Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only 1:30 into the second period, Yale's Terry DeMeza scored on a pass from Brian Bird. Then Cole, the Yale goalie, held up the game for about ten minutes while officials examined his injured knee. He re-entered the game immediately afterward...
...Nayler, last year's sophomore star at 130, was hit by knee and groin injuries early in the season, became dispirited, and has withdrawn from the team. Howie Freedman, undefeated last year at 177 and 191, contracted mononucleosis soon after Christmas and was lost for the season...
...twelve years old," he says. "One of the kids spotted Hull and started up to him. His father said, 'Hey, you can't do that.' But quick as a flash Hull was awake and, by God, there he was with a kid on each knee...
...King. More than any of his other records, more than his 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...
Check. Applies to all means, legal or otherwise, of breaking up an attack. Basic is the body check, which is similar to a football block and carries some of the same restrictions: it cannot be thrown from behind or below the knee. Also it can only be leveled at the man with the puck. Cross-checking, or rapping a player with the stick lifted completely off the ice, is patently illegal. Legal defensive moves include poke checking, which is simply an attempt to jab the puck free, and hook checking, which is usually a desperation gambit-the off-balance defender...