Word: ecacs
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Friday night at the Bright Hockey Center, the Harvard men’s hockey team quickly silenced any talk that two weeks off the ice could be detrimental to its playoff run.In the first game of the ECAC tournament quarterfinals, No. 17 Crimson (15-11-4, 12-7-3 ECAC) crushed Quinnipiac with an 11-0 shutout. In Harvard’s dominating performance against the Bobcats (20-14-4, 9-9-4 ECAC), senior Dave Watters provided one of the driving forces behind the historic effort. After scoring only two points throughout the regular season, Watters posted three goals...
...Tournament, at least two automatic bids will be doled out to teams that currently stand outside of the PWR’s top 16, leaving the Crimson on the outside looking in. While it’s tough to predict exactly how far Harvard needs to progress in the ECAC playoffs to earn an at-large bid, one thing is clear: if the Crimson doesn’t win this weekend, it can expect a second consecutive year with a spring break away from the rink...
...sophomore year, when we won the ECAC championship, we came in on Friday night and dropped the ball against St. Lawrence [in the quarterfinals],” MacDonald recalls. “We came out flat after the week off, and they won the first game, and our season ended up being on the line in the second game. We don’t want to be facing that situation again...
...Crimson’s veterans could make their biggest impact by keeping their squad on the positive end of special-teams play, staying out of the penalty box while trying to elicit whistles from the Bobcats—tops in the ECAC in net special teams statistics...
...Harvard faces off against the No. 8 Dartmouth Big Green tomorrow afternoon at the Bright Hockey Center in the first round of the NCAA championship. The Crimson met few obstacles in its path to the NCAA tournament, finishing the season 31-1-0 overall and 20-0-0 in ECAC play. Averaging over 3.56 goals per game and only .91 against, Harvard left nothing up for chance. With such impressive statistics, the Crimson has no reason to change its strategy moving in to the playoffs. “Just play our game and focus on our team...