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...when the puck drops tonight, Harvard will be looking to settle some scores...
...Raiders turnover handed possession back to Harvard at the Crimson blue line, where assistant captain Ryan Lannon threaded a perfect pass through traffic and squarely onto Du’s stick as he crossed into the Colgate zone. Skating unopposed, the center broke for the net, then nudged the puck across the crease to his forehand and tucked the game-winner inside the right post, ending the fourth-longest contest in the history of the ECAC playoffs four hours and four minutes after it first began at the Pepsi Arena...
Locked in a sloppy defensive struggle a full 40 minutes before Du’s score, Harvard appeared to have notched the clinching goal, courtesy of junior Charlie Johnson. With the Crimson well-established in the Raiders’ zone, freshman Jon Pelle corralled the loose puck in the corner, then slipped in front of the net with a nifty move through the defense. Though Silverthorn rebuffed the freshman’s initial attempt to stuff his shot home, Johnson cleaned up the rebound with a stick-side strike to stake the Crimson to a 2-1 lead with just...
...throughout the evening. Raiders forward Adam Mitchell’s latest offering from the faceoff circle—earlier in the period he had found the crossbar from nearly the same spot and forced several spectacular saves in the subsequent scrum—caught Grumet-Morris awkwardly, sending the puck floating back above his head and into the crease behind him, where it came to a brief and uneasy rest. With most skaters unsure just where the puck was, Colgate rushed the net en masse, knocking into Grumet-Morris as Raiders defenseman Joey Mormina staved off a check...
...this constant pressure, Boe made some of the biggest saves of the game. At one point, Dartmouth’s Cherie Piper—who plays for the Canadian National team and is one of the Big Green’s most dangerous scorers—got the puck at the top of the offensive zone while the three Harvard defenders and one Dartmouth skater were screening Boe’s vision. With a rapid flick of the stick, Piper sent a blazing slapshot at the lower corner of the net. Boe saw it at the last minute and quickly...