Re: Harvard Crimson (again) 2018-19
Where was this team in November, this team that just skated in the Beanpot, Part 3? The infirmary, I guess. Gabel, Giguere, Pejzlova, Sauvé? Bring em on! But not too much. Not into OT! A really fast game, enabled by 16 extra opportunities to catch one’s breath:16 penalties! (One ref’s whistle seemed to be attached to his trachea.) Penalties evenly divided, but that just seemed to add to their arbitrariness. Harvard continued very strong on PK (8-0), and pretty ineffective on PP (1-8). (Are these man-up, man-down skills so different that they can’t translate better? I especially don’t get poor PPs.) So, the usual scoring suspects: Gabel (2), Pejzlova, KDR (five games in a row now), Tse. Tse? Yes, a late efflorescence, given PP opportunities. Here’s hoping we’ll stay alive in the play-offs to see the Golden Knights again, so all those seniors and all those freshmen, joined by all those sophomores and all those juniors, can tear up the ice against them one more time. They each had their moments (Gilmore, in particular, was a whirlwind). And then there was Reed . . .
(BTW, I was completely unprepared for the bellowing coming from the Clarkson bench. Maybe that’s the secret of their success: coach treats every game like a practice, as if the team was being thumped all season long.)
Where was this team in November, this team that just skated in the Beanpot, Part 3? The infirmary, I guess. Gabel, Giguere, Pejzlova, Sauvé? Bring em on! But not too much. Not into OT! A really fast game, enabled by 16 extra opportunities to catch one’s breath:16 penalties! (One ref’s whistle seemed to be attached to his trachea.) Penalties evenly divided, but that just seemed to add to their arbitrariness. Harvard continued very strong on PK (8-0), and pretty ineffective on PP (1-8). (Are these man-up, man-down skills so different that they can’t translate better? I especially don’t get poor PPs.) So, the usual scoring suspects: Gabel (2), Pejzlova, KDR (five games in a row now), Tse. Tse? Yes, a late efflorescence, given PP opportunities. Here’s hoping we’ll stay alive in the play-offs to see the Golden Knights again, so all those seniors and all those freshmen, joined by all those sophomores and all those juniors, can tear up the ice against them one more time. They each had their moments (Gilmore, in particular, was a whirlwind). And then there was Reed . . .
(BTW, I was completely unprepared for the bellowing coming from the Clarkson bench. Maybe that’s the secret of their success: coach treats every game like a practice, as if the team was being thumped all season long.)
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