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This year, with Donato behind the bench, it took the Crimson only a handful of games to click—in fact, Harvard played some of its best hockey during the busy stretch of November and December, when it knocked off four top-15 teams in one month...
That was back when Donato was a sophomore, the NCAA tournament’s MVP, and just another disciple of coach Bill Cleary...
Cleary was a legend, and during that championship season he oversaw an offense that averaged 5.62 goals per game, boasted a “line of fire” potent enough to scare the pros, and outscored its opponents by an even average of three goals per contest. Donato was a cog in Bill Cleary’s high-paced, jet-powered offense—but that was back then, and now, the name Ted Donato has taken on a second meaning in Harvard hockey lexicon: that of the winningest rookie coach in Crimson history, with this past season?...
It’s a nice addition, to be sure, but Donato didn’t earn it in the fashion everyone thought he might last July, when he was hired to fill the hole left by Mark Mazzoleni’s departure. At that point, the highly anticipated return of the “Billy Cleary Offense” was the first thing on everybody’s tongue...
...this because of the fast-paced, high-powered, wide-open “Billy Cleary Offense” people had hoped Donato would return to the Bright Hockey Center? Not really. Donato deserves recognition for many things, but credit must also be given to the defense Mazzoleni had pounded into place—a defense Donato and his coaching staff immediately recognized as the cornerstone of the team, and a defense that ended the year second in the nation, with an average of just 1.88 goals allowed per game...