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Just by looking at the statistics, co-captain A.J. Mleczko was not at her best in the AWCHA national championship game. For the first time this season, she did not score a single point in regulation and the Alliance was the only organization that did not name her MVP of its All-Tournament Team...
While her teammates had produced Harvard's five goals during regulation and almost won the game in overtime, it was Mleczko who got the job done when her team needed her most. At 8:01 of the sudden-death period, she raced down the left wing and slipped the puck under the stick of UNH goaltender Alicia Roberts, where Harvard freshman winger Jen Botterill was waiting to slam home the game-winner...
There is sophomore winger Tammy Shewchuk, who led the nation in goals with 51 and finished second to Mleczko with 54 assists. Even if Shewchuk never becomes a playmaker of Mleczko's caliber, she will be a major asset on Harvard's top line for two more seasons...
...Harvard's offense will be fine in 1999-2000, even if Coach Katey Stone does not recruit a talented Class of 2003--and that's highly unlikely. In addition to Mleczko, the only forwards Stone will lose who saw the ice in the postseason are Jen Gerometta and Kyle Walsh. Gerometta and Walsh were both hard-working skaters, but almost all of the scoring came from Mleczko and the five underclassmen...
Keep this in mind: of all the underclassmen I mentioned, only three of them are current juniors. That means the core of Harvard's team, especially its offense, will remain intact for two more seasons. If the Crimson can learn to play without Mleczko--and we should expect that to happen early next season--the rest of the ECAC will be fighting for second place in both...