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He tried and failed to transfer—another entry in his sophomore-year diary of things gone wrong—and so he returned for his junior season, another spent behind engaging starter Dov Grumet-Morris ’05.
He was a sophomore, Grumet-Morris a junior, and then-coach Mark Mazzoleni opened the season with a declaration of goalie rotation: "We’re going to find out if we have two kids that are capable of being No. 1s, or if one versus the other is going...
The next night, as if on cue, Grumet-Morris shut out Yale.
"He gave us the kind of goaltending we needed," Mazzoleni said after the game. Grumet-Morris went on to start 30 of Harvard’s 31 remaining contests, leading the team to an ECAC postseason championship and the NCAA tournament. Daigneau got to watch a lot of hockey.
He speaks about the whole year with cool perspective now, but it was nearly impossible to do so at the time. Grumet-Morris was racking up stellar statistics, but "during sophomore year, I had a really tight grasp on my identity," Daigneau says. "I was a hockey player, and I...