CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Men's hockey travels to Ithaca to take on the nationally ranked Big Red in a best-of-three series in the ECAC Quarterfinals this weekend, beginning Friday night.

The sixth-seeded Crimson will face the third-seeded Big Red in the quarterfinals, with the winner advancing to the semifinals in Lake Placid.

PUCK DROP

• The historic rivals will begin the three-game series Friday night at 7:00 p.m., followed by Game 2 on Saturday at 7:00 p.m.
• Game 3 will be Sunday afternoon at 4:00 p.m., if necessary.
• All games will be streamed on ESPN+.

LAST TIME OUT

• Harvard came from behind to defeat the St. Lawrence Saints in overtime in the opening round of the ECAC Playoffs.
• Never leading at any point, Harvard tied the game three separate times before Mick Thompson's overtime-winning goal.
• Ben Charette made 33 stops on the evening.
• Aidan Lane scored his first goal in 19 games in the first period.
• Heikki Ruohonen tied the game shorthanded in the second, and Michael Callow tied the game with just under four minutes to play in regulation.
• Mick Thompson's overtime winner sent the Crimson to the ECAC Quarterfinals for the 10th consecutive season.

ECAC PLAYERS OF THE WEEK

• Mick Thompson was named the ECAC Laurel Lake Placid Forward of the Week, while Heikki Ruohonen earned his first ECAC Rookie of the Week honor after the pair helped lead the Crimson to a 4-3 overtime win over St. Lawrence on Friday night.
• Thompson also earned ECAC weekly honors after the opening round last season and has recorded five points over two opening-round games in his career.
• Ruohonen has scored in three straight games for the Crimson and becomes just the second rookie since 2002 to record a shorthanded goal in the playoffs.

CRIMSON AND BIG RED IN THE PLAYOFFS

• The matchup marks the third time in the last four seasons that the Crimson and Big Red have met in the playoffs.
• Dating back to 1968, the historic Ivy rivals have met 21 times in the postseason.
• The Crimson most recently fell to the Big Red in two games in 2023-24, dropping Game 1 (4-1) and Game 2 (4-3).
• The year prior, then-No. 6 Harvard defeated No. 10 Cornell, 1-0 in overtime, on an Alex Laferriere goal to send the Crimson to the ECAC Championship for the second straight season.
• Dating back to 1968, Harvard is 10-16-1 in playoff games against the Big Red.
• Since 2000, Harvard is 6-7-0 in playoff games against Cornell.

SERIES HISTORY

• This weekend will mark the 174th and 175th all-time meetings between the historic rivals.
• Harvard fell to Cornell in both games this season.
• The Crimson has not beaten Cornell since November 2023.
• Cornell is currently on a seven-game unbeaten streak against the Crimson, while Harvard had not lost to the Big Red in the previous seven games before that stretch.
• Harvard is 73-86-14 all-time against the Big Red.

CRIMSON VS. BIG RED

• Joe Miller has seven points in 11 career games against Cornell.
• Mick Thompson has five points in seven career games against Cornell.
• Only Joe Miller (two goals), Phil Tresca (two assists), and Ben Macdonald (two assists) have recorded multi-point games against Cornell.
• Joe Miller has a point in six of his 11 career games against Cornell.
• Ben Macdonald has a point in four of his seven meetings with Cornell.
• Heikki Ruohonen has a point in each of his last two games against Cornell.

CRIMSON IN THE PLAYOFFS

• Joe Miller leads the Crimson with 10 points in 12 conference tournament games.
• Mick Thompson began his playoff career with six points in four games last season.
• Thompson added the overtime winner and an assist on Lane's power-play goal, giving the sophomore eight points in his last five playoff games.

HEIKKI HEATING UP

• The first-year has goals in three straight games since returning to the lineup from injury.
• Scoring the tying goal against Princeton, the go-ahead goal against Quinnipiac, and a shorthanded game-tying goal against St. Lawrence, the Helsinki native has made an immediate impact since his return.
• The centerman also has seven points in his last 10 games.

SOUTHIE STREAKING

• Junior Michael Callow has been strong for the Crimson since last month.
• Callow has points in five consecutive games, including two key goals.
• He is the second Crimson skater this season to record points in five straight games.
• After consistently returning to the lineup on Jan. 13, Callow has five points in his last seven games.

