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...many observers it looked as if Harvard was ready to take home yet another Ancient Eight championship and cement its status as a dynasty in the Northeast...
Allow me to elaborate. As sportswriters and editors, we attempt to make every win into Michael Jordan’s “The Shot” in 1989 and every choke into The Curse of the Bambino. We take the gift of gab—oh, sorry, the BS skills—that got us to this great institution and dress our tales of Harvard sporting events in diamonds and pearls as if they were our own resumes...
...Take the atrocious first sentence I ever published in THC Sports...
...team effort,” Buesser explained. “I couldn’t have scored all those goals without the team helping out. It was that mental leap where you can’t just sit back anymore—you have to take the game in control...
Harvard showed all the usual hallmarks of good coaching: it killed penalties well—allowing only 14 goals in 323 penalty minutes—and wore teams down with superior speed and conditioning. That conditioning and discipline allowed the Crimson to take two easy victories from Princeton in the ECAC playoffs, despite not having beaten the Tigers during the regular season...