Fluky

Doug Weight beat Gerber with a wrist shot from the slot while on the power play at 3: 53 and Demitra increased the lead in fluky fashion. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Bentley won office in what Powell and Stewart both describe as a fluky election. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Clippard's latest vultured win was kind of fluky, but what happened once he left was not. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I arrived nearly a week ago to the kind of fluky shirtsleeve temperatures that sometimes visit the winter Rockies. ❋ Unknown (2005)

"Their first goal was kind of fluky," Thornton said. ❋ Unknown (2003)

"The few goals Montreal scored were kind of fluky, but I was pleased with the way they played," said Sharks coach Ron Wilson, whose team outshot Montreal, 18-10, over the final 24 minutes. ❋ Unknown (2002)

"They weren't exactly the prettiest of goals, kind of fluky ones that squeaked in, but we can't sit and pout and feel sorry for ourselves," Detroit forward Todd Bertuzzi said. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Mr James said it was "quite an extraordinary achievement" that almost 90 per cent of companies had been profitable, considering the "fluky" business conditions in the second half of the 2009 calendar year. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Public enemy #1 for many Met fans, Rollins's home run power surge during 2006-2007 looks kind of fluky given his HR / FB\% during that span. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He lost control on the fastest section of the course, traveling at over 120 kilometers per hour, or 75 miles per hour, after what he termed a combination of "fluky" developments, including flat light, an unexpected bump, an ill-timed collision with a gate and soft snow just off the icy track that caught one of his ski tips. ❋ Unknown (2009)

On Friday, Truckee took a 1-0 lead in the 30th minute on what Incline head coach John Paganelli perhaps best described as a "fluky" goal. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The only real role now for the convention, said Sabato, is to serve as a tiebreaker in the event of a 'fluky' result in which no candidate has secured the nomination. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The first one was kind of fluky but the rest of them were nice goals, "said Bay coach Robert Williams, whose team dropped to 11-4-1 and 4-1-0. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We stress that the connection between grace and the GOP is not a fluky result owing to the fact that grace saying is somehow an idiosyncratic measure of religiosity. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)

"Not that it's a carrying-the-torch thing, but I think a lot of this team takes it personally — just the insinuation that we had a fluky year last season." ❋ Unknown (2009)

With timely hitting, good pitching—Boston only scored seven runs in the series; six in the last game—and great defense, there was nothing fluky about the way the Angels swept the Red Sox Nation into the offseason. ❋ William Fredrick Cooper (2011)

So the chant went at a rally for Alaska Republican Lisa Murkowski outside the public library here on a brisk recent Sunday - the soundtrack to one of the more striking and peculiar dramas of this year's fluky election season: the write-in campaign of a sitting U.S. senator. ❋ Amy Gardner (2010)

But because the claims figures can be fluky around the Thanksgiving holiday, economists cautioned against taking the drop at face value. ❋ Justin Lahart (2011)