Word: pucks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...groan rose from the heartbroken Oakland crowd. But it was a groan almost equally mixed with cheers. If their favorites had to go down, how better than at the hands of Bobby Hull? For the sight of Robert Marvin Hull, 29, leaning into a hockey puck is one of the true spectacles of sport-like watching Mickey Mantle clear the roof, or Wilt Chamberlain flick in a basket, or Bart Starr throw that beautiful bomb. It is the thing that hockey fans go to see-whether in Chicago, Montreal or Oakland. And it is the thing that makes Bobby Hull...
...average of two goals every three games), Bobby Hull would still be fearsome. There is not one ounce of excess baggage on his 5-ft. 10-in., 195-lb. frame; physiologists have called him "the perfect mesomorph." He is the fastest skater in the N.H.L. (28.3 m.p.h. with the puck, 29.7 m.p.h. without), and by far the fastest shot: his "slap shot," delivered from a full windup, has been clocked at 118.3 m.p.h., nearly 35 m.p.h. above the league average, and his "wrist shot," fired with just a flick of the stick, zings along at 100.7 m.p.h...
...crosses the path of a Hull missile gets off so lightly. Montreal Goalie Lome ("Gump") Worsley caught one in the face three years ago, firmly believes that the only reason he was not killed was that he was hit by the flat side rather than the edge of the puck. Last October, Minnesota Goal Tender Cesare Maniago was knocked silly for several minutes by a Hull shot that glanced off the top of his head; he now wears a face mask against Chicago. Bobby is aware that he could permanently injure somebody, but he cannot permit himself to brood about...
...endlessly drilling his son on the technique of stick handling. "He was sometimes impatient," says Bobby, "but he liked to skate with me. 'Let's try it again, Robert,' he would say. 'Keep your head up. If the stick blade is angled properly, the puck will feel right...
Face-Off. Hockey's version of the jump ball in basketball, in which the referee drops the puck between two opposing players to initiate play. Besides the blue center circle, eight red face-off dots are positioned at strategic points about the rink to get the puck back into action after a referee's whistle stops the game. Among the most common: the "end-zone face-off," which usually occurs after a goalie blocks a shot at the net, and the "last-play face-off," which takes place at the point where play has been stalled...