Two extra-attacker goals by the No. 11-ranked Cornell men’s hockey team over the final 1:31 in the third period avenged a 2-0 deficit to force overtime before the Big Red took the extra point in the standings with a shootout victory following a 2-2 tie with St. Lawrence before 1,579 at Appleton Arena on Saturday night.
Junior forward Ondrej Psenicka and senior forward Gabriel Seger scored the goals in regulation for the Big Red (16-5-6, 11-5-4 ECAC Hockey), which also had a 36-save performance from junior goaltender Ian Shane.
Greg Lapointe and Drake Burgin scored power-play goals for St. Lawrence (10-17-5, 8-9-3 ECAC Hockey). Ben Kraws stopped 32 shots between the pipes in the draw for the Skating Saints.
Lapointe gave the Saints the lead with a power-play goal with five seconds left on the infraction. Shane made an initial save on Will Arquiett, but St. Lawrence kept possession inside in its offensive zone, leading to a pass from Mason Waite to Lapointe at the top of the left faceoff circle that found its way into the Big Red’s net.
Another St. Lawrence power-play goal, this time 2:14 into the middle period, gave the Saints a two-goal lead. Burgin took a shot from the middle of the point that deflected off a Cornell defender and into the net.
Trailing by two, Cornell peppered Kraws in the third period with 29 shot attempts, 14 of which were on target.
With under two minutes left in regulation and playing with an extra attacker, Psenicka deflected a shot from the point by freshman defenseman Ben Robertson to make it a one-goal game with 1:31 left.
In the waning seconds, Seger wristed a shot from the top of the slot that evaded traffic in front of Kraws and tied the game up with 6.4 seconds remaining.
Freshman forward Jonathan Castagna made a brilliant move to get by a Saints defender in overtime but Kraws made a miraculous save to keep the game tied.
St. Lawrence appeared to have scored the overtime winner with 1:08 remaining in the extra period, but…
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