Sophomore goaltender Mason Kucenski and Crimson goalie Ben Charette stole the show with dueling shutouts as the St. Lawrence University men's hockey team fought to a 0-0 tie against Harvard on Saturday night in Cambridge, Mass.

St. Lawrence fell in the shootout and settled for a four-point weekend as the team went to 5-11-1 on the year and 1-4-1 in ECAC play. The Crimson saw their record move to 3-5-2 and 2-3-2 in league play with the result.

After shutting out Harvard just once in the two team's all-time series entering last season, St. Lawrence has shutout the Crimson in two of the last three matchups with today's result.

The two teams went through a feeling-out process early in the contest with senior captain Philippe Chapleau getting the first great chance of the game but it sailed just wide.

Following a Kucenski save, the Saints got quality chances from Nicholas Beneteau, along with the line of Greg Lapointe, Gabriel Westling, and Gunnar Thoreson, who produced a flurry in front of the Harvard goal.

Things would slow down considerably until Lapointe found himself with an opening ahead of the TV timeout but missed on the far side of the frame. Following the break, Lapointe and Jan Lasak both produced shots in the final seven minutes but the game went into the break scoreless.

Harvard began the game on the power play following a late penalty from the Saints in the first and took on the nation's number two penalty kill on a clean sheet of ice. Kucenski and the unit denied the chance and the Saints countered after the kill with breaks from Lapointe and Westling, the latter of which had both of his bids stopped by the pad of Charette.

St. Lawrence went on to have three power-play chances in the second period and nearly scored on numerous occasions. One-timers from Lapointe and Mason Waite narrowly broke the scoring in the first two efforts while a cross-ice effort in the third chance sparked another flurry in front of Charrette but the score remained 0-0 at the intermission.

The third began slow due in part to a shocking number of stoppages for pucks out of play. When the puck stayed in the confines, the Saints held the advantage. Spencer Bell and Thoreson had great bids in the opening eight minutes of the period and it looked like the Saints would head to the power play again, but a hit-from-behind went uncalled.

Instead the Scarlet and Brown went back on the kill ahead of the TV timeout but the kill was once again effective as St. Lawrence's unit came out on top. The crimson held possession however and had a pair of chances. The first of which was a funny deflection that sailed wide, and the second was stopped and paddled away by Kucenski.

In the final minutes of regulation, the Scarlet and Brown put together a feverish effort to end the game, but the contest was destined for overtime.

St. Lawrence once again had the better of the efforts in overtime beginning with a 2-on-1 with Tomas Mazura and Drake Burgin that missed the mark. Waite and Felikss Gavars then pressured and had the goalie on the ground but the netminder pushed the net off to stop the chance.

The game ended as a tie and went to a shootout where the Crimson won 1-0 and claimed the extra league point.

Kucenski finished his second career shutout with 26 saves, while Charette came up with 31 stops on the home side.

Both power play units came up empty as the Saints' penalty kill went 3-for-3 and haven't given up a goal in the last seven games and have killed their last 25 power plays against.

St. Lawrence will break for the holiday break and will return to action on January 4 when the team heads to Burlington, Vt. for their final non-conference game of the season against Vermont.