Excluding goalies, that leaves the Crimson with 18 healthy skaters who have varsity experience. The team’s two healthy scratches for the weekend were forward/defenseman Brendan Byrne and defenseman James Cleary.

Robbie recognized

Harvard senior forward Rob Fried is one of 14 recently-announced nominees for the Humanitarian Award, presented annually to college hockey’s finest citizen.

Fried was nominated by the University to receive the honor, and is a good candidate to be one of the finalists to be named on Thursday. Fried applied for and received a grant to run a hockey clinic in Quincy for underprivileged youth of Greater Boston last summer.

The award will be presented Friday, April 9 at Faneuil Hall during the Frozen Four, hosted this year at the FleetCenter.

“He deserves it, after how much work he put into that clinic,” said Kolarik, a close friend of Fried’s since their days at Deerfield Academy. “It couldn’t happen to a better kid. Everything Robbie does is special.”

Two for the price of one

The hit of the weekend came courtesy of Welch. With two minutes left in the first period on Saturday night, Welch closed in on Rensselaer winger Kevin Broad in front of the Engineers’ bench.

With a four-inch, 17-pound size advantage, Welch drove his shoulder into Broad—and lifted him over the dasher and into his own bench.

On his descent, Broad knocked over the team’s backup goalie, junior Andrew Martin. Broad looked dazed as he stood up, but later returned to the game.

Get ‘em while they’re hot

Harvard students who have not otherwise secured tickets to Friday’s sure sellout at home against Cornell can obtain standing room tickets beginning this morning at the Murr Center ticket office.

—Staff writer Jon Paul Morosi can be reached at morosi@fas.harvard.edu.