With 7:36 remaining, Seth Goldberg scored his third goal of the game for the Bulldogs. Yale won the ensuing faceoff and 13 seconds later Michael Scaglione also capped off a hat-trick.

The Crimson continued to battle, making big hits and diving to win possession as balls went out of bounds, but the Bulldogs’ shots were finding the back of the net and Harvard’s offense could not come up with a response.

The seniors took the loss in their last career home game and final contest against the Bulldogs especially hard.

“It’s not hard to get fired up for Harvard-Yale,” Kane said. “All of the seniors put their heart and soul into the game and I just feel bad we couldn’t give it to them.”

“For all of the seniors it was a really meaningful night and it’s really disappointing that we couldn’t get the win,” Primm said.

The Crimson returns to action on Saturday when it travels to South Bend, Ind. to face No. 19 Notre Dame.

“I don’t think anybody is going to have their heads down for long,” Kane said. “It hurts right now, but we’ll come back strong.”