Word: defenseman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard may be without the services of defenseman Doug Elliott, who received a misconduct penalty Monday night for leaving the penalty box and arguing with the referee...
...Harvard doesn't hit enough. No one was really disagreeing with him. The Brown players had given Harvard numerous cheap shots in the corner and gotten away with it virtually unseathed. As Bretagna told me before we got off the bus. "When a forward comes down the boards, the defenseman usually plays the body. At Harvard, he usually plays the puck...
Magnuson learned. Mashing rivals into the boards like marshmallows, the feisty young defenseman was involved in so many brawls that he piled up a total of 213 minutes in penalties his rookie season, highest mark in the National Hockey League. Trouble was, he often got as good as he gave. The karate lessons he had taken were of little help. "The secret of karate," he explains, "is using your feet to kick somebody. When your feet are in skates, it's not exactly legal." So during the off season, he studied boxing with former Bantamweight Champion Johnny Coulon. Result...
...momentum, and DeMichele broke out of a five-game scoring drought, firing home a perfect pass from Cavanagh to tie the score, 1-1. Cornell struck again at 13:51, but once more Harvard recovered to tie it up. Cavanagh netted the Crimson's goal, faking out a defenseman and Copper on a solo rush. Both tallies came on power plays...
Crimson coach Cooney Weiland pulled Durno in the final minute and put his first two lines on the ice. The six forwards fired six shots on net but never ruined the Vermont fans dreams. At one point, Dave Hynes dribbled the puck past Reece, but a Vermont defenseman cleared it as it rolled along the goal line...