It was the home opener last season and the night the Crimson raised its 1999 AWCHA national championship banner to the rafters.

The then No. 1 Crimson was riding a 33-game winning-streak, and that night No. 7 Dartmouth was suppose to be number 34. There was no warning anything would be different.

Harvard had sent Dartmouth packing for the season in the team's last meeting with a 8-1 rout in the 1999 ECAC semifinals. Needless to say, the night did not unfold as Harvard had intended, and the Big Green upset the Crimson 5-4 in an overtime thriller.

"It was really dissappointing to lose the opener that year coming off the national championship," Dunn said. "For all the returning players, it let us know that winning a second title would not be as easy."

Unbeknownst to anyone in the crowd that night, a changing of the guard was taking place.

Dartmouth would go on to defeat the Crimson in February before a highly anticipated rematch in the 2000 ECAC semifinals pitted the two teams together again.

Trailing 2-1 late, Harvard freshman Kalen Ingram tied the game with six seconds remaining in regulation to force overtime. For two seasons, the Crimson had lived a charmed existence in close games, always pulling out a victory when the chips were on the table. To the Crimson's suprise, however, it did not continue in the 2000 playoffs and Harvard went down 3-2 in OT.