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If you never got a chance to see Roger Crozier play goal for the Red Wings, I can replicate the experience for you. To recreate the acrobatic, helter-skelter manner in which Crozier tended net, drop a few unpopped kernels of popcorn into a pot coated with sizzling oil. Then try to predict in which direction those kernels will fly once they pop. That was pretty much it when it came to Crozier, who used the goal crease as his own gymnastics mat. Crozier, who passed away at the too-young age of 53 in 1996, was a highly entertaining goalie who wasn’t above using any part of his body in any location, no matter how unnatural, to stop pucks. I actually think I once saw Crozier break apart, like a man made of Lego, just so he could get a limb, or maybe it was a rib cage, ...

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