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There’s a face-off. The Dartmouth crowd is still standing, still cheering. The crowd hasn’t realized that Harvard has gained control of the puck. It hasn’t noticed that Ashley Banfield has just found Nicole Corriero skating down the left side of the ice. With their team back in the hunt and the game knotted at three, the crowd doesn’t consider that Corriero has already notched two goals earlier that afternoon. And as two Dartmouth defenders move in to break up her drive, the crowd hasn?...
...Dartmouth players realize what’s about to happen. The defenders struggle to pull her down, to knock away her stick, to take away the puck. But they don’t. They can’t. Nicole Corriero is too strong, too determined. She’s in front of Lane now. The defenders won’t let her wind up for a shot. They prevent her from making much of move. But it doesn’t matter. Corriero decided some 13 seconds ago when the game became tied and the Dartmouth crowd came back...
...just trying to get the puck to the net,” Corriero said later. “You just throw it on the net sometimes and things drop in. I was just trying to get on net, get a whistle...
Corriero skated on with the puck on a string. The defenders’ struggle and Lane’s angle took away any chance of a clear shot. But they hadn’t taken away her intent to score. Keeping her full force behind the stick, she propelled the puck forward, wedging against Lane before popping up, hitting off Corriero’s shoulder and bouncing into the net for the game-winning goal...
...said. “Our guys can handle it. We’re not worried about them. We just want to be aware of them and, when they’re on the ice, maybe just play a little more defensively and be a little more careful with the puck...