Kolarik gave Harvard the lead just minutes after Nowak’s strike. Set up on a power play, Moore directed the puck to junior forward Tim Pettit, who was stationed behind the net.

Drawing Big Green defenders with him, Pettit deftly shoveled a pass towards an awaiting Kolarik, who made no mistake lifting the puck over the shoulder of Boucher.

Moore widened the margin less than three minutes later. While skating four-on-four, defenseman Kenny Smith threaded a nice pass to the Harvard captain, who finished with a wrist shot beyond an outstretched Boucher.

Dartmouth was able to make the game interesting late in the third. After Grumet-Morris denied Ouellette on a shot from the slot, forward Lee Stempniak snuck a shot off the rebound past the Crimson netminder, cutting the lead to one.

But that’s as close as Darmouth came to winning the game, as Moore iced the contest with an empty net goal with 18 ticks left on the clock. Kolarik ended the scoring with his second goal of the night with only two seconds remaining.

The three-goal margin of victory did not reflect how closely this game was contested. Dartmouth skated with Harvard for much of the game, relinquishing goals that accounted for the wide margin only late in regulation.

“In the third period,” Mazzoleni said, “they were down and they were starting to take some chances, which opened up the game. It was the same thing last week at Brown. When you’re down, you’ve got to try to be more chancy than you’d like and consequently that bodes toward the other team’s output.”

Grumet–Morris finished with 37 saves for Harvard while his Dartmouth counterpart Boucher finished with 28.