Word: welch
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Almost immediately after Jeff Miles scored to tie the game 1-1, a scrum took place around the Harvard goal, with Sifers and Welch the primary pugilists...
...Welch insisted the altercation was “nothing against” Sifers personally. “He’s their team leader, and I consider myself one of the leaders on our team, and I didn’t like some of the stuff that was going on in the game,” Welch said. “Everyone’s trying to blow this up as a Sifers-Welch thing, but it’s just that he’s wearing...
Specifically, Welch was responding to what he said was a deliberate butt-end to Pettit that went uncalled earlier in the period. Pettit retaliated and was sent to the box for hitting after the whistle...
...whole team saw it, and we didn’t like it,” Welch said. “In college hockey, you have a lot of fake tough guys because there’s no fighting, so you can get away with a lot of stuff, and that was a blatant butt-end. I thought they were gaining confidence from a couple of cheap shots, and after they scored the goal, Sifers was kind of yapping, so I decided to do something about...
Harvard coach Mark Mazzoleni benched Welch the following night. Welch didn’t fault him for it. “Coach Mazzoleni has been consistent all year in sitting people when they take a poor penalty, and he saw that as a poor penalty, so he sat me,” Welch said...