Team Notes: Harvard Opens at Home Against Rivals Yale and Brown
The Particulars
For the first time in three years, the Harvard women's
ice hockey team will open the regular season at home, as it takes
on ECAC rivals Yale and Brown at Bright Hockey Center. The Crimson
has captured two of the last three ECAC regular season
championships and placed third in the league last season.
In 2009-10, Harvard compiled a 20-8-5 overall record and advanced to the ECAC semifinal round. The Crimson qualified for its eighth NCAA tournament appearance in program history and also captured its 13th Beanpot title, downing Northeastern, 1-0, at Bright Hockey Center.
Follow From Home
GoCrimson.com will provide live statistics for this
weekend's games, all home games and most road contests this
season. Video for both games this weekend will be available
via a subscription at GoCrimson.com.
Series History
Brown and Yale represent two of the three teams with
which Harvard has the most history, having faced the Bears 71 times
and the Bulldogs 68 times. Only Dartmouth (74 games) has graced the
Harvard schedule more over the years.
The Crimson owns an impressive 59-7-2 all-time record against Yale, while Katey stone has only lost two games to the bulldogs, compiling a 32-2-1 career mark. Harvard's last loss to Yale came in the 2005-06 season and the Crimson have captured the last 10 meetings between the two teams, including 5-0 and 4-3 wins last season. From 1985-86 to 2004-05, Harvard collected 38-straight wins over Yale, during a 19-year winning streak against its Ancient Eight rival.
Against Brown, Harvard has had success in recent years, having won the last nine meetings and not dropping a game to the Bears since the 2001-02 season. Harvard holds a slight edge in the overall series record (36-30-5) and Stone has gone 23-10-3 against Brown in her career. Last year, Harvard beat Brown by scores of 5-1 and 4-1.
Last Time Out
The Harvard women's hockey team took a 2-1 lead into the
third period but allowed a man-up goal late in the game to skate
away with a 2-2 tie against McGill, Saturday at Bright Hockey
Center.
Senior forward Katharine Chute netted both goals for the Crimson, while freshmen Jackie Young and Lyndsey Fry each had an assist. Josephine Pucci had a helper on Chute's first effort. Laura Bellamy picked up 12 saves in two periods of work while freshman Lauren Joarnt amassed 12 as well.
Harvard Coach Katey Stone
Katey Stone is in her 17th season as Harvard's head
coach, and she brings a 339-144-27 record into Friday's game, the
most all-time victories in Division I women's hockey. Stone has led
Harvard to all eight of its NCAA tournament appearances and was
named the head coach of the U.S. Women's National Team in the
summer of 2010.
Crimson Captains
Leading the Crimson will be three senior
captains: Kate
Buesser (Wolfeboro, N.H.), Leanna
Coskren (Walpole, Mass.) and Liza
Ryabkina (Kharkiv, Ukraine).
Preseason Prognostications
The ECAC Hockey coaches picked Harvard third in their
preseason poll and voted senior forward Kate Buesser to the
preseason all-conference team.
Team (first-place votes) Points
1. Cornell (11) 121
2. Clarkson (1) 105
3.
Harvard
103
4. Quinnipiac 79
5. St. Lawrence 77
6. Princeton 73
7. Rensselaer 70
8. Dartmouth 52
9.
Colgate
43
10. Yale 34
11.
Brown
24
12.
Union
11
New Faces
Seven freshmen will don the crimson, black and white this
season. The class of 2014 is comprised of goaltender Lauren Joarnt
(White Bear Lake, Minn.), Kalley
Armstrong (Maple, Ont.), Lyndsey Fry (Chandler,
Ariz.), Marissa
Gedman (Framingham, Mass.), Gina
McDonald (New Brighton, Minn.), Elizabeth
Parker (Acton, Mass.) and Jackie Young (Medford,
Mass.).
Rank And File
Harvard begins the 2010-11 regular season schedule ranked
in both national polls. The Crimson is No. 9 in the most recent
USCHO.com poll while the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine poll has
Harvard at No. 10.
