The Skating Saints offense poured in five power play goals in the third period, and six in total on the day as the St. Lawrence University men's hockey team rolled over Ferris State 8-0 on Saturday night at Appleton Arena.

St. Lawrence improved to 4-2-0 with the convincing win, while the Bulldogs fell to 1-3-2.

Greg Lapointe led the way with a hat trick and a pair of assists for five points, while seniors Mason Waite (1-3-4), and Tomáš Mazura (0-4-4) each tallied four points. Mason Kucenski earned his first career shutout in the win stopping all 30 shots he faced.

"Easy to say, but our power play was the difference in the game tonight," said Charles W. Appleton II Head Men's Hockey Coach Brent Brekke "This wasn't an 8-0 game, Ferris was threatening the entire game and it was a closer game than the final score shows. Credit to them, they compete and are hard to play against. Kucenski was terrific in net, earning his first shutout, and it was a pretty special game for him. Lapointe scores in bunches and showed that again tonight."

The scoring looked like it had started in the first period when Waite buried a one-timer past Martin Lundberg. The goal was called off however for a player in the crease leaving the game at 0-0.

Waite got redemption minutes later while the Scarlet and Brown were on the man advantage. Philippe Chapleau earned the secondary assist on the play sending a pass over to Mazura on the side of the umbrella. Mazura skipped a cross-ice pass that was collected by Waite. The captain did the rest firing home a shot through a Ty Naaykens screen to put the Saints up 1-0.



St. Lawrence doubled their lead in the second in rapid fashion. Armed with an offensive zone faceoff seven minutes and ten seconds into the middle frame, Mazura won the draw back to Lapointe, who wired a wrister through traffic and in to double the lead.

That lead would triple less than four minutes later when Lapointe skipped a pass to Waite, who drove the net with the puck. His shot on net was saved but the rebound came to Reilly Connors, who earned his first goal as a Skating Saint to make it 3-0 going into the third period.

The game cruised past the midway point of the third before the offense exploded for St. Lawrence. While the Saints were on a power play, a Bulldog player caught Lapointe with a hit to the head which ended up being a five-minute major and a game misconduct.

However, Lapointe had dished the puck off to Mazura as he got hit, who found Naaykens. The senior captain rifled a shot that squeezed through Lundberg to make it 4-0 before the Saints went on the five-minute man advantage.

The floodgates opened for the Scarlet and Brown in those five minutes. Lapointe got the party started scoring his second of the night off assists from Waite and Mazura, then 46 seconds later it was Spencer Bell, who buried a goal off passes from Felikss Gavars and Isaac Tremblay to make it a six-point lead.

The Saints were far from done however as two minutes later Lapointe cashed in again for his hat trick, this time from Waite and Nicholas Beneteau. The fireworks were capped off late in the power play when Isack Bandu carried the puck into the zone and found Sam Hall, who dished over to Jacob Bernadet at the top of the left circle. The first-year wristed a shot far side and over the glove of Lundberg for his first career goal and an 8-0 lead. The assist from Hall on the play was also his first career point as a Skating Saint.  

In total, six Saints scored in the barrage and thirteen players tallied points. The eight-goal output was the most for St. Lawrence since the 2014-15 season when the Saints beat Niagara 10-2. The Scarlet and Brown's six power play goals were one short of the ECAC all-time record and two short of the NCAA record set in the 1989-90 season.

Kucenski stopped all 30 shots he faced for his first career shutout, while Lundberg made 29 saves for the Bulldogs.

St. Lawrence held the 37-30 shot advantage and went 6-for-8 on the power play, while Ferris State went 0-for-3.

The Skating Saints will look to keep rolling next week when the team heads to University Park, Pa. for their first road games of the year against Penn State. The Nittany Lions and Saints will play next Friday at 7 p.m. and Saturday at 4 p.m.