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As Coach Bruce Boudreau was quick to point out after practice this morning, although the Capitals have lost one of their leading shot-blockers and ice-time leader on the penalty kill with Jeff Schultz out for four to six weeks, Scott Hannan excels in that same role.
Scott Hannan will help lessen the blow of Jeff Schultz's absence Katie Carrera 2010
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The fourth-line trio logged the three lowest ice-time totals for the Wild, combining for just 23 minutes, 26 seconds of action.
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Were it not for anticipating my story, I could point out many a green billow, rising out of the fields and meadows immediately about us, that had its origin in the old ice-time.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 Various
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That ice-time went on for ages and for ages; and yet it did not go on in vain.
Madam How and Lady Why Charles Kingsley 1847
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You may find the flint weapons which these old savages used buried in many a gravel-pit up and down France and the south of England; but you will find none here, for the gravel here was made (I am told) at the beginning of the ice-time, before the north of England sunk into the sea, and therefore long, long before men came into this land.
Madam How and Lady Why Charles Kingsley 1847
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Scribe and his wife were of the party, but had to go away at the ice-time because it was the first representation at the Opéra Comique of a new opera by
The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete John Forster 1844
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But don't tell Bieksa the extra ice-time means he and Hamhuis have become Vancouver's "shutdown" pair this spring.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed MATTHEW SEKERES 2011
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Burns will alleviate some of the ice-time burden on Boyle, Murray and Vlasic, all of whom were leaned on heavily in the postseason, when the third pair had its minutes reduced.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed MATTHEW SEKERES 2011
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But Kadri made it easier than it should have been, doing precious little with the average 14 minutes and five seconds ice-time he was getting.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed JEFF BLAIR 2012
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Crashing the Net takes you around the league touching on hot and cold players, battles for ice-time and what's going on in net.
SI.com 2011
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