Senior winger TYLER KOLARIK (16) had a goal and an assist in the men's hockey team's 3-0 win over St. Lawrence Friday night at Bright Hockey Center, but he and the rest of the Crimson were blanked Saturday night by Clarkson and fell by the same score

In a weekend that saw two shutouts on the Bright Hockey Center’s ice, the No. 14 Harvard men’s hockey team (4-3-1, 3-3-1 ECAC) looked impressive in a 3-0 win over St. Lawrence but looked decidedly less so in a 3-0 loss to Clarkson the following evening.

That loss snapped a three-game winning streak for the Crimson, which despite preseason prognostications of greatness stands tied for third place in the ECAC. All three of Harvard’s losses this season have come on home ice.

Clarkson 3, Harvard 0

In stark contrast to Harvard’s win over St. Lawrence was the team’s blanking at the hands of goaltender Dustin Traylen and the Clarkson Golden Knights (6-4-3, 3-3-1). The Knights 3-0 win marked the first time the skaters from Potsdam, N.Y. have ever shut out the Crimson.

Harvard fired 31 shots at Traylen, five more than the number they sent at Saints goalie Mike McKenna, but the team was unable to find the back of the net.

“I thought our goaltender played very well tonight,” Clarkson coach George Roll said. “He made some key saves, especially early on during the five-on-three in the first period. He gave us some momentum.”

“It comes down to your goaltender...[Traylen] made some unbelievable saves,” Roll said.

Traylen was helped, in large part, by Harvard’s inefficient power play, which recorded nine shots on six man-advantages, and resulted in no goals.

“It’s very difficult to score when you don’t capitalize on the power play,” Harvard coach Mark Mazzoleni said. “We had a five-on-three situation in the first period. We had numerous opportunities thereafter, and we didn’t finish.”

The first opportunity that Mazzoleni referenced was an extended Harvard power play in the early moments of the first period. At 4:04, Clarkson’s Mike Nagai was whistled off for holding, and he was joined in the box right after when Chris Brekelmans was whistled for roughing. The two penalties gave the Crimson 1:32 of a five-on-three advantage, but the Crimson couldn’t capitalize and Clarkson gained confidence and momentum thanks to its strong penalty killing.

“I don’t know how many power plays they had, but I really thought our penalty kill did a great job,” Roll said.

Before coming up empty against Clarkson, Harvard’s power play had begun to look like the potent unit of a year ago, scoring a special teams’ goal against St. Lawrence and two against Boston University.

“[Clarkson] played really aggressive,” Crimson captain Kenny Smith said. “They were all over us in all three zones.”

That pressure showed in the number of odd-man rushes that the Knights had on junior goaltender Dov Grumet-Morris, who came up with two spectacular saves on breakaways to hold Clarkson to one goal and to keep Harvard in the game.

The Golden Knights first got on the scoreboard in the first period when their own power play unit took advantage of a failed clear. Junior center Mac Faulkner fired a pass cross-ice to Chris Blight at the face-off circle on the left, and Blight one-timed a hard shot over Grumet-Morris’ right shoulder.