Word: pucks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Take Him Out!" Lynn Patrick was no stranger to the Rangers. For nine seasons before the war, he had been known as a bold, fleet left wing with a deadly left-hand shot. His preeminence was no gift. In Lynn's first game, in 1934, he got the puck, glided confidently toward the goal, was neatly dumped on the ice by a couple of veterans. Sneered one: "Don't hurt him, he's the boss's son." The crowd chanted: "Take him out! Take him out!" They thought he might be trying...
...Stanley Cup, hockey's World Series, Ranger Goalie Lome Chabot was hit in the eye by a flying puck. Manager Lester Patrick, who was 44, had quit the ice two years before, and had never played goal in his life, got into Chabot's sweaty armor and skates. He let only one puck get past him, held on against a furious Montreal Maroons' attack until Boucher scored the winning Ranger goal...
...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 at the puck, slashing . . . Much of the exciting open play of the older game has disappeared...
...Puck Frozen...
...Anderson's third line that was stymied for a full minute at mid-ice while three clever BC skaters froze the puck completely to kill a penalty, and it was the Bill Allen-Al Key second defense that formed the weakest unit...