Word: breakaway
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Crimson pressure was artificial at best in the third until 18:29. When coach Billy Cleary pulled his goaltender for the tenth time this season. Seconds later, defenseman Jack Hughes hit a streaking Gene Purdy at the blue line for an easy breakaway, but the senior winger fired wide of the cage and sealed victory for the Huskies...
...Crimson was running its fast-break offense when Purdy sent George in on a partial breakaway. Tredway attempted to trip the elder Hughes, but George cut quickly to his left, moved Hayward way out of position, and deposited a tough angle shot to the right corner...
NUMBER FOUR: George popped home a rebound for his fourth. A David Burke pass sent a flying Jack Burke into the UNH end on a clean breakaway. The freshman from Winthrop, Mass. drilled a shot onto the crossbar, and out of nowhere, big George tucked the rebound into...
Three minutes later, Burke came back on a breakaway and charged Holden only to catch the bottom of the puck and flip it up high, the shot sailing off the goal's crossbar and up into the crowd...
Aided by some perfect passing, the Crimson scored easy layups on an alley-oop play and a breakaway basket to capture a four-point lead early in the second half. Once the score reached 70-67 in Harvard's favor with ten minutes remaining in the contest, both teams suffered a five-minute scoring drought until a Bentley field goal broke the ice, setting the stage for Fine's defensive masterpiece...