Word: defenseman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...goalie made his move, Forbes passed to center Jim Dwinell, who was about fifteen feet out, and ten to the goalie's right. Dwinell's shot bounced off the goalie's left-hand post, out onto the rink, where a St. Lawrence defenseman recovered the puck...
...senior on last year's varsity, and Greg Downes are gone, and junior Dave Grannis has moved to the offense, where he will center a line between Dave Morse and Bill Beckett. Anderson will team with Dave Johnston, former freshman captain, at the points. Sophomore Harry Howell, a big defenseman who played aggressive hockey in the team's 3-0 win over Bowdoin last week, will probably play with Dave Crosby in the backline...
...Wings famed right wing, long a fearsome sight to pro goalies, bore down on the cage and fired low and hard. Sprawling, the New York Rangers' rookie goalie flung out his left leg, and the puck thunked into it. At the next whistle, a Ranger defenseman skated over to the goalie. "Nice stop on Gordie Howe," he said. "Who the hell is Gordie Howe?" asked Goalie Jack McCartan politely...
This year, trouble dogged the U.S. team. Coach Jack Riley upset morale by tossing three members off his squad, adding three others who had not even shown up for the Boston tryouts: Defenseman John Mayasich, 26, a television-time salesman who once played for the University of Minnesota, and Boston's Cleary brothers-Bill, 25, and Bob, 23, a pair of insurance brokers who had been hard-nosed, hard-skating forwards at Harvard. To make matters worse, Goalie Larry Palmer was knocked out with an injured knee. Subbing for him was a bushy-browed, strapping...
Next came the Russians, who passed the puck back and forth with the ease of pro basketball players setting up a play. But Defenseman Mayasich and Captain John Kirrane felled attacking Russians in wind rows, slid to the ice time and again to block shots with their bodies. McCartan himself covered every corner of the cage with his big stick and big glove, bought time for hardy forwards like the Clearys and Minnesota's Bill Christian to wear down the Russians by sheer superior skating, swing the balance of the game in the third period. Final score...