Word: pucks
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Bearing this weight on her back, Corriero remains poised and steady. Her right arm remains firm, outstretched with her stick, maintaining full control of the puck as she struggles to escape. Slowly but surely, she winds her left arm back around. With nothing to rely upon but strength and willpower to score, she breaks free from the defender’s hold. Her posture returns to its usual state—downward and slightly hunched, her eyes peering from beneath her tilted helmet, a wolf back in the hunt...
...Crimson captain continues her drive down the left side of the ice, breaking towards the net. Vermont’s last defenseman issues a challenge, taking a swipe at the puck with her stick to take away Corriero’s control and break up the play. The defense fails in this final endeavor; there is no stopping Corriero from reaching the net at this range. After faking out the final defender, she has single-handedly beat Vermont to the goal...
Then, Corriero makes the one move Cote hadn’t planned on. Instead of taking the shot, she slides the puck to her right side. There Sarah Vaillancourt is waiting to shoot it past Cote’s right shoulder, where she can see a gaping hole...
...There are some situations where I had the puck and at other times, I might have shot it,” Corriero said. “But I think that when we start to play together as a line and when we’re moving the puck and playing unselfishly—that’s when we’re our most dominant...
Harvard’s power-play units were particularly effective against Vermont, generating nine shots and striking twice in five opportunities. Though at times thwarted by fatigue and the Catamounts’ penalty kill, eighth-best in the country, the Crimson moved the puck well in the offensive zone, producing several open looks, the best of which resulted in forward Charlie Johnson’s goal at 4:26 in the first period...