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Specifically, it was Gene Purdy, playing on an all-new line with Bill Hozack and Murray (no, he isn't Ralph Malph's twin brother) Dea, who had a field day against the New Haveners...
With two-and-a-half minutes remaining in the middle period, however, mutual tempers began to flare. Murray Dea was called for elbowing and Princeton waited until a few seconds after its power play to ruin Petrovek's shutout, with Trevor Kilburn doing the honors on a slapshot with 16 seconds left in the period...
...There's much more intimidation in Canada," Dea adds. "No one backs down from a fight...
Hozack, the Edmonton Express' senior center who Dea describes as "really cute with the puck," decided to come to Harvard without any outside prodding. He doesn't regret his departure from the high-pressured hockey of his hometown, as he says that in Edmonton "You're really aware of what's happening in Junior hockey. That's where the struggle to make it is. There are a lot of guys all around you who are trying to make it and don't produce. When you see that kind of thing it doesn't make a good impression...
What makes Hozack's line produce is that Horton and Dea, who learned their aggressive forechecking way back in midget league, are able to dig in the corners and get the puck to him. The result of such a combination is very often a picture-perfect goal and a roar of appreciation in Waston Rink or Boston Garden that might make the Edmonton Express remember the roar of the Canadian Pacific Railroad as it crosses the lonely prairies of Alberta...