{"id":133604,"date":"2022-03-18T23:49:33","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T04:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/?p=133604"},"modified":"2022-03-20T00:09:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-20T05:09:46","slug":"harvard-scores-three-in-the-third-period-to-down-clarkson-earn-berth-in-ecac-hockey-championship-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2022\/03\/18\/harvard-scores-three-in-the-third-period-to-down-clarkson-earn-berth-in-ecac-hockey-championship-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard scores three in the third period to down Clarkson, earn berth in ECAC Hockey championship game"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>
Harvard and Clarkson played a physical game in the second ECAC Hockey semifinal Friday night (photo: Rob Rasmussen).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A year after not playing due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Harvard is one win away from being ECAC Hockey champions.<\/p>\n

The third-seeded Crimson scored three third-period goals to beat No. 2 Clarkson 5-3 in the second semifinal of the night Friday at the Herb Brooks Arena in Lake Placid.<\/p>\n

Harvard will face No. 1 Quinnipiac in the ECAC Hockey championship game Saturday at 7:30 p.m., while Clarkson\u2019s season comes to an end with the loss.<\/p>\n

Friday was the third time in a row that the Crimson and Golden Knights played in the league semifinals; Clarkson won the previous two matchups in 2018 and 2019. It was also the sixth consecutive time that Harvard made the ECAC Hockey semifinals in a full season, a streak that was interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, which brought the college hockey season to an abrupt end in 2020.<\/p>\n

Harvard and the rest of the Ivy League schools then made the decision not to play the following year.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt means a lot,\u201d Harvard captain Nick Abruzzese said of making it to the league title game. \u201cTwo years ago, we were playing some of our best hockey down the stretch and getting it cut short really burned. But being back here now and having gotten through the last two years, we\u2019re really excited that we got to play tonight and that we get to play tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Crimson\u2019s top line of Abruzzese (two goals, two assists), Sean Farrell (goal, two assists), and Matthew Coronato (two goals, two assists) combined to score all five Harvard goals. Alex Campbell had two goals for Clarkson.<\/p>\n

It was an impressive showing by a Crimson team that had a lot of new faces at the start of the season. Now, Harvard will attempt to win its first Whitelaw Cup since the school won two titles in a span of three years during the 2015 and 2017 seasons.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the start of the year, we were really excited with the group that we had,\u201d Farrell said. \u2018We went through some growing pains, but we fully expected to be here and put ourselves in this position. Throughout the year, we\u2019ve been getting better and better and we\u2019ve kind of hit our stride and our playing good hockey right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Crimson were the only team among the four teams in Lake Placid that didn\u2019t play last season. Harvard coach Ted Donato said captains Casey Dornbach and Abruzzese deserve a lot of credit for getting the Crimson ready to play.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you think that over half of your lineup has never played college hockey before\u2026now granted a lot of coaches would like that have the talent that we have in the locker room.\u201d Donato said. \u201cFor us, we had to learn how to play and how to have success. Obviously, we\u2019ve got guys who can get up and the ice make plays, but at this time of year you\u2019ve got to be able to defend, manage the puck, and play with discipline. I thought we showed a level of maturity tonight that we\u2019ve been building upon all year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clarkson led 3-2 heading into the final intermission thanks to second-period goals by Campbell and Zach Tsekos.<\/p>\n

Abruzzese put Harvard up 2-1 at 10:59 in the second, but Campbell scored his second power-play goal of the game 13:11 into the period to tie the score at two.<\/p>\n

Clarkson took the lead less than four minutes later when Ayrton Martino forced a turnover behind the Harvard net and found Tsekos on the right post, who beat Mitchell Gibson (24 saves) to give the Golden Knights a 3-2 lead at 16:52.<\/p>\n

But Harvard tied it on Abruzzese\u2019s second of the game 4:23 into the third, when the Crimson junior pounced on a rebound that had Clarkson goalie Ethan Haider out of position (29 saves) to make the stop.<\/p>\n

