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Word: pucks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Seven minutes into the third period, Harvard held a 3-0 advantage when Kukulowicz picked off the puck near center ice, raced down the right wing and slapped the puck along the ice, into the far corner of the Dartmouth...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Icemen Level Lowly Dartmouth, 4-0 | 2/2/1984 | See Source »

McMahon, the only Crimson iceman with-out a name on his shirt or in the game program, dropped a pass off the faceoff to Martin, who slapped the puck towards the Colgate net. The puck struck goalie Jeff Cooper's glove and fluttered over his head into...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Auld Lang Syne | 2/1/1984 | See Source »

Heartening news: two weeks before the first puck is to drop in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia (for the first of six hockey games to be played Feb. 7, the day before the opening ceremonies), the supply of slivovitz, a high-octane schnapps made from plums, is still holding out. Zivjeli! ("Bottoms up!" in Serbo-Croatian). All reserves may be needed, however, before the closing ceremony, Feb. 19. The proud and fiery Yugoslavs have quelled their tendency to airy improvisation, and they have succeeded against considerable odds in transforming an amiable Balkan backwater into a cred ible third-rank winter resort. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rolling Out the Red Carpet | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

Vairo learned the game on the streets of Brooklyn. Literally. He played with roller skates on asphalt, using a roll of friction tape for a puck. Until he was 21, Vairo had never put on ice skates. But soon he was hanging around New York Rangers practice sessions and reading anything he could find on the subject. By 1972 he had saved enough money to send himself to Moscow, the mecca of European hockey. "Soviet teams made magic with the puck," Vairo says. "Their tempo was quick, and they were always in superb condition. I figured this was the model...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Another Miracle Is the Goal: Olympic Hockey | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

...second line got into the act when Parn DiRubio and Genie Simmons played give-and-go down the left half of the ice. Simmons gunned the puck past the bewildered Clements and with just under a minute left in the first, it was Harvard...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Surprising! | 1/16/1984 | See Source »

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