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...period. And so in overtime, with the score knotted 4-4, it came as no surprise that Donato chose to send Du out for a penalty shot. He might have been booed out of the building if he’d done anything else. Du lined up the puck and skated towards Leroux, holding a straight line, refusing to fake. He simply glided forward and launched the puck. “The ice was pretty chopped up,” he said, “so I knew that a deke probably wouldn’t have been too useful...
...just into the frame. But Northeastern goaltender Adam Geragosian kept his team in it through the first 20 minutes, falling on Alex Meintel’s chance from the right post during a 5-on-3 Crimson advantage and escaping the subsequent 5-on-4, which saw the puck squirt dangerously through the open slot. “Geragosian did his part of the job,” said a deflated Greg Cronin, Northeastern’s head coach. Cronin’s goalie had no such luck in the second frame. After a series of hit posts, missed pucks...
...Harvard on the power play, junior defenseman Dylan Reese fired an initial shot that was stopped by Princeton goaltender Eric Leroux.But junior forward Ryan Maki, standing right at the edge of the crease, scooped the rebound and quickly fed it to Du at the left post. Du slammed the puck past Leroux at 19:13, giving Harvard a 3-2 lead and setting himself up for a hat trick.OPENING THE FLOODGATESDu’s explosion was emblematic of a Crimson offense that has started to revive itself.After firing 47 shots on goal in an overtime effort at Brown last weekend...
...Bright Hockey Center crowd chanted in unison: “Du! Du! Du!” Only when Donato sent pivot Kevin Du onto the ice for the shot did the fans quiet—although the collective groan they let out seconds later, when Du propelled the puck high, echoed throughout the building. “Did the goalie touch it at all?” Du said after the fact. “I thought I just hit the crossbar.” Post-game opinions differed, and so he concluded with a smile...
...Even the wave herself knows that history becomes meaningless once the puck drops in the gold-medal round. "It comes down to one game, and any team can win that game," says Wickenheiser. "Even if we haven't seen their best, we know what they are capable of, and we fully respect that. We focus on ourselves, on our team, on playing our kind of hockey." Canadian-American hockey. Don't forget your mouth guards, ladies. You will need them...