The Crimson saw its last, best chance with less than a minute remaining, when Grumet-Morris had been pulled for an extra skater. But as it had all night, the puck merely floated through the BC crease with nobody on the other side to tap it in.
Harvard took 14 shots in the final frame—four more than it had in the first two combined—but the Eagles defense never lost a step.
An empty-netter with 15 second remaining pushed the score to 4-1, and BC ended the night with 42 shots to Harvard’s 24.
“I don’t always agree that the shot total [can be used] to describe who is winning or losing,” Donato later said, “but certainly, when it’s that wide a margin, there’s got to be some reason for it. I thought they outplayed us for the majority of the game.”
And that might well prove costly as the Crimson’s regular season draws to a close.
—Staff writer Rebecca A. Seesel can be reached at seesel@fas.harvard.edu.