Word: breakaway
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Moments after the timeout, he nearly had a breakaway, but Pittsburgh goalie Tom Barrasso, who had a sensational game, beat Gretzky to the puck...
Moments later, he set up MacLean for a semi-breakaway, but Barrasso stopped a slap shot. Then Gretzky broke in on a two-on-one with MacLean, who held the puck too long for a shot...
Brown won a faceoff, but Botterill stole the puck in the offensive zone and fed Mleczko in the slot. That set up an uncontested breakaway for the Crimson duo, and Mleczko drew Brown junior goaltender Ali Brewer to her side before dishing to Botterill at the right doorstep for her third goal of the night...
...forward. Freshman Angela Ruggiero led all defensemen in the nation with 21 goals and 40 assists and is without a doubt one of the most imposing presences in women's hockey. Her speed and strength make her a threat in the defensive zone, on the breakaway and from the blue line. Ruggiero is so good at preventing two-on-one breakaways from developing into shots on goal that it's almost unfair to give her a linemate...
Milosevic's war in Bosnia to expand Greater Serbia ended in another defeat. To save himself, he had to knuckle under to international diplomacy. Ever ready to discard what has become harmful, he dropped his backing for Serb kin in the breakaway state, eventually making peace at their expense at Dayton in 1995. He turned this humiliation into another kind of triumph when he paraded on the world stage as a peacemaker equal to the superpower leaders negotiating with him. Yet he was no more a man of peace than he was a communist or nationalist. He simply did what...