POTSDAM, N.Y.--For the Harvard men's hockey team, there are a few things in life that they can rely upon: the sun will rise and set every day, there will always be a bed in Cambridge to sleep on....

Oh, and there will always be dramatic last second finishes up in the North Country.

The Crimson returned home Sunday morning having been upset by ECAC cellar-dweller St. Lawrence on Friday night, 4-3, but it rebounded on Saturday with a 4-3 overtime victory over 10th-ranked Clarkson.

The loss Friday night against St. Lawrence (currently 7-8-1, 2-6-0 ECAC) might have marked a low point on the season for Harvard (8-6-1, 6-4-1), which never led and had three goals disallowed in the game, including one with but one second remaining in the game.

The final few seconds of the St. Lawrence game reminded many of last year's trip to Canton, N.Y., when the Crimson scored to send the game into overtime with four seconds remaining.

But on Friday night, with time winding down, Brad Konik appeared to have flipped the tying goal over Saint goaltender Clint Owen as the clock showed :01. The Harvard players raised their arms in joy and the red light went on--but the goal was waived off because the net had been knocked off the moorings.

"It was a tough call, the referees' judgment...there was a lot of traffic in front of the net and [the referees] thought there was nothing intentional," Coach Ronn Tomassoni said. "Obviously they saw it differently."

Intentional dislodging of the goal from its moorings while the puck is in the crease should result in the calling of a penalty shot, the event that the Harvard players were hoping for.

"After watching the tape of the game, it was definitely a goal," the scorer, junior Brad Konik, said. "But still, that's the referee's call."

Jason Karmanos echoed his teammates frustration after the ruling. "We all thought it had gone in, and [Konik] was so angry when he came over to the bench, I knew he couldn't fake that."

But despite the last-second drama, the Crimson struggled through the night.

Steve Hermsdorf, making his first career ECAC start in goal, stopped a flurry of shots before the end of the first period, preserving a 1-1 score. Hermsdorf was one of the few bright spots for the Crimson on the night, stopping 27 shots.

Harvard appeared to go up when Geb Marett fired a shot that went off Joe Craigen and into the net, but the goal was nullified on a high-sticking call.

Only 30 seconds later, the home side went ahead. Hermsdorf tried to poke-check the puck away from Kris Laamanen, but the Saint sophomore flipped it into the net for a 2-1 lead.

After Bryan Lonsinger tied the game up again with a backhanded shot from the point, St. Lawrence went ahead with a shorthanded goal early in the third period, 3-2.