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...Dartmouth game showed our weaknesses in the defensive zone, because our goals will come on offense," Stone said. "We ran around defensively at times tonight, but not like last week. I was most happy with our man-down situations--you really didn't notice when UNH had the power play...
...penalty box for the last time of the season. The two most productive offenses in the nation had capitalized for six goals on the man advantage during regulation, and the UNH power-play unit had scored on the first two Harvard penalties of the game. But the Crimson man-down unit of freshman defenseman Angela Ruggiero, Mleczko, Shewchuk and Botterill settled down after that, and Kuusisto made her biggest contribution during the overtime penalty kill, when she made four of her 28 saves...
...physical, back-and-forth action as Stone began a three-line rotation she used for the entire game. The Crimson killed two penalties, and Springer made a clutch save with 3.3 seconds left in the period when the Big Green pulled Cahill and sent six skaters against Harvard's man-down unit...
...fighting for the puck with a Princeton player and Asano took both of us out," Mleczko said. "It was a bold call by the ref because they usually put their whistles in their pockets in overtime. We were confident in our man-down unit, but Princeton had just scored a power play goal, so the penalty made me a little nervous because the special teams situation could have gone either way in sud- den death...
...then to see Harvard's reaction...somnambulists, unite! Harvard went through one span of 90 seconds in which its on-ice manpower shifted between six, four, five, six, and then five again. Neither too-many-men penalty was called, and the self-imposed man-down situation didn't prove to be costly, but it was clear that the Crimson's collective intellect was still sleepwalking somewhere in the locker room...