Kudos to Geoff for some remarkable research, arguing for a decline in the
productivity of Harvard's forwards over the years. Some notes:
 
1) While the list is aimed at selecting every other year, doubtless a
reasonable way of doing things, this begs the question of the 93-94
season when Harvard went to the final four, had its highest power play
percentage _ever_ (correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it was higher
than the record '87 season), and I'd speculate had a higher level of goal
production spread across the forward lines (or at least it had
two good lines in Farrell-Baird-Cohagen and Holmes-Martins-Gustafson).
 
2) It strikes me that one might make the argument that the defense has
actually improved in the 90's. The '89 NCAA champs had to my mind a good,
steady defense, but in no way like the Maguire-McCann-Body defense of
92-93 and 93-94, nor even, I'd argue, the Sneddon led defense of 91-92.
As Geoff notes, the present group is potentially the best of the '90's.
However, to contradict what I've just written, defensive corps from
earlier in the 80's (prior to '89) were excellent, especially 87-88
(Sweeney and Pawlawski) and 86-87 (Benning, etc.).
 
3) I shouldn't nitpick Geoff's extensive presentation, but Sneddon played
defense in 89; also its worth noting that these lines are not necessarily
the way they ended up for most of the season, but rather the way the
season began. They are, however, good ways to present the goal tallies.
 
Thanks Geoff.
 
Sandy Baldwin
 
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