Word: wristing
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Less than a minute later, Taylor collected the puck in the neutral zone and shook his marker with a deft pass to himself off the boards. Suddenly all alone, the freshman skated in to the right faceoff circle and curled towards the goal before clanking his wrist shot off the near post...
...wrist shot slipped between McKenna’s legs and trickled across the goal line just before referee Dan Murphy whistled the puck frozen. But because Murphy had no view of the puck and the red light had yet to come on, the officials disallowed the score at 9:55, leaving the two sides knotted at zero...
...vocalists can be seen as iconic of both these trends: the guitarist-vocalist has a full beard with a strange haircut, holes in his baggy pants, and looks vaguely dirty, while the bassist-vocalist has carefully coifed hair and wears a tight, stylish outfit with a sweatband around his wrist. In the video, while the former stands relatively still as the song begins, the latter jumps around and does a bunch of fake/ironic aerobic stretches. Over the course of the song, the first is intent and serious about his singing/guitar playing, the other engages in endless grand-guitar-picking-gestures...
...face of Harvard’s relentless attack, McKenna’s success would be short-lived. Just 2:46 into the second, defenseman Peter Hafner’s wrist shot from inside the blue line kicked off a skater in front of the net and in, staking the Crimson to a 2-0 lead...
...have gone AWOL. Even as the number of desertions has fallen, the number of prosecutions, while still tiny, has edged up, from 153 in fiscal year 2002 to 171 and 176 in the past two years. Whereas offenders once had a good chance of getting a slap on the wrist and a dishonorable discharge, they now must consider the well-publicized case of Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejia, 28, of the Florida National Guard, who is serving a yearlong sentence at a military prison for his refusal to return to Iraq for a second stint...