Word: forechecked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wasn't just depth, though: Brown often found a clear route to pucks in the corner because Harvard's defense-oriented and, for the most part, inexperienced skaters seemed unsure whether to forecheck or drop back...
When the team reassembled this year, though, a marked difference emerged in its style of play. Suddently the players began to forecheck and take good shots on net, with the immediate results being back-to-back triumphs over national powerhouse Michigan State...
Both captains agreed that forechecking would be the key to the contest. "When we forecheck hard, B.U. tends to tire easily, and their play gets sloppy," Roth said...
Harvard played its best hockey in the first half of the second period. The team came out looking a lot looser and began to forecheck better. The play of Jim Thomas and the fourth line of Harry Reynolds, Leigh Hogan and Steve Dagdigian picked up the Crimson pace...
...They key thing we did was to forecheck them in the second and third periods so that they didn't get started." Harvard coach Bill Cleary said. "Our defense played well, and the forechecking turned the game around...