Re: Harvard Crimson 2016-2017
For two periods tonight, we were unstoppable. At one point in the first period, the shots were 17-1. That's not a typo. We were so dominant that I thought SLU was going to wave the white flag and get an early start home to Canton. Hayton was under siege and really couldn't be faulted on Krushko or Kerfoot's goals. Horton, maybe. Poor kid was pulled after Ryan Donato made it 4-0 on a turnaround backhand shot on the PP after two Crimson forwards had whacks at the puck in front. SLU's D was nowhere to be seen for the first two periods.
Then came the third and almost a complete meltdown. You could see from the start of the period that the team had checked out mentally and physically. Madsen fell asleep on the last two SLU goals and had it not been for a late SLU penalty for too many men, well, I started having visions of the BU collapse last year. Sometimes I think Harvard gets bored with a big lead. It didn't happen last week against Brown but against a good team like the Saints, the Crimson simply can't play this way. Good news is that Teddy now has some ammo to use during the break to get the team refocused.
The game was chippy and at times physical. Sweetam from SLU absolutely cold cocked Victor Dumbrovsky with an elbow to the head - how he wasn't thrown out of the game was beyond me (a two minute penalty - what a joke). And at the end of the game, Ryan Donato got into it with an SLU player and got tossed for a five minute major with 8 seconds left. I don't think it will cost him a game as he wasn't asked to leave the bench but he has got to learn to keep his cool. Teams are targeting him and I think they know they can get under his skin.
Senior Night was great with the families honoring the players. As the ceremony finished up, word came down from Ithaca that Union and Cornell had tied so we had an additional celebration with the Cleary Cup. Great way to end what almost turned out to be a disaster of a finish.
Let the playoffs begin.
For two periods tonight, we were unstoppable. At one point in the first period, the shots were 17-1. That's not a typo. We were so dominant that I thought SLU was going to wave the white flag and get an early start home to Canton. Hayton was under siege and really couldn't be faulted on Krushko or Kerfoot's goals. Horton, maybe. Poor kid was pulled after Ryan Donato made it 4-0 on a turnaround backhand shot on the PP after two Crimson forwards had whacks at the puck in front. SLU's D was nowhere to be seen for the first two periods.
Then came the third and almost a complete meltdown. You could see from the start of the period that the team had checked out mentally and physically. Madsen fell asleep on the last two SLU goals and had it not been for a late SLU penalty for too many men, well, I started having visions of the BU collapse last year. Sometimes I think Harvard gets bored with a big lead. It didn't happen last week against Brown but against a good team like the Saints, the Crimson simply can't play this way. Good news is that Teddy now has some ammo to use during the break to get the team refocused.
The game was chippy and at times physical. Sweetam from SLU absolutely cold cocked Victor Dumbrovsky with an elbow to the head - how he wasn't thrown out of the game was beyond me (a two minute penalty - what a joke). And at the end of the game, Ryan Donato got into it with an SLU player and got tossed for a five minute major with 8 seconds left. I don't think it will cost him a game as he wasn't asked to leave the bench but he has got to learn to keep his cool. Teams are targeting him and I think they know they can get under his skin.
Senior Night was great with the families honoring the players. As the ceremony finished up, word came down from Ithaca that Union and Cornell had tied so we had an additional celebration with the Cleary Cup. Great way to end what almost turned out to be a disaster of a finish.
Let the playoffs begin.
