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...brilliance from juniors Brendan Bernakevitch and Tom Cavanagh could end that drought, as the pair broke in 2-on-1 off the opening faceoff at the start of the second, with the latter tacking on the Crimson’s first tally. Making matters more difficult for the power-play line was the unwillingness of the officials to blow their whistles in the high-profile game, allowing scrappy play to arguably go beyond the limits of legal contact. When infractions were called against Harvard, however, its penalty kill was as rigid as ever, extending its record over four games...
Just 10 seconds after Tim Pettit won the second-period faceoff, Cavanagh—who had been awake vomiting through the night before—took a feed from Bernakevitch, cut across the grain and backhanded in his fifth power-play goal of the season...
...Case Study No. 23,573 on why hockey is the least numbers-based of the four major sports: Harvard senior winger Tim Pettit has zero power-play goals, but is arguably the most important player on the unit...
Oddly enough, that wasn’t the case last year, when he had seven power-play goals and a career-high 47 points. Pettit acknowledged those lofty numbers came because opposing penalty kills treated Dominic Moore ’03 and Brett Nowak ’03 as the Crimson’s top options, leaving Pettit—and his blue-line bazooka of a shot—to roam free...
Junior defenseman Noah Welch—another special teams linchpin without a power-play goal—said Pettit is doing an “unbelievable job” quarterbacking the unit...