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Harvard put three more pucks behind freshman goalie Don Fawcett in the next few minutes. The fault lay mostly with the Big Red defenders, who couldn't skate with the speedy Crimson. Falcone easily slipped through the Cornell defense, stacked at the blue line, to set up Connors for the...
For a while, though, even the Big Red faithful seemed ready to concede this year's showdown to the visitors. They were silenced by the very first Crimson rush, as Dave Connors sprinted along the sideboards and set up Phil Falcone in front of the net for the initial tally...
But Harvard goalie Grant Blair made 15 third-period saves, and Dave Connors added an open-net goal (Blair assisted) to give the defending ECAC champion Crimson the victory over the 1981 ECAC champion Huskies.
Northeastern's Ray Manchurek had the talent 10:59 into the final period. Manchurek took a pass from Rod Isbister and snuck the puck past Blair to narrow the gap to one goal. Some vintage Blair acrobatics kept the gap intact until Connors hit the empty net from the red...
No ignorant hopeful pre-freshman was I. Although raised beyond the pale of college hockey. I learned all about the ECAC, the Beanpot, and Harvard vs. B.U. from PBS broadcasts in the mid-'70s (sadly discontinued). Rereading old accounts of Dave Connors's sudden-death heroics confirmed that the game...