MICKY CALLS GAME

• Mick Thompson sent the Crimson to the ECAC Quarterfinals with his ninth goal of the season late in the first overtime period.
• Dating back to 2002, Harvard has won five overtime playoff games, three of which were winner-take-all contests.
• Thompson joins current Crimson player Casey Severo and former Crimson players Matt Coronato, Jack Donato, and Alex Laferriere as Harvard skaters with playoff overtime goals.

ALL-MORDY

• Matthew Morden was named to the All-ECAC Third Team.
• In conference play, Morden tallied three goals and 10 assists in 22 games. Third on the team in points, he added three multi-point Ivy League games this season, including a three-point performance against Princeton on Feb. 27.
• The only Crimson representative on the All-League team this season, Morden had a career year on the blueline. A reliable defenseman at both ends of the ice, he added four goals and 14 assists during the regular season.
• Tripling his point total from his sophomore year, Morden recorded points in consecutive games six different times this season.

ALL-IVY HONORS

• Both Matthew Morden and Mick Thompson earned All-Ivy League honors, the league announced today. Morden was named to the First Team, while Thompson earned Second Team recognition.
• Philip Tresca was also named the team's Academic All-Ivy recipient.
• Against Ivy League opponents, both Morden and Thompson tallied seven points in 10 games this season. Morden recorded one goal and six assists, while Thompson posted three goals and four assists.

OPENING ROUND SUCCESS

• Harvard has played in the ECAC opening round in each of the last three seasons and has won all three games.
• The Crimson defeated RPI, 5-2, last season and Princeton, 1-0, the year before.
• Harvard has advanced to the ECAC Quarterfinals in 10 straight seasons.

MORE MORDY

• Junior defenseman Matt Morden has recorded 13 of his 18 points this season over the last 16 games.
• During that stretch, he has four goals and 10 assists.
• He is one of only four defensemen in the conference to record four multi-point games since the start of the new year.

CRIMSON COMEBACKS

• In two of its last three games, Harvard has rallied to win despite trailing late.
• Against Princeton, Harvard trailed 3-1 late in the second period before coming back to win 4-3.
• Against St. Lawrence, the Crimson trailed three separate times before Thompson's overtime winner.

WELCOME BACK HEIKKI

• In his return to the lineup after missing five games with injury, first-year Heikki Ruohonen made an immediate impact.
• Scoring two goals over the weekend, Ruohonen tied the game against Princeton in the third period and gave Harvard the lead against Quinnipiac on Saturday.
• This season, five of his six goals have either tied the game or given the Crimson the lead.

SENIOR STABILITY

• All six members of the senior class have played more than 100 career games — a feat not accomplished by any class dating back to at least 2002.

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 have tied the game or given the Crimson the lead, with two more extending the lead to two goals.
• Over the past three seasons, 21 of his 33 goals have been go-ahead, game-tying, or deficit-cutting tallies.
• Entering the weekend, Severo has eight career game-winning goals, tied for third since 2002 and trailing only Jimmy Vesey, Kyle Criscuolo, Tyler Moy, and Alex Killorn.

HEALEY MAKING HIS MARK

• Dating back to 2002, Ryan Healey is one of only 10 Harvard defensemen to accumulate 50 or more career points.
• His 19 career goals rank fourth among defensemen, trailing only Danny Biega, Riley Walsh, and Adam Fox.

JUMBO JOE

• Miller is one of only 10 Crimson players to record 90 or more career points dating back to 2002.

CHUTDOWN CHEVY

• Ben Charette helped backstop the Crimson's second four-game win streak of the season, stopping 103 of 106 shots over a four-game stretch in seven days.
• From the third period against Clarkson to the third period against Colgate a week later, the sophomore netminder did not allow a goal, marking a streak of 135 consecutive shutout minutes — the program's longest since the 2012-13 season.

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 or more 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 returned 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 recorded three goals and six assists in seven games in Minneapolis.
• Across two World Junior tournaments, he has totaled 17 points in 14 games.

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 most recent 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 63 points through 31 games, giving the trio 98 points over their last 41 games.

MICKY THREES

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

ROOKIE RESURGENCE

• Through 31 games, Harvard first-years have combined for 61 points.
• Drake Murray, Heikki Ruohonen, Aidan Lane, Chase Stefanek, and Richard Gallant lead the class with a combined 58 points.