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...beating Harvard in Saturday’s Ivy League Playoff, Dartmouth earned an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2000. The prize? A Sunday date with the University of Connecticut in Harry A. Gampel Pavilion, the Huskies’ home court. The Big Green was seeded No. 14 against the No. 3 Huskies in the Kansas City bracket, which also includes No. 1 Michigan State, and No. 2 Stanford...
SCHENECTADY, N.Y.—During a timeout in the middle of an eventful second period in the ECAC tournament final matchup between Harvard and Dartmouth, the referees paused to fill a hole in the ice of Messa Rink. If only the Big Green had the same opportunity to fill the holes in its special teams units, it might have stood a chance against Harvard, instead falling 4-1 on three power-play goals and a short-handed tally...
...middle frame made all the difference, with Harvard notching three of its four goals and dispelling a pivotal string of Dartmouth power plays. At the end of the second period, the Crimson’s penalty killers were forced to endure over four and a half minutes down a man, and 3:07 of that span...
With a strong defensive effort and the stellar play of junior goalie Ali Boe, who racked up a career-high 36 saves, Harvard eliminated the advantages with little fanfare. Given five power plays in all during the busy middle twenty minutes, Dartmouth mustered only five shots on goal during that time...
...times it even seemed that the Crimson was capable of more offense on the Big Green power play than Dartmouth itself. And that was confirmed on Harvard’s final score of the afternoon, when sophomore Jennifer Sifers poked the puck away at the defensive blue line and outraced the stunned Big Green defense the length of ice before beating an off-balance Dartmouth goalkeeper Christine Capuano with a wrist shot. Sifers’s short-handed burst underscored the counter-attacking nature of the Crimson penalty kill, a strategy that led to Yale’s game-tying...