Junior forward Michael Biega of the Harvard men’s hockey team shined for the Crimson this weekend, scoring his team’s only goal in a 5-1 loss to Quinnipiac and putting the puck away with 57 seconds left in Saturday’s game against Princeton to force a 3-3 tie with the Tigers.

The Qunnipiac men’s hockey team has been a juggernaut lately, and on Friday, the Harvard men’s hockey team did nothing to stand in its way.

Led by forward Eric Lampe—who had a hat trick in the game—the No. 20 Bobcats (8-1-0, 4-0 ECAC) steamrolled the Crimson (1-3-1, 1-3-1 ECAC) in Hamden, Conn. this past weekend, by a score of 5-1.

The game started off slowly, and the first period remained scoreless until the last minute, when Lampe struck with the first goal of the game.

Harvard equalized early in the second, when junior forward Michael Biega slid in the rebound off a shot by freshman Louis Leblanc.

But the Crimson’s luck ended there, as Quinnipiac tallied two more goals in the next six minutes.

Lampe completed his hat trick midway through the third, and an empty net goal completed the Bobcats’ scoring spree.

Quinnipiac outshot Harvard, 33-28, but capitalized on the power play, scoring in two out of eight chances. The Crimson went zero for four.

Harvard felt that it was outplayed, but not outmatched, by the Bobcats.

“On paper, we’re probably better than them,” sophomore forward Alex Killorn said. “We just didn’t play the hockey we wanted to play.”

Quinnipiac has played impressive hockey this season, particularly on the offensive side. The team has scored at least three times in every game and averages 4.2 goals per game.

“They’re having a great season,” Killorn said. “They have a lot of skilled players and they’re pretty good offensively.”

“[Quinnipiac is] a hard-working team,” Leblanc added. “They scored five goals on us…they can produce some offense.”

But the Crimson felt the loss was more a product of its shortcomings than the Bobcats’ talent. Physicality and hustle were issues for Harvard, as were penalties.

“We like to have a hard forecheck, and we weren’t really hitting guys,” Killorn said. “Our shifts were too long…We made too many mistakes.”

“It was one of those games where we were taking a lot of penalties,” Leblanc added. “There was maybe a lack of discipline, [and] we were trying to do too much out there.”