Article: HARVARD HERO? SON OF A GUN CAVANAGH INHERITS THE SCORING TOUCH

The goal came out of nowhere. A sliver of daylight. Two quick steps into open ice. A few inches of untended space. An overtime victory that kept the Harvard men's hockey team playing in March.

If you wait long enough at the nation's oldest college, the legacy eventually kicks in. Three decades later, a man named Cavanagh wearing No. 9 steps up - again - and the Crimson go on to win an ECAC title and proceed to the NCAA tournament, this time against Maine at high noon Saturday in Worcester.

The Cavanaghs play down the like-father-like-son comparisons, even though they're inevitable, inescapable.

"I never thought of it in that way," said father Joe, who was in the stands in Lake Placid, N.Y., ...

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