CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The regular season has come and gone for Harvard women's hockey and now the team will continue on to the ECAC Playoffs where it has a date with the top-seeded Yale Bulldogs in the first round beginning tomorrow at 3 PM on ESPN+. The Crimson (7-19-3, 6-13-3 ECAC) received the eight-seed in the tournament and will travel to New Haven, Conn. to take on the No. 2/2 Bulldogs (26-2-1, 19-2-1) at Ingalls Rink in the best-of-three series.

The Crimson are set to play in the ECAC Tournament for the fifth straight season and will look to advance out of the first round for the first time since the 2019-20 season.
 

WHAT TO KNOW

• ·    Harvard returns to the ECAC Tournament for the fifth straight year as the conference's eight-seed.
• ·    The Crimson and Bulldogs have met twice this season, both resulting in Bulldog victories (2-1 on Oct. 28; 10-1 on Feb. 18).
• ·     In the first tilt against Yale, Alex Pellicci made 54 saves, which was the second-most by a Harvard goaltender in a single game all-time.
• ·    Anne Bloomer led the Crimson with 24 points in the 2022-23 regular season.
• ·    Alex Pellicci broke the single season saves record in the season finale against Yale, recording save no. 928 and passing Lindsay Reed (927 saves in 2019) for the top spot in the record book.
• ·    Kristin Della Rovere leads the nation with 499 faceoff wins. Della Rovere won 60-percent of her faceoffs in regular season.
• ·    The Crimson have not won yet in February (0-7) after posting a 3-5-1 record in January.

HARVARD IN THE ECAC TOURNAMENT

• ·      Harvard's last ECAC Tournament title came in 2015.
• ·      The Crimson have posted a 14-13 record in the ECAC Tournament in the past ten years
• ·      In 2021-22 the Crimson earned the top-seed in the ECAC Tournament but was upset in the first round by eight-seeded Princeton
• ·      The Crimson won the last meeting with Yale in the ECAC Tournament, picking up a 2-1 series win in 2019-20.
• ·      Game three of that series was an instant classic that ended in a 4-3 Crimson win after three overtime periods.
• ·      Kristin Della Rovere leads the Crimson with nine points (four goals, five assists) in nine games played in the ECAC Tournament.
• ·      Anne Bloomer has scored three goals and dished out two assists in her ECAC Tournament career.
• ·      Kyra Willoughby and Shannon Hollands each have one point in the ECAC Tournament.