Harvard Crimson 2014-2015: Restoring the Karma

[MarkEagleUSA]

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GoCrimson.com, the athletics web site, has been posting updates on the team all week. Apparently they took a private jet to South Bend. Not bad. I'm wondering who forked over the $$$ to make that happen as that is very un Harvard like to spend on such luxuries. Maybe the team is starting work its way back into the University's mindset.

The NCAA pays all the travel arrangements for the tourney IIRC.

Best of luck today.

[Skate79]

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I think if most teams score three they'll win. I wouldn't expect this to be a 7-6 game in either direction. (cue it being like a 10-8 game)

I don't think anyone is expecting a high scoring game either but to just assume that three goals will do the job is naive. We can't win 4-3 or 5-4? Or 3-2? He made it sound like it was a done deal and at this point in the season, it's anything but a sure bet. Just ask BU how they felt going into the third period.

[Skate79]

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OK, now you're representing the entire conference. No pressure.

Just kidding. Good luck. I hope somebody figured out how to bottle that first period from your game against Quinnipiac, and put it on the plane. If Harvard can find (and maintain) that form, nobody is going to beat them. Easier said than done, but why not? Go get 'em.

We'll try our best. Strange tournament so far. Two tight OT games and two relatively straightforward wins. Polar opposites. I'm thinking our game will be a one or two goal game hopefully in our favor. McNally admitted in today's Boston Herald that his knee isn't 100% but that he is close to being back to full strength. Teddy called him a minutes eater and that's what we were missing during our slump in January and February.

[ColSkate65]

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Good luck today.......even tho you guys eliminated us from the tourney The whole ECAC is watching!

[Skate79]

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The NCAA pays all the travel arrangements for the tourney IIRC.

Best of luck today.

Even private jets? That seems beyond even the NCAA's willingness to fork over $$$. Okay, we'll take it.

[alslammerz]

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I don't think anyone is expecting a high scoring game either but to just assume that three goals will do the job is naive. We can't win 4-3 or 5-4? Or 3-2? He made it sound like it was a done deal and at this point in the season, it's anything but a sure bet. Just ask BU how they felt going into the third period.

Yale 2 - Boston University 3
SCSU 3 - Michigan Tech 2
Minnesota 1 - Minnesota-Duluth 4
Quinnipiac 1 - North Dakota 4

Teams yesterday were 4-0 if they scored 3 or more goals. And in the Division III tournament
Trinity 5 - Adrian 3
Wisconsin Stevens-Point 6 - Amherst 2

Which means NCAA teams were 6-1 when scoring 3 or more goals yesterday. I'm not saying three goals WILL win it's just that it's not a crazy or disrespectful statement to say three goals would win for any team.

[mookie1995]

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win

[MarkEagleUSA]

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Even private jets? That seems beyond even the NCAA's willingness to fork over $$$. Okay, we'll take it.

Private jet or charter? Big difference. Charter makes sense because of the size of the travel party and the luggage/equipment requirements.

[Skate79]

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Yale 2 - Boston University 3
SCSU 3 - Michigan Tech 2
Minnesota 1 - Minnesota-Duluth 4
Quinnipiac 1 - North Dakota 4

Teams yesterday were 4-0 if they scored 3 or more goals. And in the Division III tournament
Trinity 5 - Adrian 3
Wisconsin Stevens-Point 6 - Amherst 2

Which means NCAA teams were 6-1 when scoring 3 or more goals yesterday. I'm not saying three goals WILL win it's just that it's not a crazy or disrespectful statement to say three goals would win for any team.

Point well taken; however, I would never want to definitely say that three goals should ever be enough in any game. You never know how the game will unfold. And yeah I know we won the ECACs by basically averaging three goals a game but I doubt the team went into any of those games saying "hey, if we just score three goals, that should do it" At least not against Quinnipiac or Colgate.

[hockeyplayer1015]

Private jet or charter? Big difference. Charter makes sense because of the size of the travel party and the luggage/equipment requirements.

Charter is a likely bet. Not only for the reasons you state, but also the last minute chances of getting ~30+ people on a commercial flight from possibly small airports (Michigan Tech, for example).

Go get it done today guys.

[Skate79]

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Private jet or charter? Big difference. Charter makes sense because of the size of the travel party and the luggage/equipment requirements.

The video on GoCrimson showed the team boarding a private jet and the narration indicated as much. The view from the inside seemed to confirm it.

[Kepler]

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Not going to happen especially if Vesey, McNally and Everson return next year and we stay healthy.

In all honesty you could lose all 3 and perhaps still finish ahead of us.

Not to mention that you could lose the entire team, restock it from Catholic Memorial and Arlington HS, and still finish ahead of Princeton*.

Now good luck tonight.

* who beat us

[Skate79]

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In all honesty you could lose all 3 and perhaps still finish ahead of us.

Not to mention that you could lose the entire team, restock it from Catholic Memorial and Arlington HS, and still finish ahead of Princeton*.

Now good luck tonight.

* who beat us

There was a time when you could restock from Belmont Hill, Malden Catholic, Catholic Memorial and Thayer Academy and do pretty well against most of the East. In fact in the early eighties, three of the best centers in high school hockey went to MA prep schools (Scott Fusco and Christian Ruutu at Belmont Hill and Bobby Carpenter from St. John's Prep). Harvard recruited all three but only landed Scotty. I still wonder if we would have won in '83 had we had all three.

[Kepler]

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There was a time when you could restock from Belmont Hill, Malden Catholic, Catholic Memorial and Thayer Academy and do pretty well against most of the East. In fact in the early eighties, three of the best centers in high school hockey went to MA prep schools (Scott Fusco and Christian Ruutu at Belmont Hill and Bobby Carpenter from St. John's Prep). Harvard recruited all three but only landed Scotty. I still wonder if we would have won in '83 had we had all three.

That team was quite good enough with only one, thank you.

[BobNY]

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Good luck Harvard!