Junior Mason Waite scored on the power play for the Saints, but the St. Lawrence University men's hockey team fell 8-1 to No. 7 Quinnipiac on Saturday night to close out the regular season in Hamden, Conn.

The Skating Saints finish the regular season with a 10-18-6 record overall and an 8-10-4 mark in ECAC play.

St. Lawrence got help from around the league and secured the seventh seed in the ECAC Championships starting next weekend.

Quinnipiac, who was looking for revenge after taking a loss to the Saints on February 9, scored early in the contest with an Iivari Rasanen goal to go up 1-0.

Felikss Gavars had the next great look in the game going on a break on the Bobcat goal. Gavars was hooked by a defender but was still able to get a great shot off that was stopped.

Quinnipiac would strike again with a goal from Collin Graf to make it 2-0, but the Saints kept pressuring. Josh Boyer had two back-to-back looks in close but was turned aside. Greg Lapointe and Nicholas Trela joined the effort with scoring chances but couldn't find twine.


Mason Kucenski, who was making his collegiate debut, stoned Graf twice early in the second period to hold off the attack. Following the chance, St. Lawrence got consecutive looks from Gavars, Lapointe, and Moran that were all kept out of the net by the Bobcat goaltender.

A major penalty moments later would send the Saints to the kill in the second half of the second. Despite a great start to the kill, Quinnipiac would capitalize on the tired unit to make it 4-0.

At the end of the period, the Scarlet and Brown were given their first and only power play of the weekend but made the most of it with a goal. Will Arquiett poked the puck free on the play to Philippe Chapleau, who found Waite on the right circle. Waite would burn Vinny Duplessis with a heavy shot to break onto the scoreboard.

The momentum was crushed early in the third when Sam Lipkin scored 23 seconds into the frame. Quinnipiac would tag on three more in the period to close out the contest.

Kucenski made 38 saves in the game for St. Lawrence, while Duplessis stopped 24 shots in 51 minutes.

St. Lawrence went 1-for-1 on the power play, and 2-for-3 on the penalty kill.

The Skating Saints will begin preparing for next weekend when the team hosts Yale in a winner-take-all game in the Opening Round of the ECAC Championships. The game will be Friday, March 8 at 7 p.m. in Appleton Arena.