Word: durnan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have perfect balance, knowledge of the tactics of the opponent streaking down-ice toward the net and a thoughtfully padded uniform. In the National Hockey League, the man who seemed to combine the necessary qualities better than anybody else this season was Toronto-born William Ronald ("Big Bill") Durnan, 34-year-old veteran of the Montreal Canadiens...
...Bill Durnan was not the most graceful man on the ice. With the padding they wear, goalies seldom are. He seemed to get out of position a lot. This was deceptive on Big Bill's part. "Durnan fools you," said another National Hockey League star last week. "One second he leaves a big hole on one side of the cage, but the next he's in there on top of the puck. He knows he can move fast...
...Bill Durnan was one reason why the Montreal Canadiens were in third place in the league and awaiting a crack at the Stanley Cup playoffs, which begin next week. Despite the pell-mell style of postwar hockey, with the emphasis on five-man gang attacks and wild scrambles at the goalmouth, hard-working Bill Durnan has achieved ten shutouts...
Last week, Canadien Coach Dick Irvin, a veteran of 41 years in hockey, called Big Bill the greatest goalie in hockey history. Said Durnan: "The greatest I ever saw was Charlie Gardiner...
...bulwark on defense is Goalie Bill Durnan, practically assured of his fourth straight Vezina Trophy (for the goalie who averages the least goals per game). Last year he blocked all but 104 shots in 40 games. In front of Durnan is Les Canadiens' "bachelor defense"-rocklike Emile ("Butch") Bouchard, 26, an offseason beekeeper, and fiery Irishman Kenny Reardon, 25. Bachelor Bouchard plans to marry at season's end. Bachelor Reardon is the confessed favorite player of figure-skating champion Barbara Ann Scott...