But still no goal.
Five shots and 60 minutes into Game 2, still nothing. Not even an assist on this night. Though his passes had been crisp in the game’s first three periods, Cavanagh seemed to be just a step ahead of his teammates.
The same preternatural passes weren’t being reeled in at the other end. Then Pettit’s apparent overtime winner appeared to send his slump into double-digits.
Then a paradoxical reprieve. No win, but another shot.
“I bet myself that Tommy was going to score,” assistant captain Tyler Kolarik. “And I was right.”
Blasting home the game-winner off Dylan Reese’s rebound, Cavanagh ended the "down" stretch, Brown’s season and the argument for anyone doubting the Crimson’s postseason viability.
“What,” Bertrand said way back when, “would Harvard be without [three-time All-American] Joe Cavanagh?”
Probably right about where its 2004 incarnation would be without Tom.