men's hockey

Kyle Essery put the St. Lawrence men's hockey team in front with a power play goal early in the third period, freshman Tommy Thompson added an insurance goal in the final four minutes and the Saints battled their way out of a 3-0 hole for a 5-3 win at Brown University Saturday night and a sweep of their ECAC road series.

Sophomore wing Greg Carey scored on a power-play one-timer 2:25 into overtime to lift St. Lawrence University to a 4-3 ECAC Hockey victory over Yale in New Haven Friday night, snapping a six-game Saint winless streak and giving SLU its first  league win since November 19. 

Carey, who had two goals in the 3-3 tie with Yale in Canton in January, did it again Friday and now has six goals and nine points in seven games against the Elis. His overtime winner, his first game winner of the season, gave the Saints two points out of a game in which they worked hard to build a lead only to see Yale come back to tie it in the third.

"Getting the win is huge," said Saint associate head coach Mike Hurlbut. "We played our best game in quite some time and coming away with less than two points would have been disappointing. This is one we can build on and get a roll going at the right time of the year.

Carey scored the game winner after Yale's Antoine Laganiere was called for a board at 2:09 of the overtime. Kyle Flanagan won the faceoff in the Yale zone, the puck went back to George Hughes at the point and Hughes relayed it back to Flanagan, who hit Carey at the bottom of the faceoff circle and Carey's one-timer whistled past Yale goalie Nic Maricic to end it.

SLU improves to 9-15-3 overall and 5-9-1 in league play and snapped a bunch of streaks with the win, including a 0-7-1 mark in league play since their 4-3 win over Harvard in November. Yale is now 9-11-2, 6-8-1 in league play

Union College received points from a dozen different players and two goals from Massena native Match Hatch, continuing its domination of the North Country teams with a 6-0 win over St. Lawrence in an ECAC Hockey game Saturday night.

Senior wing Patrick Cullen tripled his season scoring in a span of less than five minutes in the second period as Rensselaer jumped on struggling St. Lawrence for four goals in 11:16 of the middle period and went on to a 4-0 win over the Saints in an ECAC Hockey game Friday night.

Goaltender Matt Weninger was brilliant with a 46-save night and the Saints managed to score three goals on Clarkson goalie Paul Karpowich for the third time this season, but Clarkson rallied from a 3-2 deficit with a pair of third period goals to hand the Saints a 4-3 loss at Cheel Arena on Saturday night.

Brown goalie Mike Clemente continued to weave a spell on St. Lawrence's offense and the Bears assured themselves of at least a point against the Saints for the 20^th consecutive year with a 4-1 win at Appleton on Sunday, leaving the Saints with just a single point in a big home series at the mid-point of the ECAC league season.

Greg Carey continued his offensive success against Yale and Matt Weninger turned in another solid start in goal, but the Saints had to settle for a 3-3 tie in their return to ECAC play at Appleton Arena Saturday night.

Due to a power outage impacting Appleton Arena and the St. Lawrence campus and severe winter weather conditions affecting the North Country, Friday's scheduled men's ice hockey game between St. Lawrence University and Brown has been postponed and will be played Sunday afternoon at 4 p.m.

The fan portion of the Hobey Baker Award race is underway and Saint junior captain Kyle Flanagan is one of 77 candidates, 13 of them from ECAC schools, vying for the top ten. Fans can vote for Flanagan by visiting the Hobey Baker Award page accessible through links on the main Saint hockey page.