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Harvard Crimson 2012-2013

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Thanks for the note re: Fick, Brendan.

FYI: Live video is available here tonight for $5.95. (You also get a 24-hour pass to the archives; I'd love to see the last few minutes of Colgate-Dartmouth.)
 
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Kepler said:
:rolleyes:

Congratulations to Harvard coming into our barn and playing a good game.

Hope to return the favor at Bright. We'll be sure to bring our "pylons."
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Please bring them. They were very effective last night and hopefully, they will be equally effective at Bright!
 
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Kepler said:
Glad to see the unusual experience of people watching them play didn't knock Harvard off its game.[/QUOTE

Given how Harvard has performed at Lynah of late, maybe we should start calling Lynah, Bright West? :eek:
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Since Cornell has been the benchmark in the leagie for the last decade (kudos to them), a couple other thoughts:

1) The speed difference between Harvard & Cornell is about as wide as it has been in a long, long time. Everytime a Cornell cycle came unbound, you got the feeling that a Harvard 2:1 or a quality chance going the other way was imminent.

2) Harvard's freshman seem to be on a different level than Cornell (and Brian Hart didn't play last night). A part of that may because they have been given more opportunities to contribute, but I'd take Vesey, Hart, and Criscuolo before any Cornell freshman if you use last night's body of work as a barometer. This bodes very well for the future. Also, Cornell has lost two high caliber recruits for next year (DeJong out of the BCHL (Michigan) and McCarron on the USNDT (Academics)). On paper, Harvard's class of 2013 is leaps and bounds ahead of Cornell's and 2014 is a ways out, but the same looks to be true.

3) I thought both teams were sloppy defensively. Now, I expect more sloppiness from Harvard b/c they tend to jump into the play a bit more than Cornell. But I was absolutely shocked at Cornell's giveaways and poor coverage in their defensive zone. You never see this out of Cornell and while Cornell dominated from a possesion and territorial perspective, Harvard had many more quality chances than Cornell. Think about the Fallstrom empty netter, the McNally post, etc. This game could have been 6-1 Harvard.

4) I have always thought the key to beating Cornell, is having skilled freshman who can skate and pass the puck out of the zone so that the forwards can come into the Cornell zone with speed. When I look to the future (Newell, Plante, and Fortunato), many of defenseman that Harvard is bringing in are of this type.

5) Be very interesting to see how Cornell responds against a Dartmouth team who will be amped after blowing a 4-1 lead in the 3rd period at Colgate. Similarly, both Colgate and Harvard are coming off of big highs, and it will be interesting to see how they respond after coming down from such big wins.
 
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Kepler said:
Glad to see the unusual experience of people watching them play didn't knock Harvard off its game.
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Yeah it is something of a miracle that we can actually watch a game and then post on a blog about it. Makes me so proud to be an Ivy grad.
 
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Casey said:
Thanks for the note re: Fick, Brendan.

FYI: Live video is available here tonight for $5.95. (You also get a 24-hour pass to the archives; I'd love to see the last few minutes of Colgate-Dartmouth.)
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Colgate's website says that there are technical issues, and there will NOT be streaming video tonight.

Colgate's radio broadcast is online though- here
 
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bothman said:
On to Colgate and hope this isn't a trap game after a gutty performance against an arch rival.
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alslammerz said:
Kinda expecting a letdown vs. Colgate
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Whelp. 0-1 final.

Still, not letting it bother me. Enjoying the wins over the rivals. Long stretch of time off. Next game is 12/7 at Merrimack. Home games to end 2012 against UMass-Lowell and Beanpot rival Northeastern. Then 7 straight on the road, 6 of which are league games. How that stretch goes could determine the season. Need to get at least 3 wins from that, stay at .500 until we start getting home games and our usual post-Beanpot surge. 7 of our last 10 league games at home.
 
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Steve Michalek has arrived in Cedar Rapids and will join the USHL Cedar Rapids Roughriders!

Edit: I was just told by a sports journalist from here that Michalek is in Cedar Rapids for this year only and will be returning to Harvard next year.
 
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herbst20 said:
Steve Michalek has arrived in Cedar Rapids and will join the USHL Cedar Rapids Roughriders!

Edit: I was just told by a sports journalist from here that Michalek is in Cedar Rapids for this year only and will be returning to Harvard next year.
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Good news that he will be returning next year then. Hope he gets some games in Cedar Rapids.

FWIW, he's still on the Harvard roster as of 5:30 on 11/27 (aka today).
 
