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Last year was special in Ithaca: a great senior class, great goaltender, great team chemistry and great big-game wins over Harvard and Boston College late in the season. All of it added up to a berth in the Frozen Four and a long, delicious moment of pride for a puck-crazy university. Now comes the hard part: The Year After. Without the likes of Doug Murray, Stephen Baby, good-guy Crimson-killer Sam Paolini and Dryden Deux (David LeNeveu), the Big Red will set to work with senior captain Ryan Vesce and a solid group of young forwards that...
...conclude the season, Harvard defeated Brown in two games at Bright to open the playoffs. The team moved on to Lake Placid, where it upset Clarkson 3-2 in overtime and then defeated top-seeded Cornell 4-3 in double overtime. Winning the ECAC title secured an NCAA tournament berth for the Crimson, and Harvard battled Maine valiantly before bowing out 4-3 in overtime...
...contest was particularly critical to Harvard (11-4), given the high likelihood of No. 8 Princeton clinching the Ivy League title on November 7 against Penn. If the Tigers win the league championship, Harvard will need an at-large berth to advance to the NCAA tournament...
...These games] are absolutely essential for any post-season berth,” Gannon said. “We need to win big. Today we came through. It’s a testament to our team that we could bounce back after [the Princeton game] and follow it with a victory like this. It’s just really good for us, and hopefully it keeps our postseason chances alive...
...with three games remaining in its season, Harvard looks make its final bid for an NCAA berth and prove that it belongs in the postseason...