Senior captain David Jankowski (1-1), Philippe Chapleau (1-1), and Josh Boyer (0-2) all tallied two points as the St. Lawrence University men's hockey team battled to a 4-4 tie with Clarkson on Saturday night in front of a sold-out crowd of 2285 at Appleton Arena. The Knights won the shootout for the extra league point.

The attendance was capped at 75 percent as part of St. Lawrence University's COVID health and safety protocols.

The Skating Saints went to 6-13-5 on the year and 4-7-3 in the ECAC with the tie, while the Golden Knights went to 13-7-6 and 8-2-4 in conference play.

After last night's one-goal contest between the rivals, the two teams combined for five goals in the first period alone.

Clarkson opened the scoring at the five minute and eight second mark of the game. Jack Jacome dug a puck out of the Saints' corner and moved it to Zach Tsekos, who relayed it to Noah Beck at the blue line. Beck stepped in and fired a shot over the shoulder of Emil Zetterquist to take the lead.

The lead did not last long however as the Scarlet and Brown tied the game up at 1-1 just 36 seconds later. After a Nicholas Trela shot and save, Boyer was set to take an offensive zone draw to the right of Ethan Haider. The junior transfer won the draw back to Chris Pappas, who moved it along to fellow first-year Chapleau. Chapleau wired home a wrist shot through a screen to tie the game up at one.



The Scarlet and Brown were set to start its first power play of the night, but a penalty by St. Lawrence four seconds into it made it a 4-on-4. Although they did not get a two-minute man advantage, the Saints capitalized scoring on the 4-on-4. Jankowski started the play dishing the puck to Luc Salem in the neutral zone. The sophomore held and gave it right back to the senior, who skated in and roofed it on Haider to give the Skating Saints the 2-1 lead. Tim Makowski also assisted on the play.

Two minutes and 35 seconds later, the Saints chased Haider, who struggled in his last outing, out of the game. Chapleau started in the defensive zone chipping the puck to Boyer in the neutral zone. Boyer carried the puck in and instead of shooting, fired a pass to Trela, who was crashing the net and deflected it upstairs and in to end Haider's night and make the game 3-1.

The Knights got within one with less than two minutes left in the first when Beck tapped in a loose puck in a mad scramble in front of Zetterquist.

The Skating Saints scored the lone goal of the second on the power play. Jankowski ripped a shot onto Jacob Mucitelli that was stopped initially, but trickled off the post. Fellow senior captain Kaden Pickering tapped the loose puck across the crease to Cameron Buhl, who buried the puck to make it a 4-2 contest.

The two-goal lead vanished as Clarkson scored two one-timer goals in the third to make it a 4-4 game. Dustyn McFaul scored the first of the two goals, and was followed by Anthony Callin, who tied the game at the 11:46 mark of the third.

The five-minute three-on-three overtime came and went without much offense from either side as the game would officially end in a tie.

St. Lawrence opened the best-of-three shootout for the third ECAC point. Buhl was the first to shoot, and was followed by Oak Macleod, and Jankowski, but all three were stopped by Mucitelli. Tsekos, and Jacome were also turned aside by Zetterquist on the other end. Clarkson had the opportunity to win the shootout in the third round and Alex Campbell did just that beating Zetterquist to secure the extra league point.

Zetterquist finished with 25 saves in 65 minutes of action for the Skating Saints. Haider finished with three saves on just six shots in 16:56 of action, while Mucitelli stopped 20 shots in relief.

St. Lawrence went 1-for-4 with Buhl's power play tally, while Clarkson went 0-for-3 and gave up more shots to the Saints than they were able to generate for themselves.  

The Skating Saints will head back to the road next weekend for a series with Yale and Brown. On Friday, February 4th the Saints take on the Bulldogs in New Haven, Conn. On Saturday, February 5th they will travel to Providence, R.I. to take on the Bears.