The Crimson went ahead for good when Coronato took a pass off the rush from Abruzzese and rifled it past Haider at 15:06. Coronato sealed the win for Harvard with an empty-net goal at 19:49.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo have a lead in the third period and to give it up was disappointing,\u201d Clarkson coach Casey Jones said. \u201cThe last couple weeks, I haven\u2019t felt us to be extremely sharp defensively and playing the right way. It was one of those situations where we were turning pucks over and giving them numbers. We were trying to outscore them instead of negating what they were going to get and counterpunching that way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harvard took a 1-0 lead on Sean Farrell\u2019s goal 8:40 in the opening period. Campbell\u2019s power-play goal pulled Clarkson even at 14:47 in the first.<\/p>\n

But the Crimson were able to come through in the third period and now have the chance to play for a championship.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think as a coach you know there is going to be some learning moments for a young team,\u201d Dontato said. \u201cI\u2019ve been pleasantly pleased with how they have operated as a group. They work every day and never get down on each other. It\u2019s been a really fun group. Tomorrow, we have a chance to do something special and I think it\u2019s because of the chemistry within the locker room.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A year after not playing due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Harvard is one win away from being ECAC Hockey champions. The third-seeded Crimson scored three third-period goals to beat No. 2 Clarkson 5-3 in the second semifinal of the night Friday at the Herb Brooks Arena in Lake Placid. Harvard will face No. 1 Quinnipiac […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":133605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[949],"tags":[812],"coauthors":[846],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nHarvard scores three in the third period to down Clarkson, earn berth in ECAC Hockey championship game - College Hockey | USCHO.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A year after not playing due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Harvard is one win away from being ECAC Hockey champions. The third-seeded Crimson scored three\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133604\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Harvard scores three in the third period to down Clarkson, earn berth in ECAC Hockey championship game - College Hockey | USCHO.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A year after not playing due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Harvard is one win away from being ECAC Hockey champions. The third-seeded Crimson scored three\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133604\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"College Hockey | USCHO.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OfficialUSCHO\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-03-19T04:49:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-03-20T05:09:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/clarkson_harvard_031822.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"700\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"466\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Nate Owen\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@USCHO\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@USCHO\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Nate Owen\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2022\/03\/18\/harvard-scores-three-in-the-third-period-to-down-clarkson-earn-berth-in-ecac-hockey-championship-game\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2022\/03\/18\/harvard-scores-three-in-the-third-period-to-down-clarkson-earn-berth-in-ecac-hockey-championship-game\/\",\"name\":\"Harvard scores three in the third period to down Clarkson, earn berth in ECAC Hockey championship game - College Hockey | USCHO.com\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2022\/03\/18\/harvard-scores-three-in-the-third-period-to-down-clarkson-earn-berth-in-ecac-hockey-championship-game\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2022\/03\/18\/harvard-scores-three-in-the-third-period-to-down-clarkson-earn-berth-in-ecac-hockey-championship-game\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/clarkson_harvard_031822.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-03-19T04:49:33+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-03-20T05:09:46+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/#\/schema\/person\/dfc0085013a2f0bd1f841d734928302f\"},\"description\":\"A year after not playing due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Harvard is one win away from being ECAC Hockey champions. The third-seeded Crimson scored three\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2022\/03\/18\/harvard-scores-three-in-the-third-period-to-down-clarkson-earn-berth-in-ecac-hockey-championship-game\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2022\/03\/18\/harvard-scores-three-in-the-third-period-to-down-clarkson-earn-berth-in-ecac-hockey-championship-game\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2022\/03\/18\/harvard-scores-three-in-the-third-period-to-down-clarkson-earn-berth-in-ecac-hockey-championship-game\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/clarkson_harvard_031822.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/clarkson_harvard_031822.jpg\",\"width\":700,\"height\":466,\"caption\":\"Harvard and Clarkson played a physical game in the second ECAC Hockey semifinal Friday night (photo: Rob Rasmussen).