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herbst20 said:
That maybe true but he is physically in Iowa!
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He's also still enrolled in school... Wonder if the school will let him take his finals out in Iowa. Would be a shame to put all that effort in to just leave in the last couple weeks. Not to mention the tuition... :eek:
 
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crimzone said:
He's also still enrolled in school... Wonder if the school will let him take his finals out in Iowa. Would be a shame to put all that effort in to just leave in the last couple weeks. Not to mention the tuition... :eek:
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Have to imagine he's going to withdraw from the semester (aka receive no credit for it) sooner rather than later. Here's why:

1. Ivy schools don't allow you to take graduate classes in order to use remaining eligibility for athletics. Thus why 5th year Harvard football players take a spring semester off and why basketball's Andrew Van Nest enrolled at BC as a graduate student so he can use the remaining year of his eligibility there after graduating Harvard.

2. If Michalek completed this semester, he would have 5 semesters left to graduate at Harvard and 6 semesters of eligibility left for hockey - meaning he'd either have to not play that last semester or (unlikely) transfer somewhere else to play that final semester; neither a good fit for a two-semester sport like hockey. Admittedly, I guess he could try to stretch 5 semesters of credits into 6 semesters of class time, ie taking only 3 (min. # to be a full time student at Harvard, iirc) instead of 4 classes a semester, and then using the 6th semester to take those classes but I only know that the math works and don't know if that meets NCAA rules about minimum credits per semester or if it would meet Harvard's rules. Also this assumes that dressing in the early games this season but not playing didn't burn a semester of eligibility.

Also there's this:
“I didn’t leave because I wasn’t playing,” Michalek said. “I wasn’t playing because I was leaving. There are just a few different reasons that I’m taking the year off.
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So clearly he's been preparing to leave for the semester for some time now. Wouldn't want to speculate why he's taking the whole year off so I'll just wish him the best, hope he has a good season in Iowa, and can come back next year ready to compete for that #1 spot.
 
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OneTimer said:
A great success story for Harvard -

Meet the Guv'nor: Mark Carney, the hockey-playing Goldman Sachs banker who is the new boss of the Bank of England


http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle...-new-boss-of-the-bank-of-england-8360190.html
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Between having the head of the Bank of England and the Governor General of Canada, Harvard hockey is slowly taking control of the Commonwealth. Clearly once there is a next generation of royals, they have to be taught to skate and sent to Cambridge for the rest of their training :D.
 
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bothman said:
Michalek gives up 6 goals on 27 shots in his first game for Cedar Rapids:

http://www.pointstreak.com/prostats/boxscore.html?gameid=1977998
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Do not let this fool you, 4 of the 6 goals were on breakaways or odd man rushes. Michalek was rusty there is no doubt as he gave up some big rebounds, but he was hung out to dry on Several occasions. If it were not for his ability Chicago would have put up 10 last night.

My observation of Steve from last night is this: He is very quick and agile for a 6'2 200 lb kid. He goes from his knees to skates very quickly and tracks the puck well. My main concern about him is how quickly he goes to his knees before the shot is released. When he goes down, he brings his glove with him. I can forsee him getting beat High Glove side on some goals this year...Twice last night. He will help CR out this year on and off the ice. He will get the majority of starts in the pipes and mentor our 16 year old back up.
 
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herbst20 said:
Do not let this fool you, 4 of the 6 goals were on breakaways or odd man rushes. Michalek was rusty there is no doubt as he gave up some big rebounds, but he was hung out to dry on Several occasions. If it were not for his ability Chicago would have put up 10 last night.

My observation of Steve from last night is this: He is very quick and agile for a 6'2 200 lb kid. He goes from his knees to skates very quickly and tracks the puck well. My main concern about him is how quickly he goes to his knees before the shot is released. When he goes down, he brings his glove with him. I can forsee him getting beat High Glove side on some goals this year...Twice last night. He will help CR out this year on and off the ice. He will get the majority of starts in the pipes and mentor our 16 year old back up.
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My constructive criticism/what I'd love to see him work on in CR after seeing him for the better part of a year: he gives up big rebounds and gets beat high glove when he goes down too quick. But especially the rebounds. He just can't control them...his legs move so fast that he's kicking them out like a free kick in soccer.

I'd also love to see him work on moving the puck a little more while in CR. I think that was the biggest difference Girard brought to last season. Teams couldn't dump it in and forecheck Harvard forever like in seasons past (or when Michalek was in net) because Girard got the puck to the D quickly, or sometimes cleared it himself. It also meant teams needed to adjust where they dumped it in, putting it in better spots for the D to get to. I don't need Michalek to be Girard-esque, but a little more comfortable ranging away from his net to play the puck would go a long way.

Tough first night in net but I'm sure it will get better.
 
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Hey guys, I thought we were supposed to play Merrimack tonight. Says so on the schedule magnet. What's up? Game get rescheduled?
 
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