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...results Cavanagh produced on Saturday certainly belied the true extent of his illness. Just ten ticks into the second period, and with Harvard skating a man up, Cavanagh took a lead pass from junior Brendan Bernakevitch and slipped the puck between Clarkson netminder Dustin Traylan’s legs, at last marking the scoreboard for Harvard...
...conference playoffs, Harvard fans grew to believe in the constancy of Cavanagh’s clutch performances. During ECACs, he has scored eight points, with five assists and three absolutely critical goals. The first of his big goals came in the 3-2 overtime against Brown. It was Cavanagh who broke the 2-2 stalemate by putting the puck past Dryden Award-winning goaltender Yann Danis, and in so doing he sent the Crimson on to the ECAC Championships in Albany...
...only unlikely because of illness, as the man Welch dubbed “Mr. Playoffs” had been unable to keep down any food leading up to Saturday’s game after catching a stomach virus. But that did not stop Cavanagh from playing, nor from starting, in the championship. And that shouldn’t be a surprise to any observer who knows how fierce a competitor he is. Assistant captain Rob Fried joked that the stomach virus and the vomiting weren’t all that important because Cavanagh would occasionally puke as a result...
...wasn’t done there. At 4:50 of the second, Cavanagh skated in on a two-on-one break, chose to shoot instead of pass, and flung a hard and fast wrister by Traylan. And just like that, the game was tied. It was, according to Harvard coach Mark Mazzoleni a goal that “changed the complexion of the game...
Phrases like “competitive spirit” and “constant intensity” are things you hear often if you hang around those who know Cavanagh well. Those who know Cavanagh best sing his praises loud and clear, which is necessary given that the best any reporter can extract from him is no more than what you’d expect from the Crimson’s own John Wayne: it’s a humble whisper...