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Word: pucks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...earlier in the year against the Terriers, totally disrupts the B.U. passing game to the point where it is non-existent. The Terriers' defense was shoddy throughout the contest even with the return of Peter Brown, as the B.U. defensemen had difficulty getting the puck out of their zone, making many sloppy passes that Eagle forwards swooped in to intercept...

Author: By Andy Quigley, | Title: Minnesota Becomes No. 1 in Hockey | 2/5/1975 | See Source »

Thomas added his second of the night at 12:16 on a magnificent play. The "Turtle" picked up a bouncing puck at the Husky blue line, whirred, past a N.U. defender, and then let loose a 30-foot slapper that the shell-shocked McKenna only waved...

Author: By Andrew P. Quigley, | Title: Harvard Demolishes Northeastern, 9-0 | 2/4/1975 | See Source »

...Harvard victory was the tenacious forechecking and backchecking by the Crimson forwards. Even when the Huskies did manage to get the puck into the Harvard zone, there always seemed to be a Harvard forward back to prevent any three-on-two breaks for Northeastern...

Author: By Andrew P. Quigley, | Title: Harvard Demolishes Northeastern, 9-0 | 2/4/1975 | See Source »

...task clearly beyond Edward Berkely, who has directed the revival at Joseph Papp's Newhouse Theater in Manhattan. He has interred the play in 20th century sentimentality. The actors do their own thing, and the play becomes farce. Unloved Helena is a coy baby-talker and Poltergeist Puck a Harlem Globetrotter; the fairy attendants are reduced to midgets, and Bottom bloats into a wisecracking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Gift of Tongues | 2/3/1975 | See Source »

Slow Start. Indeed, Vachon is an irrepressible roamer around the net. Unsatisfied with merely blocking shots, he constantly sweeps alongside the goal -and even behind it-to clear the puck or start breakaways up the ice. "I like moving around," he says. "If I stayed in the net, I wouldn't be involved in the game and the opposition could score some easy goals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: King of the Kings | 1/27/1975 | See Source »

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