Moore's goal regained the lead for Harvard, which had been up 2-0. Yale tied the score 1:26 into the third when wide open senior winger Paul Lawson banged home a diagonal cross ice pass just to the right of Prestifilippo.

Referee Scott Hansen gave the Elis a huge assist on their first goal, whistling Harvard for two highly questionable penalties to put the Crimson two men down.

Senior winger Jeff Brow one-timed a shot at 7:48 of the second just above the right faceoff circle off a pass from the junior Ben Stafford that Prestifilippo had difficulty picking up through a screen.

"[The Yale comeback] was just one of those things we had to deal with," sophomore defenseman Peter Capouch said. "We fought through it."

Harvard hung tight, executing its system very well throughout the game. Mazzoleni had switched his forecheck from a 1-3-1 trap to a more aggressive 2-2-1 system, which produced more turnovers and kept the pressure on the Bulldog forwards.

Yale did not have many great scoring chances on the night until the final ten minutes of the game when Prestifilippo made some spectacular saves. His best may have come with less than forty seconds left in the game when he robbed a lightning quick Brow shot from just in front of the crease through traffic.

By the end of the game, Harvard's defense may have been tiring somewhat. Mazzoleni dressed just five defenseman with freshman winger Brett Nowak, fresh from the World Junior Championships, taking the final spot as a spare forward. The blueliners rotated their shifts, skating with different partners each time on the ice.