“[Moore] is so good with the puck,” Fried said. “You just have to pick for him to give him room and he’ll produce.”

Although McKenna turned aside a breakaway bid from Crimson sophomore winger Tim Pettit near the period’s halfway mark, Harvard was able to cut SLU’s lead to one at 12:55 of the frame on Cavanagh’s fifth goal of the season.

“[Freshman forward] Andrew Lederman was battling in the corner and chipped the puck to me,” Cavanagh said. “I chipped it back to him in front, and he got it to the net. I was coming back from the behind the net and picked it up in front. I just turned around and shot it. Luckily it went in.”

The Crimson tied the score less than a minute and a half later on what proved to be the game’s final goal. Working from behind the end line, Capouch fired a shot toward the front of the net that kicked off McKenna’s skate and into the cage to make it 3-3.

“I’m not going to say I was trying to score a goal,” Capouch said with a laugh. “It was just one of those scrambled plays. I was trying to throw it out in front and it went in.”

From his speech in the locker room to his game-tying score, it seemed that all aspects of Harvard’s comeback could be traced to the Crimson captain.

“He’s been the heart of our team all year long,” Fried said of Capouch. “He realized how important it was that we didn’t wait until it was too late.”

St. Lawrence outshot Harvard by a 4-1 margin during overtime, but Crimson sophomore goaltender Will Crothers made sure that his team skated away with a crucial point in the ECAC standings.

Capouch said that the deadlock almost felt like a win for Harvard, considering its early deficit.

“You never like to end the game in a tie, but I think it was a good step for our team to come back and compete really hard for 20 minutes,” he said. “You could sense on the bench that we had gotten the confidence back that we had a shot to win. Now we just have to keep building on that energy.”

The contest was scoreless for much of the first period, but Saint defenseman Jimmy Ball put a rebound past Crothers top-shelf with 2:50 to go for a 1-0 SLU advantage.

St. Lawrence winger Andy Marchetti potted a pair of second-period goals—the first coming at 13:26 of the period and the second a little more than three minutes later—to open up a 3-0 Saint lead.

SLU’s early advantage seemed even more daunting to Harvard considering the absences of Kolarik and Nowak, who are first and third on the team in scoring, respectively. Both were scratched by Mazzoleni, leaving the Crimson with only 17 skaters instead of the standard 18.

“I think the message that was trying to be sent [by Mazzoleni] was that this is a team, we have to play like a team all the time, and no one person is bigger than the team,” Capouch said. “We have a lot of great players and everybody can contribute. That’s what we need down the stretch.”

Crothers finished with 33 saves for the Crimson, while McKenna made 23 stops for SLU. Both teams went 0-for-4 in their power play chances.