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No. 5/6 Cornell drops Saints, 6-1

Posted 11/18/17

Jacob Pritchard put the Saints on the board late in the third period with his team-leading fifth goal of the season, but the St. Lawrence men's hockey team fell to No. 5/6 Cornell, 6-1, on Friday …

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No. 5/6 Cornell drops Saints, 6-1

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Jacob Pritchard put the Saints on the board late in the third period with his team-leading fifth goal of the season, but the St. Lawrence men's hockey team fell to No. 5/6 Cornell, 6-1, on Friday night in Ithaca, New York.

Nolan Gluchowski set up Pritchard to earn his seventh assist of the year, also a team high. Noah Bauld led Cornell with a hat trick to help the Big Red remain unbeaten at 7-0-0 with a 5-0-0 mark against ECAC Hockey opponents. With the loss, the Saints drop to 1-11-1 and 0-4-1 in league contests.

Eight seconds in the first period changed the course of the game, as Cornell scored two goals eight seconds apart midway through the opening frame to take a 2-0 lead and negating one of the better starts for the Scarlet and Brown this season.

The Saints went to work early after an opening faceoff win by Joe Sullivan and kept Cornell pinned in its own zone for much of the first five minutes, tasking goaltender Matthew Galajda to make three saves in that stretch.

But at the 11:34 mark of the first period, at the end of a long shift for the Saints, Bauld beat St. Lawrence netminder Arthur Brey on a backhand from the bottom of the right circle.

After winning the ensuing draw, Cornell's Morgan Barron carried into the Saints zone and snapped off a wrist shot from the left faceoff dot for a 2-0 Cornell lead, with Trevor Yates assisting on the play.

Through 20 minutes of play, Brey had tied his career-high for saves in a period with 19, which he set in his first career start at Penn State on October 29, 2015. The Yorba Linda, Calif. native finished with 40 saves on Friday night.

Midway through the second period, first-year Keenan Suthers had a bid for his first career goal on a breakaway but he was stopped by Galajda. Newcomer Eddie Pavlini also made his collegiate debut during that shift with Suthers.

Later in the frame, Brendan Smith sent a shot from just inside the left point through heavy traffic in front and beat Brey along the ice to extend the Cornell lead to 3-0. Officials took a long time to review the play looking for goaltender interference, but the call on the ice stood.

Less than two minutes later Bauld pushed the margin to 4-0 at 17:05 with his second of the evening and Anthony Angello made it 5-0 midway through the third period before Pritchard found the net for the Saints.

At the 16:36 mark of the final frame, with the Saints on a 4-on-3 power play, Gluchowski hit Pritchard moving through the neutral zone with speed. Pritchard carried down the left wing side and into the Cornell zone before taking a quick wrister that beat Galajda high under the crossbar to make it 5-1 Big Red.

Bauld answered and completed the hat trick just over a minute later to conclude the scoring.

The Saints finished 1-5 with the man advantage, while Cornell was 0-6. The Big Red outshot St. Lawrence 46-16, as Galajda stopped 15 for Cornell.

St. Lawrence will face another nationally-ranked test in No. 19 Colgate on Saturday night in Hamilton, N.Y.