CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard (4-0-0) kicks off the week with a road contest at cross-town rival Northeastern (7-3-0) on Monday night (7 p.m., NESN) at Matthews Arena. Harvard will play Northeastern in a non-Beanpot contest for the first time since 2012 and will visit Matthews Arena for the first time since Jan. 19, 2011 (L, 3-0). Matthews Arena was once home to the Harvard men's hockey program, and the Crimson played the first hockey game in the rebuilt Matthews Arena over 100 years ago, on Jan. 8, 1921.
This past weekend, Harvard improved to 4-0-0 for the second straight season (2019-20, 2021-22) after earning a home ECAC Hockey sweep against No. 14/15 Cornell (W, 3-2) and Colgate (W, 5-1).
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• Monday's game marks the 104th meeting between Harvard and Northeastern, with Harvard owning a 66-37-0 edge in the series.
• Harvard and Northeastern last met on Feb. 3, 2020 in the opening game of the 2020 Beanpot, with the Huskies earning a 3-1 win over the Crimson. Jack Drury scored Harvard's lone goal and
Mitchell Gibson made 21 saves in net.
• On Saturday night, sophomore forward
Alex Laferriere scored four goals to lead Harvard to a 5-1 win over Colgate at Bright-Landry Hockey Center. Laferriere recorded Harvard's first four-goal game since Ryan Donato '19 scored four on Feb. 10, 2017 against Union and had Harvard's first natural hat trick since Donato's on Dec. 30, 2017 vs. Vermont. First-year forward
Alex Gaffney recorded his first collegiate goal in the contest, and sophomore goalkeeper
Derek Mullahy (23 saves) earned the win in net in his first career start.
• Harvard added 14 first-years and sophomores into the fold after a year away from competition, a group that includes seven NHL draft picks. Within that group are Harvard's top three goal scorers so far this season in
Sean Farrell (5-4-9),
Alex Laferriere (5-1-6), and
Matthew Coronato (3-4-7), four regular defensemen in
Ian Moore (2 assists, +6),
Jack Bar (4 GP),
Kyle Aucoin (4 GP), and
John Fusco (3 GP) and goaltender
Derek Mullahy (1-0-0, 2.39, .909).
At the Helm
Following success as a player, Harvard head coach Ted Donato has compiled a long list of accomplishments as head coach of the Crimson. The former Harvard captain has guided Harvard to four ECAC Hockey titles and three Ivy League championships, claimed six NCAA Tournament berths, coached 13 All-Americans and 17 National Hockey Leaguers. Donato, who won an NCAA Championship as a Harvard player in 1989 and enjoyed a 13-year NHL career, has represented Team USA at the World Junior Championships, multiple World Championships, and was the leading scorer of the 1992 Olympic Team in Albertville, France.
Up Next
Harvard heads to the North Country to take on league foes Clarkson and St. Lawrence on Nov. 12-13. Both games will begin at 7 p.m. and will air on ESPN+.
