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Saturday's game was the best I've seen Alex play ever. He kept it simple, squared up to shooters quickly, stayed poised when there was traffic in front of him (which happened a lot), and gave up almost no rebounds. Didn't hurt that this was the best team defense I've seen from the team in about 2 seasons too. It really was an incredible 60-minute performance and one I didn't really think the team had in them. This was the real "Union Hockey" I was used to seeing in the Leaman/early Bennett days - filling passing lanes, knocking pucks off of sticks, winning puck battles, and basically not letting the opponent play the type of game they wanted. As the game went on, Harvard was reduced to dumping the puck in the zone, chipping it into the slot and trying to bang away at it to get past all the Union defenders. It definitely played to Union's advantage and I thought in the end U's first line was just a little better than Harvard's and that was the difference. Also very proud of the "worker bees" and how well players like Walker, Dufour, ZachE & Burton played. Everyone stuck to the gameplan and Harvard amazingly didn't seem to have an answer. How much of that was Harvard being in a funk from the night before is hard to tell and who knows what will happen in the next meeting, but this is most optimistic I've been about the team in the last 2 seasons. If they play like that when needed, they can beat anyone.
