Word: legging
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Once driven nearly to extinction by rampant fur trapping and forest clearing, beavers are colonizing large swaths of North America where people don't remember seeing them. Since Massachusetts banned lethal leg-hold traps in 1996, the state's beaver population has tripled, to 70,000. North Carolina may have half a million, Manitoba twice as many. From Maine to Alaska, California to the Carolinas, the beaver's numbers are exploding...
...captains Lauren McAuliffe and Angela Ruggiero—then both juniors— made an attempt to stop Nora Tallus’ game-winning shot. Ruggiero slid across the ice to block the puck with her leg, while McAuliffe stayed high, hoping to block it with her shoulder or side. But the puck found its way through the pair, and Harvard went home vanquished...
...Chelsea Grills attempted to cross the puck from her position on the far right side of the offensive zone. The puck bounced off a Harvard defender and right into the path of Connors, who was crashing the net. Unprepared for the strange bounce, sophomore netminder Ali Boe had her legs together in anticipation of the cross and could not kick out her left leg fast enough to get a piece of the shot...
...play in the first—her shot was partly stopped by Horak and partly by Minnesota defensman Allie Sanchez. But neither got a handle on the puck, which found its way over to co-captain Lauren McAuliffe on the left side of the crease. While Horak's right leg lay extended back after trying to stop Corriero’s shot, McAuliffe picked the puck up off the ice and tried to jump it into the net. Her shot clanged off the inside of the right post, causing the red light behind the glass to flash, though the officials...
Montijo’s leg was split open, resulting in 300 stitches later at the hospital. Her family’s presence was actually fortuitous in that Monica’s mother is an emergency room nurse...