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...PowerPlay: Serena outbids Bluck during their bickering at the auction...
...have to create your own luck. Again, penalties cost us in key situations and unfortunately killed the momentum that we were trying to get going.”In the last five minutes of the game, Yale was hit with back-to-back penalties, giving the Crimson a powerplay for nearly three minutes. But what could have been another chance for Harvard to close the scoring gap was wasted, as a misconduct call on both teams interrupted the flow of the game and deflated the Crimson’s offensive drive.Fraser scored again with under a minute on the clock...
...goal that appeared to calm her team down, and Harvard kept the score at 3-1 for the remainder of the second period.The Crimson had its best opportunity to close the gap at the onset of the third frame. Harvard began the final period on the powerplay and came out with a renewed intensity, crashing the net and trying to force the puck past Wisconsin goaltender Jessie Vetter.But the Badgers defense held up, and Vetter proved herself impenetrable the net, stopping every Crimson advance.“[The Harvard skaters were] playing for their lives at that point...
...held tough, and it was the Bobcats who earned one of their few promising opportunities with a shorthanded breakaway. Fraser had to commit a holding penalty on Quinnipiac’s Brandon Wong at 4:42 to prevent a solid shot, and the Bobcats had momentum heading into a powerplay of their own. It was at this point, though, that Harvard’s defense, and particularly sophomore goalie Kyle Richter, proved its strength. Defenseman Jack Christian contributed with a particularly athletic block, as the defense stifled three shots and Richter managed 14 saves to preserve the shutout. The visitors?...
...without its controversy or hard feelings. According to the Agence France-Presse news wire, Austrian Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer had sharp words about the level of financial firepower Russia had focused on their efforts. "Salzburg didn't stand a chance," he said. "It was an economic and political powerplay...which indicates the way they want to go from now on, and this is wrong for the sport and for the IOC and Olympic Movement...