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...weekend’s Harvard game, the ECAC opener. It was scheduled for the Hartford Civic Center, former home of the NHL’s Whalers. The 5,049-person crowd was the largest of any athletic event in Quinnipiac’s history, and dropping the ceremonial first puck was legend Gordie Howe, honorary chairman of the school’s Hudson United Bank Center campaign for new hockey and basketball arenas. “I think a lot of people in the Quinnipiac community would have been happy with us having a close game,” coach...
...percentage was 17th-best in the country. Not quite comparable to the two top teams four years ago.But for just a moment, let’s step back. By placing the onus on the goalie, the implication is that scoring will be down as teams struggle to put the puck in the net.But the top team in the country right now, St. Lawrence, did not lose any offensive power to the Olympics and had little trouble finding the net during an excellent campaign last year. Or what about Harvard’s own Corriero, who was never named...
Brine, who described herself as a “heads-up, hard-on-the-puck kind of player,” is known for her ability to see the ice well and set up plays for her teammates...
There are five seconds left. Princeton is on the power play, down by one, and has earned a faceoff in the Harvard zone. Senior Jennifer Raimondi speaks up on the bench. She wants to take the draw. The puck is dropped, and Raimondi wins it cleanly. The final seconds tick off the clock, and the Crimson seal an important early-season conference win. “I had the confidence going in to say, ‘Okay, I want that puck to be dropped to me,’” Raimondi said. “That?...
...When the puck dropped for the Harvard women’s hockey team in its ECAC opener Friday night, the Crimson knew it would have to rely on its returning veterans as well as this year’s recruiting class in order to repeat as conference champions. Harvard turned to that blend of youth and experience in beating Quinnipiac 5-3 at Bright Hockey Center—a victory highlighted by the work of freshman Sarah Wilson and senior Jennifer Raimondi. The duo combined for six points including four Raimondi assists—half of which came on Wilson?...