Word: pucks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rinfret is part Puck, part Polonius. The blend is instantly apparent when, his chubby face rumpling into a smile, he admits that he is more than a bit controversial: "When Pierre stands up to speak, they say, There he goes again, that publicity seeker, that headline hunter.' Perhaps Pierre is flamboyant, perhaps he does make headlines. They forget that Pierre does his homework too, and a lot of the time he's more right than the little gray...
...When they drop the puck to start the game," says one rival manager, "the Bruins think it is a piece of raw meat." Known to their foes as "the Animals," the Boston Bruins have long been the toughest, roughest, meanest, most penalized team in the National Hockey League. Unfortunately, they usually won more fights than games; in the past eleven seasons, the Bruins failed to make the Stanley Cup play-offs eight times, and their last cup victory was in 1941. "Some people say they've been rebuilding since then," says Scotty Bowman, coach of the St. Louis Blues...
Bowman should know. In the fourth game of the finals last week, Bowman's Blues went into a sudden death overtime with the Bruins. With just 40 sec. gone, Boston's Orr raked a loose puck off the St. Louis boards, passed to Teammate Derek Sanderson in the corner, broke for the goal, took a return pass, tripped acrobatically and slammed the puck into the net. The score gave the Bruins a four-game sweep of the Blues and their first Stanley Cup victory in 29 years...
...party -not that it happens very often. "Take one with you, Jim!" someone shouts, and the big man rises and knocks one back in one gulp. "I just did," he says, and leaves his admirers gaping. James Dickey is everyone's notion of a poet: part Proteus, part Puck. People marvel at how much liquor he can hold, but he wonders why he can't drink as much as Hart Crane. Others are awestruck that he writes poems, criticism and fiction. He frets that he cannot paint...
Phil Esposito brought Boston within one when he took a pass from John McKenzie and rifled the puck past Ranger goalie Ed Giacomin in the middle of the second period. Dave Balon intercepted a Boston pass minutes later and rammed the puck past Bruin goalie Ed Johnson to up the New York lead to two again...