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Harvard's blue-line, meanwhile, has returned to form after a shaky debut two weeks ago. Yale's power-play, featuring Hobey Baker candidate senior Mark Kauffman, is the best in the nation (clicking at 33 percent), but you wouldn't have known that last night. The tag-team of Drury and sophomore Steve Martins on Harvard's two penalty killing units held Yale to just one-for-seven...
...first 6:25 (the first shot was a Lou Body desperation blue-line slap), and with Coughlin in the box for a cross-check, the mighty Terriers sent the Crimson cats scampering. BU's Doug Friedman, Dave Sacco and Jacques Joubert pounced on net during the Terrier power-play, and with Harvard freshman goalie Tripp Tracy flopping in net, Friedman punched in a rebound...
...destined for another Beanpot blowout. But the Crimson transmogrified from its feline self into a jungle cat just minutes later, with BU's Stephen Foster out for roughing. Martins unloaded a cannon shot into the high left corner of the net at 13:14, just seconds into the power-play, to tie the game...
From then on, the Crimson skated with confidence, matching the bigger Terriers blow for blow, insult for insult. It continued on into the second period, as Harvard managed to hold off a high-powered Terrier attack during and after an unsuccessful BU power-play...
Maguire gives the Crimson added strength on special teams. He's providing a punch to a Crimson team that already packs a whollop with a 30 percent power-play and 85.1 percent penalty kill...