Said Mazzoleni: “That changed the complexion of the game.”
It absolutely did. Harvard outshot the ninth-seeded Golden Knights, 19-6, over the final two periods, but it took Smith’s late strike for the Crimson to finally foil Clarkson’s bid to become the lowest seed to win the Whitelaw.
Senior Dennis Packard scored an empty-netter with 12.7 seconds remaining to ensure that his senior class would be the first in Harvard history to graduate with two ECAC titles.
“This,” Smith marveled, “is perfect.”
—Staff writer Jon Paul Morosi can be reached at morosi@fas.harvard.edu.
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