really driven to win.Kalli Quinn recalled the door to the Quinn home always being open to players, coaches, whoever wanted to drop by. Such was the sense of family that extended beyond the Quinn name.Among those visitors during Quinns successful coaching tenure in Philadelphia was rugged?Philadelphia Flyers?forward Paul Holmgren.He loved to teach so much that we literally had to go to him and say, Pat, you need to stop these teaching moments, Holmgren said.Two minutes, three minutes, now theyre 10 minutes, Holmgren explained, chuckling. You get a good sweat on, especially in those old practice rinks in those days. Now all of sudden youve got to stand there for 10 minutes and listen to Pat orate.?When Holmgren moved into coaching, he would often turn to Quinn for advice. He was a huge help to me, Holmgren said. Im fortunate and I believe a better person because I did.If there is a measure of the depth of Quinns capacity to share his knowledge, it was in his successes with teams of top Canadian teens. He guided an under-18 national team and then the under-20 squad to championships late in his career.Nicholson admitted no one was quite sure how Quinn would manage with the kids after spending so long with established NHLers. To be honest, he scared the [crap] out of them first, said Nicholson. And then he got them to buy into his systems. He was a teacher of skill but he was also a teacher of people.Trevor Linden first met Quinn at the family home in British Columbia shortly before Vancouver made Linden the second-overall pick in 1988. He recalled being awed as his hand disappeared into Quinns meaty palms during that first handshake.Quinn, the teams GM, took on the coaching duties in Vancouver during the latter stages of the 1990-91 season. The Canucks advanced to the second round the following spring as Quinn earned his second Jack Adams Award as coach of the year. Then, two years later, in 1994, Quinn and the Canucks lost to the New York Rangers in a classic seven-game Stanley Cup finals.He made sense of things, said Linden, who is now president of hockey operations for the Canucks. Thats what he was great at. He taught me how to play the proper way.Linden is roughly the same age Quinn was when the two first met, and there is something cyclical about Lindens role in trying to revive the fortunes and identity of the Canucks franchise. Theres a reason people like Pat so much in Vancouver, Linden said. Hes left an indelible mark on this franchise.One might say that Quinn left an indelible mark on the entire game. ' ' '