And the first shot was all Mifsud got off. He didn’t try a fake and Grumet-Morris stuffed his attempt at going five-hole.

Vermont would have other quality scoring chances, but Grumet-Morris and the Harvard defense, playing a conservative game, stopped them all.

“I thought we were composed and really battled hard in the third,” Mazzoleni said

That composure helped maintain a slim Crimson lead, despite missing sophomore defenseman Ryan Lannon for most of the game, and Kolarik later on with a badly banged knee. Those losses forced Mazzoleni to shuffle his lines, and gave a fresh-legs advantage to the fast-skating Catamounts.

Clinging to a 3-2 lead with under two minutes to go, Gilligan pulled Conschafter in favor of an extra skater on a faceoff. That backfired, however, as Moore made a tremendous play to ice the game, intercepting a pass on the forecheck and notching an empty net goal.

“It was an unbelievable interception, cross ice—it was a gun coming across the ice,” Gilligan said.

Pettit added another empty-netter a minute later, making the final score 5-2, and ending a road trip sweep for Harvard.

“You come into anyone’s building—like Dartmouth and Vermont—and come out with two victories, it’s a very big weekend for us,” Mazzoleni said.

—Staff writer Timothy M. McDonald can be reached at tmcdonal@fas.harvard.edu.