Word: pucks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have seemed as if Tracy was fighting the puck in the middle stanza, but the netminder disagreed...
Jeff Matthews made a rush up the right side of the net and fired a shot to the left corner of the net. Tracy gloved it with an extended arm and held onto the puck as he fell to the ice, and Harvard was still alive. That save came less than a minute after he had poked away the puck on Jeff O'Connor's breakaway...
Both teams began the game with plenty of intensity, but sloppy offensive play limited the scoring chances early on. Harvard registered 10 first-period shots on goal, but RPI (16-13-4) had the best chance to take the lead when Tim Regan stripped the puck from Harvard defenseman Ashlin Halfnight and broke in alone only to be denied by goaltender Tripp Tracy...
...Crimson entered the second period looking to seize the advantage in this tight-checking game. But it was RPI that got on the board first when a sloppy Harvard breakout allowed Engineer Bryan Richardson to move the puck back to Bryan Tapper at the point. Tapper proceeded to fire a low, hard slapper that found its way through a crowd in front and trickled through Tracy's legs to give the Engineers a 1-0 lead...
...Konik would put the game away for good. Less than a minute later, the junior came in on a 2-on-1 against Owen, and fired the puck between the freshman's legs for a 7-3 Crimson advantage...