\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2022\/03\/18\/harvard-scores-three-in-the-third-period-to-down-clarkson-earn-berth-in-ecac-hockey-championship-game\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Harvard scores three in the third period to down Clarkson, earn berth in ECAC Hockey championship game\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/\",\"name\":\"College Hockey | USCHO.com\",\"description\":\"Men's and Women's D-I and D-III College Hockey News, Features, Scores, Statistics, Fan Forum, Blogs\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/#\/schema\/person\/dfc0085013a2f0bd1f841d734928302f\",\"name\":\"Nate Owen\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/e24681756c9384119a6e2bdf12234b71\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b17ef77dd02a159f8bc4ce5dc6995ec2?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b17ef77dd02a159f8bc4ce5dc6995ec2?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Nate Owen\"},\"description\":\"ECAC Hockey Columnist Nate Owen is the ECAC Hockey columnist for USCHO. He has written for the site since 2009, and has covered the ECAC since 2011.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/author\/nate-owen\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Harvard scores three in the third period to down Clarkson, earn berth in ECAC Hockey championship game - College Hockey | USCHO.com","description":"A year after not playing due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Harvard is one win away from being ECAC Hockey champions. The third-seeded Crimson scored three","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133604","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Harvard scores three in the third period to down Clarkson, earn berth in ECAC Hockey championship game - College Hockey | USCHO.com","og_description":"A year after not playing due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Harvard is one win away from being ECAC Hockey champions. The third-seeded Crimson scored three","og_url":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133604","og_site_name":"College Hockey | USCHO.com","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OfficialUSCHO\/","article_published_time":"2022-03-19T04:49:33+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-03-20T05:09:46+00:00","og_image":[{"width":700,"height":466,"url":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/clarkson_harvard_031822.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Nate Owen","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@USCHO","twitter_site":"@USCHO","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Nate Owen","Est. reading time":"5 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2022\/03\/18\/harvard-scores-three-in-the-third-period-to-down-clarkson-earn-berth-in-ecac-hockey-championship-game\/","url":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2022\/03\/18\/harvard-scores-three-in-the-third-period-to-down-clarkson-earn-berth-in-ecac-hockey-championship-game\/","name":"Harvard scores three in the third period to down Clarkson, earn berth in ECAC Hockey championship game - College Hockey | USCHO.com","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2022\/03\/18\/harvard-scores-three-in-the-third-period-to-down-clarkson-earn-berth-in-ecac-hockey-championship-game\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2022\/03\/18\/harvard-scores-three-in-the-third-period-to-down-clarkson-earn-berth-in-ecac-hockey-championship-game\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/clarkson_harvard_031822.jpg","datePublished":"2022-03-19T04:49:33+00:00","dateModified":"2022-03-20T05:09:46+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/#\/schema\/person\/dfc0085013a2f0bd1f841d734928302f"},"description":"A year after not playing due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Harvard is one win away from being ECAC Hockey champions. The third-seeded Crimson scored three","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2022\/03\/18\/harvard-scores-three-in-the-third-period-to-down-clarkson-earn-berth-in-ecac-hockey-championship-game\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2022\/03\/18\/harvard-scores-three-in-the-third-period-to-down-clarkson-earn-berth-in-ecac-hockey-championship-game\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2022\/03\/18\/harvard-scores-three-in-the-third-period-to-down-clarkson-earn-berth-in-ecac-hockey-championship-game\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/clarkson_harvard_031822.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/clarkson_harvard_031822.jpg","width":700,"height":466,"caption":"Harvard and Clarkson played a physical game in the second ECAC Hockey semifinal Friday night (photo: Rob Rasmussen)."},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2022\/03\/18\/harvard-scores-three-in-the-third-period-to-down-clarkson-earn-berth-in-ecac-hockey-championship-game\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Harvard scores three in the third period to down Clarkson, earn berth in ECAC Hockey championship game"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/","name":"College Hockey | USCHO.com","description":"Men's and Women's D-I and D-III College Hockey News, Features, Scores, Statistics, Fan Forum, Blogs","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/#\/schema\/person\/dfc0085013a2f0bd1f841d734928302f","name":"Nate Owen","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/e24681756c9384119a6e2bdf12234b71","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b17ef77dd02a159f8bc4ce5dc6995ec2?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b17ef77dd02a159f8bc4ce5dc6995ec2?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Nate Owen"},"description":"ECAC Hockey Columnist Nate Owen is the ECAC Hockey columnist for USCHO. He has written for the site since 2009, and has covered the ECAC since 2011.","url":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/author\/nate-owen\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133604"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133607,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133604\/revisions\/133607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133604"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=133604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}