Go Big or Go Home
The following article appeared in the March 25 issue of the Yale Daily News.
By Max de La
Bruyère,
Alison Griswold
Staff Reporters
The stakes are higher and the altitude is lower. It’s payback time.
A week after it clinched the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA tournament with its ECAC championship-winning performance in Atlantic City, the men’s hockey team (27–6–1, 17–4–1 ECAC) will kick off its hunt for the national championship in Bridgeport this weekend. Yale will open the tournament with a chance to avenge an early-season loss against No. 16 Air Force Academy (20–11–6). A victory would pit the Elis against the winner of a game between No. 8 Union and No. 9 Minnesota-Duluth the next night.
The NCAA tournament is single elimination, so a loss Friday would end Yale’s season and, with it, the collegiate careers of the team’s nine senior skaters, who constitute the most successful class in school history. If the Elis win Friday, they move one step closer to a national title and face another do-or-die situation the next night in the same location. If they make it out of the weekend alive, they will advance to their first Frozen Four since 1952.
Complete article can be accessed via the Daily News Web site by clicking here.
