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M. Hockey Records Crumble

The face of Harvard hockey changed last night. Three times.

The Crimson now has a new career-shutout leader in senior Dov Grumet-Morris, who notched his 10th in Harvard’s 3-0 win over Brown.

And coach Ted Donato ’91, who earned his 18th ‘W,’ is now the winningest rookie skipper in Crimson history, passing his own college coach Bill Cleary ’56.

Of course, there’s no forgetting Noah Welch, who set the school career-penalty mark at 125.

“Now he’s the biggest punk in Harvard hockey history,” said assistant coach Sean McCann ’94, beaming proudly at Welch’s accomplishment.

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McCann was, after all, the previous record-holder, with 124.

But as the clock wound down on the final regular-season contest in the Bright Hockey Center, the evening belonged to Grumet-Morris.

The goaltender earned his fifth whitewash of the season—which, coincidentally, ties another team record—and his third in the last four ECAC games.

“I don’t think anyone focuses on that,” he said after the game.

Grumet-Morris thought wrong.

Or maybe he just didn’t hear the crowd’s chants of “Dov! Dov! Dov!” as the buzzer sounded.

Or maybe he wasn’t in earshot last week when Welch said, “I hope he gets it more than anything.”

“I’m so pumped that he got it,” Welch said last night.

“Especially how he got it—the last night here, our last regular-season home game. It was definitely on my mind the whole game tonight as I kept watching the clock.”

All the while, of course, Welch was going for a record of his own.

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