Word: mayasich
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This year, trouble dogged the U.S. team. Coach Jack Riley upset morale by tossing three members off his squad, adding three others who had not even shown up for the Boston tryouts: Defenseman John Mayasich, 26, a television-time salesman who once played for the University of Minnesota, and Boston's Cleary brothers-Bill, 25, and Bob, 23, a pair of insurance brokers who had been hard-nosed, hard-skating forwards at Harvard. To make matters worse, Goalie Larry Palmer was knocked out with an injured knee. Subbing for him was a bushy-browed, strapping...
Next came the Russians, who passed the puck back and forth with the ease of pro basketball players setting up a play. But Defenseman Mayasich and Captain John Kirrane felled attacking Russians in wind rows, slid to the ice time and again to block shots with their bodies. McCartan himself covered every corner of the cage with his big stick and big glove, bought time for hardy forwards like the Clearys and Minnesota's Bill Christian to wear down the Russians by sheer superior skating, swing the balance of the game in the third period. Final score...