Sophomore forward Dalton Bancroft and senior forward Gabriel Seger scored in the best-of-three-round shootout to lift the No. 17-ranked Cornell men’s hockey team to the championship game of the 2023 Adirondack Winter Invitational on Friday afternoon at Herb Brooks Arena.
Bancroft and freshman Hoyt Stanley scored in regulation for the Big Red, who is now has a 6-4-2 overall record. Freshman forward Ryan Walsh factored on both goals in regulation to notch his first career multi-assist game and second multi-point effort of the season.
Michael Cameron and Ryan Lautenbach potted the markers for No. 11-ranked UMass (11-4-2), who will play in the consolation game at 4 p.m. Saturday.
Junior goaltender Ian Shane made 23 saves between the pipes for Cornell, while his counterpart Cole Brady shoved aside 24 Big Red shots.
“I thought overcoming only having two practices before we got up here, we were good in spurts and sloppy in spurts,” said Mike Schafer ’86, the Jay R. Bloom ’77 Head Coach of Cornell Men’s Ice Hockey. “Overall, I was happy we didn’t give up a power-play goal. Just that long of a break [from games], pretty happy with it.”
Both teams were held scoreless in the opening 20 minutes of play after UMass had a goal late in the period called back due to a high stick. A Minutemen player knocked a loose puck from atop of Cornell’s net toward a teammate near the crease, resulting in the disallowed goal.
Cornell ultimately opened the scoring early in the second period when Stanley registered his first collegiate tally. A battle against the boards behind UMass’ net resulted in Walsh gaining control of the puck and sending a pass to Stanley at the right point, where the freshman blueliner lasered his shot past Brady.
UMass leveled the game just over four minutes later when Lautenbach knocked freshman defenseman George Fegarasoff the puck deep in Cornell’s defensive zone, leading to a one-timed shot by Cameron in the low slot.
Bancroft gave the…
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