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Harvard 2021-22: Back to Work

Conundrum resolved!

Just noticed that the "Cumulative Statistics" table says that in addition to the two Macdonalds there are also two players named Keely Moy, two named Ellie Bayard, etc.
And one Ellie Bayard has scored two goals while the other has remained scoreless
Oh, wait...the explanation must be that somebody has forgotten to click on a hypothetical "Add Individual Game Totals Together" button to make the "Cumulative Statistics" table...well, actually...cumulative.

So, looking at those players with two entries on the stats table and those with one, it's apparent that my memory was a bit faulty: evidently Sorkin and Lester played both games, not one; Thompson played only one; and Winges played one. That means also that they must have dressed 19 skaters, not 18, and had a seventh D each time.
 
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thirdtime's . . . said:
This is just what the boys in Vegas have been waiting for all summer:

https://www.uscho.com/2021/09/23/col...on-poll-seven-

I sort of get it that coaches are asked to get inside each other’s head this time of year; it’s traditional after all, but individual players should be left out of this
pre-season show for their own sake. (Besides, this list misses a few sure bets.)
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Anybody still up for a bet that RPI will finish a distant last place?
 
What I found funny about the poll is that they show Harvard and Princeton tied for fourth place, followed by Q in what they think is fifth place. The result is that the poll shows RPI in last place at No. 11, in a 12-team league. Maths are hard.

Anyway, I agree that RPI is unlikely to finish last after having already swept Union (and adding to the perception that this may be a down year for HEA by taking down BU and PC).
 
[late post]

After 600 days Harvard hockey came back. What can we say after their first weekend, in addition to noting that the new website is a cumbersome mess?

Two gimmes on paper became two gimmes on ice, though not without a few OMGs thrown in (PP anyone?).

Bloomer, KDR and Gilmore are back in harness on the first line. The freshman Taze Thompson skated with Petrie and Moy on the second line and went 31-3 in the faceoff circle. Jovanovich is anchoring a developing third line, and a fourth, all-freshmen line skated briefly at Dartmouth. Mia Biotti had a lot of shifts on the blue line, where she will no doubt find a welcome home. Freshman Ellie Bayard scored two goals against Saint Anselm. Over the course of the weekend Stone played 9 of her 11 recruited skaters.

We mustn’t forget the sophomores this season. All four saw a lot of ice time their freshman year and I'm guessing at least two will be crucial parts of the new mix.

Dutton got the senior's prerogative first start at Hanover, while Reed, facing 13 shots from the Hawks, can't yet tell us whether we will see the freshman Reed or the sophomore Reed in her junior year. Vote for freshman.

One highlight of the weekend was watching the refs review video for ten minutes before calling a five minute major and a match DQ against a Dartmouth player for "kicking," as in kicking.

Most of the rust at Bright Saturday came from the announcers’ booth. Later in the season when they hit their stride these guys can manage to ignore two-thirds of the action on the ice. Saturday the only time they went completely AWOL was just two-thirds of the third period. They should be aware of the fact that this really isn’t the year, and this certainly wasn’t the weekend, to chatter on about how so-and-so’s great-aunt Sally captained synchronized swimming at Ole Miss. “Juggling” doesn’t begin to describe the exciting task Stone is faced with this year and these guys need to change their M.O. and bring a little more savvy to their game. I’m going to change my M.O. and not mention them again all season, unless I have to.

The one player I was most looking forward to seeing was Katie Tresca. Due to injury she was limited to five and then six games in her first two seasons. It appears that she is out for yet another year, a tough row to hoe for a young athlete. Here’s wishing her well and hoping for a healthy senior year.

Next up . . . Cornell and Colgate. Sure. Why not? This could be the most exciting Crimson season in many hundreds of days.
 
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I enjoyed watching the Cornell game. I was a bit worried in the first period but Harvard seemed to get better as the game went on.
One player I noticed was Petrie (14) who could turn on an amazing amount of speed when needed.

I will probably miss the first couple of periods of the Colgate game due to the insane parking situation with the hockey game starting in the middle of the football game.

by the way, bring your mask as ushers we’re going around telling people to put masks back on.
also, bundle up. I have never felt colder in Bright than I did during the Cornell game.
I suspect the cold is due in part to Harvard’s climate policy plus the steep fuel price increases in the past year.
looking forward to a good year
 
Veritas said:
I have never felt colder in Bright than I did during the Cornell game.
I suspect the cold is due in part to Harvard's climate policy plus the steep fuel price increases in the past year.
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I forget, what's Harvard's endowment again? : rolleyes :
 
Skate79 said:
Any time you beat Cornell, life is good. Hopefully it carries over to tomorrow’s big clash with the Red Raiders.
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Yes, they played an ebullient game yesterday, peppering Cornell's All-American goalie with shots and winning face offs at something like a 2-for-1 clip, Patrice Bergeron territory!

