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While Danis’s numbers are not quite as gaudy, he is considered the top goaltender in the country and has come up with some of his best performances against the Crimson. He stopped 66 shots in a double overtime defeat in the 2002 ECAC playoffs and turned aside 49 others in a loss at Bright a year...
...Crimson (8-9-2, 6-7-1 ECAC) will resume play after a long exam period break and at the same time revisit college hockey’s oldest rivalry; today’s game is the 140th meeting between the two Ivy rivals...
...with the Bears skating to a 2-0 win at Bright Hockey Center. Since that game, the teams have been on divergent paths—Brown, with Hobey Baker candidate and national goaltending leader Yann Danis, has maintained a national ranking and stands in the top spot in the ECAC while the Crimson has proved pre-season prognosticators foolish and plummeted out of the national rankings. Harvard currently sits in ninth place in league play...
...line, as some have chosen to call it, will be sorely tested by the Bears’ suffocating defense, a defense that begins and ends with Danis. The senior netminder has precipitously improved every season in Providence, and he currently leads the ECAC, and the nation, with a .949 save percentage and is a close second with a 1.57 goals against average. Anchored by Danis, Brown boasts the ECAC’s second best team defense and its top-rated penalty kill—a unit performing at an unheard of 93.9 percent clip...
Therein lies the main difference between this year and last for the Bears. A year ago, Brown advanced to the semi-finals of the ECAC Tournament in Albany, largely on the strength of Danis’s goaltending and a suffocating PK. To that combination, they have added a solid offense and a deadly effective power play...