Word: ices
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...take them. Oh yes, he'll take the goal that broke RPI's back, and he'll take the season that has turned him from an unheralded forward--just another jersey, helmet and stick--into a hockey gem, a composite of diamond and ice...
...pass, sizzling across the ice from right to left, turned into a shot when it bounced off RPI defenseman Rob Schena's leg and past goalie Steve Duncan into the net for a 5-4 Harvard edge with 5:42 left...
...first, short-track skating looks less like a sport than a kung-fu gang war on ice, the combatants wielding giant switchblades with their feet. Skaters jostle and bump around the perpetual curves of the 111-meter loop, and when one loses a jot of control, three are likely to careen across the water- slickened ice. But as Olympic spectators have seen, short-track racing is an intricate sport, replete with complex strategies. Since up to six skaters start at once, it has the drama of a pack of competitors struggling cheek to cheek -- battle like it oughta...
...Canadian hockey teams, with their scattering of N.H.L. pros, college players and European-league veterans, are scarcely amateur in the classic sense. But in Olympic play, even these hodgepodge squads are dinosaurs on ice. After the Americans' seventh-place finish and the Canadians' drubbing, 5-0, by the gold-bound Soviets, North American hockey officials were dismayed. Sighs Father David Bauer, patriarch of Team Canada: "If the American defense had only been better, it would have done so much for amateur hockey...
...beguiling as she is fickle, Bizet's Gypsy Carmen is a temptress whose passions run the emotional alphabet from A to Z. Even on ice. For Debi Thomas, the accent is on P. Her Carmen is usually powerful, plucky, practical and pretty. Katarina Witt's Carmen is a study in S, at once sensuous, seductive, stylish and shrewd. But last Saturday night, when the long-awaited skate-off between the two Carmens got under way in the Olympic Saddledome, America's sweetheart proved an unexpected B: a bobbly bundle of nerves capable only of bronze...