Harvard Crimson 2012-2013

[bothman]

Re: Harvard Crimson 2012-2013

Love hometown referees! Mack forward goes down like he got hit by a truck, medical crew comes out, and he doesn't miss a shift. The academy was impressed.

Harvard with a 5 minute homer job in the OT, and fortunate to come away with a tie.

Harvard was not crisp. Looked rusty in the offensive zone.

[MCgrad07]

Love hometown referees! Mack forward goes down like he got hit by a truck, medical crew comes out, and he doesn't miss a shift. The academy was impressed.

Harvard with a 5 minute homer job in the OT, and fortunate to come away with a tie.

Harvard was not crisp. Looked rusty in the offensive zone.

You guys got hosed with the refs last night. When I saw the replay from behind the penalty boxes that was a clean hit. I thought Harvard had an outstanding penalty kill all night. Other than that last penalty I thought the refs called a decent game with all of the offsetting penalties. Good luck the rest of the way.

[moondog]

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Hey Harvard fans. Do you guys know why McNally wasn't playing last night? He's not listed on the roster any more either, Canuck nation is freaking out.

[alslammerz]

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I actually think Biega deserved two for tripping on that one. It was clear he realized the guy was about to beat his pinch and have a shot down the ice w/ 6 seconds left. Biega just reaches for him with the defenseman's instinct and clipped him. It wasn't knee to knee like I originally thought, though, and the 5 was clearly because of the injury.

I don't always agree with Jason Klump but he said last night either it's a 2 or it's a 5 and a game, but there's really no situation where it's just a 5, and that seems right.

We definitely looked rusty. Think that rust has burnt off though and we'll see a more crisp team take on Lowell.

[alslammerz]

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Hey Harvard fans. Do you guys know why McNally wasn't playing last night? He's not listed on the roster any more either, Canuck nation is freaking out.

Guys off the roster:
Michalek
Max Everson
McNally

Sigh...

McNally's definitely the big loss there. Everson and McNally also both played this semester, so they have to lose a semester of eligibility I'd think.

Edit - Moondog, check your rep. I sent you my best guess but I'd rather not post guesses for the whole world to see.

[bothman]

Guys off the roster:
Michalek
Max Everson
McNally

Sigh...

McNally's definitely the big loss there. Everson and McNally also both played this semester, so they have to lose a semester of eligibility I'd think.

Edit - Moondog, check your rep. I sent you my best guess but I'd rather not post guesses for the whole world to see.

Al - can u private message me as well? I think I may know why as well. I saw that Everson was grabbed by Omaha so this is obviously something that's been in the works for some time.

Michalek will be back or so he says for now. Not sure on the other guys, but that's 2 Top 6 D so that's a big loss behind the blue line.

Explains the Anderson signing and may have to bring someone (Plant) in early as well.

Yikes!

[alslammerz]

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Al - can u private message me as well? I think I may know why as well. I saw that Everson was grabbed by Omaha so this is obviously something that's been in the works for some time.

Michalek will be back or so he says for now. Not sure on the other guys, but that's 2 Top 6 D so that's a big loss behind the blue line.

Explains the Anderson signing and may have to bring someone (Plant) in early as well.

Yikes!

Done...sent it to your rep.

I'd expect the others to be back as well, at least until we know more. Things certainly got tougher for this year's Crimson squad but we'll see how they respond. We still have a good veteran blue line with Biega, Ford, Fick, and Rempel plus I saw Caldwell playing there last night I think. Depth is the problem right now. Need to stay healthy.

[alslammerz]

Re: Harvard Crimson 2012-2013

Blackwell cleared and in the lineup tonight, according to Blackwell's twitter account.

[alslammerz]

Re: Harvard Crimson 2012-2013

Guys off the roster:
Michalek
Max Everson
McNally

Sigh...

McNally's definitely the big loss there. Everson and McNally also both played this semester, so they have to lose a semester of eligibility I'd think.

Edit - Moondog, check your rep. I sent you my best guess but I'd rather not post guesses for the whole world to see.

Well I guess if Girard is going to throw things out there no harm in sharing? http://www.thecrimson.com/article/20...ook-merrimack/

“Some guys had to take a year absent,” Girard said. “I won’t say any names, but like any other team, we might have some problems with the academic scandal. Some of them just want to take leaves to get more playing time and come back later because they were younger guys. Some other guys were just injured. But overall, they’re going to come back; they’re still part of our family and still part of our team.”

So injuries, playing time and Intro to Congress...

[herbst20]

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Mark Lazar gone as well per CHN Joe Meloni

[alslammerz]

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Mark Lazar gone as well per CHN Joe Meloni

Sigh...yeah. Unfortunately he's yet to suit up for the Crimson so...

He might be one of the injured players Girard was talking about. He missed all of last year with injuries.

Meanwhile, with the players we still have...well we laid an egg. 1-1-1 in non conference games with 4 remaining. Need a win over Northeastern and then a win against BU or in the Beanpot to guarantee a .500 non conference record.

It was a 3-0 game until late and the team had chances but should be checking their ankles for snake bites and it was non-conference...those were the positives. Everything else was bad.

[FiveHole12]

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Impartial observer here that saw last nights game. H had some chances and some juicy rebounds but no one home to capitalize. H seemed to be out of gas late in the 2nd and all of the 3rd. Despite their 2-0 first period lead, Lowell looked sluggish until the 2nd when they started skating/passing well, especially in transition. They skated right by H.
Re: snake bit... the puck that hit the post and slow motioned it's way across the net on the goal line. That puck goes in and it's a 2-1 game... could have changed everything.
Vesey and the 3rd line (O'Regans) seemed to have plenty of energy for 60 minutes.

[bothman]

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Max Everson to suit up for Omaha (USHL) this weekend.

[herbst20]

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Local reporter Jeff Johnson asks Steve Michalek about the scandal.

http://thegazette.com/2012/12/13/rid...ating-scandal/

[Hokydad]

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Big fan of Harvard hockey but can you imagine if this was BU or BC or Maine??? The board would blow up. Seems like Harvard is getting a pass on this one.... Same thing with the goalie a few years ago. kids cheat, go play juniors for a year, work on their game and have fun and come back and play like nothing happened. Seems strange and have never heard of this cycle/model outside Harvard

Hard to fathom that the player would say this "I also didn’t want it to look like I messed up and everything."