Welcome to Dominic Moore 101.

Over four seasons of college hockey, Moore, the Crimson captain, has built himself a reputation for teaching opposing defensemen and goaltenders new ways to look foolish.

After Saturday, however, Dominic Moore 101 is also a statement of fact. With five points this weekend, including his milestone 100th, Moore has tallied 101 career points in a Crimson uniform.

Following the game, Moore downplayed the significance of the milestone.

“I actually forgot about it,” Moore said. “I knew I was getting close, but I wasn’t really thinking about it. When they announced it after, that’s when I remembered it.”

Similarly, Harvard coach Mark Mazzoleni appeared genuinely surprised.

“It was what—his 100th point?” Mazzoleni said. “I didn’t know. I have never been a big stats guy.”

Working down low on the power play in the second period, Moore took a perfectly threaded pass from junior forward Tim Pettit at the point.

“I was hoping to get the shot off right away, but it wasn’t quite where I wanted it,” Moore said. “Funny thing is, the defensemen thought I was going to shoot and went down. I just stepped around him, walked into the hole and found the top corner.”

He says it matter-of-factly, as though he could reproduce the same move, the same shot and the same result a dozen times over if given the opportunity.

The goal was classic Moore.

Asked after the game Friday if he was concerned as the team opened the season without a goal in its first 87 minutes, Moore made a slight shrug and quickly dismissed the idea.

“We are a persistent group of guys,” Moore said. “We were just going to keep pushing until it came. I knew once we got one the floodgates would open, and we’d been on track. That’s exactly what happened.”

Just as Saturday’s milestone goal against Vermont was clearly a career highlight for Moore, the Catamounts’ last visit to Cambridge in February 2002 may have been lowest point in Moore’s Harvard career.

Moore spent that night in a suit and tie, watching the action from off the ice after a coach’s decision by Mazzoleni left him as a healthy scratch for the first time in his Harvard career. The Crimson was mired in an eight-game stretch in which it won just once, and a return to national prominence was the farthest thing from most people’s minds.