Goaltender: Dustin Traylen 14-14-5, 2.60 GAA and .918 save percentage
The only team that can make a credible contention that it has more momentum than Harvard is the Golden Knights of Clarkson. The Knights have won four of five playoff games, all of them on the road.
Clarkson’s playoff trip began at Union, where the team won by an eight-goal margin in two games. Next, the Knights were handed the unenviable task of heading into Lynah Rink and trying to take two of three games from Cornell.
Against the odds, Clarkson succeeded, out-muscling and out-skating the Big Red in their own barn. After dropping game one 5-1, the Knights rallied, led by three goals from Faulkner and solid performances in net by Traylen.
They survived a 5-4 shootout in game two and dominated Cornell start-to-finish in the deciding game three.
Nothing in Albany will quite compare with the crowd and the atmosphere at Lynah, so all Clarkson will have to do is prove it can consistently beat Colgate and either Harvard or Dartmouth, a task at which it has struggled all season.
—Staff writer Timothy M. McDonald can be reached at tmcdonal@fas.harvard.edu.