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...raced forward, extending his stick to control the puck as the remaining defenders attempted to converge on him. But Du staggered through the collapsing lane, recovering his balance with just netminder Kris Mayotte to beat. Feigning a shot from the top of the goalmouth, Du forced Mayotte to his knees, allowing Du to keep the puck a second longer before flipping it over the goaltender’s right shoulder to knot the game at one apiece...
Crimson captain Kenny Smith, one night removed from being held out of the lineup by Harvard coach Mark Mazzoleni, snagged a loose puck off a faceoff and nimbly maneuvered his way through two defenders to open ice a hair inside the blue line. Skating right and with traffic to help obscure Mayotte’s view, Smith fired a shot back across his body and into the top left corner of the net, giving the Crimson a 2-1 lead at 11:54 in the first...
...puck came back to me, and the guys held up their men well,” Smith said. “And I just was able to get to the middle of the ice and skate one way and try to put it the other way on the goalie. I don’t think it was too hard of a shot but I think it caught him off guard going against the grain there...
...knocking at the door once again, as junior forward Brendan Bernakevitch sent a pass across ice to senior linemate Dennis Packard, who streaked towards the net. Packard tried the same fake Du had made use of on the Crimson’s first tally, but failed to control the puck in time to snap his backhand. But Packard swooped behind net with no defender to apply pressure, settling the puck before deftly tucking the puck inside the left post before Mayotte could recover his footing...
...thought if there was puck possession it would have been about 70 percent to 30 percent,” Mazzoleni said. “I give a lot of credit to [Marsters]. We couldn’t dent...