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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shots. In the single most during play of the game, about half way through the opening period when there was still no score for either team, Bland come out to within ten feet of the blue line to take the puck from a B.C. lineman about to skate in on a solo...
...shot. To shove him self quickly around the cage, Hall pulls on the goal posts or the bar across the top of the net. When a shot actually comes, Hall has no time to think. He picks off the puck with anything handy-his padded chest, a skate, his flat, stubby stick or his huge left mitt. Says he: "Afterwards you have time to figure out your mistakes...
Slap-Happy. Most N.H.L. goalies nurse fetishes; Hall is superstitious only about not becoming superstitious. "If I find myself putting on my right skate first before a game, I'll change to the left just so I don't get into the habit of putting on the right one first all the time." During a game. Hall frets most while the Black Hawks are on the attack ("I start fighting myself, particularly if the other goalie is making a lot of great saves"). He fusses constantly over uneven ice, since the slightest bump can deflect a puck over...
Martin subsequently came through with another impressive dribbling exhibition, but Crimson goalie Bob Bland uncorked one of the best of an evening's worth of fine saves to stop him. Though the puck eventually went into the cage, the goal was disallowed because it bounced off Martin's skate. For the game, Bland had 27 saves, many in two-on-one situations within a few feet of the cage, Logue stopped 22 shots...
...watch tonight is goalie Jimmy Logue--all-East two years ago but unable to play in 1959-60. Logue turned away 18 Crimson shots in the game last week, before Stu Forbes, and then Gerry Jorgenson got the puck past him. Jorgenson's shot bounced off the goalie's skate...