Word: lau
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Poor clearing by the Harvard defense plagued the icemen all evening, but at least three of Dartmouth's scores were shots that fooled legitimately nervous freshman goaltender Wade Lau. Whatever the cause, Harvard seemed victimized in its own end from the opening face...
...tallied first for Dartmouth a scant 1:08 into the game. Brownridge, a second-team all-Ivy performer last season, stole the puck in the Dartmouth zone and, working a give-and-go with wing Rick Ryerson, went down the left wing boards and drove a slap shot by Lau from just inside the blue line...
Things cooled off for a while, until Dartmouth parlayed a holding penalty on Jack Hughes into the 3-0 margin. With 25 seconds to go in the man-up situation, Dartmouth mounted one last attack. Lau stopped Dennis Murphy's attempt from the left face-off circle, but center Mark Bedard was there to nail home the rebound...
Wilson broke in on the right wing, but his snap shot was stopped by the still stage-frightened Lau. The rebound bounced on the left to Bedard, who fed the puck back to Don O'Brien on the point. O'Brien, who scored the short-handed goal in overtime to win the opener at Watson Rink last season, would be denied this time--but the rebound of the slap shot would...
...freshmen realized that there was no need to be nervous, when catching up could be on their minds. Lau came up with some authoritative stops in the cage, and Harvard's offense temporarily jelled in the period's final five minutes. All told, the icemen outshot Dartmouth 15-11 in the stanza...