Word: styling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That style is, of course, one of the main reasons the former Olympian chose Europe over a bigger-bucks offer from the Hartford Whalers. Harvard Coach Bill Cleary once called MacDonald the "best pure skating player" he had ever seen. In Switzerland, MacDonald gets a lot of room to do what he's best at--skate and score...
Cleary is part of the reason why MacDonald, and so many other Harvard hockey players, have chosen to play hockey in Europe. The style of play taught at Harvard is an international one; one much more reflective of Olympic, rather than NHL, hockey...
Anyway, Weisbrod had always thought that the only pro-style college hockey was played in the West. The Ivy League? Forget about it. Under parental pressure, the burly forward made a verbal commitment to the University of Denver, which offered a scholarship and a chance to play in the NHL-feeder WCHA...
Weisbrod may have the best shot of any ofHarvard's superstars to make it in the NHL. Unlikehis former teammates who are trying their handabroad, Weisbrod is much better suited to theclose-checking NHL game than the wide-openEuropean style...
Objectivists, who follow the radical libertarian doctrines of the late author Ayn Rand, maintain that capitalism is the sole moral system and that selfishness is necessary for rational decision-making and self-preservation. The Democratic Socialists, however, criticize Ayn Rand-style capitalism as the reduction of all human relationships to the realm of financial transactions...