Word: face-off
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...film's climax, the Draft Riots engulf the city as Bill and Amsterdam line up for their final face-off--a Celtic clan skirmish that has little to do with the larger atrocities. The point may be that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of corpses when anarchy breaks loose. This daring, perhaps confusing declaration of irrelevance suggests that the epic is a form a director like Scorsese must subvert even as he invokes it. But it doesn't erase the sordid splendor of Scorsese's congested, conflicted, entrancing achievement. --By Richard Corliss...
Despite taking 34 shots on goal, Harvard had few quality scoring opportunities. The Crimson recorded 21 shots in the second and third periods but only three from inside the face...
...don’t think [Grumet-Morris] could have stopped three of the goals,” Mazzoleni said. “We’ve got to do a better job on face-off situations and in front of our net, because you can’t stop what you can’t see, and I think he never saw three of their goals...
Botterill scored twice more in the second for the hat trick, including a pretty power-play goal set up by Chu from the right face-off circle...
Front Lines of the Face...