Word: skating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would have set me straight by saying. "Do not craze yourself with thinking. Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy. Its chief good is for well mixed people who can enjoy what they find without question. We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them. But exasperated from trying too hard I packed a suitcase and took my troubled mind to Europe instead...
When the warmups end and most of the players skate off, two will linger on the ice. Freshman goalie Grant Blair will seem to wander aimlessly and senior winger Greg Britz will likely circle around the rink, sending a few more pucks into the empty nets, while Coach Bill Cleary stands at the bench, calling both...
Finally, Blair will relent and skate off first; Britz will march off to the locker room right behind...
Less than two minutes into the period, the puck got past the Friar goalie, but referee Robert Quinn disallowed the goal, ruling that winger Dave Connors had kicked the puck with his skate. Mark Fusco and Code kept Proulx on his toes with several tough slap-shots in the next few minutes. And after Greg Chalmers stole the puck in the Providence end, forcing defenseman Randy Velischek to take a holding penalty, the Crimson finally broke...
Burke remembers learning to skate in "a truck yard behind the house--a guy used to flood the garden and let it freeze." From the sound of it, he's barely stopped skating since, playing in the Pee Wee leagues for South Boston when he was seven or eight. "We played kids 10 or 11 or 12 years of age--we beat 'em. too," he says...