The St. Lawrence University men's hockey season came to close on Saturday night with a 7-1 loss to Harvard in the second game of a best-of-three first-round playoff series in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Kaden Pickering scored the lone goal of the night for the Saints on the power play, with senior Alex Gilmour and rookie Aleksi Peltonen assisting on the play.

Gilmour, Ryan Garvey, Michael Laidley and Daniel Mannella each played their final game for the Scarlet and Brown on Saturday. Mannella finished with 22 saves.

Harvard, which brought the nation's top-ranked power play into the weekend series, scored a pair of power-play goals, both during a five-minute major, both off the stick of Reilly Walsh.

The major was assessed to junior Dylan Woolf with 1:53 left in the first period, so the Saints played down a defenseman for more than 40 minutes.

Harvard led 5-0 through the first 26 minutes, with three goals in the first and two in the early part of the middle frame before Pickering put the Saints' on the board with his fifth of the season.

Peltonen carried into the Harvard zone and played it to Gilmour low on the left circle, who then sent it cross-crease for the Madrid, New York native crashing the net. Pickering pushed the puck just inside the far post behind Harvard starting netminder Mitchell Gibson as he fell to the ice to make it a 5-1 game.

The Saints came out strong in the third period and dominated possession for the early part of the frame and outshot the Crimson 12-7 through the final 20 minutes, but Harvard extended its lead with goals from Jack Drury and John Farinacci a minute apart in the latter portion of regulation to push to the 7-1 margin.

Gibson finished with 22 saves for Harvard, while Sihak Lee made one save in his first collegiate appearance for the Crimson in 33 seconds between the pipes. Cameron Gornet finished with four stops in 3:46.

The Saints finish the season 4-27-5 overall. Harvard improves to 15-10-6 and advances to the ECAC Hockey quarterfinals and will travel to RPI next weekend.