Harvard hopes to take advantage of RPI’s relative lack of depth as the Engineers’ have few scoring options after Cavosie and Murley.
“When you have more depth, you can normally outwork teams over the course of a game,” freshman forward Tom Cavanagh said.
Union (12-10-6, 7-8-3) will present the Crimson with a completely different challenge. The Skating Dutchmen play a slow-tempo, defensive style of play, hoping to capitalize on an opponent’s errors.
Harvard Coach Mark Mazzoleni has said that the Crimson prefers to play a more up-tempo team. Yet while Harvard has had some trouble against teams that play like Union this year, the Crimson did beat the Skating Dutchmen on the road last month, 3-2.
“Union works as hard as any team in the ECAC,” Fried said. “We’re going to have to try to catch them in transition and take advantage of our talent edge.”
The Crimson begins its quest againstRPI tonight at 7 p.m. and takes on Union tomorrow night at 7 p.m.