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Ahead 1-0 and skating 5-on-4 to open the second period, the Warriors wasted little time extending their lead. Merrimack defenseman Jeff Caron, the Warriors’ offensive catalyst on the afternoon with four assists, wristed the puck into traffic, where it nicked off teammate Scott Drewicki’s stick and past Tobe 1:30 after the intermission...
...poke home the equalizer. Captain Noah Welch’s high sticking minor at 18:31 granted the Warriors a brief respite—one they eagerly capitalized on just 10 seconds later. Perched at the right point, defenseman Bryan Schmidt feigned a one-timer, then quickly slipped the puck to the left post, where Mike Fournier greedily awaited its arrival. His tap-in broke Harvard’s momentum and, it appeared, Tobe’s confidence...
Just moments after Healey turned aside a pair of quality efforts from Crimson pivot Kevin Du to start the final period, the Warriors broke from their own zone and sent the puck careening into the left corner at Harvard’s end. There, Brendon Clark fished it out, then shoveled a pass on to Mike Alexiou, who slapped his shot past Tobe to notch a 4-1 lead...
...third period wore on, the sophomore transfer looked increasingly unsettled in net, on one occasion lunging wildly at a puck that cleared the crossbar by two feet. Brent Gough’s unscreened power-play tally from between the circles with 4:54 remaining capped Tobe’s forgettable evening and sealed Harvard’s shocking defeat...
...matinee event featuring the Crimson and the Wildcats (9-5-4, 7-3-2 CCHA) was the precursor to the evening’s rumble between No. 1 Minnesota and Merrimack, and when the puck dropped for the first game, it was all but assumed that the earlier contest’s winner would go on to face the Golden Gophers for the championship...