“If you give [the puck] to a kid like Jimmy, he’s going to score that goal every time,” McNally said. “It’s nice to get an overtime win, which we really haven’t had this year.”

Prior to the goal, the Golden Knights had stifled the Harvard offense for most of the night, holding the team to just 17 shots. But Clarkson could not get any of its 31 attempts past Michalek. The goalkeeper had also stopped 31 Golden Knight shots in the teams’ first matchup earlier this season.

Michalek enabled Harvard to force overtime with a clutch performance in the final minutes of regulation. With 4:47 left in the third period, senior defenseman Danny Fick was whistled for making contact with an opponent’s head and issued a game misconduct, negating a Crimson power play and giving Clarkson a man advantage for the final 2:47 of the frame. But four saves from the Crimson goaltender led to the fifth successful kill of the night for the nation’s third-best penalty-killing unit.

Harvard’s three-game winning streak was its first such regular season run since the team won its last three contests in 2011. The victory also marks the Crimson’s fifth consecutive defeat of the Golden Knights at Cheel Arena.

Following the successful weekend, the squad looks to continue its hot streak and prepare for the upcoming postseason.

“We need to start getting points and moving up in the standings so that we can get home ice for the first round of the playoffs,” McNally said. “So every game we have to come out and get one or hopefully two points.”

—Staff writer Kurt T. Bullard can be reached at kurtbullard@college.harvard.edu.

—Staff writer Jake T. Meagher can be reached at jmeagher@college.harvard.edu.