Offense Shines as #10 Cornell Defeats Brown

A four-goal second period helped break open a scoreless game and aid the No. 10-ranked Cornell men’s hockey team to a 7-1 victory over Brown, ensuring the Big Red leaves southern New England with a weekend sweep.

Cornell’s seven goals were the most by the Big Red in a game away from Lynah Rink since blanking Princeton, 7-0, on Nov. 8, 2003 at Hobey Baker Memorial Rink.

Four Big Red players posted multi-point nights on Saturday as the Big Red had 12 players register at least one point. Senior forward Gabriel Seger had a team-high three points, highlighted by his second multi-goal game in as many weekends. Junior forward Kyle Penney, freshman forward Jonathan Castagna, and defenseman George Fegaras each logged a goal and an assist.

All four players who had multi-point nights lit the lamp in the middle frame for Cornell before Seger and freshmen Luke Devlin and Ryan Walsh scored over the final 7:29 to solidify the victory for the Big Red (4-0-0, 2-0-0 ECAC Hockey).

Junior goaltender Ian Shane stopped 15 shots between the pipes for Cornell.

Ryan St. Louis recorded the lone goal for Brown, who is now 2-2-0 overall and 2-1-0 in ECAC Hockey play following the setback. Tyler Shea made his first collegiate start for the Bears in goal, stopping 26 Big Red shots.

Following a scoreless first period, Cornell recorded four of the combined five second-period goals to give the Big Red a 4-1 lead after 40 minutes of play.

Castagna ignited the Big Red’s scoring when he deposited his first collegiate tally 1:45 into the stanza. Seger and Penney later chipped in goals 41 seconds apart to increase Cornell’s lead to three.

St. Louis trimmed the Big Red lead to two when he registered a power-play goal just shy of the halfway point of the game. St. Louis’ goal snapped Cornell’s streak of successful penalty kills at 11.

Fegaras gave Cornell its three-goal lead back when he lasered a wrist shot from the top of the slot seconds after a Big Red power play had expired for the…