Jordan Steinmetz tied the game up in the second period, and seniors Kaden Pickering and Emil Zetterquist came up big winning the shootout to give the St. Lawrence University men's hockey team the extra league point in a 1-1 tie against Brown at Meehan Auditorium in Providence, R.I.

St. Lawrence moved to 7-13-6 on the year and 5-7-4 in the ECAC, while Brown went to 5-15-1, and 5-9-1 in conference.

"That first period may have been the ugliest 20 minutes of hockey we've played in three years," said Charles W. Appleton Head Men's Hockey Coach Brent Brekke "Give Brown credit, they jumped us at the drop of the puck and had us on our heels in the first period. I liked our compete and aggressiveness from the start of the second period on, but we have to continue to execute and finish on our chances. We are always in tight games and every scoring opportunity is important."

Early in the first period, it looked like the Scarlet and Brown were going to get on the board first after two great chances.

During a 4-on-4 in the first period, Justin Paul nearly scored an identical goal to his overtime winner last night. Paul came down the left side with speed and fired a shot towards the far corner. Mathieu Caron was up to the challenge catching the puck with his shoulder to turn away the shot. Towards the midway point of the period, Cameron Buhl took the puck off an offensive zone draw and threaded a shot through traffic. The puck would unfortunately find iron keeping the game scoreless.  

Brown ended up scoring the first goal of the game with less than 20 seconds remaining in the first period. Bears' defender Luke Krys chipped a puck from the defensive zone to Jake Harris at the Saints' blueline. In the battle for the airborne puck a Saints defender fell giving Harris a breakaway which he would cash in beating Emil Zetterquist five hole to take the 1-0 lead.

After getting outshot heavily in the first, St. Lawrence turned the tide in the second period nearly tying the shot totals.

Less than five minutes into the middle frame, the Scarlet and Brown got a breakaway bid of their own from Pickering. The senior captain jumped up on the rush and beat his defender clean to the outside giving him a clear run on Caron. Pickering was turned aside by a great glove save to keep the Saints off the board.

Minutes later, the Skating Saints would get on the board after the puck and Steinmetz went barreling into the Bears' net. Ty Naaykens caused a turnover in front of Brown's bench that was picked up by assistant captain Tim Makowski. The junior fired the puck up to Reilly Moran, who entered the zone with speed. Moran found a charging Steinmetz, who tipped the puck past Caron then went into the goal himself giving St. Lawrence the tying goal.

Both teams had great chances in the third to find a goal to take the lead. With less than six minutes left in regulation Nicholas Trela went end-to-end weaving through all five Bears' skaters and had a breakaway look. Caron turned the effort aside to keep it tied. Moments later, Naaykens had a great look to the right of Caron, but his wrist shot caught the goaltender's shoulder. Brown had a good bid of their own with 1:32 left in the game when a Bears' shot rang off the iron. The two teams would eventually go to overtime.

In the overtime period, James Crossman found himself all alone against Zetterquist and fired a hard wrist shot on goal. Zetterquist made the save of the game with his blocker to keep it a 1-1 contest.
The game would go to a shootout for the extra league point.

Pickering netted his shootout attempt beating Caron over his glove to give the Skating Saints the lead. Zetterquist did the rest slamming the door on all three Brown shootout attempts from Harris, Tristan Crozier, and Justin Jallen to seal the second league point for the Saints.

Zetterquist and Caron each finished with 27 saves in the contest.

The Scarlet and Brown went 0-for-1 in their lone power play, and the Saints went 5-for-5 on the penalty kill.

The Skating Saints will head back to Canton, N.Y. and start preparing for a series at Appleton Arena next weekend. On Friday, February 11, the Saints will take on Quinnipiac. Then on Saturday, February 12 they will face Princeton. Both games will start at 7:00 p.m.