Word: pucks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...relaxation in the old days, Moore and Teammate Tom Johnson used to get a puck, square off a few yards apart and fire point-blank shots at each other. This palled after Blake threatened to slap a $100 fine on them each time blood was drawn. But Moore is still a leader of the violent horseplay that the Canadiens use to lower tension. One standard trick: the "initiation ceremony," in which a rookie-and an occasional sportswriter-is seized by the entire squad of naked bellowing Canadiens as he saunters into the locker room. The victim can count himself lucky...
...kind of fake shot-we call them 'deeks' for decoys. Sometimes the goalie gives you an opening deliberately and then breaks your heart by blocking the shot. I pretend I'm taking the opening by flicking my stick over the top of the puck. The goalie moves, and then I either flick it between his legs or into the other side...
...know deeks and plays and fakes are not much use unless the puck goes into the net. 'Shoot for the net! Shoot for the net!' was what Maurice Richard used to tell us, and he was right " Says the forgotten man of the Canadiens: "It's the goals that count, not the player who scores them...
...performance would have looked good in any production, and seemed splendid in this one: Clayton Corzatte's Puck. Corzatte was nimble of foot and voice, moving always with grace and speaking with great clarity and in bell-like tones that become extraordinary during incantations. Perhaps the only fault in his performance was an occasional tendency to speak too rapidly, and even this can be excused as an attempt to get the wretched evening over with...
With electronic swiftness, the Puck-eyed, bubbly-voiced infant became the Shirley Temple of Mexico's commercial television, adored by the country's boisterous bubble-gum set and avidly sought by manufacturers of candy, soda pop, cereal and children's medicines. Since then Janette, now 4, has piled up enough pesos to buy a small farm, where she languishes weekends with the aplomb of a Hollywood starlet, tending her flocks of ducks and chickens and her pet pig. Janette's father, Agustin Arceo, a salesman of auto lubricants, objects to all this, but is solidly outnumbered...