Have to watch delayed on ESPN for this one, so signing off from USCHO right now
 
Tough loss to Colgate yesterday but it is something to build on. Proud of the way the team came back to tie the game in the third. That will help them going forward. And I think the next time we play the 'Gate, the outcome will be different. Harvard is good to very good this year. Dutton was amazing on Friday.
 
D2D said:
I forget, what's Harvard's endowment again? : rolleyes :
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It is up to around $52 billion up around $11 billion but thinking of inflation and skyrocketing fuel costs not much more than breaking even.
At least on the south shore gas is way up and I expect fuel oil will be up twice last years price.

Not moaning, I know Harvard has to respond to climate issues, for Saturday’s game I bundled up more and was ok.
(n.b. Above figures are not exact, each is +/- a few hundred million)
 
HARVARD BEATS COLGATE, 4-4


That’s what I was poised to post until the eleventh of Harvard’s penalties (which included a game misconduct) bled into OT and Colgate’s PPG.

When’s the last time the excitement of a win against Cornell was dwarfed by the excitement of a loss to Colgate? As the early card of a memorable weekend, the only thing I remember about the Cornell game, besides Dutton’s play, is the two ENGs (how often does that happen?) scored by one player (how often does that happen?). But that was ages ago - - - a ho-hummer against the Big Red.

The Colgate game was electric: numerous 4x4s, a 5x3 shortie, and this fantastic goal by KDR (@ 1 min), where she waits for her rebound to descend from the rafters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pG6ewY9cXw.

Reed is back in form, which means we have two starting goalies, a one-two punch that will allow both some rest if they stay in rotation. At both ends of the ice the vets seem to be upping their game in response to the infusion of serious new talent (we finally have some D!). Harvard was overpowered at the end, but they were never overmatched.



Siri, play something exciting!
 
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thirdtime's wrote: "the two ENGs (how often does that happen?) scored by one player (how often does that happen?)"

After the Cornell game was over I was about to post something snarky about how the Cornell coach had denied Gilmore the chance to score a hat trick of what I was going to call short handed goals, but then I thought better of it. He was right, I now think, to continue with the empty net even after the first ENG, and right to concede after the second ENG. And to call an ENG a shortie because (technically) it happens during a 6-on-5 is, I admit, stretching it.

Besides, nobody should ever achieve again what CJ Young achieved years ago...a pure hat trick...against Dartmouth...in 47 seconds...all three short handed
 
Off-topic quiz question:

While I drift down memory lane (see the above post), the men's football team's experience in the recent Princeton game of seeing three successive apparent scores in overtime get called back due to penalties and time outs, reminded me of one of the happiest posts I ever wrote on this forum:

"Q: What do you do if, in the finals of the ECAC women's hockey tourney, with both the ECAC championship and a perfect 26-0-0 season hanging in the balance, in overtime, your team's apparent game-winning goal is called back?

"A: Pick up the puck in front of your own goal, stickhandle through their entire team, and put the puck in the net."

Anybody recall the reference?
 
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Watson Rink said:
Off-topic quiz question:

While I drift down memory lane (see the above post), the men's football team's experience in the recent Princeton game of seeing three successive apparent scores in overtime get called back due to penalties and time outs, reminded me of one of the happiest posts I ever wrote on this forum:

"Q: What do you do if, in the finals of the ECAC women's hockey tourney, with both the ECAC championship and a perfect 26-0-0 season hanging in the balance, in overtime, your team's apparent game-winning goal is called back?

"A: Pick up the puck in front of your own goal, stickhandle through their entire team, and put the puck in the net."

Anybody recall the reference?
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I’m was prepared to guess the 98-99 season when AJ scored the game winner in OT against UNH. Except she didn’t skate end to end to score the goal. She took a pass from Jennifer Botterill, swung in front and backhanded a shot for the winner.

I think you’re referring to the 2008 ECAC championship at Bright where Katie Vaughan’s point shot goal was disallowed for a stick above the shoulder. A couple of minutes later, Caitlin Cahow skated down the left side from her own end and snapped a wrist shot past the SLU goalie.

Did i get it?
 
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skate79 said:
i’m was prepared to guess the 98-99 season when aj scored the game winner in ot against unh. Except she didn’t skate end to end to score the goal. She took a pass from jennifer botterill, swung in front and backhanded a shot for the winner.

I think you’re referring to the 2008 ecac championship at bright where katie vaughan’s point shot goal was disallowed for a stick above the shoulder. A couple of minutes later, caitlin cahow skated down the left side from her own end and snapped a wrist shot past the slu goalie.

Did i get it?
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absolutely! You got it
 
Always nice to get a win in the North Country...tomorrow will be a bigger test, though

That trip must be exhausting...though a friend who played soccer for Yale said the worst trip was to Cornell because after the bus ride the team had to bed down in sleeping bags on the floor of the Cornell field house

What on earth has happened to Cornell? Maybe twelve consecutive major penalties resulting in 60 minutes of 5-on-4 hockey? Has tonight's 7-0 shellacking by Yale cheapened Harvard's win over the putative #9 seed?
 
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