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...record, 17-11-1, doesn't look as impressive as last season's 17-4-1 mark, but last year's squad could not boast any of the above except the same ECAC seed. A lot of good the 1973 seed did. The icemen choked in the opener of the tourney against Clarkson and ended the season a lot earlier than this year's team...
...rest of the defense, Steve Janicek, Ed Rossi and Dave Hands, has also shown marked improvement this season. Again, they had to overcome the mistakes that come when you're suddenly playing varsity hockey after a season of J.V. The Crimson icemen dropped several of the early games because of bad clearing passes, defensemen getting caught up ice or being bothered around the net by opposing forecheckers...
...rude awakening for the Crimson icemen, who were playing one their best, if not the best game of the season. The bubble had carried Harvard from a dismal 6-7-1 record in mid-January to the NCAA tournament semis, and for a while it looked as though it might take the Crimson all the way to a national championship...
...stirring rendition of the "Copper Country National Anthem" by the Tech band brought the 500 inspired Husky fans to their feet just before the third period face-off and the Tech icemen responded by tying the game on a couple of slap shots in the third period...
...disgruntled fans filed out of Watson Rink on a cold night in January after watching Cornell edge Harvard in overtime, you could see them shaking their heads and mumbling in between the curses, "What do you have to do?" It was another frustrating loss, and the Crimson icemen could boast only a mediocre 6-7-1 record...