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...shades of no one else, except maybe each other: two unexpectedly alike and amazingly unlikely straw-haired farm boys who are not only reigning at the top of their games but raising the ceilings of their sports. Confounding normal description, confusing standard measurement, Gretzky is not the slickest skater or hardest shooter, just as Bird is not the swiftest runner or highest jumper. One is frankly too frail for the business, the other simply too agile for his size...
Then Kwong saw two Red Raiders taking on Peter Follows, the lightest skater (160 pounds) on the ice. One guy held Follows while the other guy hit him. "When it's a two on one, you've got to help out your teammate," said Kwong, who rushed to the scene...
...Crimson exhausted from a 5-5 overtime tie at Cornell the night before, played poorly all evening and needed a Peter Follows goal with under a minute less and goalie Grant Blair on the bench--pulled for an extra skater--to force the period...
Carone's mother, a figure skater, made her contribution long before, when she put her son on skates at an early age. By the time he began playing hockey, he could already skate well, backwards as well as forwards...
...best skater in my family is probably my little sister," Steve says...