CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Men's Hockey closes its 2025-26 regular-season road schedule with a pair of games against Union and RPI this weekend before returning to Bright for the final weekend of the regular season.

PUCK DROP

• Closing the four-game road trip with a pair of games in the Capital Region, Harvard will play Union at the new M&T Bank Center on Friday night at 7:00 p.m. before heading to Troy to take on RPI on Saturday at 7:00 p.m.
• Both games will be streamed on ESPN+.

SERIES HISTORY

• The Crimson shut out the Garnet Chargers in the first meeting this season after a 4-0 win on MLK Day.
• Chase Stefanek recorded his first career multi-point game in the win, while Ben Charette added his second career shutout and first of the season.
• The Crimson leads the all-time series against Union, 40-22-6.
• Sean Kehone scored his first and second collegiate goals in the win over RPI earlier this season.
• 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 68-41-9.
• The Crimson last lost to the Engineers in the 2022 ECAC Quarterfinals, a 4-3 overtime defeat at Bright-Landry.

LAST TIME OUT

• Harvard fell to both Brown and Yale in extra time last weekend against its Ivy rivals.
• Casey Severo forced overtime late in the third period against the Bears on Friday night, tying the game before losing in the shootout.
• Justin Solovey and Matthew Morden both scored in the 3-2 overtime loss against Yale on Saturday night.

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.

ECAC STANDINGS 

• Harvard currently sits in fourth place - A point ahead of Princeton and five ahead of Union. 
• Harvard plays both Union and Princeton in two of its remaining four games. 
• If the season ended today, Harvard would earn a first-round bye.  

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 59 points through 26 games, giving them 93 points over their last 36 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 26 games, Harvard first-years have combined for 50 points.
• Drake Murray, Heikki Ruohonen, Aidan Lane, and Richard Gallant lead the class with a combined 43 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, 21 of his 33 goals have been go-ahead, game-tying, or deficit-cutting tallies.