Winning as a Team

Harvard won its games as a team--no one playerwas the go-to guy every night.

Although nobody came within 10 goals of Farrell(29), Martins (25), McCann (22) or Gustafson (22)each night seemed to produce a different hero.

For example, the third line of junior BenCoughlin and sophomores Jason Karmons and KirkNielsen picked up their play tremendouslyfollowing the BC loss in mid-February.

The trio almost single-handedly led the Crimsonto two victories the following weekend atDartmouth and Vermont, eliciting this responsefrom Head Coach Ron Tomassoni; "Thank God for theNeilsen line."

Karmanos scored only five goals all year, butof them were game-winners, including an overtimegoal at Dartmouth.

Another morale booster came at the end of theregular season. Harvard had hit a bit of a rut andlooked like it would drop its final to 10th-placeSt. Lawrence.

The final seconds of St. Lawrence's biggest winof the seasons were ticking biggest win of theseasons were ticking off the clock in Potsdam,N.Y., until Farrell froze at the 19:56 mark with agoal that evened the game at 4-4. Then juniorPerry Cohagan picked a perfect time to score hissecond goal of the year to win it in OT.

Very Special Teams

The power play and penalty killing units wereanother major reason why the Crimson was sosuccessful this year. Harvard went 65-for-191 (34percent) on its power play while holding itsopponents to a 17 percent rate (32-for-184).

The typical Harvard power-play goal: Martinswins the face-off to the point to Maguire, Maguirepasses across to Baird who sets up McCann in theslot and in a split second, McCann's one-timer isresting firmly in the net past a dizzy goaltender.

However, Farrell's 20 extra-man goals led theteam, as did his 29 total goals. If there wasanyone on the squad who embodied the title "Mr.Clutch," Farrell was it. He placed second in thenation with seven game-winning goals and gave histeam a spark in almost every match, even whennobody else was mentally focused.

Numerous people contributed to the penaltykilling, but none were more effective than Martinsand sophomore Tom Holmes. They seemed to controlthe puck as much as the opposition even thoughHarvard was short a man.

Harvard's constant pressure and quickness ledto its five shorthanded goals and effectivepenalty killing, which was necessary since theCrimson's aggressive style of play did lead tomany penalties against it.

Memorable Moments