Word: ecacs
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...some talented teammates to work with. Harvard leads the ECAC in scoring, and most of that scoring comes form a first line that can do whatever it wants on the ice. Mleczko, Shewchuk and Botterill are the top three scorers in the country and all three can create scoring opportunities or finish what their line-mates started...
...Gophers average 5.82 goals per game, good for third in the nation, but that number is inflated by a conspicuously weak schedule. For example, five of Minnesota's wins came at the expense of lowly Mankato State--the only other non-ECAC team in Division I along with the Gophers--by a combined score of 39-3. In five games against the three other Final Four teams, Minnesota has scored only four goals in compiling a 0-2-3 record...
...Gophers have scored at least 10 goals, and eight have at least 30 points. Three of Minnesota's blueliners have 15 assists. But Minnesota's record is qualified by its schedule, as geographic isolation has sheltered the Gophers from the rough-and-tumble ECAC...
After all, on Nov. 15, the Bears (20-5-4, 19-4-3 ECAC) beat the Crimson (31-1-0, 24-1-1) 4-2 in Providence. That loss remains the only smudge on Harvard's record...
Brown's other star player, sophomore defenseman Tara Mounsey, played with Mleczko and Harvard freshman defenseman Angela Ruggiero last year for the U.S. Olympic Team and was named to the ECAC First Team. Thanks in large part to Brewer and Mounsey, the Bears have the best scoring defense in the nation, allowing only 1.21 goals per contest...