Word: backhanding
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...three minutes after that, UNH defender Shelly DiFronzo skated past the back-tracking Crimson defense to within five feet of the Harvard goal, where she flicked in a pretty backhand...
...Crimson's only goal came minutes later at 8:02. Sophomore wing Karen Carney worked the puck out of the right corner to center Johanna Neilson, who slapped a backhand past Princeton netminder Sue Gouchoe...
Gretzky was a six-year-old on a team for ten-year-olds, and at eleven made Howe's acquaintance. The great man inquired gently, "Do you practice your shots, son?" "Yes, sir, I do," he replied. "Your backhand too?" "Yes, sir." "Good. Make sure you keep practicing that backhand." Of all the remarkable entries in Gretzky's log--most goals by far in a season (92), most assists by far (125), most points (212), most records (35 in the N.H.L. alone)--the least told is the most telling. The first goal he ever scored in Junior B league play...
...daily when he is in Amarillo, and his name is usually at the top of the center's racquetball tournament ladder. His prowess is on sculptured display outside the courts in the form of a life-size bronze statue that portrays a crouching Pickens about to smash an unreturnable backhand...
...down to 10 minutes left, someone had to make something happen," center Scott Fusco said. That someone was Fusco, and that something was a goal off a nifty pass from Lane MacDonald in the left corner Fusco, working double shifts, struck again three minutes later, knocking in a backhand rebound of a Rob Ohno point shot...