Word: postseason
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...short in terms of the sheer number of games Harvard played, but in terms of the games it played at its best. In that sense, the Crimson’s season didn’t really begin until the start of the postseason...
Harvard’s amazing postseason run has repercussions far beyond this season. Since 1994 critics have called the Crimson underachievers, a team long on talent but always short on results. With a whopping eight NHL draft picks on this year’s roster—more than any ECAC school, more even than Maine this year—it looked like yet another unfulfilled season...
This year’s amazing postseason run means that, finally, Harvard’s talent has paid off. Although Harvard Coach Mark Mazzoleni is quick to say that this program has not yet turned the corner back to a national powerhouse, the team certainly has reached some sort of milestone. This year Harvard was described in terms of potential. Now it will be talked about in terms of past performance...
...tough as regrouping and reaching the NCAA tournament was for the Crimson, next year’s task might be even harder. One successful five-game run is fine. Next year’s season, however, is the full 29 games, and fans will expect the postseason Harvard team to show up in each of them...
Despite the season-ending loss, Harvard had a postseason to be proud of, having run the table in the ECAC tournament and given Maine all it could handle...