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...Saturday night, that precision was lost in a muddled first period that threatened to send Harvard’s playoff run crashing...
...don’t think this takes anything out of us; it’s playoff hockey, and sometimes you have to go to the end of the world to go to the next day,” Stone said...
...penalty kill, not the power play, after all. But McCulloch is batting 1.000 in his own (hockey) way: he has scored five goals in a collegiate career that has spanned 113 games, but has delivered two vital goals in two of Harvard’s key, playoff situations. All have come against Dartmouth, no less; Big Green coach Bob Gaudet might well be the first one to send McCulloch a card congratulating him on graduating...
...Jessiman, it set the tone for Harvard’s win and surprised many of those in attendance, who knew McCulloch more for body-checks than for big goals. McCulloch’s next goal doubled as his next big goal, as he again opened the scoring in a playoff semifinal versus Dartmouth. This time, McCulloch created his own offense, intercepting a failed clearing attempt by Dartmouth’s Eric Przepiorka and skating up to the left faceoff circle before firing a hard slapshot past the Big Green’s goaltender Dan Yacey. That goal, like it predecessor...
...awestruck teammates chalked it up as another in a lineage of clutch playoff performances that began with his overtime game-winner against the Golden Knights in the 2002 ECAC semis and continued with his series-clincher against Brown...