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Rigid System. On the ice, the Russians skate as a five-man unit, working the puck into the slot in front of the goal rather than taking low-percentage outside shots. According to Shero, they also "like to overload a zone, throwing four men on one side, gambling that you'll panic and throw the puck away." Shero claims that use of one particular Russian practice technique-skating out of the corner to beat the goalie at close range -gave the Flyers 40 goals last year. Says he: "We won the cup with...
...those "arctic air masses" start rolling in, the problem of getting exercise without spending a lot of money becomes acute. Most winter sports in this part of the world require a raid on operating capital, and there is no way around that: you want to skate, you gotta have skates; you want to ski, you gotta have skis; you want to swim, you gotta have a pool; and on it goes. (All of which is not to mention the financial and political problems involved in those ever-popular jaunts to Third World countries near the Equator...
...closed out its barrage when Bethel stuffed his third goal into the net off a faceoff and Marden flicked a point blank shot that caromed off Phillips's skate...
...league as a whole has gotten much stronger," Toomey points out, with an eye on the non-Ivy opponents that have always allowed players to skate four years if they had the talent, "You can see the improvement by the increasing number of Ivy teams in the ECAC playoffs, and this year should be no exception...
...players demand it? Cleary, it seems, lost his players' support because he was forcing them to skate too fast. The players prefer to skate leisurely figure eights up and down the ice, never coming anywhere near the boards, and never digging the puck out of the corners. Cleary's style, which demands hard skating and fast, forechecking forwards, contrasted sharply with the expectations of the players...