Word: pucks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...going to move the puck around pretty well this year," predicted coach Tim Taylor. "The keynote there is speed, and we've also got it in the wings. We've also got good size, good, hockey sense, three well-balanced lines, and a rare amount of talent at the center ice position with Kevin Burke, Kevin Carr and Whizzie Wyatt...
...minutes 26 seconds of playing time to do it, but Team Canada finally overcame the Soviet Union's national team in Moscow last week to win the first "world series" of hockey. With 34 seconds left in the eighth and final game, Paul Henderson of Toronto flicked the puck past Soviet Goalie Vladislav Tretiak to give the Canadian all-star pros a 6-5 lead. The Russians tried desperately to come back, but the Canadians hung on to take their fourth victory against three wins for the Soviets...
Playing on foreign ice, the Soviets showed that they were individually better conditioned and collectively better coordinated than their slick, freewheeling Canadian counterparts. Their intricate, puck-control game often confounded N.H.L. defense men; flashy Forward Valeri Kharlamov, who scored three goals in the first three contests, may be as good as the N.H.L.'s best. Whatever the outcome of the series, Russia has established itself as a hockey superpower, a worthy match for the men whose forebears invented the modern game...
...offense, Orr scored more points (four goals, four assists) than anyone else in the series. One of his goals-in the final game, which Boston won 3-0-was scored with one of his classically daring efforts. With Ranger Bruce MacGregor swooping in to steal the bouncing puck for a breakaway at the Ranger blue line, Orr could have played it safe by swatting the puck out of danger. Instead, he coolly trapped it inches from MacGregor's stick, pirouetted on his left skate and snapped a 30-ft. wrist shot into...
Odyssey games will "improve motor skills." It does indeed take quick reflexes to play the games well. In electronic hockey, for example, players must not only move their "sticks" up and down but also manipulate an "english control," which can simulate slap shots and shift the direction of the "puck" as it crosses the center line. Good concentration and coordination are also essential in games like "Skiing," which requires the player to keep the light square tracking down a curving path on a simulated mountainside in a race against the clock...