CHESTNUT HILL, Mass.—With his team outshot for the third straight game—this time by a 38-18 margin—Harvard goaltender Dov Grumet-Morris had to produce nothing less than a career night to steal a victory from No. 2 Boston College.

Instead, Grumet-Morris was only spectacular—plain, old spectacular—the same way he’s been for the last month. And, as has become painfully routine, that wasn’t enough.

Outside of a shaky, sharp-angle goal in the first period by noted marksman Patrick Eaves, Grumet-Morris stopped every puck he saw—and some he probably didn’t—en route to a 35-save performance. But he could not overcome the Eagles’ slippery forwards and sizzling special teams alone as the Crimson fell, 3-2, before 4,862 at Kelley Rink.

“That first goal was not a good goal—everyone in the building knew that—but other than that, he was outstanding,” Harvard coach Mark Mazzoleni said. “He’s been outstanding for us for about four weeks now.

“Unfortunately, he’s not getting rewarded with any W’s.”

Despite having the fourth-best goals-against average in the nation (1.67), Grumet-Morris is 4-4-1. His team is 5-5-1 (4-4-1 ECAC), has lost two straight overall and is winless in its last eight games against the Eagles.

BC (11-2-3, 6-0-2 Hockey East) hasn’t lost since Oct. 24. The Crimson, meanwhile, lost for the second time this year when scoring first—something it did only once all last season.

Harvard sophomore Charlie Johnson gave his team its quickest lead since Dec. 29, 1999 (Dominic Moore ’03 scored 19 seconds into a 5-2 loss at Minnesota). Brendan Bernakevitch stripped BC defenseman Greg Lauze at the Harvard blue line and hit Johnson for a 2-on-1 goal at 1:24 of the first. It was the Crimson’s first shot of the game.

The teams traded power-play goals in rapid succession, with Harvard’s the more surprising of the two, since the Eagles owned the nation’s best penalty kill going into the game.

But within four seconds of the Eaves goal, BC’s Stephen Gionta went off for tripping and on came the Crimson’s new-look power play, with Noah Welch and Tim Pettit as the two point men, instead of Pettit, Welch, Tom Cavanagh across the top.

It took just 17 seconds for Pettit to thread a cross-ice pass to Bernakevitch, a new addition to the unit. He one-timed it past out-of-position BC netminder Matti Kaltiainen, giving Harvard a 2-1 lead at 7:11.

“Nice pass,” said Bernakevitch, who had a goal and assist in the game. “I had the whole net to shoot at.”

It was the Crimson’s second goal on three shots and was only the seventh power-play goal the Eagles have allowed in 16 games this season.

It also ended Harvard’s scoring for the night.

The Crimson allowed BC to tie it back up on the power play about nine minutes later. The play was set up the same way—with Eaves working behind the net—but this time he slipped a pass to the bottom of the circle, where Tony Voce was there for the one-timer.