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  1. Dec 2022
    1. I hope I have enough students to make two hockey teams

      It is a struggle and and gets you worried sometimes when your don't have enough people for a team. speaking from experience.

    1. During the first-period intermission a fan marched up thesteps and extended his hand for what Campbell assumed would be ahandshake. Campbell stuck out his hand. He got a slap in theface

      well then. hockey fans.

    2. In a match the previous Sunday, Richard had twice viciouslyslashed his nemesis, Hal Laycoe of the Boston Bruins, and thenassaulted a linesman

      its just a great feeling when your rival, and get to beat your nemesis.

    3. Smoke from a tear-gas canister haddriven thousands of hockey fans into the streets, sparking afour-hour rampage that yielded the requisite fires, shatteredwindows, looted stores, overturned cars and 137 arrests.

      I know hockey games can get pretty crazy and routy, but this is pretty extreme.

    1. By 1955, Richard had scored more goals, 422, than anyone in the history of the NHL — 98 more than the next guy on the list. He had become the only player to score 50 goals in the 50-game season. He held the record for most goals in a playoff game, with five. Not only did he score often, he scored meaningful goals, when his team needed them the most, the game-winners in a record eight playoff games and more than 60 regular-season games

      extreme determination and definitely turned some heads

    2. He broke his ankle and was able to play in only 16 games. The critics thought he was fragile. The following season, 1943-44, he answered them with 32 goals and 22 assists.

      shows your should never judge a book by its cover.

    3. He began training at the Montreal Technical School to get a certificate that would allow him to serve, but the war ended before he completed the four-year course.

      extreme determination to serve and dedication

    4. He tried to enlist again the following year, but was again turned away. So he applied as a machinist but was ineligible even though he had been working as one for years because he had did not have a high school diploma

      extreme determination

    1. Many of them hated each other with the type of passion only love can understand

      i can relate to this statement, and it can be related to more than just hockey or sports.

    2. Sticks were high, fists flew, blood often smeared the ice, and the owners thought this was all manly and a great way to sell tickets.

      this is exactly what hockey is and what people go to see.

    1. These deceivers played all the tricks that dreams and their own empty heads could suggest to them, in order to bring rain, but in vain, the. Heavens were as brass to their foolishness

      So they have to be foolish for rain to be brought?