Word: skating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Professionals; Hull skipped the Peewees, Midgets and Juveniles. Officially. Actually, confides Pringle, who played against him in the Bantams, Bobby freelanced. When the Bantam game ended, he would tighten up his laces and join a Midget team in the next game. After that was over, he would skate back on the ice with the still older Juvenile League players. "He used to play hockey practically all Saturday morning," says Pringle. "Some mornings he'd score 25 goals in four different leagues...
Come Home, Bobby. It was either that or the cement plant. All the Hulls learned to skate before they learned to read. Judy was such a hard-nosed hockey player that the boys around Point Anne once told her parents they wouldn't play with her any more because she was too rough. Dennis, 23, followed his older brother to Chicago, where he also plays left wing for the Black Hawks, and could some day make a name for himself. Bobby got his first pair of skates the Christmas he was four...
...thing he remembers about that time was that he was constantly shoveling snow. "I was usually one of the first ones out there for a game of shinny," he says, "and it was up to the first arrivals to clear a skating area." By the time Bobby was eight, recalls Dr. Don Pringle, a childhood friend who now practices medicine in Montreal, "he had muscles rippling all over him," and Papa Hull was already spending hours on the ice, endlessly drilling his son on the technique of stick handling. "He was sometimes impatient," says Bobby, "but he liked to skate...
Discretion called for playing it safe with her free-skating routine-but that was not for Peggy. "I am competing against myself," she said. "I'll skate as well as I can." Dressed in chartreuse, and skating to the strains of Tchaikovsky's Pathétique, she began a dazzling array of acrobatic leaps and spins. Her artistry won her a rousing ovation from the crowd and a total score of 1,970.5 points, 88.2 more than Runner-Up Gaby Seyfert of East Germany...
Cedorchuk narrowed the gap to 6-4 with a rocket from the left at 19:16. The Eagles pulled their goalie and lit the light again 24 seconds later, but the puck had been deflected in by Cedorchuk's skate and the goal was disallowed...