A big disappointment so far has been the production of co-captain and fifth-year player Mark McGeough, who has amassed a grand total of one assist in 11 games.

The defense and goaltending, however, have been keeping the Saints competitive. Senior netminder Paul Spagnoletti has started every league game for St. Lawrence and will most likely play tonight. He has stopped 89.2 percent of the shots thrown his way.

Co-captain Mike McCourt keys the defense and is the fifth-leading scorer on the team with eight points.

Defending ECAC champion Clarkson, on the other hand, has been improving it still has allowed 3.98 goals a game over the ECAC season.

Junior defender Brian Mueller leads the team in scoring with 23 points and is the key to the power play (six power play goals) and penalty killing units.

On the other side of the blue line lies Finnish sensation Marko Tuomainen, a junior who was named a first-team ECAC All-Star last year. He has scored eight goals and assisted on 13 others this year. Senior Jason Currie has been the main man in net, stopping 88.9 percent of the shots thrown his way.

Harvard has its work cut out, as St. Lawrence and Clarkson are traditionally the toughest one-two punch a team will face on any given ECAC weekend.

These two teams on the US-Canada border in upstate New York world like nothing better than to knock off the ECAC front-runners, but Harvard should be ready to rumble.

"We're playing better now," Nielsen said. "With all the breaks that we've had, it will be good to play four games in the next two weeks." HARVARD, 7-6 at Portland, Maine Harvard  1  3  3  --  7 Maine  2  2  2  --  6

First Period

Maine--Latendresse (Ingraham, Purdie) 2:16. (PPG)

Harv--McCann (Martins, Maguire) 11:43. (PPG)

Maine--Tardif (Maclsaac) 17:11.

Second Period

Harv--Gustafson (Holmes, Nielsen) 2:31.