Team Notes: Harvard Looks to Spoil No. 3 Yale's Home Record
Game On
The Harvard men's hockey looks to hand No. 3 Yale its first home
loss as the Ivy League rivals face off Friday for the second time
in 2010-11 and the 233rd time overall. The puck drops at 7 p.m. at
Ingalls Rink in New Haven, Conn.
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Behind the Bench
Former Crimson captain, NCAA Frozen Four Most Outstanding Player
and 13-year National Hockey League veteran Ted Donato '91 is in his
seventh season as The Robert D. Ziff '88 Head Coach for Harvard
Men's Ice Hockey. He owns a 95-105-20 record, three ECAC title-game
appearances and two NCAA tournament bids.
Last Weekend
A Danny
Biega (Montreal, Que.) hat trick led the Crimson (4-16-0,
3-12 ECAC Hockey, 0-6-0 Ivy League) to a 6-2 home win against
Colgate Friday night. Harvard scored twice in each period and once
in the final minute of each frame.
Five other players recorded multiple points and Ryan Carroll (Hackensack, N.J.) logged 27 saves for Harvard, which took control with four straight goals after Colgate scored first. Alex Fallstrom (Stockholm, Sweden), Alex Killorn (Montreal, Que.) and Conor Morrison (London, Ont.) also scored. Chris Huxley(Weymouth, Mass.) had three assists.
Goaltender Andy Iles made 33 saves as Cornell survived with a 2-1 win Saturday. Iles stopped Harvard's last 22 shots after Fallstrom scored to tie the game in the first period. The Big Red withstood three Harvard power plays in the third period. The Crimson outshot Cornell, 11-3 in the third period and 34-20 overall.
Delay of Game
Harvard's game scheduled for Wednesday night at Brown was
postponed due to heavy snow in the Northeast. It will be made up
Feb. 22 at 7 p.m.
Leading the Crimson
Alex Killorn's highlight-reel goal against Colgate was
his team-leading seventh tally of the season. Michael
Biega (Montreal, Que.) registered two assists against the
Raiders. Biega leads Harvard with 10 helpers and, with 16 points,
shares the team scoring lead with Killorn.
Offensive Behavior
Harvard's six goals Friday were one more than it had
totaled in its previous four games and two more than it had scored
in any game this season. The Crimson had not registered six goals
in a game since blowing out Quinnipiac, 11-0, to open an ECAC
quarterfinal series March 14, 2008.
Special Forces
Harvard killed all three of Colgate's power plays Friday and
Cornell's first man-advantage chance Saturday to extend its streak
of successful penalty kills to 20. The Big Red, however, scored a
power-play goal to end the Crimson's streak. Cornell also held
Harvard scoreless on its own four power plays to snap the Crimson's
run of three straight games with a power-play tally.
Busy Crimson
Harvard is in the midst of stretches of four games in 11 days and
seven games in 20 days. Only two of those seven games were at
home.
Close Calls
Harvard has lost seven games by a single goal and another
game by two goals with one coming on an empty net. Four of the
Crimson's last six league games have been one-goal losses.
Hall of Famer
Bob McManama '73 will be Harvard's 10th inductee to the Beanpot
Hall of Fame when he is honored between semifinal games of the 59th
annual tournament Monday. McManama totaled eight points on three
goals and five assists in six Beanpot games, including two final
appearances.
Scouting the Bulldogs
Then-No. 1 Yale (17-4-0, 11-3-0, 5-1-0) suffered a weekend sweep
on its visit to New York's Capital District last weekend, falling
to No. 13 Union, 3-2, and No. 10 Rensselaer, 5-2. The losses were
the Bulldogs' second and third in the last five games following a
15-1-0 start. Yale, however, still ranks first in the PairWise
ranking and leads the nation in scoring offense (4.52 goals per
game) and scoring margin (+2.29 goals per game). The Bulldogs are
12-0-0 at home.
