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Burlington, Vt.—Saturday night’s game against Vermont mirrored the Crimson’s contest against Dartmouth the night before—almost. For a single period, the Harvard men’s hockey team dominated Vermont (11-16-3, 8-23-0 ECAC). After that, things got a little too interesting before captain Dominic Moore shut the door on a Catamount comeback and the Crimson clinched...
...penalty kill after an interference call against sophomore Rob Flynn, junior winger Rob Fried intercepted a pass and was off on a break with linemate Aaron Kim. Fried faked his defender down and fired a shot, which was saved by Vermont goaltender Shawn Conschafter. But both Fried and Kim charged the net hard, and amidst the mass of bodies in front, Kim poked home the first goal of the game...
...probing for an opening to fire away at Conschafter. Moore found junior forward Tim Pettit with just such an opening, but Conschafter made the stop. Senior forward Brett Nowak and junior forward Tyler Kolarik were positioned around the crease, and Nowak sent the loose puck into goal before the Vermont defenders could get a body...
...contrast, Vermont squandered a great chance of its own with less than a minute to play in the first. While on the power play, the Catamounts were applying strong pressure to Harvard goaltender Dov Grumet-Morris and looked primed to score. In fact, the puck did cross the Harvard goal line, but the score was called off because of a slash from assistant captain Ryan Miller along the boards. It was a costly mistake, but Vermont would have other close calls over the next 40 minutes...
...didn’t skate at all in the first, and we did a lot of good stuff in the second and third,” said Vermont coach Mike Gilligan. “I thought we really played well enough to tie it up in the third...