At the 8:43 mark of the period, Cory Hibbeler added Quinnipiac’s fifth score off a draw in the defensive zone.

“It was a game of mistakes,” Girard said. “For every team it’s the same.... If you turn the puck over you’re going to [allow] shots.”

Fallstrom added a power-play goal—his third goal of the season—with four seconds to go in the period.

“We were on the five-on-three,” Fallstrom explained. “[Freshman] Colin Blackwell got the puck up to [captain] Danny Biega at the point. He shot it and it just kind of hit my stick—it was lucky—and it went in.”

Traber saved 21 of 22 shots in the third to limit the bleeding. Mike Dalhulsen scored the Bobcats’ lone goal of the period with six seconds remaining, putting the icing on the cake of the dominant win.

Harvard was outshot by a 39-to-23 margin on the night and Quinnipiac won sixty percent of the contest’s faceoffs.

“Everybody’s got to step up their game,” Girard said. “We’ve got a tough schedule, but we’re a tough team. We’ve got a lot of talent; we’ve got to lay it on the line, keep working hard, and the results will come.”

“We’re obviously disappointed,” Fallstrom added. “But we can’t think too much about it, since we’ve got a big one coming up Wednesday against [No. 6/9] BU.”

--Staff Writer Scott A. Sherman can be reached at ssherman13@college.harvard.edu