Broc Little leads the Bulldogs with 13 goals and shares the team lead with 27 points, alongside Brian O'Neill (12-15-27) and assists leader Andrew Miller (5-22-27). Ryan Rondeau has posted a 16-3-0 record with a .924 and 2.02 goals-against average.
Inspiration for Innovation
The Harvard-Yale rivalry was the impetus for one of the great
innovations in hockey history. In their March 7, 1923 game against
Yale, Harvard coach William H. Claflin '15 and captain George Owen
'23 implemented the practice of changing entire lines of three
forwards at a time. The tactic, which became known as the line
change, helped the Crimson defeat the Bulldogs, 2-1, in
overtime.
Jan. 8 at Bright Hockey Center
No. 1 Yale scored twice on power plays to defeat Harvard, 4-2, in
front of a sellout crowd. Danny Biega scored both Crimson goals,
cutting Yale leads to 2-1 in the second period and 4-2 in the
third. Carroll made 35 saves, as the Bulldogs held a 39-31
advantage in shots.
Harvard vs. Yale Series History
Harvard leads the all-time series, 137-76-19. The teams first met
Feb. 26, 1900, a 5-4 Elis win in New York City. In 1913, six weeks
after voting to make hockey a "major sport," the Harvard Athletic
Committee voted to award a varsity letter to any Harvard player who
had ever skated against Yale.
Ryan Carroll made 35 saves and Ryan Grimshaw (Rochester, N.Y.) had two assists in a 3-2 home win last season. Yale came out on top when the squads reconvened Feb. 6 at Ingalls Rink, pulling away to a 6-3 win with four third-period goals. A different player scored each of the game's nine goals, and Carroll made 41 saves.
College Classics
The 111-year-old Harvard-Yale rivalry is one of college hockey's
oldest and tied as its 11th-most-contested. Only two pairs of
Eastern rivals have faced off more often. Here are the top 25
rivalries in terms of games played:
284 Michigan-Michigan State
282 Minnesota-North Dakota
277 Colorado College-Denver
257 Michigan-Minnesota
261 Michigan Tech-Minnesota
256 Minnesota-Wisconsin
254 Denver-North Dakota
253 Boston College-Boston University
249 Colorado College-Minnesota
237 Michigan Tech-North Dakota
232 Harvard-Yale
Princeton-Yale
221 Colorado College-North Dakota
218 Michigan-Michigan Tech
216 Boston College-Northeastern
216 Michigan Tech-Minnesota Duluth
214 Minnesota-Minnesota Duluth
211 Denver-Michigan Tech
Harvard-Princeton
209 Minnesota Duluth-North Dakota
207 Boston University-Northeastern
195 Dartmouth-Yale
192 Dartmouth-Harvard
188 Dartmouth-Princeton
186 Clarkson-St. Lawrence
Top of the [Blue] Line
Danny Biega leads all defensemen and ranks ninth among
all skaters with six goals in ECAC Hockey play. He has totaled 14
points in league games to tie Rensselaer's Nick Bailen (5-9-14) for
the league lead in defenseman scoring. Biega is tied for seventh in
league scoring among all players.
With six goals and nine assists overall, Biega averages 0.75 points per game, tying him for 15th nationally among defensemen.
Hat Trick Fact
Danny Biega became the first Harvard defenseman to record
a hat trick since current New York Islander Dylan Reese '07 scored
three times in a 5-2 home win against Yale March 2, 2007 in the
opening game of the ECAC playoffs.
Career Highs
In addition to Danny Biega's career highs for points and goals
against Colgate, Chris Huxley set career bests with three assists
and three points, and Marshall
Everson (Edina, Minn.) registered his first two-assist
game. Conor Morrison and Michael Biega (Montreal, Que.) matched
their career highs in assists with two each.
On the Board
John
Caldwell (Charlestown, Mass.) assisted on Alex Fallstrom's
goal against Colgate for his first collegiate point.
