KLPNO
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Hello everyone,
Wayne Gretzky writes in his book 99: Stories of the Game:
"In 1983–84, the Oilers entirely transformed their thinking. Up till then we played so-called “firewagon” hockey. In other words, we just wanted to score the other team into submission. That’s just the way things were in the Clarence Campbell Conference in the west, which was fast and high-flying—and distinctly different from the Prince of Wales Conference in the east, where teams like the Islanders and Bruins and Flyers played a more grinding, methodical game."
The dictionary says that as an adjective "grinding" has the following meanings:
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/grinding
1 attributive (of a difficult situation) oppressive and seemingly without end.
‘grinding poverty’
2 attributive (of a sound or movement) harsh and grating.
‘the grinding roar of the lorries’
But from the context, it seems to me that "grinding" should mean something like slow.
So what is the meaning of grinding in the context above?
Thank you.
Wayne Gretzky writes in his book 99: Stories of the Game:
"In 1983–84, the Oilers entirely transformed their thinking. Up till then we played so-called “firewagon” hockey. In other words, we just wanted to score the other team into submission. That’s just the way things were in the Clarence Campbell Conference in the west, which was fast and high-flying—and distinctly different from the Prince of Wales Conference in the east, where teams like the Islanders and Bruins and Flyers played a more grinding, methodical game."
The dictionary says that as an adjective "grinding" has the following meanings:
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/grinding
1 attributive (of a difficult situation) oppressive and seemingly without end.
‘grinding poverty’
2 attributive (of a sound or movement) harsh and grating.
‘the grinding roar of the lorries’
But from the context, it seems to me that "grinding" should mean something like slow.
So what is the meaning of grinding in the context above?
Thank you.