Word: welching
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...think I hit an all-time low in my hockey career in the first period,” said junior all-American defenseman Noah Welch after Friday night’s thrilling come-from-behind win over Yale. “The last couple of games, stuff hasn’t been going too well for me. My confidence was down...
That “all-time low” followed a four-goal first-period outburst from the Elis at the Yale Whale on Friday night. Welch was speaking, at least in part, about the Yalies’ fourth goal, a power-play tally on which Yale’s Jeff Hristovski sliced through the Crimson’s defensive zone, blowing by two defenders before he faked sophomore goaltender John Daigneau and beat him stick-side...
...Welch was one of the Crimson defenders Hristovski slipped past, but his words could just as easily be applied to the first person plural—we, the team, the Harvard Crimson. Welch may have felt like he had reached a personal all-time low, but he had plenty of company below sea level—all of the members of this year’s Crimson share some responsibility for the team’s struggles against both expectations and its opponents...
Harvard, obviously, did not fold. Instead, the Crimson mounted a furious comeback, sparked by a beautiful individual effort by captain Kenny Smith and spurred on by the play of the Crimson’s ‘big’ guns—Welch, assistant captain Tyler Kolarik, and senior forward Tim Pettit...
Gartner cracked in that he allowed six goals, three of which came off the sticks of Kolarik, Pettit and Welch in just a minute and one second, from 12:36 to 13:37. But Kolarik’s emphasis on the 40-shot barrier aside, it wasn’t the quantity of shots that foiled Gartner. It was their quality...