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They enforce a ridiculous 10-game schedule that makes it all but impossible to schedule preseason scrimmages, because every other team is already playing...
These teams play each other so often—every November, plus this year a preseason scrimmage—that it’s sometimes hard to keep the wins and losses from blurring together. Teams know each other so well that in this league, this deep in the season, you always have to be prepared for the Columbias and Dartmouths to upset the Harvards and Penns. It’s easier to think of a loss as just a loss, with no adjectives like “embarrassing,” “demoralizing...
Former Harvard men’s hockey coach Mark Mazzoleni coined the phrase after the Crimson’s 5-3 upset of UMass in December of last year. At the time, the team was hovering around .500 and struggling desperately to live up to preseason expectations. Frustrated and chastised by Mazzoleni, Harvard temporarily broke out of its early-season doldrums with the surprise...
...past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results, and the Crimson will look to prove good on those preseason predictions when it opens its season this weekend when it takes on Colgate and Cornell...
...Crimson finished last season with a record of 30-4-1 (15-3-0 ECAC) to tie for first in the conference with St. Lawrence. It enters the 2004-05 season ranked second in the preseason ECAC coaches’ poll behind Dartmouth and third in Division I in the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Women’s College Hockey Poll...