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Harvard Crimson 2014-2015: Restoring the Karma

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Skate79 said:
GoCrimson.com, the athletics web site, has been posting updates on the team all week. Apparently they took a private jet to South Bend. Not bad. I'm wondering who forked over the $$$ to make that happen as that is very un Harvard like to spend on such luxuries. Maybe the team is starting work its way back into the University's mindset.
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The NCAA pays all the travel arrangements for the tourney IIRC.

Best of luck today.
 
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alslammerz said:
I think if most teams score three they'll win. I wouldn't expect this to be a 7-6 game in either direction. (cue it being like a 10-8 game)
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I don't think anyone is expecting a high scoring game either but to just assume that three goals will do the job is naive. We can't win 4-3 or 5-4? Or 3-2? He made it sound like it was a done deal and at this point in the season, it's anything but a sure bet. Just ask BU how they felt going into the third period.
 
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TimU said:
OK, now you're representing the entire conference. No pressure. ;)

Just kidding. Good luck. I hope somebody figured out how to bottle that first period from your game against Quinnipiac, and put it on the plane. If Harvard can find (and maintain) that form, nobody is going to beat them. Easier said than done, but why not? Go get 'em.
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We'll try our best. Strange tournament so far. Two tight OT games and two relatively straightforward wins. Polar opposites. I'm thinking our game will be a one or two goal game hopefully in our favor. McNally admitted in today's Boston Herald that his knee isn't 100% but that he is close to being back to full strength. Teddy called him a minutes eater and that's what we were missing during our slump in January and February.
 
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Good luck today.......even tho you guys eliminated us from the tourney :( The whole ECAC is watching!
 
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Skate79 said:
I don't think anyone is expecting a high scoring game either but to just assume that three goals will do the job is naive. We can't win 4-3 or 5-4? Or 3-2? He made it sound like it was a done deal and at this point in the season, it's anything but a sure bet. Just ask BU how they felt going into the third period.
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Yale 2 - Boston University 3
SCSU 3 - Michigan Tech 2
Minnesota 1 - Minnesota-Duluth 4
Quinnipiac 1 - North Dakota 4

Teams yesterday were 4-0 if they scored 3 or more goals. And in the Division III tournament
Trinity 5 - Adrian 3
Wisconsin Stevens-Point 6 - Amherst 2

Which means NCAA teams were 6-1 when scoring 3 or more goals yesterday. I'm not saying three goals WILL win it's just that it's not a crazy or disrespectful statement to say three goals would win for any team.
 
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Skate79 said:
Even private jets? That seems beyond even the NCAA's willingness to fork over $$$. Okay, we'll take it.
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Private jet or charter? Big difference. Charter makes sense because of the size of the travel party and the luggage/equipment requirements.
 
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alslammerz said:
Yale 2 - Boston University 3
SCSU 3 - Michigan Tech 2
Minnesota 1 - Minnesota-Duluth 4
Quinnipiac 1 - North Dakota 4

Teams yesterday were 4-0 if they scored 3 or more goals. And in the Division III tournament
Trinity 5 - Adrian 3
Wisconsin Stevens-Point 6 - Amherst 2

Which means NCAA teams were 6-1 when scoring 3 or more goals yesterday. I'm not saying three goals WILL win it's just that it's not a crazy or disrespectful statement to say three goals would win for any team.
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Point well taken; however, I would never want to definitely say that three goals should ever be enough in any game. You never know how the game will unfold. And yeah I know we won the ECACs by basically averaging three goals a game but I doubt the team went into any of those games saying "hey, if we just score three goals, that should do it" At least not against Quinnipiac or Colgate.
 
MarkEagleUSA said:
Private jet or charter? Big difference. Charter makes sense because of the size of the travel party and the luggage/equipment requirements.
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Charter is a likely bet. Not only for the reasons you state, but also the last minute chances of getting ~30+ people on a commercial flight from possibly small airports (Michigan Tech, for example).

Go get it done today guys.
 
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MarkEagleUSA said:
Private jet or charter? Big difference. Charter makes sense because of the size of the travel party and the luggage/equipment requirements.
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The video on GoCrimson showed the team boarding a private jet and the narration indicated as much. The view from the inside seemed to confirm it.
 
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Skate79 said:
Not going to happen especially if Vesey, McNally and Everson return next year and we stay healthy.
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In all honesty you could lose all 3 and perhaps still finish ahead of us.

Not to mention that you could lose the entire team, restock it from Catholic Memorial and Arlington HS, and still finish ahead of Princeton*.

Now good luck tonight.

* who beat us
 
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Kepler said:
In all honesty you could lose all 3 and perhaps still finish ahead of us.

Not to mention that you could lose the entire team, restock it from Catholic Memorial and Arlington HS, and still finish ahead of Princeton*.

Now good luck tonight.

* who beat us
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There was a time when you could restock from Belmont Hill, Malden Catholic, Catholic Memorial and Thayer Academy and do pretty well against most of the East. In fact in the early eighties, three of the best centers in high school hockey went to MA prep schools (Scott Fusco and Christian Ruutu at Belmont Hill and Bobby Carpenter from St. John's Prep). Harvard recruited all three but only landed Scotty. I still wonder if we would have won in '83 had we had all three.
 
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Skate79 said:
There was a time when you could restock from Belmont Hill, Malden Catholic, Catholic Memorial and Thayer Academy and do pretty well against most of the East. In fact in the early eighties, three of the best centers in high school hockey went to MA prep schools (Scott Fusco and Christian Ruutu at Belmont Hill and Bobby Carpenter from St. John's Prep). Harvard recruited all three but only landed Scotty. I still wonder if we would have won in '83 had we had all three.
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That team was quite good enough with only one, thank you.
 
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Great...watched the whole game on ESPN3 through my Roku yesterday and never needed to buffer,tonight, the last half of the first period has been buffering and re-buffering. Missed Nebraska-Omaha's second goal, the first was the second in two games that Michalek did not know where the puck was.

I was angry that Harvard was sent to South Bend, but it looks like the committee had it right...BC fought against Denver at least, and Providence is having an easy time. Harvard doesn't look ready to play against the big boys. Very poor, strange, lack of effort in the first five minutes against a team that hasn't played in two weeks.

...after two hours....congrats to Nebraska-Omaha a deserved winner who played hard and disciplined hockey.

21 years since the last win in the NCAA tourney, why be surprised, though. A team coached by a coach with an under .500 record over 11 years, and the play of the team reflected it tonight. They are a bunch of guys who usually play hard, but killed themselves tonight with a goalie who let in another bad goal in a playoff game and two undisciplined penalties that killed them. Esposito's was mind-boggling.

It was fun, especially the last two weeks, but they dug themselves a hole with some bad league losses, as it is evident from the seeding that if you finish first or second in the conference, it really doesn't matter how you do in the league tournament. Good year, with some great moments, but under-achievers, as all Harvard hockey teams of recent memory have been.
 
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The late penalties were killers, and really dumb. Vesey still nearly tied it, and Criscuolo's rush was gorgeous. ECAC goes 0-for-3 in 2015. :(
 
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Sometimes the better team doesn't win. That is the beauty of sports. Longer post to come, but the skill of Harvard's forwards are just so fun to watch.
 
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Harvard has a great team there, UNO took advantage of there chances. Harvard out played UNO for long periods, thank you Massa. Fun fast game to watch.
 
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