Word: puck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dryden and the Montreal Canadiens and to dash Ranger hopes for their first Cup since 1940; the tension was so thick that a knife would not have done the trick. Chicago was up, 2-1, but with a few minutes to go Vic Hadfield poked in a loose puck to put the game into sudden-death...
...break. Giacomin skates out to cut down the angle; he is knocked cold by a vicious 15-foot slapshot. A Black Hawk reaches the rubber and bangs it off the post; the Rangers and their fans (except for Giacomin, who is still unconscious) gaze in horror as the puck rebounds to Stan Mikita, quintessential all-star, still one of the most accurate shooters...
From no more than 20 feet away, Mikita sizes up the empty net, a gaping invitation. He slides the puck ever so gently goalwards, as his teammates prepared to celebrate and the Blueshirts prayed for a miracle to stave off elimination...
...second period, with Northeastern on a power play, Horton managed to steal the puck at the Huskies' blue line and deftly elude two defenders for Harvard's third tally...
Harvard's final score came with 15 seconds left in the game when Paul Yeomelakis broke up the Huskies' last onslaught, took the puck at the red line, and fired it into the untended goal...