He looks nothing like the smart-aleck kid, the son of Bobby Bonds, the godson of Willie Mays, indoctrinated early that the world was against him, carrying that chip of insolence into the Pittsburgh clubhouse, where he challenged Jim Leyland, one of the square shooters.
"I'm fortunate to have lived through all the changes, but any rational person in my place would question if that was going to hold forever," said Mr. Browne, who survived nine regimes, made enemies when he kept the paper going in the 1990 strike, but had a reputation as a square-shooter with a clear sense of the paper's role with its readers.
During warm up, make simple actions a habit such as staying square to the shooter, challenging the shooter and keeping your stick on the ice.
Valiquette said he had never seen or played with a goalie better than Lundqvist, in large part because Lundqvist always seems square to the shooter.
Schneider was everywhere he needed to be immediately, square to the shooter and making key saves when the Kings finally did get bodies in front of him (which they didn't do very often, particularly on the power play).
At 6 feet 3 inches and 210 pounds, he fills a lot of the net and seems relaxed in goal, squaring to the shooter.
He led the Ducks to upsets over Detroit and Dallas in the first two rounds by standing square to the shooters and dropping, when necessary, into the butterfly position, with knees on the ice and limbs extended outward.
They aim at the shooter's square outlined above the basket so a large board may be difficult for younger players.
She squares herself to the shooter, then trusts her athletic ability to stop pucks.
Certainly people have been killing each other since amoebas slimed out of the sea, and if one looks at history and the wanton cruelty of various eras of civilization, it's clear that, despite appearances to the contrary, we're actually less violent than the days when arguments were settled with cat o' nine tails, stake-burnings in the town square, and dusty six-shooter ambushes in Old West bars.
