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Harvard didn't even fight very well. Dan DiMichele squared off with Brian Morenz midway through the first period, and after DiMichele threw the first two punches, Morenz pulled up DiMichele's jersey and beat the hell out of him. DiMichele, the fourth high scorer in Harvard history, ended his career by heading for the locker room with a game misconduct and a bloody mouth...
...Baggage. Hockey has its full measure of memorable heroes: Howie Morenz, the Montreal Canadiens' great center of the '20s and '30s; Eddie Shore, the old Boston Bruins star; Maurice ("the Rocket") Richard, who scored 544 goals for Montreal before retiring in 1960; and Gordie Howe, who at 39, in his 22nd year with Detroit, has scored 678 goals. Yet over eleven incredible seasons, during which the game itself has flourished as never before, Bobby Hull has established himself as the most dominant figure hockey has known and left his indelible imprint on the record book...
...check. His fans note that he has acquired some of the social graces, such as saying "Pardon me" when he belches and making polite small talk while signing autographs. He smokes big cigars, wears sharp clothes, owns two apartment houses. Geoffrion is also a family man (married to Marlene Morenz, figure-skating daughter of a hockey immortal, the late Howie Morenz...
...power play," which has transformed big-time hockey into high-pressure shinny, is producing 24% more goals than in the age of the great Howie Morenz. In New Haven last week, a protest was heard. A test game, permitting only three offense players in the attacking zone at any time, was played before 25 New England prep-school coaches. Said Richard Cuyler, co-coach of South Kent School's hockey team and a leading opponent of power-play hockey: "The power play results in more rough play in the end zone, often resulting in organized shinny, indiscriminate shooting, banging...
...almost like the old days when Howie Morenz roamed the ice, and the loyal hockey fans, who called themselves les millionaires, sat in the Montreal Forum's cheap seats, wearing white woolen caps, drinking whiskey blanc and chanting piously, "Les Canadiens sont là" (The Canadiens are right in there). Now the cheap seats had gone and with them les millionaires, but Montreal showed last week that it still knew how to encourage its heroes...