Word: tempo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When the tempo slowed up a bit in the second period, Boston struck back for two goals in 57 seconds. First, Jean Ratelle knocked in Rick Middleton's rebound, then Don Marcotte wristed a pass from Terry O'Reilly past Ken Dryden to make it 2-1 Boston at 5:34. But the one-goal lead could not hold...
...shoo-in for his third Norris Trophy for best defenseman, Denis Potvin can do more than aid Stefan Persson on the power play. When hot, he can make the game his own and control its tempo with aggressive, offensive play. Vets Gerry Hart and Dave Lewis, and an improved Bob Lorimer, will also help...
...limit the Crimson to one goal in the first half by employing its tough zone defense. However, Harvard never needed Kleinfelder's special plays, designed to pull the Bruins out of position, as Brown switched to a man-to-man defense in an attempt to slow the game's tempo...
...season's first few games, it was the check-happy Harvard defense that controlled the tempo of Saturday's windchilled contest. Scott Pink's unrelenting stick and Frank "Carlo" Prezioso's positively vicious head-removal service provided the perfect complement to First's clutch goaltending. "Penn's attack is not that good one-on-one," explained Pink, who terrorized Penn attackman Tim Dachille all afternoon...
Most Boston players did not admire the performance. It brought into focus their criticism of Chinese musicianship: the inability to sustain rhythm and tempo over a long stretch. "You must maintain control if the excitement and beauty are to come out of the music itself," says Violinist Marylou Speaker, whose gift to the Peking Central Philharmonic was a metronome. "You sometimes hear amateur groups rushing the pace at home. The tendency is to tense up in a tough passage. When things got hard, Liu took off and was out of context with the music." Ozawa dealt with the same problem...