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Because last year, well, the hype caught up with the Crimson—and Welch...
...Welch? Well, he fared little better...
Prior to the 2003-04 slate, Welch, in many ways, embodied the smothering hopes heaped on the Crimson’s collective shoulders. Highly touted in pre-season projections, both he and his teammates were expected to easily repeat and improve upon their performances from the season before. Not an altogether easy task considering Welch’s second-team All-American nod and Harvard’s at-large NCAA berth the season before...
...think myself and the team put way too many expectations on ourselves last year, and that’s one thing I’m staying away from this year,” Welch says. “The pre-season All-American—stuff like that—that’s great, but I know that maybe that will happen if I just play my game and don’t worry about all that other hype...
Though not the most egregiously underperforming defenseman, Welch struggled to do just that, most notably during the Crimson’s mid-year swoon...