Five minutes into the game, Nowak made a beautiful play that eventually led to Harvard's first goal.
Nowak stole the puck between the circles, jumped over a sliding defender, and fired a bullet on Dobrowski, who had to slide to his right to make the save. The rebound bounced to Turano, who retrieved the puck and shot it into the top of the net to give the Crimson the early 1-0 lead.
Four minutes later, Bala backhanded a shot five-hole to go up 2-0. Harvard wasn't done yet, and tallied again on the power play at 12:12.
Sophomore center Dominic Moore approached Dobrowski down the middle and deflected a pass from Turano under Dobrowski's right pad to increase the lead to 3-0.
Harvard reshuffled its power play for Friday and it paid off.
"We're running two different power play schemes," Mazzoleni said. "I don't think we've run a better power play all season than that first one today."
The Bulldogs however, were fighting for home ice in the first round as well, and had plenty of firepower to get back in the game. Yale had scored 19 goals in its previous three games and so it was confident it could come back.
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