Word: pucks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bromides give way to threats of mayhem. Magnuson is a "policeman," a player whose job it is to keep the other team in line. Other than football, no team sport puts a greater premium on bodily contact than hockey-the crunching board check, the elbow-flailing combat for the puck behind the net, the boiling free-for-all over real or imagined irregularities. And as in football, the team that establishes its physical superiority is most often the one that wins. Says Conn Smythe, former president of the Toronto Maple Leafs: "You can't lick...
Cornell's Kevin Pettit skated into the corner and passed out to Jim Higgs and Higgs shot the puck past Harvard goalie Bruce Durno. The Cornell fans went insane and poured out of the arena to blow their minds and lunches in the Ithaca bars. Harvard players stumbled off the ice and stared at their navels in the locker room...
Harvard almost avoided its postgame agonies with a sudden-death goal. The Crimson appeared to have pushed the puck over the goal line, but as Cooch Owen smashed his stick against the glass and Joe Cavanagh exchanged angry words with the referee, the goal judge, attired in a Cornell jacket, refused to put the red light on. It was the second "no goal" decision given the Crimson during the game and Cornell goalie Brian Copper later admitted to Cavanagh that the puck had gone...
Crimson coach Cooney Weiland pulled Durno in the final minute and put his first two lines on the ice. The six forwards fired six shots on net but never ruined the Vermont fans dreams. At one point, Dave Hynes dribbled the puck past Reece, but a Vermont defenseman cleared it as it rolled along the goal line...
...With four minutes left in the game, Harvard's Tom Paul went off the ice for tripping and the Crimson cause seemed lost. But Cavanagh and Cwen kept the puck in the Vermont zone for two straight minutes. Reece made three great saves on Owen and got help from the post on a shot by Dan DeMichele...