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PROVIDENCE, R.I. --In the NHL, it's a two-minute penalty for delay of game. In college hockey it's just enthusiasm. Call it what you may, the Providence College Friars emptied their pew repeatedly last night to congratulate teammates on the way to a 6-3 shellacking of Harvard at Schneider Arena...
...that Harvard (now 1-2 in ECAC play) didn't make it a contest--in fact, the Crimson battled back from a 2-0 deficit to knot the score, 2-2, at one point. But the favored Friars kept a territorial advantage throughout and broke the game wide open with three rapid-fire man-up goals in the second period...
...power play's three moments of truth came between 8:30 and 15:05 of period two. For those who didn't catch the game on WHRB, here's what it sounded like...
During the game's opening minutes, the two teams tried to out do each other in turnover innovation. As the Crimson cagers dribbled the ball off their feet and each other, coach Carole Kleinfelder pleaded with her squad to stick with set plays. Except for Ready, UMass played with equal abandon and the game see-sawed...
...keep the game close, they will have to improve their ball handling, a problem that Kleinfelder and assistant coach Linda Moultan said plagued the squad for much of the preseason. Kleinfelder added that she is still "trying different combinations of players. We probably will not find our strengths until half way through the season...