St. Lawrence University's men's hockey team put together one of its most complete games of the season at Harvard's Bright Hockey Center Friday night, beating the Crimson 3-1 in a game which was even more one-sided than the score might indicate.

SLU outshot Harvard 30-19, but Crimson goalie Raphael Girard, who had not given up a goal in his two prior starts, turned in some big saves and got a lot of help from the crossbar, posts and his defense to keep Harvard in the game. It was the third straight win by the Saints in the series between the two teams and fourth in the last five meetings.

SLU will take a 5-2-2 overall mark and a 1-0-2 ECAC mark into the final game of a four-game ECAC road trip at Dartmouth on Saturday while Harvard, 2-2-1, 1-2-1, will host Clarkson.

The Saints got just the start they were looking for when junior wing Chris Martin ended Girard's two-game scoreless streak just 1:20 into the game, scoring from Riley Austin and Greg Carey as he tipped home Austin's initial shot from the point. With Weninger handling everything Harvard sent his way, the Saints made it a 2-0 game at 13:07 of the first when Martin fed Carey as the senior stepped over the Harvard blue line and Carey's wrister from just inside the top of the circle beat Girard cleanly for Carey's fifth goal of the year.

The Saints completely dominated the second period, outshooting Harvard 14-4, but Girard had a little luck and the Crimson found themselves right back in it when they scored their first power play goal of the season to cut the Saint lead to 2-1 before SLU regained its two-goal lead with a late score by sophomore Alex Hagen.

St. Lawrence hit two posts and had the puck behind Girard three times in the period, but couldn't get it to cross the goal line as either Girard was able to recover and cover it or his defense swept it out of harm's way. The Crimson, scoreless in their first 15 power plays of the season through the first three games, were stopped on their first power play of Friday's game, but cashed in on their second when sophomore Jimmy Vesey tipped in a shot by Luke Esposito at 13:41 to cut the Saint lead to 2-1.

The Saints, who did everything but score on their first power play chance of the period with just over three minutes to play, cashed in at 19:10 when defenseman Eric Sweetman put a hard shot on net that Girard kicked out, but Hagen was right there to knock the rebound back into the net for his second of the season. Saint captain Kyle Essery also assisted on the Saint goal.

Neither team scored in the third period, although the Saint power play, which was scoreless in three tries, created some great chances. Saint goalie Matt Weninger, who had some big saves among 18 in the game, made six of the 18 in the third period while Girard finished with 27 saves for the Crimson.