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...Crimson began the game with two factors working against it. The first was the flu symptoms that struck the team this week—which one day forced almost 10 players out of practice and kept junior defenseman Kenny Smith out of the Dartmouth game—and the second the near-sellout crowd at Thompson Arena in Hanover that helped breathe life into the Big Green in the second period...
Dartmouth looked poised to have the first power play of the game when Harvard junior defenseman Dave McCulloch was whistled off for holding at 5:55. But Big Green freshman phenom Hugh Jessiman soon followed McCulloch to the box, setting up a four-on-four. A mere nine seconds later, Crimson captain Dominic Moore scored his 19th goal of the season. Coming off the face-off, senior forward Brett Nowak shot the puck at Dartmouth goaltender Nick Boucher. Moore came in to clean up the leftovers, poking home the rebound through Boucher’s legs...
...didn’t get much better. About four minutes later, another Harvard defenseman (Peter Hafner) took another ill-advised penalty (boarding on Chris Abbott), and another of the Big Red’s top scorers (Sam Paolini) made the Crimson pay with another power-play goal...
Frustrated, Harvard defenseman Ryan Lannon broke his stick on the crossbar. And that pretty much summed it up. The Crimson couldn’t have imagined a worse goal at a worse time. Harvard had the momentum, and it was less than a minute from going into the second intermission down just one goal after nearly being run out of its own building in the first...
...high-sticking penalty by sophomore defenseman Noah Welch just 20 seconds in led to Cornell’s first goal, and the Big Red opened up a two-goal lead with another power-play score at the 4:58 mark. Less than four minutes later it was 3-0 Cornell, forcing Mazzoleni to use his team’s timeout to help the Crimson regain its composure...