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...curbs for boards and garbage cans or a Rube Goldberg wooden contraption for a net; made his parents wake up at four in the morning to shuttle him to some dingy arena when ice time is cheaper and the Pee Wee team can practice; stared transfixed as Bobby Orr led the Bruins to glory...
...debate rages over the greatest hockey player of all time. Howie Morenz, the Stratford Streak, has the vote of the turn-of-the-century crowd; Maurice "The Rocket" Richard is the next generation's favorite. There are the Bobbies: Hull, the complete goal scorer, and Orr, with his intangible, but nonetheless real, brilliance. And Gordie...
...record, Gordie grew up on the wheatfields of Saskatchewan. He scored his first professional goal in 1946. He has played on the same squad as his two sons, Mark and Marty. His agent is his wife, Colleen. He has played against Orr, Hull, the Espositos, the Richards, and the Russians. He possessed the wickedest pair of elbows in sports, football giants notwithstanding...
...last January inherited a dispirited team holed up in the cellar of the Patrick Division and dreaming of past victories. Though he had played a plodding but physical game of hockey in his own nine-year career as a defenseman-he is best remembered for leveling Boston Superstar Bobby Orr in 1970-Quinn turned the team toward more Soviet-style passing and skating. Says he: "Some people are amazed that I can coach a system like this. Well, just because I couldn't play it doesn't mean I can't coach...
...idea is simple: dump the puck to the opposition's star defenseman in his own end and make him handle it until he wears himself out. The approach worked against Orr, and with two Rangers dogging his every move, it worked against Robinson. He made two mistakes that allowed goals and-rightfully, he said later-was booed by the Canadiens' fans...