The entire evening was filled with controversy, as Amman disallowed an apparent goal for each of the teams.

At 3:09 of the final regulation period, Cornell swarmed close in around the Harvard net. After a scramble in the crease, the goal lit the red lamp and then turned it right off.

Amman immediately signaled "no goal" and his judgement stood, despite the protests of the Big Red.

"The puck never went in the net." Blair said.

Eleven minutes later, Amman said a Bills Cleary shot from the right point was opped in by MacDonald's stick, which was too high. However, it seemed that the biscuit might have bounced in off a Cornell shoulder, in which case the score would have stood up.

Despite the ruling, MacDonald and his linemates, Scott Fusco and Ian Smith, turned in yet another outstanding effort.

After Cornell jumped to a quick lead on a line play by Dave Hunter and Gary Cullen at 6:10, the Crimson's first line showed its great skating skill.

With Harvard's Tim Barakett in the penalty box for charging, Fusco stole the puck at center ice and knocked it ahead to MacDonald.

The duo worked a beautiful give and go that culminated in MacDonald banging in his own rebound for a shorthanded score that tied things up at one.

Two minutes into the second period, Cornell's John Wilson had an uncontested 15-11, shot from the right circle Blair, who had already recorded 19 saves in the first period, reached down and made an unreal glove stop on the low buller off Wilson's blade.

Blair's 49 saves broke his own record of 48, set a year ago against RPI in a game the Crimson lost, 6-0.

"It's the first night [this season] I got a lot of work." Blair said

A minute later, on the power play. Smith found the rebound of a Mark Banning slap shot on his blade and put it in.

The second assist on the score went to Barakett, filling in at tight point on the power play for the first time. He stood in for Randy Taylor, who suffered a separated shoulder last weekend against Western Ontario.

Two minutes after the Smith score, Wilson got his revenge on Blair, Working down the ice with Chris Norton, Wilson put the puck and his teammate the game at 2.