The Michigan Daily- Friday, March 26, 1993- Page 13 HOCKEY Continued from page 11 unstoppable. In fact, the only playoff series the team lost from 1984 to 1988 was the Smythe Division final against the Calgary Flames when Oiler defenseman Steve Smith put the puck into his own net off the leg of Oiler goalie Fuhr. The Oilers won five Cups during their reign and ushered in a new era of offensive hockey. FA- Montreal Forum. The Forum is a hockey shrine unlike any other. Young pucksters dream of playing at the arena on St. Catherine almost from the time they lace up their first pair of blades. A game at The Forum is the event in Montreal. G - Wayne Gretzky. The Great One is the most dominant and exciting athlete to ever play professional sports. His 92-goal season and four years of more than 200 points far surpass any other offensive records set in any other sport. He is a high-class individual off the ice and a great ambassador for the sport. One will never see Gretzky sneak out the back door of the rink after a bad game. However, he did make reporters wait after setting the record for the 0 fastest 50 goals, scoring No 50 in game No. 39 - he had to telephone his father. H - Gordie Howe. Mr. Hockey played 26 seasons in the NHL -25 In Detroit. He played his final season at age 50. Howe is quite simply, one of the greatest and toughest athletes to play any game - anytime, anywhere. Mr. Hockey won the Hart and Art Ross Trophies six times, played the most regular season games in NHL history (1,767) and still holds the record for most All-Star team selections (21). A dignified man as well as a hard-nosed player, Howe also holds the record for most career All-Star game penalty minutes (25). I - International. The Toronto Blue Jays became the first Canadian team to win the championship of America's game just last season. However, the Seattle Metropolitans became champions of Canada's game in 1917. The NFL and NBA are the pre- eminent leagues for their respective sports and include no foreign teams and relatively few international players. J - Jerseys. Hockey uniforms are the most colorful and aesthetically pleasing in all of sport. Football unies have only numbers. Baseball's are too much like everyday wear, complete with dress shirt and belt buckle. Basketball uniforms are nothing but glorified Underoos. K - Penalty Killing. No other major sport ever has a playing situation wherein one team has more players in the game than the other. The -occurrence of penalties, power great athletic moments of innocence. When Al Michaels asked if we believed in miracles, the refrain was a resounding, "YES!" N - No NHL franchise in Cleveland -'nuff said. O - Octopus. The Red Wing ritual of tossing the aquatic one onto the ice stems from the eight games it used to take to win the Stanley Cup. In the olden days, four of the six teams made the playoffs for best-of- seven series. Q - Quickness. To be a good athlete, one must have quick reflexes. To be a good hockey player, one must have extremely quick reflexes. Hockey is the fastest game in the world and commands quick players. R - Maurice Richard. A Montreal Canadien from 1943 to 1960, "The Rocket" was the biggest NHL star in the 1940s and '50s. He was the first player to score 50 goals - he did it in the 50-game, 1944-45 season. He played with a reckless abandon that led William Faulkner to characterize his play as having the "passionate, glittering, fatal, alien quality of snakes." In the seventh game of the 1952 Stanley Cup semifinals against Boston, Richard was checked headfirst into defenseman Bill Quackenbush's knee and was carried from the ice. In the Forum training room, The Rocket demanded to be returned to action in the third period, not fully conscious. He peered semi-consciously at the clock and when informed there were four minutes to go in a 1-1 game, Richard told coach Dick Irvin he was ready. The Rocket took a pass from Canadien defenseman Butch Bouchard near his own net, skated through the entire Bruin team and buried the puck behind goaltender Sugar Jim Henry. After the game, he broke into sobs and convulsions and had to be calmed by sedatives. To this day, The Rocket remembers nothing of the victory. S - The Stanley Cup. Lord Stanley's chalice is the oldest trophy competed for by team sports in North America. Every young hockey player grows up with the dream of drinking champagne from this most glorious of trophies. Although they go hand-in-hand, winning the NHL championship is far secondary to holding aloft the Stanley Cup. T - Toughness. The game of hockey houses the toughest collection of athletes in the world. No other sport has the speed and power of hockey combined with immovable boards and glass encircling the combatants. You'll never see a baseball player get hit in the head with a 90 mile-an-hour slapshot (never mind get