Word: rinks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Saturday, I arrived at the rink, and outside the main entrance, a girl in a blue coat (I still can't figure that out) was hawking her wares, which turned out to be information sheets on pre-arranged charter fights to Providence for the NCAA semi-finals and finals the following weekend. In big letters at the top they said. "HURRY--FILLING FAST...
...clock was winding down, and the Harvard women's hockey team was training a superior Princeton squad, 4-2, in the final of the Ivy League tournament at Dartmouth. Hanover's deep-freeze was seeping into Thompson Arena, where most of the 5000 seats (all green) were empty, the rink announcer listed the Tigers' scoring in a voice like that of HAL the computer in "2001", and the few Dartmouth students who wandered by were decidedly pro-Princeton ("We can't root for Hahvahd"). And in the waning minutes, Princeton winger Kelly O'Dell pumped in two more goals...
...saying this, lounging in a room off Oiler Coach Glen Sather's office, showing game films of favorite goals, his teammates are out on the rink having their shots timed by a radar gun. Since scoring last in team strength tests, Gretzky has shied from such gauges. "My shot wouldn't be close to the fastest," he laughs. So if he is not the strongest and his shot is not the hardest, is he the best skater? "No way." Then what is it about...
...study this committee recommended what if called the Program for "Program for Athletic Facilities at Harvard and Radcliffe," a $30 million massive and all encompassing plan for a plush, modern sport, complex at soldiers field planners forcasted new improvements to include a new indoor swimming poll, a new hockey rink: an indoor track and tennis facility, a basketball arena placed in a renovated Watson Hockey rink: new squash courts underground lockerrooms, weightrooms and physical therapy areas connecting these new structures and the upgrading of nearly all the University's existing sports facilities...
...athletic department's next priority for a facility, a new hockey rink, had been planned in the 1975 proposal. But when Coach Bill Cleary and planner realized that that $7 million project exceeded the available budget, they looked to the possibility of renovating Watson Rink, the existing facility. They found that builders could install new seating, resurface the rink, and rebuild the press box, while reinsulting the severely corroded walls for only about $2.8 million. The project was undertaken, and architects created what Reardon calls "a bright, exciting place to see a game. "It was the best facility...