It is a fast-paced sport, requiring finely tuned eye-hand-stick-puck co-ordination, executed at high speed, by some of the fittest athletes in sport.
One of the best puck-handling goalies ever, Brodeur had the puck slide off his stick behind the net when pressured.
Lemaire, who stepped down again at season's end, bridged a necessary transition from the dump-and-chase style of play that MacLean favored to a puck-possession approach that placed a greater accent on the roster's speed and skill.
In truth, Jagr's play and production this season are cause to wonder what might have happened had he re-signed with the Rangers, whether he might have provided the same scoring touch and puck-possession skills to a team in desperate need of them.
But Brodeur is so adept at handling the puck that DeBoer insists the Devils' defensemen remain in the neutral zone, pushing forward and harassing opposing puck-carriers, and allow Brodeur to make the first pass to initiate a counter rush.
This spring Prestone is coming out with a hockey-puck-shaped hand- held wax applicator sponge called the Bullet Wax.
This puck-and-action-centered thinking is a liberating GPS outlook for NOW entrepreneurs to adopt.
To prevent that, controllers must keep a hockey-puck-shaped safety zone at least 5 kilometers in diameter and 300 meters thick around each plane.
Before that 1995 puck-dropping ceremony, the Devils asked Warburton if he'd do them a favor: Would he paint a D on his bare chest?
Are we doomed simply to have hockey-puck like clever floor cleaners?
Brodeur is no longer the peerless puck-stopping machine of old.
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Stymied on all 15 of his shots on goal through the series' first five games, Parise broke through with 7:15 left in the first period, taking advantage of a puck-handling gaffe by Quick.
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Quenneville's system demands that his forwards chase down the puck-carrier to disrupt an opponent's offensive thrust, and the Blackhawks' superior stickhandling skills have helped them create 249 takeaways this season, by far the most in the NHL. Once the Blackhawks do force a turnover, their forwards slingshot themselves back up the ice to attack an opposing defense at full speed.
Sensors at the midway point of the table detect the angle, speed, and trajectory of the not-exactly-oncoming puck, and instructs the mechanism how and where to fire the disc -- you slap it back, and the same sequence happens on your compadre's end.
Boyle, who returned to the lineup for Game 2 on Saturday following a knee injury, carried the puck from the right-wing wall, cut into the circle, shifted the puck to both sides of his stick, and flipped a shot over a crouched Green and past Holtby at 12:50 for what was technically an even-strength goal.
After initially making a save on John Moore's shot from the point, the puck dribbled through Enroth and Richards tapped in the loose puck for a 5-0 lead.
Previous ties for the outstanding chef award went to Larry Forgione and Jean-Louis Palladin in 1993, and Wolfgang Puck and Jean-Georges Vongerichten in 1998.
Thanks to that and Advair's nifty delivery system--a plastic purple puck that is easy to use--the drug has moved far beyond a narrow audience of severe asthma patients to reach those with mild cases and nonasthmatics who simply have a bad bronchial cough.
Huberdeau tied the score at 4-all when he pushed the puck past Miller for a power-play goal with 6:09 remaining in the third period.
Boston was up 3-0 in the second-round series against New York this year, with a 2-0 lead in Game 4 when Rask tripped on a rut in the crease and flailed at a slow-moving puck as it rolled over the line.
The canny heroism of a wild puck or male goat who alerted villagers to the arrival of Oliver Cromwell in the 17th Century is the supposed origin of the historic three-day Puck Fair in Killorglin, County Kerry every August, allegedly Ireland's oldest.
As the article correctly noted elsewhere, it is Daft Punk--not Daft Puck or Daft Pink.
On the go-ahead goal, Richards nudged the puck up the wall to Staal, who unleashed a one-timer that Gaborik tipped past the screened Reimer.
After dropping the puck during a red-carpet presentation, Warburton was stepping across the rink when he slipped and nearly fell, only to regain his balance.
Not a chance -- it's time to pull out your coaster-sized Epiphany One Puck, set a cold brew upon it, and connect your phone for some juice.
With just over 3 seconds remaining in the period, Miller mishandled the puck on a dump-in, setting up Clowe for an easy goal as his backhander beat a diving Miller.
The signature Wolfgang Puck restaurant will also re-open, serving up California cuisine with European touches.
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So-called "tic-tac-toe" goals, in which a power-play unit whisks the puck around until a perfect shot comes up, are rare.
His main restaurant will be Wolfgang Puck at the Hotel Bel-Air.
Detroit pressed in the final minutes, but Beauchemin wrapped it up with an exceptional empty-net goal, shooting the puck from just outside Anaheim's goal crease.
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