Derek Maguire, a hockey defenseman from Randolph, N.J., who will major in engineering, acted out "The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams.

Gagne was nicknamed the Goon after he began skating at 3, and he grew up as a burly hockey defenseman in Mascouche, Quebec.

For one week,46-year-old Ken Abrahams of Bethpage was a C.P.A. by day, a hockey defenseman by night.

Mike Commodore (born 1979), a Canadian ice hockey defenseman who plays for the Tampa Bay Lightning in the United States.

Bobby Orr, the pride of Parry Sound, Ontario, and the best hockey defenseman ever, was 18 when he made it to the N.H.L.

Brian Paul Engblom (born January 27, 1955 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is an ice hockey broadcaster and retired Canadian professional hockey defenseman.

Chris St. Croix (born 1979), hockey defenseman.

Fatih Emin Faner (born March 12, 1997) is a Turkish ice hockey defenseman and forward.

He is the brother of Peter Ratchuk, a professional hockey defenseman who has predominantly played in Europe.

Francis Bouillon (born October 17, 1975) is an American professional hockey defenseman for the Montreal Canadiens in the National Hockey League.