Word: welch
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Harvard coach Mark Mazzoleni lauds Welch’s quickness, long reach, and physical play in the defensive zone, a combination that does not always go together. Listed at 6’4 and 212 lbs., Welch has the size to out-muscle nearly every forward who crosses his blue line. What is unusual is to have that strength and size combined with his skating ability...
Mazzoleni purposely matches Welch against Jessiman, believing that his All-American defenseman has the size necessary to move the 6’5 Jessiman off the puck. And against smaller, faster forwards like Eaves and Kariya, Welch uses his long reach to poke the puck away before those players can maneuver too far into the Harvard end. His play against Kariya and the rest of Maine’s talented forwards impressed Black Bear coach Tim Whitehead...
...Welch is great, he’s outstanding,” Whitehead said. “His poise with the puck, his strength on the puck. He’s very defensively aware. I think he’s a very good player...
...before his success against BC or Maine, Welch suffered his first setback of last season in Ithaca. While most Harvard fans were watching the Harvard-Yale football game, the hockey team had traveled to upstate New York to face rival Cornell...
Trailing the favored Big Red 2-1 early in the second period, Welch fell flat on the ice, freeing up Cornell forward Greg Hornby for an easy point-blank goal that junior goaltender Dov Grumet-Morris could not stop...