I'll leave it to someone who saw the game in person to give a full description, but this one was a blowout! This Harvard team reminded me of like Ken Code's 83-84 Crimson, small, frightened and overmatched (this was the first game I'd seen). Of course credit must be given to BU...They are big, strong, fast and deep. They beat the Crimson to just about every puck and could easily have scored four or five more goals. Grier is a Kevin Stevens in the making and I wouldn't have minded if Harvard had plucked the young Drury from Jack Parker's grasp. This is a powerful team, capable of shutting down better teams than Harvard. As Bob Norton said on NESN, the loss of defense is killing Harvard, but more so, in this game at least, was the lack of any fight or muscle. Where are Franco Scalamandre, Alan Litchfield, Neil Sheehy or Kevan Melrose when you need them? The only Harvard player who hits out there is Halfnight, unless you count Martins, who has an incredible knack for getting caught by the ref for anything he does. Another big loss for Harvard was Israel. Not that he was much better than Tracey. It's just that the effect of a pair of stellar goalies in rotation cannot be underestimated. Harvard's Alain Roy and Chuckie Hughes and Cornell's Brian Hayward and Darren Elliot come to mind, in addition to BU's current duo (Didn't Clarkson have someone tough who played at the same time as Don Sylvestri?). I think the level of concentration is ordinarily just so much higher in such a situation and the competition in practice must similarly make for sharper play. Still, all is not gloomy for Crimson fans. Harvard's got some players. Halfnight is SOLID and some of these speedy forwards will come along. Mainly, judging only by this game, they just need to take their time out there and not panic so much, especially when breaking the puck out of their own zone. As they improve especially in this area, they will be competitive this year. As long as they aren't playing BU! -PMartin