Word: bruin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after 69 minutes and 33 seconds of hard-fought, intense struggle, Yvon Lambert took a perfect cross-ice pass from teammate Mario Tremblay and without hesitation slipped the puck between the pads of Bruin goalie Gilles Gilbert. The shot gave Montreal a 5-4 come-from-behind win and the sudden-death semifinals-winning goal that the 17,453 in attendance and most of Canada had been praying...
Having survived their closest brush with elimination in four years by edging once-and-probably-not-future Bruin coach Don Cherry's skaters four games to three, the Canadiens now move on to the NHL finals, where they will face the upstart New York Rangers beginning tomorrow night...
With less than 13 minutes left in regulation, Bruin defenseman Rick "not Dallas" Smith kept the puck in the Montreal zone and shoveled it forward to UNH grad Bobby Miller. Miller closed in on Ken Dryden, then sent a slick pass towards Jonathan...
Things seemed rosey in the first game as Harvard's faint playoff hopes were brightened by the presence of pitching ace Larry Brown. With "Brownie" retiring the Bruin batters in 1-2-3 fashion for the better part of the game (he faced only fifteen batters in a five inning stretch), Harvard overcame an early two-run Brown edge to lead, 4-2, going into the final inning...
...then all hell broke loose in the seventh. After tossing out Rod Hibner for the second out. Brown (the pitcher) seemed ready to end the game despite the Bruin runners at the corners. But an intentional walk to load the bases and Larry Carbone's triple undid the afternoon's work. John King added insult to injury by kissing a Brown pitch goodbye over the left center field fence for the last run and the final, 7-4 score...