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Before sophomore Bruce Durno started his second varsity game in the nets, the Harvard record for most saves in a game was 43. Bruce deflected 44 B.U. shots that night and proved what everyone had been thinking--he was the most promising goalie to hit Eastern hockey since Cornell's Ken Dryden...
...Tonight Durno and Dryden will meet each other in what Coach Gene Kinasewich, former Harvard hockey All-American, calls a "game of goal-tenders." He believes "the two teams' offenses will even each other out, and it just boils down to which goalie can stop the most shots...
...anyone has the quickness and reflexes to stay on his feet, however, Durno does. Kinasewich rates Durno's agility as "at least equal to any college goalie I have ever seen...
...Durno's talents which could play a big part in tonight's game is the way he directs the action around the nets. When the defensemen are skating with their backs to other players toward a puck cleared into the Harvard zone, Bruce will tell them where to pass the puck saving valuable time. "To beat Cornell, we will have to clear the puck fast and that means I'll have to tell the defensemen that wings are open for a pass," Bruce said...
...Eastern teams have Canadians--60 per cent of the players on Division 1 teams are Canadians--there are only a handful of Junior A players in the Ivy League. Even the all-Canadian Cornell team has only five Junior A players and Harvard has one, sophomore goalie Bruce Durno...