By Andrew Holleran A United States women’s hockey player was stretchered off the ice following a scary injury at the Winter Olympics on Thursday morning. Brianna Decker, a 30-year-old assistant captain for the American team, had to be stretchered off the ice following an apparent leg injury. The United States women’s hockey team was playing its opening game at the Beijing Olympics. The Associated Press had more on the injury: Decker yelped out in pain several times while lying on the ice after being tripped from behind by Finland’s Ronja Savolainen to the left of the U.S. net in the first peri…