Word: backhander
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...final game the Islanders almost undid it again. They surged ahead 4-2, then let the Flyers catch up. But 7 min. 11 sec. into sudden death, John Tonelli took a pass from Lome Henning and snapped it to Bobby Nystrom, who backhanded the puck into Philadelphia's net. Said Nystrom: "I think that was the first backhand shot I ever scored on in my life...
Throughout the match Pompan had trouble returning his opponent's thundering serves, and more importantly, keeping up with Lapidus's booming, finely placed baseline-to-baseline backhand shots. Pompan played dangerously anytime he ventured into the forecourt, since Lapidus's crosscourt shots nearly inevitably shot past his racquet and bounced within a few inches of the sideline...
...balladeer and misplaced Broadway composer, set out to make an album that rocked harder and hung tougher. Although one of the tunes here is called It 's Still Rock and Roll to Me, the music sounds like Broadway without a book, and the lyrics are full of the backhand arrogance that Joel mistakes for true rock spirit. Midway through Side 2, Billy backs off a little and decides to flash his cosmopolitan credentials by trying a lyric in French. He isn't fluent in that language either...
Boston's Rick Smith's slapshot 1:28 into period two evened the game at 1-1 before John Tonelli responded with a backhand goal at 10:40. After Dwight Foster and Lorne Henning (short-handed) traded tallies, Brad Park picked off a Trottier clearing attempt and wristed the puck past Smith to make it 3-3, 3:05 before the stanza ended...
Mark Dedard evened the contest at 16:00 and the rampage didn't stop as Dartmouth tallied its four unanswered goals on a Carey Wilson backhand in the final minute of the period...