Word: defensemen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henry Sedgewick and Dick Lucas are the first string defensemen, whose size and consistency has shown to advantage. Priddy now carries four netmen, headed by alert Phil Clark, who brings experience in Detroit amateur hockey...
...hockey in the past five years. At first, the change was blamed by some fans on inferior wartime players. Connoisseurs of team-play began missing one of the game's biggest thrills: the sight of two wings and a center flashing abreast down the ice', two enemy defensemen getting set for impact, the deft passes, the shot, the clear-cut scoring play. Instead, they saw a game that was more like high-pressure "shinny...
...current fad is for all players to chase after the puck, rather than for two defensemen to hang back behind their own blue line when the action is at the other end of the ice. This form of mass attack was formerly used only when a team was behind, or the enemy was shorthanded; now it is the accepted style of play. The trick is now to carry the puck up to midice, then bat it down in the general vicinity of the enemy goal, with everyone but the goalie scrambling after it. More goals are made: scores now read...
Chase will take with him three lines, five defensemen, and two goalies (excluding Feloney and Yetman), as well as two managers and a trainer...
Passing and general defensive play was ragged, but both teams attacked with extraordinary vengeance right to the final bell. Only the goal tending of Ike Bevins and rapid maneuvering of B. U. defensemen kept the Crimson at bay for 17 minutes...