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Word: pucks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...part of the equation. You can't get it in baseball, basketball or football, and yet that's rarely trumpeted in the marketing. Hockey is a graceful but aggressive game that can elevate to and just as quickly retreat from physical hostilities at the drop of a puck. That's exciting to watch because it's passionate. You're watching the opposite of paycheck playing: that's playing with heart. And yet they're all the nicest and most polite/least in-trouble athletes of the sports community. • Heroes! Villains! Costumes! Masks! Fights! It's like a comic book come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Friend of the Hockey Court | 5/14/2009 | See Source »

...good then. Now I'm just praying that whatever I lack in Brodeur-like brilliance and Luongo-level dexterity I can make up for in sheer width and mass in goal. God willing, my child-bearing hips stretch pipe to pipe - because Sunday afternoon, the aging oldsters of Puck U (my team) will play the winning club from the tournament's teenage division. If the mallrats can beat us, we're going to donate $10,000 to Brantford Youth Athletics at game's end. (If they can't beat us, their citizenship and street cred as electric youth should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Friend of the Hockey Court | 5/14/2009 | See Source »

Then, midway through the third frame, sophomore defenseman Leanna Coskren found Wilson in front of the net, who slammed the puck home to force...

Author: By Loren Amor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NOTEBOOK: Improved Engineers Down Crimson | 3/9/2009 | See Source »

...Clemente] was really seeing the puck, and he controlled his rebounds,” Donato said. “Having almost 90 shots in two nights and not having a lot of easy rebound opportunities is a credit to how he played...

Author: By Courtney D. Skinner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NOTEBOOK: Brown’s Upset Victory Makes Crimson History | 3/9/2009 | See Source »

...decided dramatically by the stick of Gersten.At 13:20, in RPI’s fourth power play of the game—after Harvard was penalized for too many skaters on the ice—Stewart found Gersten open on the right wing. From distance, the defenseman smashed the puck through a crowded goalmouth and past the glove of junior goaltender Christina Kessler.Cue delirium amongst the RPI bench and fans; cue devastation amongst the Crimson players so near but yet so far from victory.“You have to let [the players] go through the process of being disappointed...

Author: By Allen J. Padua, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Season Comes to Shocking End | 3/9/2009 | See Source »

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