Harvard, Merrimack both swamped in men’s NCAA hockey tournament - The Boston Globe
The Crimson and Warriors were beaten by a combined 13-1 in the Bridgeport regional.
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BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — What happened to Harvard’s hockey team on the way down from Cambridge? Did they get waylaid by Yalies while coming through New Haven? Whatever the reason, this wasn’t the same varsity that won two dozen games and came into the NCAA tournament with Frozen Four aspirations.
‘We picked a tough game to have a really poor performance,” coach Ted Donato said Friday after third-seeded Ohio State demolished the second-seeded Crimson, 8-1, at Total Mortgage Arena. “Give them [OSU] all the credit but we certainly would have liked to play a lot better.”
The Buckeyes (21-15-3) advanced to Sunday’s regional final against top seed Quinnipiac (31-4-3), which blanked fourth-seeded Merrimack (23-14-1), 5-0, in the nightcap.
Five more followed in the second period from Gustaf Westlund (playing his first game since October) and Thiesing six seconds apart, then from Mason Lohrei, Joe Dunlap and McWard on the power play. “They just kept going in for us,” said co-captain Jake Wise.