No. 14 Men's Hockey Completes Season Sweep of Harvard

Friday, February 6

Bright-Landry Hockey Center / Cambridge, Mass.

7:00 PM

Dartmouth College

17-6-1, 11-4-1

Harvard

12-10-1, 10-6-0

Dartmouth

Harvard

No. 14 Men's Hockey Completes Season Sweep of Harvard

2/6/2026 11:52:00 PM | Men's Ice Hockey

Box Score

By: Dan Richeal

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—No. 14 Dartmouth men's hockey completed the season sweep of Harvard on Friday night in Cambridge. The Big Green defeated the Crimson 3-1 at Bright-Landry Hockey Center.

The Big Green opened the scoring at the 9:24 mark of the opening frame. Hadyen Stavroff skated the puck deep into the Harvard zone and fired a shot towards the net from the right circle. The shot was turned away but Nikita Nikora drove the net and found the loose puck and buried his fifth goal of the season. Stavroff notched his 11^th assist of the year while Colin Grable notched his 10th assist as he was credited with the secondary assist.

Less than two minutes later, Harvard tied the game at one.

Dartmouth outshot Harvard 12-7 in the opening frame while also winning 15 of 25 faceoffs to open the game.

The tie game lasted just 2:03 into the second period. As a power play was coming to an end, the Big Green won a battle on the half wall and Andrew Clarke fed a pass to the point to Cooper Cleaves. C. Cleaves found Matt Fusco across from him and fired him a pass. Fusco moved to the top of the circle and picked the top right corner of the net for his third goal of the season. C. Cleaves notched his fifth assist while it was Clarke's eighth.

Dartmouth held onto the lead for the rest of the second period while also outshooting Harvard 9-5 in the second frame.

At the exact midway point of the third period, the Big Green added an insurance goal. Alex Krause picked up a loose puck behind the net after Grable played the puck behind the net. Krause skated to the half wall and curled back towards the net. He saw Austin Salani in the low slot and fired pass towards him. Salani got his stick on it and redirected it home for his first collegiate goal. Dartmouth took a 3-1 lead as Krause picked up his fifth assist of the year and Grable picked up his 11^th assist.

Harvard tallied 10 shots in the third period, but Emmett Croteau was perfect in the third to secure the 3-1 win. He made 21 saves as he notched his 10^th win of the season. He improved his goals against average to 1.71 while his save percentage is now .930. He leads the ECAC in both categories.

Dartmouth blocked 16 shots with Jack Silverberg, Eric Charpentier, CJ Foley, Tucker McRae, Cam MacDonald, and Clarke each blocking two shots.

Grable tallied his fourth two point game of the season, two of the four have come against Harvard.

The Big Green won 54% of the faceoffs in the game by going 34-29. Hank Cleaves won 14 of 23 draws for a game best 60.9 winning percentage. Brock Cummings won 12 faceoffs for the Big Green.

Dartmouth is now 4-0-0 against Harvard over the last two seasons.

The Big Green continue their five game road trip on Friday, February 13 at Yale at 7 PM.