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With six minutes left in a tie game at Buffalo, Gretzky scooped up a loose puck, zigged and zagged his way through two defenders, and broke free. He sailed across the mouth of the goal and daintily flicked his left wrist. Before Goaltender Don Edwards knew it, he had become a trivia question. Later, after being dug out from under a pile-up of his teammates, Gretzky was presented the puck by Phil Esposito, who held the old record. "It's a tremendous relief," Gretzky told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Good Grief, Great Gretzky | 3/8/1982 | See Source »

Eliot limited the Crimson to just two more goals, but ferocious forechecking by the Harvard forwards kept the puck in the Cornell end, and the Big Red offense never really got going. Last needed to record only nine third period saves (one, a Jeff Baikie wrist shot, was the 2000th of his career) to real the shutout...

Author: By Bruck Schoenfeld, | Title: This Time, the Chicken is Crimson | 3/1/1982 | See Source »

With Yale leading, 3-1, at the start of the second period. McManus took a pass from Matt Bohan, waltzed in front of Lau and flicked a wrist shot night into his pads The puck came back out in front of the net, and with nobody there to clear it away, the sophomore had no trouble beating Lau to his right side for a 4-1 lead...

Author: By Fruce Schoenfeld, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Bulldogs Cloud Harvard's Playoff Picture, 5-3 | 2/22/1982 | See Source »

Ward's first tally came 5 09 into the stanza when Dianne Hurley put a tough wrist shot on net. Whitcomb stopped the original shot and linemate Vicki Palmer's rebound attempt but Ward rushed into the crease to lift the discover the sprawling Whitcomb...

Author: By Jim Silver, | Title: Icewomen Own 'Pot After Topping B.U. | 2/20/1982 | See Source »

...murder, it was a remarkable performance. Dozier forthrightly admitted he had been too busy to heed repeated warnings about potential terrorist attacks before his abduction. From the moment he was taken to the terrorists' Padua apartment on Dec. 17, Dozier was chained by his left ankle and right wrist to a raised wooden platform covered by a small camping tent. He was never allowed to get up or move around the apartment outside the tent. He washed himself with a pail of water brought to him once a week, and was supplied with a chemical toilet. His captors hung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: Welcome Home, Soldier | 2/15/1982 | See Source »

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