Roy notched 20 saves in the winning effort for the Crimson.
Not only did Harvard manage to win its fifth game in six tries, but, more significantly, it also matched its total number of road victories last year by taking its third away contest from home.
Harvard continued to apply the pressure on Brown in the second period. Early in the period, Burke chased Bear defender James O'Brien around the net, Brian Farrell stole the puck from O'Brien and then beat Haywood to his right to put the Crimson ahead, 2-0. All of Harvard's twelve fans on hand at Brown's Meehan Auditorium rose to a rousing 'sieve'chant.
As in the first period, Harvard skated circles around Brown's lackadaisical, lackluster lines. The game began to heat up physically as well, with Crimson and Bears skaters exchanging stiff forearms and bone-crushing checks. Harvard's defense continued to dump the puck out of the zone, and Roy came up with several key saves.
The Crimson went up 3-0 as freshman Ben Coughlin, skating in front of line mate Steve Martins, beat Haywood to his right.
It looked like the Crimson had put the game away, but Roy could not cover a loose puck in front of the goal. Chris Kaban wrested control of it and deposited the puck into, to make the score 3-1.
The Crimson would be sorry that it had let the sluggish Bears back into the game. On Brown's next power play, a Harvard bench minor, Bears' center, feisty 5'8", 170-lb Joey Beck, ripped a low, fast wrist shot by Roy's left pad to cut the Harvard lead to one goal, 3-2, leading into the second intermission.
In the first period Harvard had little trouble controlling the offensive momentum as the Crimson--with the welcome help of its blue liners--pounded Brown netminder Brett Haywood.
The Brown offense, in marked contrast, seemed unable to generate a consistent attack let alone connect on passes. Harvard outshot the Bears 15-5. Haywood, however, held firm against the Crimson, ceding only one goal the entire period.
At 4:35, junior forward Matt Mallgrave fired a hard slapshot from the blueline that bounced off Haywood's pads and ricocheted into the net.