DOM MOORE<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Moore finished his hat trick with two goals in less than two minutes of the second, both on the power play. From behind the net, assistant captain Chris Bala hit Moore at the right faceoff circle and Moore rung it around the net inside the top right corner and out the other side, at 1:37.<\/p>\n
For the third tally — Moore’s eighth of the season — his older brother, Steve, controlled the puck around the left faceoff circle and found Dom creeping into the low slot, where Moore roofed it over Marsters’ glove at 3:18.<\/p>\n
All three goals by Moore came on very hard, accurate shots.<\/p>\n
“I was feeling especially accurate in warmups today,” Moore said. “It was my first collegiate hat trick, that was something very special.”<\/p>\n
RPI coach Dan Fridgen tried, with futility, to downplay Moore’s feat after the game.<\/p>\n
“Harvard did a good job finding him when he was open,” Fridgen said. “It doesn’t take Mario Lemieux to score the goals he did. You could’ve put them in with one arm on the stick.”<\/p>\n
Bala netted a goal at 2:22 of the third period, on assists from Tim Petit and Dom Moore, to open a 4-1 lead as Harvard took the offensive to RPI and certainly controlled the game physically.<\/p>\n
The always dangerous Engineers did manage 43 shots for the tilt, but only really sustained pressure on Crimson goalie Oli Jonas in the latter stages of the second period; Jonas was his usual spectacular self.<\/p>\n
He robbed RPI sniper Nolan Graham on a two-on-one with around 6:30 left in the second. Graham waited just above the crease and picked his spot, but Jonas snatched the puck with his glove.<\/p>\n
RPI definitely missed two of its top offensive players, Marc Cavosie, who is still on his way back from the World Junior tournament in Moscow, and sophomore surprise Carson Butterwick, who suffered a back injury the previous night at Brown.<\/p>\n
“The team we had on the ice tonight was good enough to beat Harvard,” Fridgen said. “We could’ve done better offensively. We made Jonas look like a superstar with the shots we took.”<\/p>\n
Harvard, however, was without one of its best offensive players; sophomore Brett Nowak also was representing the U.S. in Russia. Moreover, defenseman Aaron Kim was serving the first of a two-game suspension he received for a game disqualification penalty against Union. Kim’s ineligibility, plus the possibly season-ending shoulder injury to junior Graham Morrell, left Harvard with effectively only five defensemen. Junior Leif Ericson dressed, but did not see any ice time at the blueline.<\/p>\n
With Kenny Smith now in the lineup, that meant three of Harvard’s five defensemen were freshmen.<\/p>\n
“We are still giving up too many shots per game, that is a component of our inexperience on defense,” Mazzoleni said. “But our young guys are starting to get comfortable because they’ve been seeing a lot of ice time in different situations.”<\/p>\n
Ryan Shields brought the Engineers within two goals at 8:17 of the third, but Kolarik netted an unusual shorthanded strike to restore a comfortable three-goal cushion at 9:51. The freshman led a two-on-two rush down the right wing that was degenerating to a two-on-one. He slid a pass over to Petit, but an RPI defender dove down to breakup the pass. He did, but he ended up sliding himself and the puck into the net.<\/p>\n
The victory has tremendous early season implications for Harvard. The Crimson currently stand in first place in the ECAC, but after a set at Yale and Princeton next weekend, will go into its exam break while the rest of the league will catch up in games. RPI has three games in hand with Harvard, but the Crimson has a six-point lead in the standings, meaning all those games in hand are wins.<\/p>\n
Harvard has not started off a season this well in the ECAC since 1993-94, when it went to the Frozen Four.<\/p>\n
The loss derailed RPI a little bit. The Engineers had gone 7-1-1 in their previous nine on its way to the best national ranking in the ECAC.<\/p>\n
The last time a Harvard player netted a hat trick against RPI was in a 6-4 loss at Houston Field House on Jan. 9, 1998. The Crimson captain that year, Jeremiah McCarthy, pulled off the surprising triple in a game that also featured a rare goal by winger Doug Sproule, but Harvard lost anyway thanks to a little offensive show by Danny Riva.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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