Word: roamer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
Then Jerry Fielding's rueful music grows percussively insistent, and breaks into a Rod Hart song about how an Arizona morning could make a Prescott roamer almost want to settle down. The landscape is hard and scrubby, but its color is warm. This is home. Bonner stops at a gas station-fruit market, buys fuel, and apples, and feeds one to his horse. Another frontier Cadillac passes him when he's back on the open road, driven by two rodeo friends with two pretty young ladies. "How you feeling, cowboy?" calls one. "Lonely, right now." "Have a taste...