No. 12 Minnesota scored two extra-attacker goals in the final minute of the third period to force overtime against No. 18 St. Lawrence as the team's played to a 2-2 tie in the Golden Gophers first ever trip to Appleton Arena on Saturday night.

Ryan Lough scored his first goal of the season in the first period, while Gavin Bayreuther added a shorthanded goal in the third period to pull him within one of Brian McColgan's program record for career goals by a defensemen with 30. For Minnesota, it was Mike Szmatula who got credit for both goals late in the third.

After getting the night off last night, junior Kyle Hayton was stellar in between the pipes for the Saints, making 42 saves including 16 in both the first and second periods and 11 against the Golden Gophers power play, which is 14th in Division I.

Lough's goal at the 14:58 mark of the first period gave the Saints a 1-0 lead that stood until the 6:31 mark of the third period. Ben Masella and Lough's linemate Carson Gicewicz won the puck deep in the corner and Gicewicz hit Lough at the near side of the net for a one-timer from just beyond the crease that snuck under Eric Schierhorn's glove for the first Saints goal.

With St. Lawrence on the kill after Masella was sent to the penalty box in the early part of the third period, Joe Sullivan blocked an attempt by the Minnesota defense to get the puck deep near the blue line. Bayreuther picked it up and skated through the neutral zone, passed to Dahl on the left wing before getting it back from Dahl for a bomb from the slot that beat Schierhorn high and electrified the St. Lawrence Homecoming Weekend crowd. The goal was the Saints second shorthanded tally of the year – Dahl has the other – and gave the Saints the 2-0.

But Mike Szmatula and Minnesota went to work after Schierhorn was pulled for the extra attacker, as the junior winger scored both Minnesota goals in the final minute, one on the redirect from a high, floating shot from the point that drifted over junior goaltender Kyle Hayton's right shoulder. He buried the equalizer on a rebound at the doorstep.

The Saints had the better of the chances in overtime but Schierhorn made a pair of point-blank saves, first on first-year Taggart Corriveau and then Carson Gicewicz, to keep things knotted at 2-2. He finished with 22 saves for Minnesota.

With the tie, the Saints are now 3-4-1 heading into next weekend's ECAC Hockey openers, as they'll host Princeton and Quinnipiac at Appleton Arena. Minnesota leaves its North Country road trip at 3-2-1.