Word: hortons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hozack and Horton were teammates for a season on a midget league team in the Southside Athletic Club Conference, one of four Metropolitan conferences. Dea, who lives on the other side of town in a hockey hotbed by the name of Rio Terrace, played against his current linemates while a member of the Knights of Columbus spurs, another midget team...
...unlike Horton and Hozack, went on to play junior hockey with the Spruce Grove Mets. His team won the Canadian Junior Championship and received the Centennial Cup for its efforts. Spruce Grove beat a squad from Guelph. Ontario for the championship after a 60 game regular season and a 40 game playoff grind that stretched from September...
...only a sophomore, but Horton had a tougher time breaking into the varsity lineup. Horton had to play on the Junior Varsity his sophomore season even though he went on to be elected captain. "I was more proud of just making the team," he said. "You don't go out and try to get yourself elected captain so I didn't feel it was that much of a personal achievement...
...Horton and his linemates had to adjust to a faster, less hard hitting brand of hockey when they arrived at Harvard. "There's a lot more contact in the play I was accustomed to," Horton said. "Here I was hampered by the fact that I'm not a naturally graceful skater...
What makes Hozack's line produce is that Horton and Dea, who learned their aggressive forechecking way back in midget league, are able to dig in the corners and get the puck to him. The result of such a combination is very often a picture-perfect goal and a roar of appreciation in Waston Rink or Boston Garden that might make the Edmonton Express remember the roar of the Canadian Pacific Railroad as it crosses the lonely prairies of Alberta...