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Somewhere around Boston, at Walter Brown Arena or in the ruins of Harvard's Watson Rink, coach Billy Cleary must be praying. Maybe he's asking for a miracle, maybe for a divine inspiration; but in any case, Billy Cleary is hoping something comes along to turn around the forces of his nomadic Crimson charges...
...games. I thought it had peaked after a Beanpot loss to B.U. when The Crimson compared my glove hand to that of Marv Throneberry. But the meaning of the term "humbled" was never clearer than on that Saturday afternoon in Ithaca when a lone voice in Cornell's Lynah Rink intoned, "Bertagna, you're not a sieve...you're a funnel...
...believe it or not, it didn't seem like an upset. The Larries, who came into the game with the third worst record in the ECAC (2-6-1) and an eight-game losing streak against the Crimson (lest we forget the 10-0 slaying at Watson Rink two Reading Periods ago), completely outskated and outclevered the otherwise engaged icemen from start to finish, and left the bite-sized crowd feeling guilty over the productive things it could have done instead...
Though Espo could convert rebounds with his eyes closed, it was Orr whose spectacular rink-length dashes, beautiful set-ups and wicked slapshots captured the hearts and minds of hockey fans everywhere as he led Boston to the title after 29 years of cellar-dwelling and frustration...
Apparently bolstered by this newfound confidence, Harvard sealed win number one with Huber's third and fourth tallies of the evening. Both goals came on rink-length dashes as Huber first stuffed a one-hander by Dartmouth netminder Janice Ellis' short side at 4:47 with an assist going to Allison Bell, then rebounded her own shot on an unassisted goal four minutes later. A last-minute Dartmouth goal finished the scoring...