• Harvard winger Tim Pettit, who led the league with 37 points last season, was one of eight players to break 30. This year, the ECAC might not have any 30-point men; Smyth is tops with 26.

• Yale leads the league in scoring this year, but only averages 3.20 goals per game—not far ahead of Union, which has the lowest average (2.00). Last season, Harvard and Yale led the league with 4.27, and two other teams averaged more than 3.20.

• Last season, Harvard scored four or more goals in 19 of 34 games. But that has happened only seven times through 27 games, and only once in the last 13.

“Goal-scoring has been difficult this year,” said Dartmouth assistant coach Dave Peters. “The goaltending’s been good, and the teams play such good defense.

“We go into every game expecting a 3-2 hockey game, and they usually have been.”

—Staff writer Jon Paul Morosi can be reached at morosi@fas.harvard.edu.