Word: pucks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Christian Bale is perfect as the wet noodle who is ultimately improved by Puck's magic (he's the only character left under the influence of the herbal Viagra). Dominic West, on the other hand, needs no potion, quickening the movie's pulse with his smoldering eyes and nudist tendencies. Midsummer Night's magic does well by all the aging cast members, making Stanley Tucci and Rupert Everet's oft-displayed biceps taut and virile as they lounge about, toying with the fate of their younger coactors. Pfeiffer tops the pantheon, lathered up with glitter and seemingly enchanted...
...operate from his "office," the small space in back of the opponent's goal, anticipating where his teammates would be well before they got there and feeding them passes so unexpected he would often surprise them. For a cover story in 1985, he told TIME, "People talk about skating, puck handling and shooting, but the whole sport is angles and caroms, forgetting the straight direction the puck is going, calculating where it will be diverted, factoring in all the interruptions." Don't worry. That sounded just as confusing to most NHL players...
Moments after the timeout, he nearly had a breakaway, but Pittsburgh goalie Tom Barrasso, who had a sensational game, beat Gretzky to the puck...
Moments later, he set up MacLean for a semi-breakaway, but Barrasso stopped a slap shot. Then Gretzky broke in on a two-on-one with MacLean, who held the puck too long for a shot...
While her teammates had produced Harvard's five goals during regulation and almost won the game in overtime, it was Mleczko who got the job done when her team needed her most. At 8:01 of the sudden-death period, she raced down the left wing and slipped the puck under the stick of UNH goaltender Alicia Roberts, where Harvard freshman winger Jen Botterill was waiting to slam home the game-winner...