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After pressing Northeastern in the first five minutes, the Crimson cooled off until 16:50, when third-liner Harry Reynolds gave Harvard a 1-0 lead. Picking a deflected slapshot up off the boards, Reynolds drilled the puck past Huskie goal-tender Dan Eberly, with assists going to Bob Havern and Mark Noonan...
Harvard had jumped to an early lead with a goal by Billy Corkery at 6:09. Taking a good centering pass from Dave Hynes, Corkery drilled a 20 foot slapshot past U.N.H. goalie Bob Smith. Bob Goodenow made it 2-0 at 12:13, slipping a backhander through after taking a feed from Larry Desmond, but New Hampshire was clearly overdue for a goal...
...Crimson upped the score to 4-0 by the end of the period. Bob McManama stickhandled through Army for an unassisted goal at 14:28, and with 18 seconds left in the period, Bob Havern rammed in the rebound of a Leif Rosenberger slapshot...
Playing the angles in the net, Durno worries most about the unexpected. "Backhand shots are the most trouble. The forward never knows where it's going and neither do I. If you can't stop a slapshot, you don't belong on the ice. When they wind up to the rafters for the shot, you can't act surprised by the direction...
...Durno was surprised by one Princeton slapshot goal. "The guy fanned on the shot. It was moving so slowly, I grabbed for the puck and brought my hand down before the puck reached the crease...