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Harvard Crimson 2014-15

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papulaisle said:
papulaisle said:
Typical-Pap, replies to himself.
Argh.

'Lacrosse Hall' is of 'Fame' and is sited at Homewood Field in Baltimore on the campus of Johns Hopkins University; for Bampy (Frank Gottlob Breyer) from Hopkins and for Uncle Fennie (Henry Fenimore Baker,Jr) Swarthmore.
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Not too shabby, Johnnies, not too shabby.
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P.S. I'll get a Dartmouth byline here soon, Skate. Too where is ... cant think and ... name and many more pals ? May b u H. )"Johnnies") pals ar ee not enough fun to b join in in now thinking . . . but u and I we form n a group and b stylin abt sat night masacree say and all good stuff and
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Big win for the girls tonight over Quinny. They were outplayed for most of the game but stayed with it and dominated OT leading to Sarah Edney's winner. Incredibly, the officials actually reviewed the goal and it looked for a moment like they were going to disallow it (for what, I have no idea). But it was just confirmed so we're on to NJ. In first place with the tiebreaker against the Bobcats.
 
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Good play-by-play, but there really ought to be a thread dedicated to color "commentary."

"You can definitely tell that Harvard came in to this game looking to go home with a win."
"The key (Q) players . . . will be key."
"(Q) has a chance to go home with a win, or stay home since they are home."


Weed, anyone?


(I've given up on the "How many minutes does it take to learn how to pronounce the opponent's players' names?" thread. The Irish girl, O'Dench, was back on the ice, and two other players wore Reber's #12 for a shift or two. In fact, I think Reber, Reyebar and Rayber were all on the ice at the same time!)
 
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Although the video admittedly was exceptionally crisp and clear in comparison to ivyleaguedigitalnetwork.com camera work, the audio was, unfortunately, as described above.

But why are people talking about a QU goal? I saw no QU goals! (Or a lot of other action....the video kept freezing up and then they would pick up seconds or minutes later....sort of like Rosemary Woods' erasing 18 minutes of the Watergate tapes....or the time we saw Dead Poets' Society in a movie theater that ran the final reel BEFORE the penultimate reel and made it the happiest darn movie you ever saw....a character you thought had died was smiling on-screen at the end as Robin Williams' character, who you thought had been sacked, was hoisted off into the sunset on the shoulders of a jubilant soccer team.)
 
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I think the announcers also reported that the refs sent BOTH linesmen to the H locker room, and none to the QU locker room, while the video replay was going on.
Does that imply that they thought only the visitors would be getting into the showers after the game?

Looks like there was a serious video replay snafu at last night's Minnesota-TOSU game; do we think that's how the H-QU replay ended as well, not with a decision but with a whimper?

Quote Originally Posted by CrazyDave:
"But they spent a lot of time looking at the two Kuehl goals and then stuck with the original calls on both."
ARM added:
"Don't blame the refs. It takes a long time for them to get a replay to look at. On the final goal, they never did, because the system upstairs was rebooting after the power cord had fallen out. Sad really. If this game is shown on BTN, I'll be interested to see if there is a replay showing whether a Buckeye was in the crease."
 
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driventoit said:
Good play-by-play, but there really ought to be a thread dedicated to color "commentary."

"You can definitely tell that Harvard came in to this game looking to go home with a win."
"The key (Q) players . . . will be key."
"(Q) has a chance to go home with a win, or stay home since they are home."


Weed, anyone?
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Did Connecticut pass the marijuana law similar to Colorado? Maybe that would explain the TV 'commentary' from last night.

I think I know what happened with the goal review. They were trying to determine if the puck went off Syd Daniels skate and give her credit for the goal instead of Edney. The QU announcers were all in a tizzy thinking the goal would be disallowed which would have created a firestorm from Harvard. In reality, they were confirming that Daniels was the goal scorer. Sanity reigns.
 
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papulaisle said:
Too, many times I drive from Hanover when NOT coed to NOT score honeys at SLU :confused::mad:
Dartmouth the leader of old as to winter doings/fun/beer; & this year we see them reclaiming their rightful legacies!
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Why not just drive north to Burlington and check out the action at UVM? Gotta be some coeds there who would take a shine to a Dartmouth grad right?? :)

Pap, you've got to lay off the hard stuff. Dartmouth is coming down hard on the students for excessive drinking and of course, I won't mention the latest cheating scandal to hit the school? Your president has some work to do my friend.
 
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Will they keep the women's Beanpot on Tuesday, or move it to Wednesday so as not to conflict with the now postponed men's Beanpot?
 
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HU 9 BU 2

Two down, four to go. (It helps if you think of BC as just another top ten team.)
 
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That was some beatdown at Bright-Landry last night. It just reinforces what I posted in November. You can't take early season results and translate them into some overarching statement on the quality of any one team. Okay, maybe in the case of Union and Brown but every team shows some improvement over the course of the season, even if it is small. In Harvard's case, the improvement has been significant. And yeah, when your fourth line outscores the other team, it is pretty embarrassing.

