Word: puck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russians pressed their carefully organized offense even when shorthanded and kept the varsity from getting a shot on the Soviet goalie until the eight-minute mark of the first period when Stu Forbes picked up a loose puck and fired it past goalie Puchkov to tie the score at oneall. It was the only Harvard goal of the evening...
...attacking zone, the Soviet defensemen provided the groundwork of the Russian's offensive game with extraordinarily powerful drives from the point, many of them being shot while the puck was still in motion from a pass. The Russian teamwork was such that their passes almost never went astray, and the Crimson found it nearly impossible to take the puck away or even to retain possession of it for more than a few seconds...
...decisive factor on these drives was, generally speaking, the superior speed of the Soviet wings. In their playing pattern, one of the wings would speed down ice with the puck, drawing the Crimson players with him into a corner. Then the pass would go out to one of the points for a long shot on Pratt, and after the rebound, either from Pratt of off the boards, the Russians would play in front of the cage for the decisive shot, passing out to the point if the puck floated into a corner again...
...good Harvard rush at the two and a half minute mark another miscue at the point led to an Eagle rush which nearly ended matters. Then, at 6:33 of the sudden death period, the B.C. second line rushed again. The Crimson appeared to be in control of the puck and attempting to clear it from behind and to the left of the nets. Cusack intercepted the disk 15 feet in front and fired a low back-hander into the left corner of the cage to end matters...
...varsity first line scored again at 11:01 of the period when Higginbottom took a pass from Dave Vietze and pushed the puck in from out of the middle of a scramble in front of the Jumbo nets...