Word: faceoffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's varsity skaters, hoping to earn a ticket to the National Championships next week, clash with Cornell tonight in the ECAC playoff semifinals as they return to Boston Garden, the scene of their only ECAC loss this year, for a 9 p.m. faceoff...
...break for the Crimson came at 17:16 when the Blue's Keith Miller was called for tripping at 17:16, and the Harvard power play unit, which had been unsuccessful in five previous tries, came out onto the ice. After about a minute of futility, and with a faceoff in the Yale zone. Crimson coach Bill Clearly made a daring move and pulled Petrovek in favor of a sixth skater, Leigh Hogan, giving the Crimson a 6-on-4 advantage with 1:12 to go. The gamble paid off, as ten seconds later, in one of those mad scrambles...
...power play and Gauthier beat Princeton netminder. Mike O'Leary with a 20-footer from the right side at 11:31 Burke tallied lose than a minute later, but Princeton's Mark Stuckey answered back at 14:35 with a slapshot score from the top of the faceoff circle...
...onslaught began immediately before want fans had even managed to get their seats warmed up. Approximately 210 seconds after the opening faceoff, the awesome Crimson marauders had score four times, and the mercy-killing had been performed...
...game started out inauspiciously for the Crimson squad as the Big Red came out flying after the opening faceoff. "Cornell was physical and they came out hitting," Roth said. "We were caught by surprise. They ran all over us, but Petro [goalie Petrovek] made a couple of great saves...