Word: hockey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...summer long, you wait for it. Baseball is unquestionably baseball, but it can get on your nerves after a while and besides, it's not hockey. The Stanley Cup play-offs of the previous year seem a distant memory, and something, anything, is needed for a fix. Maybe it's some international game on PBS, or a highlight film at three in the morning. Most likely, though, there's nothing until the first week of October and opening day has arrived. The hockey mindset grabs you, and that...
...used to be Lemaire, Lafleur, and the Cup for sure. This time, when the Montreal Canadiens seek their fourth straight Stanley Cup, they should encounter new contenders who were previously mere pretenders to the National Hockey League throne...
...difficult to choose any team over Montreal to win the Cup, even though the Isles have the home-ice advantage. The best trio of defensemen in hockey (Robinson, Lapointe and Savard), solid goalkeeping from Kenny Dryden, who practices law in his spare time, and the most balanced attack you'll ever see combine to make this squad the force to reckon with in search of Lord Stanley's $48 mug (purchased...
...ranking by Brown coaches, usually on a scale of 1 to 6. There are also depth charts for alumni children, music, art, theater. The music department, for instance, rates oboists and violinists by ability and the orchestra's need for them. That evening Rogers meets with the hockey coach to review 82 prospects. Picking up the application of a defenseman from Canada, Rogers reads his courses aloud: "English, auto mechanics, consumer math, shop ..." He looks for the essay. There is none; instead, the candidate has enclosed his team's player program, listing goals, assists, penalty minutes. Rogers shakes...
Those under 30 may not realize it, but there was an age when interest in professional team sports meant baseball, period. Pro football, basketball and hockey were in varying stages of infancy or awkward adolescence. The date was still far in the future when ABC Sports would rush in a TV camera crew every time three starlets got up on skateboards. Baseball reigned coast-to-river, with St. Louis as its Western outpost, but the entire country knew it as the only game in town...