The Saints offense got goals from five different scorers and saw 11 players tally points, as the St. Lawrence University men's hockey team rolled to a 7-3 win over RPI on Saturday night in Appleton Arena.

St. Lawrence improved to 5-22-3 on the season and 4-13-1 in ECAC play, while the Engineers fell to 7-21-0 overall and 4-12-0 in league action.

The first period of the contest belonged to the line of Nicholas Beneteau, Gabe Westling, and Isaac Tremblay, who combined for six points, giving the Saints a 2-0 lead.

Less than three minutes into the contest, Tremblay kept the puck in at the blueline and skipped a pass down to Westling. The center sauced a pass across the crease to Beneteau, who finished his chance past Carson Dorfman to take the early lead.

Moments later, the Scarlet and Brown struck again at the 5:32 mark of the period. Tremblay once again got a pass off to Westling, who this time fired a shot high of the RPI goal. Beneteau was at the right place at the right time, catching the ricochet off the back wall and scoring his second of the game to make it 2-0, which would hold into the intermission.



The Engineers cut their deficit in half in the first seven minutes of action with a Kazimier Sobieski goal, but St. Lawrence regained their two-goal lead moments later.

Following the RPI goal, they would go on a power play with a chance to tie the contest. Instead, an Engineer player was breaking out of the zone when his stick snapped on a pass, springing Cooper Pierson. The first-year burnt Dorfman for a shorthanded goal to make it a 3-1 contest and chase the RPI netminder from the game.

If the first period belonged to Beneteau, the second belonged to Pierson, who scored his second goal of the night following another RPI goal.

The Engineers' Jagger Tapper once again made it a one-goal game near the midway point of the period, but St. Lawrence once again answered. Junior captain Jan Olenginski controlled the puck for the Saints on the break and hovered a pass into Rasmus Svartström, whose shot went wide. Olenginski picked up the loose puck and centered the puck to Pierson, who beat Bruno Bruveris for the 4-2 lead.

The game raced into the third at 4-3 following a late Engineer goal in the second period. The resilient Saints continued to battle back and made it a 5-3 game three minutes and forty seconds into the final frame. Sam Frandina and Sam LeDrew combined to get the puck to the middle of the slot, where Cayden Casey spun and fired a wrist shot off the far post and in to make it a two-goal lead again.  

RPI's hopes of engineering a comeback would end there as the Skating Saints ballooned their lead. With less than seven minutes to go, LeDrew took advantage of an RPI turnover and turned it into a 2-on-2 with Filip Juříček. LeDrew picked up his second helper of the night, sending a pass to Juříček, who wired home his shot to send Appleton into a frenzy.

The Engineers pulled their goalie with six minutes and 31 seconds to go and were unable to gain any ground. After numerous chances for the Saints, a shot was stopped by Cameron Smith with under a minute to go, and the rebound was collected by Olenginski, who found Tremblay for an empty-net tally and a 7-3 final.

Smith finished with 28 saves and an assist in the win, while Dorfman and Bruveris each had nine saves for RPI.

Both penalty kill units were perfect on the day as St. Lawrence went 2-for-2 with a shorthanded goal and an empty-netter down 6-on-5, while RPI went 1-for-1 on the kill.

St. Lawrence will have a rare week without games next weekend and will be back on the ice on Friday, February 20 at 7 p.m. as they host Brown at Appleton Arena.