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Combining for 18 of the team's 54 goals so far this season, Rick Benson, Phil Evans, Bob McDonald, and Tom Murray have enlivened an 8-4 skating squad that is currently ranked fifth in the ECAC...
...offensive contributions of the four forwards are distributed equally, with Benson emerging as the team's second leading goal scorer with six tallies, trailing only junior phenom George Hughes. McDonald's ten assists prove his reliability as a playmaker, while Evans and Murray have added five and four goals respectively...
Murray praises his upperclass teammates in helping him adjust to the faster college game. "In high school, the older players looked at you as someone who might take their job away," he said. "Here, the upperclassmen look at you as someone who'll help Harvard hockey." Benson said that there is more camaraderie on the Harvard team than on any team for which he has ever played...
Evans feels the coaches have also been instrumental in the freshmen's learning experience. "We're being taught a lot about the special teams, especially penalty killing." Evans, described by Benson as a wing who "always comes out of the corner with the puck," was a first team All-Star pick in the Ontario Hockey Association last year, and a number one draft pick of the Major Junior "A" Hamilton Fin-Cups. He declined the offer in order to play college hockey...
...Benson, on his way to becoming a Boston Globe All-Scholastic pick, led the 1977 edition of the Needham High School Rockets to the finals of the Eastern Massachusetts championship. The team did not even qualify for the tourney in Benson's previous two varsity years...