CAMBRIDGE, MASS. – Harvard men's hockey is set to close the regular season with a pair of games against Ivy rivals Yale and Brown. Harvard will open the weekend with Yale to close out the season series before hosting its annual senior night on Saturday against Brown. The action will begin at 7:00 p.m. on ESPN+ against both Brown and Yale. 
 
The Crimson will honor seniors Max Miller, Ryan Drkulec, and Derek Mullahy post-game on Saturday as part of the senior day celebrations. 
 
WHAT TO KNOW 
 
LAST TIME OUT 

• The Crimson fell last Friday to Union via a 6-2 decision in the first game of the back-to-back. 
• Michael Callow and Zakary Karpa scored in the third period. 
• Callow added two points in the effort on Friday. 
• Harvard bounced back with a shoot-out win over RPI on Saturday after two third-period comebacks. 
• Ryan Fine scored his first goal since January 5^th against Arizona State to tie the game at one early in the third. 
• Harvard was down by one with less than two minutes to go until Casey Severo tied the game at two after a shot from the top of the circles found its way through traffic. 
• Marek Hejduk and Alex Gaffney scored in the shootout to pick up the extra point. 
• Aku Koskenvuo made 35 stops in a big performance between the pipes. 35 stops was the most the Finnish netminder has made in a game where the Crimson picked up at least a point since November 3^rd. 
   

SCOUTING THE COMPEITION

• The Crimson split the Brown and Yale trip earlier in the season. 
• Falling to Brown in the weekend opener the Crimson bounced back with a 1-0 shutout win over Yale on Saturday. 
• The win over Yale was Ted Donato's 300^th victory. 
• Brown fell in both games last weekend to Quinnipiac and Princeton – getting outscored 10-3 in the two games. Having lost their last five games, the Bears now sit in last in the conference with 20 points. 
• Yale hasn't won a game in regulation since February 9^th when it defeated the Bears 3-1 at home. 

 
PLAYOFF UPDATE 

• Harvard currently sits in eighth place in the ECAC standings. 
• With 25 points the Crimson can reach up to 31 points with two regulation wins this weekend which would push them up into a position to host a first-round matchup at Bright-Landry. 
• If the playoffs started today, the Crimson would play Princeton at home in a first-round matchup. 
• With fifth place and 12^th place only separated by nine points – seeding will likely be decided after all games are complete on Saturday. 

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