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...icemen tallied once more in the final period, when Murray fed Purdy from his own blue line perfectly with a pass that traveled through two lines and a pair of Vermont defenders. Purdy was left all alone to deke the hapless Frost and make...
...stopped the ever-effective Koch on breakaways twice, the second coming in the middle of the third period, when the Vermont forward's deke-to-the-backhand maneuver could not find its way past the prone-positioned Hynes...
...change paid off, as leading scorer Bill Hozack, the recipient of great passes from Hughes and Schuster, broke in alone on the power play and Bruin goalie Mike Laycock. A fake here, a deke there and it was 1-1 after...
...Deke Hunter's case, the physical evidence he collects is much less important to the outcome than plea bargaining, defense shenanigans, tips and perjured testimony...
This steady torrent of dialogue creates some awkward moments. Conversations must be disassembled like Chinese boxes: " ' "My ex-wife," he said, "said the same thing," ' Locke said." At moments such as these, talk does indeed seem cheap. For all its laconic wit, The Judgment of Deke Hunter still teeters be tween the description of manners and the repetition of mannerisms. The characters are good fun to be around, but they never get more complicated than their last remark...