HANOVER, N. H. Christmas tree are everywhere here.

So the Harvard men's hockey team decided to form a tree of their own last night in Dartmouth's Rupert Thompson Arena. The Crimson hung to little red lights all over Big Green netminder felt Bower.

When 11-1 slaughter of Dartmouth's the Crimson upped its record to 8 0 1 of ECAC remained the only unbeaten seen in major college hockey and retained sole possession of the first place in the ECAC.

Thirteen icemen shared the Bower trimming chores by contribution at least a point the way was defenseman Mark Benning who had two goals and three assists.

Scott Fusco's point effort jumped him into tenth place on the Crimson all time scoring list with 11 career points.

"It'll [the career scoring mark] probably mean more later." Fusco said after the game. "It's a nice thing to look back on."

The Big Green's Jelf Lenoard spoiled Harvard goalie Grant Blair's bid for his seventh career shutout with just 3:32 left to play, when Leonard's foot shot caromed off the netminder's wrist into the net.

The story of the Harvard offense was once again the power play which converted on tour of its five first period opportunities to the salt the contest away before the rink crew had an opportunity to turn off the Zamboni.

The extra-man unit went four for seven on the evening and upped its efficency for the season to a staggering 45 percent.

Dartmouth's Paul O'Hern slamed Fusco into the boards and was whistled for cross checking just 14 seconds into the game. Less than a minute later Lane and MacDonald slammed home a rebound.

After the score Dartmouth Coach Brain Mason ranked starting netminder Jay Samek, who had recorded a single save.

Samek was lucky His replacement Bower had to endure 10 Crimson scores in the next 59 minutes.

Before three and a half minute of the period had expired MacDonald struck again on the power play for another Crimson score and the freshman's eight goal.

After a Fusco score Tim Smith hit the lamp at 17:49 of the first stanza extending his goal scoring streak to nine games.

The Crimson's winning streak continued as the icemen are now off to the best start ever in the Bill Cleary era. The best start in Harvard history was 13-0 in 1936-37.