Word: cavanaghs
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...reasons for these expectations are centers Jack Turco, last year's high scorer, and Joe Cavanagh, whom Coach Cooney Weiland calls "one of the finest hockey prospects that's come up here...
...almost completely opposite in their style of play. Cavanagh is big by hockey standards at 5-10, 170 pounds, and likes to carry the puck into the zone and then work it to one of his wings for the shot. He is a strong, fast skater with deceptive moves, who can bull his way past a defenseman as easily as he can dribble past...
Turco is slightly shorter at 5-9 but stockier at 170 pounds. Neither the swift skater nor the flashy skater that Cavanagh is, he relies more on tipins, rebounds, and scrambles in front of the net, "what they call garbage goals." he says...
...line (Turco, Dwight Ware and either George McManama or Pete Mueller) doesn't rely on the length-of-the-ice rushes as much as Cavanagh's does," he says. "We try to sustain the pressure in the offensive zone and take a lot of shots, while each one of Cavanagh's line can go all the way," he adds...
...Cavanagh, who also says that his line likes to throw the puck into the zone and then forcecheck, has the great advantage of knowing his wings' moves perfectly. He has played with Dan "Monk" DeMichele every year but one since he was nine years old and they have acquired an instinctive knowledge of what the other one will...