“I can’t wait to get out of here. I’m freezing…I’m soaked—but it’s for a good cause,” she said.

That’s because Stone was attacked with water bottles by members of Harvard’s team during the post-game celebrations..

“I tried to stop them,” McAuliffe said with a grin.

In a prerequisite and perhaps forerunner to the upcoming Patty Kazmaier Award announcement on March 27, the eve of the NCAA women’s hockey national championship, co-captain Angela Ruggiero was named the 2003-2004 ECAC Player of the Year Friday night before the start of the tournament’s final four. Ruggiero joined Corriero on the league’s first team. Chu represented the Crimson on the second team.

Following Harvard’s 6-1 rout over St. Lawrence in the ECAC Championship game, Ruggiero was named the tournament’s Most Outstanding Player. She also joined four teammates—McAuliffe, junior Nicole Corriero, and sophomores Julie Chu and Jennifer Skinner—in sweeping every skating position on the ECAC JP Morgan Chase All-Tournament team—a clear reflection of Harvard’s dominance in the ECAC postseason.

Brown’s Katie Germain was the only non-Harvard player named to the team, winning at the goalie position for her amazing 41 goal losing effort against the Crimson in Harvard’s 2-1 double-overtime semifinal victory over the Bears.

—Staff writer John R. Hein can be reached at hein@fas.harvard.edu.