* The last time Harvard lost three home games in a season? 1989-90, when the Crimson finished 13-14-1 in Billy Cleary's last season behind the bench.
* The last time Harvard finished above .500 with three home losses? Try 1984-85 (21-9-2, although the Crimson started that season 8-0-1).
* The last time Tripp Tracy got beaten by the same move twice in a row, as happened on Royal's fore-hand-to-backhand motion, which he used to score both of his third-period goals? Maybe in a game of pond hockey as an eight-year-old back home in Michigan, I don't know.
There seemed to be light at the end of the Crimson's early-season tunnel after a convincing 4-1 win over Brown last weekend--now, after a loss in which the Harvard offense failed to generate a single tough chance on UNH netminder Trent Cavicchi (scoring only via garbage and a goalie's gift, as it were) and with a seven-game road trip on the way, that light could be of the "onrushing train" variety.
Could mediocrity be Harvard's true destination this season? Looks suspiciously like it.
When you play well in one game and not the next, that usually adds up to something around .500 no?