Saturday appeared to offer much more of the same. Grumet-Morris faced just two shots during the first period, despite a pair of power plays for Vermont.

The Catamounts mustered a more cohesive attack in the second, but with a stalwart defensive effort from the blueliners in front of him, Grumet-Morris was barely threatened, casually brushing aside the additional challenges to his net.

“Our defensemen and our forwards’ backchecking have been fantastic,” Grumet-Morris said. “They’re limiting the opposing team to a certain number of shots per game and they’re keeping it to the perimeter, which keeps my job easier. I think that the lower goals-against average is 100 percent because of our defensive play.”

But with the third period underway and Vermont’s season hanging in the balance, the Catamounts launched an all-out offensive on Grumet-Morris’ net, doing so with a renewed urgency following Harvard’s fourth goal.

Taking the puck straight into the Crimson end, Vermont peppered Grumet-Morris with shots, with Scott Misfud’s tally at 4:55 finally ending his shutout streak at 184:23.

Unfazed by the tally, Grumet-Morris would allow no additional even-strength goals, beaten only when the Catamounts’ attack featured at least two more skaters than the Harvard defense.

OF NOTE

The Crimson tallied a pair of power-play goals against UVM, one in each game. The scores extended Harvard’s recent string of success with an extra skater, as the Crimson has now scored a power-play goal in eight of its last 10 games…Sophomore Tom Walsh was the odd man out on defense this weekend, held out by Mazzoleni in both contests.

—Staff writer Timothy J. McGinn can be reached at mcginn@fas.harvard.edu.