Word: hockeyed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From Bantam to Pro. In Canada, where hockey precocity is commonplace, Bobby Hull was a stick-out from the day he played his first Bantam League game, in Belleville, at the age of ten. There are seven levels of competition in Canada-Peewees, Bantams, Midgets, Juveniles, Junior B's, Junior A's and Professionals; Hull skipped the Peewees, Midgets and Juveniles. Officially. Actually, confides Pringle, who played against him in the Bantams, Bobby freelanced. When the Bantam game ended, he would tighten up his laces and join a Midget team in the next game. After that was over...
Come Home, Bobby. It was either that or the cement plant. All the Hulls learned to skate before they learned to read. Judy was such a hard-nosed hockey player that the boys around Point Anne once told her parents they wouldn't play with her any more because she was too rough. Dennis, 23, followed his older brother to Chicago, where he also plays left wing for the Black Hawks, and could some day make a name for himself. Bobby got his first pair of skates the Christmas he was four...
...Chicago and get my nose set again." He played the next night, and scored another goal, but Detroit won again to take a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven series. Finally came the sixth game, and with it, one of the most astonishing one-man shows in hockey history. At this point, Bobby turns laconic: "They scored, and I went out and got one. Then they got another, and I got another. And so on. They eventually wore us down and won 7-4." By then, packed nose, blood-filled eyes and all, Hull had assisted...
...skating speed or the velocity of his slap shot or his indifference to the way opponents knee and trip and hook him, that performance in Detroit explains why Hull's peers as well as his public regard him with something approaching awe. Yet respect, even adulation, are intangibles. Hockey has also given Hull the tangible trappings that befit its reigning king. Chicago is paying Bobby $40,000 this season, and if the second-place Black Hawks can overcome the Montreal Canadiens' eight-point lead in the East Division-or better yet, win the Stanley Cup-there will...
Face-Off. Hockey's version of the jump ball in basketball, in which the referee drops the puck between two opposing players to initiate play. Besides the blue center circle, eight red face-off dots are positioned at strategic points about the rink to get the puck back into action after a referee's whistle stops the game. Among the most common: the "end-zone face-off," which usually occurs after a goalie blocks a shot at the net, and the "last-play face-off," which takes place at the point where play has been stalled...