Word: playing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Crimson fans sweated as the Terriers, seemingly always on the verge of scoring, mounted attack after attack at the Crimson net, Harvard goaltender Wade Lau dived, reached, lunged, and grabbed one apparent goal after another, keeping the Crimson alive with his spectacular play...
Spending almost as much time up or down a man as they did at full strength, the Crimson "special teams"--the penalty-killers and power play--were put to the test. Some awesome B.U. defense muted the icemen while one man up, but equally stellar penalty-killing by the Crimson not only provided a life for the young pucksters, but--yest, we'll go out on a limb--saved the game...
There's no way enough can be said about a penalty-killing act that, forced into action five times--twice with two men down--yields not a single goal. And this, against the vaunted Terrier power play...
Simply, it meant the difference between a win and a loss. Last Wednesday, when the penalty killers committed mass suicide and allowed three power-play goals by Providence College, Coach Bill Cleary's words were "a lack of discipline...
Today he spoke short and sweet, and his words on the power play can be applied to the entire game--now that we have it safely tucked away in our pockets: "Everything went right...