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...that the Bulldogs had completely collapsed and were fighting just to get the game into overtime. With 21 seconds left in the game big wing Dave Gauthier, in a superb solo effort, stickhandled around two Eli defenders and sent a backhander from 15 feet that broke off Stenson's glove for the winning goal...
...needs the glove of an all-star shortstop, the agility of a gold-medal gymnast, the reflexes of a championship racing-car driver, the eye of a .400 hitter and the mind of a geometrician. Even then he is nothing if he has not conquered fear, for he lives in a vortex of violence in the world's fastest team sport. He is the hockey goalie, the masked man, the magnet for action...
...flashy moves of a high-scoring center, it is the goalie in his lonely vigil who embodies the savage, bruising and ultimately mesmerizing nature of his sport. He is an imposing knight in polyurethane padding as he crouches before the goal, ready to strike out in any direction with glove, skates or oversized stick. But behind his ghostly synthetic face, he is still vulnerable. No padding or mask that leaves him free to move can fully shield him from the potentially lethal blow of a slap shot or misguided stick. Danger is his way of life...
...work. A hockey goal, 6 ft. wide and 4 ft. high, provides a 24-sq.-ft. opening. Since the average goal tender - Parent included - fills a space of about 8 sq. ft. in his 35 lbs. of padding, his job boils down to protecting the remaining area with stick, glove or body...
Brian Campbell opened the scoring, beating Harvard goalie Brian Petrovek on the glove side with a shot from just inside the blue line. Roth answered back 35 seconds later, however, picking up a power play goal on a perfect pass from Steve Dagdigian...