“We’re spreading the ice out more now,” said Pettit, who scored on an assist from Cavanagh last Friday, and Johnson on Saturday, in the Crimson’s sweep of the Bears. “Charlie’s an amazing passer and a great goal-scorer. He can make plays.”
In three short weeks together, the Johnson-Cavanagh-Pettit line is a combined plus-18.
“They’re scary,” Welch said. “I play against them four days of the week in practice. I feel sorry for other teams’ defensemen.”
So if you want to be nitpicky, sure, you can point out that Pettit, with 10 goals heading into the weekend, may finish with the lowest single-season output of his standout career.
But he doesn’t seem too worried about that. The players around him are scoring instead.
“As long as the puck’s going in the net,” Pettit said, “I’m not going to complain too much.”
—Staff writer Jon Paul Morosi can be reached at morosi@fas.harvard.edu.