Harvard Sticks with It
The following article appeared February 24 on the Inside College Hockey (INCH) Web site.
By Joe Gladziszewski
When Harvard entered the second period of its recent Beanpot third-place game trailing Boston University 1-0 and preparing to kill off a major penalty, the Crimson didn’t panic. Five days later, the Crimson fell behind 1-0 in the opening minute of its game at Cornell, against an energized Big Red team playing its biggest rival and amid a raucous crowd that had just completed its fish-throwing ritual. Once again, no panic.
Harvard stuck together and turned both of those difficult situations into victories. They’ve turned adversity to an advantage and all of a sudden the Crimson have won three of their last four games. This, after getting just four wins in their first 23 games. We probably shouldn’t be surprised. As it turns out, that’s how Harvard has operated all year long.
“It was tough, not getting a lot of the wins that we wanted to get,” senior co-captain Michael Del Mauro said, “but we really said if we stick together as a team, play for each other, ultimately success will start coming our way.”
