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...pairwise rankings (PWR), finalized one night earlier, had forecast a Harvard trip to Amherst against UNH, but had also projected Boston College and Mercyhurst as the two teams most likely to accompany them to the Mullins Center. But according to Wayne Dean, the tournament committee chair, Denver was seen as more deserving of the second overall seed than Colorado College—No. 2 in the PWR—a subjective swap that skewed the predictions slightly...
...Saturday, the Harvard women’s hockey team outlasted Mercyhurst and its great defense with a little bit of both...
...think the key momentum swing was some of their early power plays,” Mercyhurst coach Michael Sisti said. “Obviously, their power play is tremendous and they gained some key momentum off their power-play goals...
...Mercyhurst entered the Frozen Eight contest against Harvard with the best penalty kill unit in the country, while the Crimson boasted the second-best power play...
Most importantly, Harvard took care of business when it was supposed to—making Mercyhurst pay for its penalties and mistakes. Two of the three power-play goals came on 5-on-3 advantages when the Crimson needed to convert its chance to get back into the game...