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  • Chris Thorburn's interference penalty against Crosby at the Atlanta rear boards set up Pittsburgh's winning power play, but not before Penguins goalie Dany Sabourin stopped Marty Reasoner's short-handed attempt on a breakaway.

    USATODAY.com 2008

  • Notes: After Valiquette stopped Thorburn's wrister 10: 52 into the second, Gomez and Kovalchuk exchanged punches, and both were penalized for roughing.

    USATODAY.com 2008

  • Chris Thorburn's third goal gave the Thrashers a 1-0 lead 4: 21 into the first.

    USATODAY.com 2007

  • And Thorburn's Pied Avocet, that tall and graceful wader with its side-swiping beak, was the first Avocet I ever saw - at a time when the real birds lived nowhere even as close as Suffolk.

    Peter Stothard - Times Online - WBLG: 2009

  • In an early drawing, included in a new book from Harvard, it stands square and still, both copper-sulphate legs on the sand, its beak high and upturned, not scavenging like Thorburn's or the birds of Minsmere this weekend, but bolder and prouder under the sky.

    Peter Stothard - Times Online - WBLG: 2009

  • In an early drawing, included in a new book from Harvard, it stands square and still, both copper-sulphate legs on the sand, its beak high and upturned, not scavenging like Thorburn's or the birds of Minsmere this weekend, but bolder and prouder under the sky.

    Observer's Books for ever 2009

  • Niittymaki allowed Thorburn's goal 58 seconds into the game, but was near flawless in helping the Flyers to their 10th straight series win against the Thrashers.

    USATODAY.com 2007

  • And Thorburn's Pied Avocet, that tall and graceful wader with its side-swiping beak, was the first Avocet I ever saw - at a time when the real birds lived nowhere even as close as Suffolk.

    Observer's Books for ever 2009

  • Chris Thorburn, normally a checking line forward, scored the game-winner 36 seconds into the third with a seemingly harmless shot from behind the net that banked off goalie Rick DiPietro's left skate for Thorburn's second goal.

    USATODAY.com - Hockey - N.Y. Islanders vs. Pittsburgh 2006

  • The Utes scored the next 11 to get back in it, capped by Thorburn's three-point play that cut the lead to 57-53 with 8: 04 to play.

    USATODAY.com - Scores 2005

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