Word: lau
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...freak goal late in the second period, a Michael Watson insurance tally at 9:16 of the third, and 35 saves from goaltender Wade Lau propelled the Harvard hockey team to a 2-0 victory over Boston College last night at Bright Center in the opening round of the ECAC playoffs...
...nailing down their first win in an ECAC playoff game since stopping UNH in the first round back in 1976, the icemen relied on a little luck, some expert penalty killing and forechecking, and the super goaltending of Lau, who turned in his third shutout in his last four games. The game was very much like last year's Harvard win over B.C. in the Beanpot final, also by a 2-0 score, the last time Lau and Eagle netminder Bob O'Connor squared...
...even thinking about them now," Cleary said. "We'll see 'em Friday night." THE NOTEBOOK: The stars of the game, as selected by the Cambridge media: Lau, Greg Olson, and Mitch Olson
With Wade Lau extra-sharp in the Harvard nets, and the pesky Crimson forwards (single out Busconi and Scott Powers for special praise) worth their weight in bulldozers along the boards, Boston College bowed out in the first round for the third straight year...
...typical of this opportunist, pick 'em-up club that the television cameras and journalists didn't know whom to talk to in the Harvard locker room. Was the story Lau, whose three shutouts out of four consecutive must-win games may be an ECAC record? Was it Michael Watson, the senior captain and four-year starter, who popped home the crucial insurance goal and played a fine two-way game? Was it the five defensemen, who have allowed just four goals in four games and deserve much of the credit for the turnaround...