Chodorow opened the scoring at 1:50 of the first, flipping a backhander past Heffler. Sophomore forward Steve Moore notched the other Harvard power-play goal, floating a beautiful pass from sophomore forward Chris Bala over Heffler's blocker, at the dreaded 19:27 mark a period earlier.

Prier and Poaspst bagged the other two St. Lawrence goals.

"We played an excellent hockey game," Tomassoni said. "Our kids have nothing to hang their heads about."

No. 7 Clarkson 5, Harvard 1

Harvard opened this game in similar fashion to the previous night. Chodorow skated over the Golden Knights' blueline and ripped a shot from the just above the hashmarks past freshman goaltender Shawn Grant to give the Crimson an early 1-0 lead.

The comparisons end there.

Deflated by the previous night's heart-breaker, Harvard did not have any of the poise, energy, or toughness it would have needed to battle the top team in the ECAC.

Clarkson had little difficulty knocking off the Crimson, which hasn't won in Potsdam since a 4-3 overtime victory on Jan. 7, 1995, the year before the present seniors arrived.

"No one wanted to pay the price," Scorsune said. "Nobody wanted to take a hit, no one wanted to give a hit and that's what happens."

Harvard managed to keep it close through the first period despite getting constantly out hustled to loose pucks, rarely dispossessing a Clarkson player of the disc, and committing frequent defensive zone turnovers.

Senior forward Rob Millar's giveaway directly led to sophomore forward Murray Kuntz's goal to put Clarkson up 2-1.

"We were brutal again with the puck tonight," Tomassoni said. "We made bad decisions and when that happens, it's going to be a long night."

The official start of the long night began at 3:59 of the second with the Golden Knights on the power play.

Willie Mitchell, Clarkson's bruising standout sophomore defenseman, uncorked a massive slapshot from the left point that sailed through traffic past a well-screened Prestifilippo.

Junior forward Matt Saper finished the Crimson for the evening just over 1:20 after Mitchell's bomb. Saper buried a rebound at the side of Prestifilippo off Swedish forward Carl Drakensjo's shot from just over the blueline.