Five different goal scorers helped the No. 20 St. Lawrence men's hockey team remain unbeaten in conference play at 4-0-1, as the Saints beat Yale 5-2 at Appleton Arena on Saturday night to improve to 7-4-2 overall.

The Saints scored all five goals, including two goals on delayed penalty calls, a breakaway goal with the teams skating four aside and a goal three seconds after a power play opportunity expired, before Yale found an answer.

Senior Drew Smolcynski opened the scoring at the 5:27 mark of the first period with his fourth of the year. After sustained time in the Yale zone at the tail-end of a power play opportunity, Joe Sullivan found Smolcynski at the bottom of the right circle for a backhand shot at the top of the crease. Eric Sweetman also assisted on the play.
  After carrying a 1-0 lead into the first intermission, the Saints wasted little time doubling it in the middle frame. Mike Graham notched his first of the year on a delayed penalty call with a shot from the left faceoff dot to make it 2-0.
  Just over five minutes later, senior Ben Masella kept the puck in at the blue line and chipped it to Michael Ederer in the corner to the right of Yale netminder Sam Tucker. Ederer fed Sullivan who was cutting into the slot and the Las Vegas, Nev., native beat Tucker with a one-time shot from a knee to push the St. Lawrence lead to three goals.The goal was the team-leading seventh of the year for Sullivan.
 


St. Lawrence netminder Kyle Hayton – who was tasked to make just two saves in the second period – made two in quick succession on Andrew Gaus in the opening minute of the final frame to keep Yale off the board. Gaus moved in on a breakaway after an awkward bounce at the blue line put him in behind the Saints defense, but Hayton came through with a huge save with the left pad and stuffed him on the rebound.

Once again, the Saints struck early in the third period with goals from Jacob Pritchard and Ryan Lough just a minute and a half apart. Pritchard beat Tucker with a sneaky wrist shot from the top of the right circle that sailed inside the far post on a delayed penalty call for his fourth of the season.
  With the team's skating four-on-four, Ederer chipped the puck ahead to Lough from in front of the Saints bench for a breakaway. Lough slid the puck five hole on Tucker for the Saints' final goal of the evening.
  Yale spoiled Hayton's bid for his third shutout of the season at the 8:02 mark of the final frame when a shot from Adam Larkin at the right point found its way through traffic and over Hayton's right shoulder to cut the Bulldogs' deficit to 5-1.

St. Lawrence spent most of the final five minutes of the game on the penalty kill after Nolan Gluchowski was assessed a major and the Saints were whistled for two other infractions while he served it.

Yale's second goal was a five-on-three power play tally by the team's captain, John Hayden.

The Bulldogs outshot the Saints 16-6 through the final 20 minutes to finish with a 30-28 edge in total shots. Hayton made 28 saves in the win, his seventh of the season. Tucker finished with 23 stops for Yale.

The Saints will host Brown on Saturday night at 7 p.m.