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Dates: during 1980-1989
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March 4: The Crimson is a gracious host, playing the game by its guest's rules. The penalty box gets more visitors than the concession stand, but Harvard remembers how to skate and score in time...
Five minutes before the first game in which he was supposed to play net at the tender age of five, freshman Chuckie Hughes turned to his parents and announced that he needed to be excused. His father, who was coaching the team, was reluctant to let him go. But at Hughes' insistence, his mother escorted him to the restroom. By the time she had helped him get all his equipment off and back on again, the game was over...
...because the team had to play the whole game without a goalie," Hughes says...
Fortunately for Harvard, he has moved on from such inauspicious beginnings to become one of the top netminders in the ECAC, along with teammate Allain Roy. Hughes, a member of the ECAC All-Rookie Team, will be in net tonight when Harvard faces Cornell in the ECAC consolation game...
Both the Harvard and the Olympic systems--patterned after the international-style skating game--have highlighted MacDonald's talents. And like for most Harvard players, the physical game that is the trademark of the NHL would force him to make adjustments in his style of play...