Word: cavanagh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Turco is slightly shorter at 5-9 but stockier at 170 pounds. Neither the swift skater nor the flashy skater that Cavanagh is, he relies more on tipins, rebounds, and scrambles in front of the net, "what they call garbage goals." he says...
...line (Turco, Dwight Ware and either George McManama or Pete Mueller) doesn't rely on the length-of-the-ice rushes as much as Cavanagh's does," he says. "We try to sustain the pressure in the offensive zone and take a lot of shots, while each one of Cavanagh's line can go all the way," he adds...
...Cavanagh, who also says that his line likes to throw the puck into the zone and then forcecheck, has the great advantage of knowing his wings' moves perfectly. He has played with Dan "Monk" DeMichele every year but one since he was nine years old and they have acquired an instinctive knowledge of what the other one will...
...Cavanagh started playing in the Pee Wee program in Cranston, R.I., and played on an All-State, All-New England team with DeMichele and his younger brother Dave (who is now on the freshman team) his senior year. He was "supposed" to go to Brown, he says, but he decided he wanted to come to Harvard so he took a year at Andover...
With DeMichele, who is 6-2, 216 pounds, and Owen, who is only 5-6 but weighs 170, Cavanagh's line is the biggest on the team. They also have the most lethal shot. DeMichele has a hard left-handed slap shot and Owen, who plays right wing although he also is a left-hander, has a quick, hard wrist shot...