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...five-game winning streak punctuated by a final-minute victory over streaking league rival Dartmouth. The Huskies (10-13-4, 6-8-3 Hockey East), on the other hand, limp into this evening’s faceoff winners of just four of their last 15 contests. During that stretch, Northeastern has been defeated by BC, Vermont, BU, and Maine—all of whom the Crimson knocked off earlier this season...
Lacking the Crimson’s playmaking prowess, Northeastern will likely position one of its forwards in a defensive posture, sacrificing its own attack in order to keep Harvard’s under control...
Guerriero’s shift has been particularly potent on the power play, striking 16 times with a man advantage. The Crimson has been assigned the second fewest penalty minutes per game in the nation this season—only Northeastern has fewer—but neutralizing the line will hinge, in part, upon whether Harvard can avoid succumbing to the contest’s predicted ugliness and taking unnecessary penalties...
...Whether he participates in tonight’s contest will be a game-time decision...Harvard last advanced to the Beanpot championship game in 1998, on the strength of a 5-4 overtime win over BC. The Crimson lost a week later to BU, 2-1, also in overtime...Northeastern defeated Harvard in the consolation final of last year’s Beanpot...
It’s a sentiment surely shared on a Crimson squad that boasts seven Massachusetts natives. For them, the Boston College-Boston University-Harvard-Northeastern shuffle isn’t a tournament—it is the tournament...