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What the Harvard women’s hockey team needed was some momentum, and Colgate became the perfect victim Saturday evening.With the prospect of an all-important season-ending road trip to St. Lawrence and Clarkson on the horizon, the Crimson broke a two-game losing streak and routed the Raiders, 3-0, at Bright Hockey Center. With the win, Harvard (13-10-4, 9-5-4 ECAC) maintained a tight hold on fifth place in the ECAC while extending its dominating advantage in the all-time series against Colgate (10-13-7, 7-8-3) to 10-0-1.The swing...
...young athletes came into view, bowing to receive the medals that will forever distinguish them as Olympic participants, that will serve as lifetime tokens of their two-week trip to the Winter Games in Turin in the Italian Alps, to the peak of competition in women’s hockey, to the heights of athletic immortality. For Harvard viewers, especially those familiar with the recent exploits of Katey Stone’s women’s hockey teams, there were a few familiar visages among the bunch. There was Sarah Vaillancourt, a sophomore-to-be, gleeful after helping Canada?...
...What about Crimson hockey coach Ted Donato...
...Canadians prevail, men's hockey gold would cap what is shaping up to be one of the country's finest winter performances ever. There were certainly high expectations. The Canadian Olympic Committee (coc) brazenly targeted third place in the overall medal standings--likely requiring 25 medals, compared with the 17 that Canada took home four years ago. Canada might not make it, especially after several failure-to-convert performances in the Games' opening days. As the unfulfilled expectations initially piled up--as when all four female snowboarders failed to qualify for the half-pipe final, or when Emily Brydon finished...
...matter how well Canada does as a whole, it's the performance of the men's hockey team that matters most. That helps explain the passionate sideshows that have flared at Torino. There was, of course, the Gretzky gambling controversy. Then news broke over new legal action against Team Canada star Todd Bertuzzi in connection with an on-ice NHL attack against Steve Moore in 2004. But rather than become distractions, Canada's hockey players say that if anything, the controversies have further unified Team Canada. "Growing up in Edmonton, watching [Gretzky] play with the Oilers, I remember how much...