Word: swenson
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Dates: during 1993-1993
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...most vicious play of the game came after the final buzzer, when a UMD goon almost took the head off freshman Stuart Swenson (a St. Cloud, Minn. native) with a brutal slash. Swenson had finished a hard check before the final buzzer, but was luckily able to escape without an injury...
...that's my neck of the woods, and it's always exciting to get back there," he says with a gleam in his eye. "And even moreso for the Minnesota kids on the team--Kirk Nielsen and Stuart Swenson get a chance to play close to home, and they're pretty excited...
...been excited about these games ever since I got here," says Swenson, a freshman who calls St. Cloud home during the summer months. "It was really a big selling point on choosing Harvard; I knew I could get away and go to a great school, but I'm still getting a chance to play at home...
Both Nielsen and Swenson racked up credentials of the highest order during their high school careers; both were finalists for the "Mr. Hockey" award, Minnesota's answer to Hobey Baker, and Swenson last year led the entire state in scoring...
...well they should. For if you were to take the pulse of American amateur hockey, you'd have to reach out to the state of Minnesota--and as guys like Tomassoni, Swenson, and Nielsen know, it's something the Crimson will have to experience to understand...