“Maybe it was just part of the natural evolution of the game,” he added, “because it was a very, very physical contest throughout.”

For his part, St. Lawrence coach Joe Marsh adamantly denied that the collisions were in any way planned.

“Let me tell you right now,” Marsh said, “there’s no way we would ever run into a goaltender, not ever, especially a guy like that.”

“That’s the only thing that bothers me about the whole game,” he added, “the couple of penalties we took going hard around the net. There’s just no way that this team, that we would ever do that, that we would purposely collide with the goaltender.”

Grumet-Morris finished Friday night’s contest with 33 saves, and he would garner 32 more Saturday night—though not before facing two more close encounters.

At 12:21 in the second period, with Harvard up 1-0, Saints junior T.J. Trevelyan sent the puck towards Grumet-Morris and then followed the shot, knocking the netminder back inside the goalframe.

The Bright Center filled with angry screams as Grumet-Morris stayed on his back, for several moments. Welch materialized by the crease again, ready to defend his backstop, and Trevelyan was sent to the box for charging, negating a St. Lawrence power play.

It was the third and final charge of Grumet-Morris’ weekend, but that didn’t stop Rank—no friend of the goaltender from the night before—from slashing at Grumet-Morris’ pads with less than four minutes to play in the middle period.

Again, the Saints had been skating with the man-advantage, but again, they would lose it for beleaguering Harvard’s goaltender.

“He’s usually not that that type of player,” Marsh said of Rank. “He’s pretty disciplined player, but it was a bad penalty.”

Despite the interlopers in his crease Saturday night, Grumet-Morris set the school record for career minutes, increasing his total to 6,582. He also tied the mark for games played in a career, with 111.

It was a bumpy weekend for Grumet-Morris—but he now has four more records, two more wins, and 55 more saves to his name, and so you wouldn’t have known it unless you were there.

—Staff writer Rebecca A. Seesel can be reached at seesel@fas.harvard.edu.