a hangnail) and not miss a play. U - Unbeaten. From Oct. 14, 1979 to Jan. 6, 1980, the Philadelphia Flyers did not lose a game. This 35-game jaunt is the longest undefeated streak for professional team sports in North America. V - The Voice of hockey, Foster Hewitt. "He shoots. He scores." Hewitt coined this phrase which has since become a mainstay of any announcer's vocabulary. He also created the picture of hockey for many fans stationed in front of their radios trying to comprehend how Eddie Shore just clobbered an opposing player or how Jean Beliveau went uppers on Terry Sawchuk. W - Women. The NHL is the only major American professional sports. league to have a woman compete in a game. Goaltender Manon Rheaume became the first woman to do so in the 1992 preseason for the Tampa Bay Lightning. X - X-Rays. Homage should be paid to this invention. It has been used on countless players through the years and is an essential in any hockey lockeroom. Y - Youth. Children have so much fun playing and watching the game. Unlike other sports, kids can play a full, flowing game at a young age without the knowledge ot strategies and play-calling. Z - Frank Zamboni. This man, possibly more important to Canada than Henry Ford was to the U.S., invented the ice resurfacing machine we all have grown to know and love. Gordie Howe skates up ice during one of his 26 NHL campaigns. Howe is also one of the 26 reasons hockey is the best sport in the world. I. I plays and shorthanded situations in hockey make for high tension play and specialized personnel units. L - Mario Lemieux. The Penguins star is the pre-eminent player in the game today. He scores like few have before him. Sadly, hockey's brightest star has been afflicted by back ailments throughout his career and Hodgkin's disease this year. The greatest thing about Lemieux, though, is that although the spotlight is fixed on him, he conducts himself with poise. He gives of himself and his fortune to aid disadvantaged children and brushes off praise to his supporting cast in Pittsburgh. Long may Lemieux reign. M - Miracle on Ice. The 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team's upset victory over the Soviets in Lake Placid is arguably the greatest moment in American sports history. The fact that 20 upstart college kids from the ponds of New England and Minnesota could bring the best team in the world to its knees gave hope to every American in the malaise-filled days of inflation, Afghanistan and the Iran hostages. This was one of America's last P - Penalty Shot. The penalty shot is the most exciting play in sports. It is one-on-one, mano a mano, shooter and goalie. The build- up, immediate opportunity and rarity of its being called make the play one to watch. Welcome to Dental Career Day The University of Michigan School of Dentistry SATURDAY April 3,1993 U U -NCAA TOURNMENT- TUNE IN at RESAURNTO 3P O R T 3 A a Watch U of M beat George Washington TONIGHT on BIG screen T.V.! -Friday Night- $1.50 Molson/Molson Light -Sunday Special- 8:30 -9:15 Registration - Refreshments in Kellogg Auditorium 9:15 - 9:30 OPENING SESSION - Kellogg Auditorium Dr. Jed J. Jacobson, Director of Admissions, School of Dentistry "Dentistry Today and Tomorrow" 9:30 - 10:30 PRESENTATIONS ON DENTAL CAREERS " Dr. Regina Dailey, general practice " Dr. Kevin Sloan, prosthodontist * Dr. Helen Zylman, oral-maxillofacial surgeon " Dr. James Wright, general practice 10:30 - 10:40 FINANCIAL AID AND STUDENT SERVICES Dr. Marilyn Woolfolk, Director of Student Affairs 10:40 -11:30 TOURS of The School of Dentistry conducted by dental students: Lecture Halls, Clinics, Library, Preclinical Laboratories, Television Center, Computer Facility, and Self-instruction Center. 11:30 -1:15 "HANDS-ON" experience in the Preclinical Laboratories LUNCH - food and refreshments will be provided by dental student organizations at a nominal fee 1:15 - 2:30 PREPARATION for admission to the DDS program (Dentistry) - Discussion, questions & answers. Dr. Jed J. Jacobson in the Kellogg Auditorium. There are ample parking facilities in the Dental School Parking Structure. Entrance to this structure is on Fletcher Street, immediately north of the University Health Service. The Fletcher Street entrance (between Health Service and the Kellogg Building) should be used to enter the School. $3.25 pitcher 1220 S. University 665-7777 I s' -4 Willyour resumeinclude international experience? It sould. A ustria 9 G erma ny " Greec e -Ireland - Uni ted Kin g dom BEAVER COLLEGE It's not too late to give your resume the international edge that will set it apart from the rest. Apply to study abroad Beaver program students overseas interact with other cultures. Not as observers of them, but as partici- *r+finrtc f kl "I +-.A ~ fnr fraf f' (' _ TMi I I& .J1111~U~hh~~ ..lI '!"W I-Ilill . .. ,. .I I PlI I I