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  • n  a muscular cramp (especially in the thigh or calf) following vigorous exercise

  • Then Doeg Lott had to beat Tilden Hunter, knowing that Hunter was playing much better and that Tilden, though he had a bad charley-horse in his hip, wanted moje than anything .
  • They were cut up and gashedJohnson with the lobe of his nose torn through by a skate-point, Bun Cook with a charley-horse, Frank Boucher with a stitch over his eye.
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  • Barry Trotz in USA Today
    It was a charley-horse type of effect,Trotz said of Ellis' injury. "That is something a goaltender can't play with. It has been a good start for Pekka. Now we have both goaltenders doing really well."

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