“[It was a] big goal,” Donato added. “We needed to find a way to put us over the top in a game.”

The score came a period after Killorn tied the game at 2-2. Fifty-five seconds into the second, the forward took a pass from junior defenseman Danny Biega, flew up the left side of the rink from the blue line, skated around the net, and beat Malcolm inside the right post for a forehanded wraparound score.

One day later, Killorn was back at it against the Bears.

In four-on-four play, the senior moved into the slot and fired the puck off the left post past Brown goaltender Mike Clemente to put the Crimson up, 2-1, 12:18 into the final period.

“I was trailing [senior forward Eric] Kroshus,” Killorn said. “He dropped it back to me, I kind of did a fake shot, went around the D, and luckily I took a shot and it hit the post and went in.”

The three goals on the weekend gave Killorn a team-high 14 on the season, tied for third best in the ECAC. The Tampa Bay Lightning draftee also leads the squad with 26 points—fourth in the conference—and is second with 12 assists.

“Alex has been a good player for us for the past three years, but this year he’s turned it up to a whole new level,” senior forward Daniel Moriarty said. “He’s one of the best players in the league, if not in the country.... We hope he’s going to continue to score down the stretch for us.”

For his part, Killorn is just planning on doing whatever he can to help the team maintain its newfound winning touch.

“It’s frustrating to be in so many tight games,” Killorn said. “But we also look at it optimistically, in the sense that a lot of those ties have been on the road. [Now] we’ve got a stretch at home where I feel like we could turn some of those ties into wins.”

—Staff writer Scott A. Sherman can be reached at ssherman13@college.harvard.edu.