Saturday night proved a promising start for several of them. Highly touted Jon Pelle skated on the second line, centered by the explosive senior Brendan Bernakevitch, and saw some time on the power play.

Rookies David McDonald and Alex Meintel notched the assists on Reese’s goal, and Meintel took four shots—the only Crimson skaters with more on the night were captain Noah Welch, Cavanagh and Bernakevitch.

And Tyler Magura, who assisted Flynn’s tally, showed little fear, laying out his body on several plays and employing an aggressive offensive game.

“I thought they played very well,” Donato said. “It’s the first game for those guys, so it’s another level and another pace, but I thought they handled it very well for their first time out.”

FIRE AWAY

Harvard took 47 shots on Saturday night—Windsor took eight. But both teams ended up with two goals.

“Even when you [take] a lot of shots,” Cavanagh said, “you’ve got to find a way to put them in, and we didn’t tonight.”

The Crimson outshot the Lancers 15-1, 13-4 and 16-3 in the three regulation periods. Several of Kalleitner’s saves bordered on the spectacular, including one where momentum carried his body in one direction but he managed a glove save in the other.

Harvard also held the overtime shots-on-goal advantage—3-0—but the attempts proved too little, too late. The final seconds, in which the Crimson had a power play and pulled Tobe, produced a scramble around the net. The buzzer sounded as Pelle stabbed towards the Lancers goal, the puck just out of reach.

ON THE MEND

Assistant captain Ryan Lannon missed some practice last week with an injury, as did sophomores Kevin Du and Steve Mandes. Lannon played against Windsor, but neither Mandes, out with a sprained ankle, nor Du, sidelined with a stress fracture, dressed for the contest. Both, however, expect to be ready for next Friday’s matchup against Brown in Providence.

—Staff writer Rebecca A. Seesel can be reached at seesel@fas.harvard.edu.