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...Esposito is the lawyer who is handling that from this office, but he's not here right now. You might try calling him at the Corporate Responsibility division. The number...
Pirouetting Pachyderm. No one, including Tony, is quite sure how he does it. There are two basic styles of goaltending: the stand-up and the flipflop. Esposito excels at neither. Instead, he patrols the net in a fashion that might be described as roam around, fall down and scramble. "Unorthodox but effective" is how Black Hawk Coach Billy Reay tactfully describes it. Against Boston last week, the pudgy, heavily padded Esposito whirled around the goal like a pirouetting pachyderm, deflecting shots with his elbows, knees and shoulders. Occasionally he even used his stick as Chicago won 6-3 and moved...
While growing up on the rinks of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., Esposito yearned to play forward like his big brother Phil. "But every time I was picked for a team, they would stick me in the goal," he says. By the time he was 17, he was so disgusted he quit hockey altogether. He hadn't minded being pelted by pucks; it was the chilly, accusing stares that hurt. "Every time we'd lose, the guys would look at me and raise their eyebrows. No matter how the team plays in front of me, I have the last...
Deal to Forget. Coaxed back into competition, Esposito won a scholarship to Michigan Tech, where he earned a degree in business administration and a place on the All-America Hockey Team. He turned professional in 1967 and after a stint in the Canadiens' farm system, he was called up to the N.H.L. last year to fill in for the injured Gump Worsley. The Black Hawks saw and thought enough of Esposito to get him in an off-season deal the Canadiens would now like to forget. In Chicago's first game against Montreal this year, Tony stopped...
Stopping Big Brother Phil is another matter. During the summer, the two brothers practice together, with Phil shooting endless breakaway shots at Tony. "That's how he beats me," says the older Esposito. "I start to make the moves I was making this summer and he sees them coming." Replies Tony, grinning: "I play him like Howe, Beliveau, all those tricky players." But neither brother can really explain Tony's moves. The young goalie occasionally tries, but after several long minutes of explaining what he does not do, he wrinkles his brow and concludes: "Sometimes...