The top Catamount goaltender, sophomore Andrew Allen, owns the ECAC's best GAA at 2.26 and trails only the Saints' Eric Heffler with a .926 save percentage.

"In order to shut these teams down," Storey said. "We have to slow them down a little bit physically. Vermont has some fast players [and] we need to take the body and control the tempo of the game."

Still, the weekend will be the Crimson's last chance to get all cogs of its offense in gear at once.

Over the past couple of games, the heart of the offense has actually come from the third line, through the hard work and hustle of junior forwards Brett Chodorow and Trevor Allman, along with Scott Turco.

Right now, Chodorow may be Harvard's best offensive player, striking for two goals last weekend.

"It gets us going when we see them cycling and going down low," sophomore forward Steve Moore said. "Its good to see that line playing well."

Dartmouth limps into the final weekend taking a three-game losing streak that includes an 8-3 loss to RPI and a 7-3 defeat by Princeton.

Expected to finish in 11th this year, it moved from that slot and into playoff contention with a surprising three-game win streak in its previous three that includes upsets of Cornell and Colgate.