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Before sophomore Bruce Durno started his second varsity game in the nets, the Harvard record for most saves in a game was 43. Bruce deflected 44 B.U. shots that night and proved what everyone had been thinking--he was the most promising goalie to hit Eastern hockey since Cornell's Ken Dryden...
Tonight Durno and Dryden will meet each other in what Coach Gene Kinasewich, former Harvard hockey All-American, calls a "game of goal-tenders." He believes "the two teams' offenses will even each other out, and it just boils down to which goalie can stop the most shots...
...Durno's hockey career in the nets started when he was eight. After six years in the Pee Wee, Bantam and Midget leagues, Bruce joined the Stanford Junior B Bruins, a farm team owned by the Boston Bruins. He went on to play for a Junior A team also in the Bruins farm system. In Junior A hockey Bruce was starting goalie against the likes of Derek Sanderson, Tom Webster, and Bobby Orr--all of whom are now playing for the Bruins...
Coming to Harvard represented a big hockey adjustment for Bruce. The best Junior A teams could handily beat the best Eastern college teams. Used to Bobby Orr, it was hard for Durno to readjust to the much slower American hockey. As a result he was over-reacting to many shots in his freshman season. Coach Kinasewich, who also came from Canada, played a major part in helping Bruce make this readjustment...
There is no doubt that Bruce has found his groove this year. Although at first shaky with his defensemen, Chris Gurry and Terry Flaman, the three have settled down to form one of the best hockey defenses in the East. "Bruce has developed into one of the finest goalies I have ever seen," Kinasewich said. "He has that innate ability that every great goalie has which can't be taught. If we ever had a goal-tender who could beat Dryden, it's Durno...