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...scores used to come often. In fact, Vachon's career started with what for him was agonizing slowness. After learning to play goalie as a farm boy in rural Quebec (his peers would not let him play offense because of his size), he was invited to a Montreal Canadien junior team tryout at age 16. He was immediately sent to the second-rank junior squad. Four years later, when his junior stint was ending, Vachon was once again farmed out, this time to a minor league team. When he finally got a chance to play for Montreal eight years...
...guard for the Dallas Cowboys, has a University of Washington M.A. in physics and a Stanford master's in business administration that he plans to apply to a career in corporate banking or business marketing. In hockey, a game not noted for the intellect of its players, Montreal Canadien Goalie Ken Dryden holds a law degree from McGill. Last year Dryden abandoned hockey and his $75,000 annual salary to work in a Toronto law office. This season he is back in the nets...
Counting Bugs. The double life of the egghead jock can cause plenty of problems. Medich is taking seven years to complete a four-year medical course. When Dryden was both law student and Canadien goalie, he spent one frantic day taking two long exams, then racing to the Montreal Forum to play in a game. Earlie Thomas has a different difficulty: completing his research in the off-season while staying in condition. "I really get into my research," he says. "I spend as much as 14 hours a day in the field, usually on my hands and knees counting bugs...
...restricted opponents to an average of 1.89 goals per game this year. After nine years of floating between teams and leagues-he spent last year with the rival World Hockey Association-Parent, 29, has become the best goalie in the game. A protege of Jacques Plante, the former Montreal Canadien, Parent does more for the Flyers than fulfill the promise of the bumper sticker on his new Imperial: ONLY THE LORD SAVES MORE THAN BERNIE PARENT...
...swinging style of play that delights the fans and keeps the players in stitches. BOBBY ORR AND THE ANIMALS PLAY TONIGHT, say the headlines when Boston comes to town. In one of the many scraps during their Stanley Cup opener, Bad Boy Defenseman Don Awrey twisted the neck of Canadien Marc Tardif's sweater so tightly that Tardif's breathing was cut off and he sank to the ice like a rag doll...