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Every team has its share of injuries, but at times it seemed the Crimson had theirs, and then some. Defensemen Melissa Milbert and Colleen Malek missed most of the season with knee problems, cutting the Harvard blue line nearly in half. Several key players also succumbed to sporadic ailments of varied nature throughout the season...
...most noticeable effect of the battered blue line was surprisingly not seen on the defensive end of the ice. Anchored by co-captain Holly Leitzes, the Harvard defensive core (that is to say three defensemen) battled admirably, but at the expense of the offensive punch of the team...
...covered my last game last week against Clarkson. During the third period, I thought of the things that I would never witness again--a crowd of students shouting "Sieve!" while pointing at the opposing goalie, or the Harvard Band playing the James Bond theme between periods or defensemen Peter McLaughlin checking a hapless opposing forward into the wall...
...other end of the rink was a different story. The Harvard defensemen allowed far too many two-on-one situations, one of which turned into a goal. At the 7:25 mark, St. Lawrence's Julie Barnett took a slapshot at Bowdoin, which bounced off her chest and fell between her legs...
Harvard entered the game with an already thin defensive corps decimated by injuries. The Crimson, who began the season with just five defensemen lost junior Colleen Malek and freshmen Melissa Milbert earlier in the year and saw star forward/defensemen A.J. Mleczko go down with a shoulder injury in last week's Dartmouth game. These injuries left the Crimson with just one defensive substitute...