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...hockey team captures the NCAA championship this weekend, it will be in large part because of junior Jenny Brine.Take the Crimson’s playoff opener against Cornell, for example. Harvard found itself down 2-1 to the eighth-seeded team in the third period.Enter Brine.The forward netted two power-play goals to put her team on top, 3-2. And she hasn’t stopped since.Brine is averaging more than a goal per game in this year’s ECAC and NCAA playoffs, making her the Crimson’s leading goal-scorer in the postseason.She...
...could afford to lose a game,” Donato said. “So we lick our wounds and come back and we’ll play our best hockey tomorrow night.PENALTY KILL CLAWEDThe first four power plays for Quinnipiac ended in disaster for the Crimson’s penalty kill unit. In a game in which Quinnipiac scored only one of its seven goals at even strength, the Bobcats power play enjoyed almost free reign on the ice, as its special teams struck four of the six times that Harvard skaters were confined to the penalty box.Both...
...needed the confidence from that.”Quinnipiac extended its first lead of the series later in the period. Goaltender Bud Fisher deflected a Harvard shot into the air and then batted it forward to his attackers, setting his offense up for the second of its four power-play scores at 8:10.“I don’t think it was a great surprise: we took a lot of needless penalties,” Crimson coach Ted Donato ’91 said of the difference between the first two games of the series...
...over the Bobcats and secure a spot in the ECAC semifinal series this weekend in Albany, N.Y, which marks Harvard’s seventh semifinal appearance in the last eight years. Following Saturday night’s penalty-filled match, in which the Bobcats scored on its first four power-play opportunities, the Crimson turned its focus last night to one key theme: penalties. “We did a much better job tonight staying out of the box,” co-captain Mike Taylor said. The Crimson tallied only six penalties to the Bobcats’ five...
...gave Harvard momentum going into the second period.“We went in the locker room, and we were just really energized and ready to go for the second,” Brine said.The Crimson struck again 9:34 into the second period, taking advantage of a power-play opportunity. Junior forward Sarah Wilson found freshman Kate Buesser, who slipped the puck past Dartmouth goalie Carli Clemis.Harvard claimed a 3-0 advantage just over four minutes later, when a Wilson shot brought Clemis over to the right post, leaving the left side of the net wide open. Vaillancourt picked...