Word: backhanded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John Cochrane's ninth of the season, as the classy junior converted centerman Rick Benson's backhand pass into a flip shot goal from 2 feet out, punctuating the well-fed break into the Dartmouth zone by the Cochrane-Benson-and Phil Evans threesome...
Then, two minutes later, John Dunderdale led George Hughes in alone on a breakaway. Hughes, with Napier beaten, tried to pull the puck around to his backhand and lost control, yet managed to shovel the puck over to linemate Gene Purdy, who was left to shoot on an open net. But Purdy's shot dribbled wide...
...icemen tied it up for the first time at 13:25 with Cook's first, a shot tipped by Arrington on a backhand flip by Jon Garrity. Defenseman Franco Scalamandre also chalked up an assist on the score, which finally came after consistent pressure by the Cook-Garrity-Bobby Kelley line...
...contest with a power-play goal. "Barney" gathered in a pass from George Hughes--who had gotten the puck from John Cochrane on the point--skated out of the corner, looked to return a pass to Hughes, but then slipped in front of the cage to poke a backhand shot between the legs of Ed Arrington...
...skill soon won him the respect of the players as well-and an income of about $80,000 a year. Says fellow American Armando Gonzalez: "His remate [backhand carom] is devastating, a knockout punch. There's no defense." An old Basque adversary, Jose Solaun, agrees: "Make a mistake against him and you're dead." Acknowledgment has sometimes been grudging, however. Jai-alai, long dominated by the Basques, is a clique-ridden world that does not suffer outsiders gladly. Solaun admits that his countrymen distance themselves from the handsome young American: "There is a resentment and coolness, a feeling...