Wait, Katey Stone rolled a fourth line?? Inconceivable!! (Sorry, I'm reading Cary Elwes book on the making of "The Princess Bride". A great read by the way). BU may have come into this game remembering that November encounter. Harvard sure did and made quick work of the Terriers.

Next Tuesday's game should be fun. And I expect the result to be a whole lot different from November.
 
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Wait, Katey Stone rolled a fourth line?? Inconceivable!!
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You have to be glad for last night's official #1 star, Jessica Harvey (2 goals and 1 assist) and her linemates, Dani Krzyszczyk (1 goal, 1 assist) and Haley Mullins (2 assists). Last year, Harvey scored a goal against BU as a third liner; with the return of Fry and Armstrong, she is no longer a third liner, but Katey still did give Harvey, Krzyszczyk and Mullins ice time last night as a fourth line and it sure paid off.

Not to overanalyze anything, but at every line change in the third period one could suggest all sorts of motivations: "here comes the fourth line, she's rewarding them," "she's using four lines so as not to be accused of running up the score," (after one player on a different line shot high on a breakaway, a fan yelled out "mercy miss!" recalling one of the ways that youth hockey coaches instruct their teams not to run up the score), "but it's the fourth line that is running up the score," "she's using the first line again, they really want to get to the same 10 goals against BU that BC laid on them," "I hope that doing so well against BU isn't just going to be motivation fodder for BC to hang another 10 spot on us" and so forth.

The "mercy miss" concept reminds me of the women's basketball coach at Bentley (where a friend teaches). En route to an undefeated D II national championship season, whenever the team would approach 100 points the coach would put in the last 5 players on her bench, and on one occasion they made 100 on a three-ball by, literally, the last player on the bench (who decided to eschew a mercy miss). It probably was the kid's individual career highlight.
 
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Watson Rink said:
You have to be glad for last night's official #1 star, Jessica Harvey (2 goals and 1 assist) and her linemates, Dani Krzyszczyk (1 goal, 1 assist) and Haley Mullins (2 assists). Last year, Harvey scored a goal against BU as a third liner; with the return of Fry and Armstrong, she is no longer a third liner, but Katey still did give Harvey, Krzyszczyk and Mullins ice time last night as a fourth line and it sure paid off.
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Dani, Haley and Jessica could probably skate as a second line combo for most teams. We've never had this kind of depth which is why I'm glad that Coach Stone is letting them play. She's doing the same for the D rotating in Rachlin for Frazier or White for someone else. It's imperative so that the kids feel like they are really part of the program.

Not to overanalyze anything, but at every line change in the third period one could suggest all sorts of motivations: "here comes the fourth line, she's rewarding them," "she's using four lines so as not to be accused of running up the score," (after one player on a different line shot high on a breakaway, a fan yelled out "mercy miss!" recalling one of the ways that youth hockey coaches instruct their teams not to run up the score), "but it's the fourth line that is running up the score," "she's using the first line again, they really want to get to the same 10 goals against BU that BC laid on them," "I hope that doing so well against BU isn't just going to be motivation fodder for BC to hang another 10 spot on us" and so forth.
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We owe BC a big one for that November fiasco. I'm sure Katey will remind them of that after next weekend's games. My only fear at this point is that we look past Yale or Brown. We need to focus on getting points in our conference first, then take care of business next Tuesday. How sweet it would be to give BC their first loss of the season.
 
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My only fear at this point is that we look past Yale or Brown. We need to focus on getting points in our conference first, then take care of business next Tuesday. How sweet it would be to give BC their first loss of the season.
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Yes, the significance of the individual games in the upcoming schedule is weird this year in light of Harvard's Jekyll/Hyde performance so far. I'm going to copy the gist of this post onto one of the national rankings threads, for our more statistically adept brethren and sistern to ponder. The anomalies are that (1) H has been performing very well against TUC but has been bleeding losses to non-TUC teams and (2) H finds itself in the midst of a four-way or six-way dogfight in the ECAC standings while topping all its ECAC rivals in all the various national rankings (objective and subjective) comfortably in the case of QU and very comfortably in the case of all the other teams that are just a point or two behind them in the ECAC standings. And if H were to defeat (or even go to two OTs with) BC while dropping one against Yale or Brown, that would further strengthen its position nationally (at least in the polls) while further eroding its ECAC standing. Look for a version of this post in one of the national rankings threads.
 
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Then I invoke Title IX! We can't let the men go into double OT with BU (making BC and NU freeze their bippies off while waiting) but not the women! (LOL)

My memories of the legendary triple OT against BC are doubly unforgettable: first because of the painful result and second because the gate at the Conte Forum parking lot was temporarily stuck shut at one in the morning!
 
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I think the Beanpot games these days are capped at 5 minutes of OT like every other regular-season game.
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I think (but am not 100% sure) that this is only true for the semifinals and consolation game. IIRC, the championship game can go all night long.
 
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You're right. The 2012 championship game went beyond five minutes.
 
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