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Improvement in the forecheck was a major contributor to the Harvard men’s hockey team’s victory Friday night over Clarkson—a team the Crimson hadn’t defeated since...
...think we scored up and down the lineup, and for the first time this year we were able to establish a good, consistent, solid forecheck,” said Harvard Coach Ted Donato...
...main focus of this week was on our forecheck,” senior forward Nick Coskren said. “Our two games at Union and RPI we weren’t getting much offense going 5-on-5. We had the puck and we were dumping it in and they were breaking it out too easily...
...win—four different players scored the five goals. Senior forward Nick Coskren scored twice while sophomore forwards Michael Del Mauro, Matt McCollem, and Joe Smith each found the back of the net once. Del Mauro tallied the first goal at 9:46 into the game after Smith forechecked a Clarkson defender and poked away the puck to a waiting Del Mauro. The sophomore forward rifled the shot past the goalkeeper from the left circle. Minutes later, the Crimson scored again. Coskren stuffed the puck into the net just five seconds into a Harvard power play...
...line.“We felt that we weren’t really able to get in a good rhythm, because we were short-handed so much,” Donato said. “I just told them to stay with it and really try to establish our forecheck and use our speed off the rush. I think we were able to do that in the third period [Pier-Olivier] Michaud’s line came out and had about a minute and a half, and I think that was really the catalyst for us to establish a good...