Coach Cleary was pleased with the game primarily because the injury plagued icemen escaped without adding to their wounded list.
Next for the Crimson is an important out of conference show down with Boston College Friday in Chestnut Hill and Cleary wants to be a close to full strength as possible for the match up.
The Dartmouth contest saw the return of Crimson defenseman Randy Taylor who suffered a separated shoulder two weeks ago at Western Ontario.
The blue liner made his presence felt with a goal and three assists.
After Fusco and Benning tallied in the second period, the rest of the the Crimson started hitting the twine something relatively new for the second third and fourth liners.
Peter Chiarelli, Peter Follows and Steve Armstrong each picked up goals.
"It was good to see the other kids score goals," Cleary said.
Cleary helped them out by holding the first line out for most of the last period and putting his fourth line out on the power play.
Fusco for one was glad to be on the bench for most of the final 20.
"After the second period I hoped they'd cancel the third," he said. "They were just running at us."
As they fell behind the hosts seemed to concentrate more on dismembering their guests than on handling the puck.
Nonetheless Fusco thought the Crimson had rebounded well from last weekend's trip to Cornell and Colgate, which yielded a tie and an overtime victory.
"We played well tonight, I don't think we played well last weekend," he said.
Cleary was less quick to judge the effort.
"It's had to evaluate when you win 11-1," Cleary said. "It's hard to see if you fore checked well."
What was easy to see was that the Crimson had skated away from Thompson Rink with an 11-1 triumph, no injuries and memories of one of their finest tree- trimming parties in years.