CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Men's hockey returns to Bright-Landry to host RPI for its final test before the Beanpot on Monday.

PUCK DROP

• Puck drop is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. on Friday and will stream on ESPN+.

LAST TIME OUT

• Harvard split the weekend in western New York following a win over Colgate and a loss to No. 12 Cornell.
• Mick Thompson led the Crimson in scoring over the weekend with three points in two games.
• Donato Bracco scored his first career goal against Colgate to give Harvard a 1-0 lead.

SERIES HISTORY

• RPI is the only team this season that the Crimson have yet to see.
• Harvard swept the Engineers in all three games they played last season including the first round of the ECAC playoffs.
• Harvard leads the all-time series 67-41-9.
• The Crimson have won nine of the last 10 games with a 9-0-1 record.
• The Crimson last lost to the Engineers in the 2022 ECAC Quarterfinals, a 4-3 overtime defeat at Bright-Landry.

ENGINEERING POINTS

• Mick Thompson leads all Crimson skaters in points against the Engineers with eight points in three games. With four goals and four assists, the rookie totaled six points in the final two meetings of last season.
• Joe Miller also has recorded eight points against RPI in his career with two goals and six assists in six career meetings.
• Casey Severo leads the way in goals with five in six games.
• 11 active players have scored against RPI.

CHUTDOWN CHEVY

• Ben Charette helped backstop the second four game win streak of the season for the Crimson after stopping 103 of 106 shots over a stretch of four games in seven days.
• From the third period of the game against Clarkson to the third period against Colgate a week later the sophomore netminder had not allowed a goal which marks a streak of 135 consecutive minutes without a goal – the most since the 2012-13 season.

MICKY ON A RUN

• Mick Thompson is riding a five-game point streak and has six points over that stretch.
• Thompson has only been held off the board in four games this season.

ECAC STANDINGS

• The Crimson are currently second in the ECAC with 27 points in 14 conference games, just one point behind Quinnipiac for the league lead.
• Harvard are one of only three teams who have played 14 conference games.
• Dartmouth and Cornell both trail the Crimson in the standings but have games in hand.

THREE TWENTY-FIVE

• Ted Donato became the winningest coach in program history with his 325th career win on Dec. 3 against Brown.
• Donato is one of just seven active coaches with 325-plus career victories.
• He passed Ralph "Cooney" Weiland for second all-time in program history following last season's opening-round playoff win against RPI.
• Donato ranks 49th all-time in NCAA history in career victories, with only 10 active coaches owning more wins.

INTERNATIONAL CRIM

• Heikki Ruohonen returns after competing in the IIHF World Junior Championships with the Finnish National Team.
• Ruohonen earned Player of the Game honors after scoring the game-tying goal against the United States in the quarterfinals.
• Finland finished fourth after falling to Canada in the bronze medal game.
• An alternate captain in his second U20 tournament, Ruohonen posted three goals and six assists in seven games in Minneapolis.
• Across two World Junior tournaments, he recorded 17 points in 14 games.

MORE MORDY

• Matthew Morden had a career weekend at Bright as part of the three-game sweep beginning on Jan. 16.
• Morden became the first Crimson defenseman since Henry Thrun to score a shorthanded goal in the win over St. Lawrence.
• Morden, who has already set a new career high in points, added five points in three games over the weekend.

SHORTHANDED SPECIAL

• Mick Thompson and Richard Gallant each scored shorthanded goals against Dartmouth.
• It marked Harvard's first shorthanded goals of the season.
• Dating back to 1947, Harvard has scored two shorthanded goals in a game just four times.
• The last instance came when Ryan Donato and Sean Malone both scored shorthanded goals.
• The Crimson also accomplished the feat twice during the 2016 season, including the opener against ASU.

CARDIAC CRIMSON

• Harvard scored three unanswered goals in under eight minutes to force overtime against No. 1 Michigan.
• The comeback marked the first time since the 2022-23 season that the Crimson erased a three-goal third-period deficit to tie a game.

THE 729

• The line of Philip Tresca, Casey Severo, and Mick Thompson has been highly productive since forming late last season.
• After coming together in the 25th game of last season, the trio produced 34 points over the final 10 games.
• This season, the line has totaled 52 points through 20 games, giving them 86 points over their last 30 games.

FOURTH LINE GRIND

• The fourth line of Salvatore Guzzo, William Hughes, and Marek Hejduk has been strong all season.
• The trio scored its eighth goal of the year against Princeton and has found the net in eight of 20 games.

MICKY THREES

• Mick Thompson recorded the fifth and sixth three-point games of his career last week on home ice.
• The Ontario native has all six three-point games within his last 13 games.
• Since 2002-03, Mick Thompson ranks eighth among Crimson skaters who have recorded multiple three-point games through just 37 career games.
• Those in front of him are Adam Fox (97 career games), Casey Dornbach (131 career games), Sean Malone (115 career games), current Crimson forward Joe Miller, Sean Farrell (58 career games), Nick Abruzzese (59 career games), and Tyler Moy (131 career games).

ROOKIE RESURGENCE

• Through 20 games, Harvard first-years have combined for 39 points.
• Drake Murray, Heikki Ruohonen, Aidan Lane, and Richard Gallant lead the class with a combined 34 points.

CLUTCH CASEY

• In 2023-24, seven of Casey Severo's eight goals either tied the game, cut the deficit to one, or gave Harvard the lead.
• In 2024-25, 10 of his 16 goals tied the game or gave the Crimson the lead, with two more extending the lead to two.
• Over the past three seasons, 20 of his 32 goals have been go-ahead, game-tying, or deficit-cutting tallies.

HOME COOKING

• Harvard's seven wins at home through Jan. 28 are the most since the 2021-22 season and are just one win shy of a program-best eight wins, a record set back in 1974-75.

ALL HANDS ON DECK

• The 7-3 win over Brown marked the first time this season a Harvard skater scored multiple goals in a game where the Crimson tallied five or more