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...fact that Petrovek, who people claim had an off-season a year ago after being All-Ivy, East and America in '74-75 (if you had over 700 pucks shot in your direction, you'd have an off-yea too) returns for a final season in the nets does little to hinder Harvard's chances, but neither does the fact that unlike last season, Petrovek will be working with a defensive corps with which he's more than just vaguely familiar...
...Petrovek's buddies include returning starters Jon Schuster, Kevin O'Donoghue and Jim Trainor, sophomore Franco Scalamandre and freshmen John Hughes and Bob Fowkes. There is so much depth on the blue line, in fact, that Jim Liston and Bob Leckie, regulars a year ago, are not even dressing for tomorrow night's opener at Vermont...
Offensively, things are not nearly as pretty, but then again, as Petrovek said, I'm not worried about scoring. We'll always score...
Basically, it's the same story as a year ago this time, but in reverse. Then there were experienced forwards, inexperienced defensemen, now it's vice versa, but the man with the most experience, Petrovek prefers the present situation, and who's to argue with a guy who as a sophomore led Harvard to the NCAA semi-finals...
...factor which might prove uncooperative is the schedule, which Petrovek terms "Harvard toughest ever." In addition to Vermont, which should be ready to make the headlines again after a tremendous schoke last year, and traditional biggies B.U., B.U., Cornell, you get the picture, there are contests with UNH, St. Lawrence, Notre Dame, Minnesota and Wisconsin; schools which only seem to surface, as far as Harvard is concerned, when the referee drops the puck...