Men's Hockey to Travel to Durham to Face UNH

The Harvard men’s hockey team travels to Durham, N.H. tonight to face No. 9 New Hampshire for the first time since the Wildcats (8-5-3, 6-3-2 Hockey East) knocked the Crimson (8-4-1, 7-4-0 ECAC) out of the NCAA tournament in last spring’s first round.

“I expect that we’ll play the most gifted team, offensively, that we’ve played all year,” said Harvard coach Ted Donato ’91.

“I think that’s the best first line in the east,” he said of Brett Hemingway, Daniel Winnik, and Jacob Micflikier, who have combined for 66 points this season.

New Hampshire’s Whittemore Center is 200-by-100 feet—the Crimson’s Bright Hockey Center is just 204 by 87—and Donato admitted both that “it’s a little bit of a different game on the big ice surface” and that New Hampshire is “very good at it.”

“I love our team’s speed and our ability to move the puck,” the coach maintained. “But there’s definitely a great challenge.”

The puck drops at 7 p.m., and the game will be broadcast on CN8.

—REBECCA A. SEESEL