A power play goal by rookie defenseman Ben Finkelstein with less than five minutes to play in third period helped the Saints fully erase a two-goal deficit en route to a 2-2 tie with Yale on Saturday night at Ingalls Rink in New Haven, Conn. Each game that has required overtime for St. Lawrence this season has ended in a tie.

Kyle Hayton helped the Saints secure one point in the ECAC Hockey standings with seven saves in the overtime period to push his game total to 27. The Saints came away with three of four points on the weekend and remain second in standings, two points behind first-place Union.

Hayton's counterpart, Yale netminder Patrick Spano, made 39 saves for the Bulldogs and kept the home team in the game despite being outshot and outworked by the Saints for much of the first 60 minutes.

Yale got on the board first though, with Ryan Hitchcock beating Hayton high on the blocker side with a one-time redirect from the left wing on the rush at the 8:19 mark of the first period.

Thirty-six seconds into the second period Frankie DiChiara pushed the lead to 2-0 for the home team with a bar-down shot from the right faceoff dot, after the Bulldogs had rung the crossbar just seconds before.

At 11:39 of the middle frame, the Saints got a break when a seemingly-harmless dump into the zone by senior Eric Sweetman took an odd bounce on Spano and trickled behind him to put the visitors on the board and cut the Yale lead to 2-1. It is Sweetman's second goal in as many games. Mike Graham assisted on the play.

With just over five minutes remaining in the third period, St. Lawrence got its third power play opportunity of the game when Joe Sullivan was hauled down on what would have been a breakaway opportunity by Yale's Adam Larkin.

Forty-nine seconds later, Finkelstein collected the puck off a turnover, skated into the Yale zone and took an uncontested flat-angle shot from the right wing that beat Spano short side for the equalizer. The goal extended the Saints' streak to seven straight games with a power play tally.

The Saints outshot and outworked the Bulldogs for much of the game, but Yale had the better of the changes in the final minute of regulation and in the overtime period.

Jacob Pritchard returned to the lineup for the Saints after missing the first four games of the new year due to injury. He finished with five shots, second to junior Nolan Gluchowski who had eight and also hit the crossbar against the Bulldogs.

St. Lawrence heads into next weekend's ECAC Hockey road weekend at Colgate and Cornell with a 12-6-6 overall and 8-1-3 mark in conference play. Yale is now 7-7-3 and 3-5-2 in the ECAC after Saturday's tie with the Saints.