Harvard/Dartmouth Scrimmage

[Brando]

Anyone watching this tonight? If so (and you are able) please post. Thank you.

[BBpucky]

Dartmouth with a 7-1 "win" over Harvard. Dartmouth looked good despite some miscues, and I think Harvard is going to feel the loss of Ruggiero more than people think.

Hard to tell with the format, first period was 5 on 5 with penalties being called but not served, 2nd was all special teams with H/D taking turns on the pp,pk, 3rd was played straight up. Dartmouth took advantage of the special teams scoring at least 2 pp goals and one short hander. The Harvard forwards looked quick, but their D seemed to have trouble keeping up with the speed of the Dartmouth forwards.

Point of interest for both teams: Harvard looked to be running a new system, looked similar to the torpedo system that Brown has run in the past. Also, Chu was playing defense. For Dartmouth, was suprised to see Apps, Hagge and Piper separated, they have been a line I beleive for the past two years and were always a force when I saw them play in the past. Hagge and Piper are still together, but Apps is on the second line with Weatherston and Walton. May just be the coach is trying new combinations in the beginning of the season.

[Crossbar44]

Four of the Dartmouth goals were in the second “special teams” period on the back up goalie during her short appearance. Boe looked very strong when she was in net. Vallencourt is a lot of fun to watch. She controls the puck like Ruggerio and makes passes like Botts! She needs a little time to adjust to her teammates. The lone Harvard goal was scored by one of last years 3rd liners. It’s going to take a little time for the team to get used to this new system.

[dave1381]

Dartmouth with a 7-1 "win" over Harvard. Dartmouth looked good despite some miscues, and I think Harvard is going to feel the loss of Ruggiero more than people think.

To reiterate what I said in an another thread, Dartmouth creamed Harvard pretty badly in this scrimmage last year too, esp. in the first period when Dartmouth was up 2-0 and should have been up by more. People were going on and on about all the '03 seniors Harvard would be missing, and low and behold Harvard wins ECACs and makes the NCAA final again. So I'm not surprised by this result - this it what you expect when you match up a team stacked with veteran forward talent against a team that's obviously going to have to make a lot of adjustments on D and probably won't be able to do it after less than two weeks of practice. Also, what was the split between the goalies? I would assume that was a factor as well, but maybe not. EDIT: the previous post answers my question to some extent.

[Brando]

Thanks for the updates. Dave's right -- there was some concern on the part of H partisans after last year's D/H scrimmage. Interesting point about the new "system." Anxious to see it in action.

[dave1381]

Also, another thing to keep in mind is that Dartmouth doesn't have enough forwards to field four lines. So Dartmouth was throwing top three lines out there the entire scrimmage, while I would expect Harvard was playing four lines worth of forwards, probably some of which you wouldn't expect to get as much playing time right away.