The fanfare surrounding it may be one-sided, but as far as the folks in Ithaca, N.Y., are concerned, this was The Game.

The No. 15 Harvard men’s hockey team fell to No. 8 Cornell, 5-2, Friday night in a game short on Harvard hoopla but long on flying fish and converted scoring opportunities by the Big Red.

Despite the setback, Harvard (5-2-0. 5-2-0 ECAC) still had two points to show for its second long road trip in as many weekends. By virtue of its 7-1 blowout of Colgate on Saturday, the Crimson—who swept Clarkson and St. Lawrence one week earlier—remains tied with Cornell for the ECAC lead.

“Coming out with six of eight points from the two longest road trips of the year is pretty good,” Harvard junior forward Tim Pettit said.

Harvard 7, Colgate 1

Colgate (5-7-1, 2-4-0) was outskated and outshot, 43-26, as Harvard took out its aggression from Friday’s loss on the hapless Red Raiders.

After a scoreless first frame, the Crimson offense ignited in the second, tallying four even-strength goals in quick succession before some extracurricular activity distracted both teams in the third. Pettit, junior Kenny Smith, sophomore Noah Welch and senior Aaron Kim all tallied strikes as part of the potent Crimson attack in the frenzied second period.

Harvard scored three more times in the third to pad its lead, receiving goals from junior Tim Pettit, freshman Charlie Johnson and sophomore Tom Cavanagh.

In between all the scoring, things turned ugly, as the teams combined for a mess of 15 third-period penalties, including a bench minor to Harvard at the 16:23 mark.

Pettit, last week’s ECAC Co-Player of the Week, had two goals Saturday to add to his team-leading point total (5 goals, 5 assists).

Pettit’s co-honoree from last week—sophomore goaltender Dov Grumet-Morris—saved 25 shots against Colgate. He has logged every minute of ice time for Harvard this season.

Cornell 5, Harvard 2

A capacity crowd at Lynah Rink saw the Big Red (6-1-0, 5-1-0) end Harvard’s four-game winning streak.

Unlike last year when Harvard was blown out of Ithaca by a deceptively close 6-3 score, this year’s Crimson kept pace with Cornell for much of the game before falling too far behind late in the second period.

With less than two minutes to play in the middle frame, Cornell’s Shane Palahicky redirected a Charlie Cook shot past Grumet-Morris to increase the Big Red lead to 4-2.