St. Lawrence 2, Brown 2

PROVIDENCE, RI — Brown University pulled its goalie for an extra attacker and Devin Timberlake scored with 35 seconds left in regulation to tie St. Lawrence, 2-2, in men’s ECAC Hockey on Saturday at Meehan Auditorium.

The Saints (14-12-7 overall, 8-7-4 ECAC) have now gone winless in six consecutive games, posting an 0-3-3 mark and managing only one point in each of the last three weekend series.

In tying Brown (8-15-4, 6-10-4), St. Lawrence missed an opportunity to climb back into a tie for fourth place in the conference standings with Rensselaer. Instead, St. Lawrence fell out of fifth place and into sixth with Colgate’s win over Harvard. The Saints will now need Colgate and RPI or lost at least once in the final weekend of the regular season next week in order to have a chance at a first-round bye in the ECAC playoffs.

Against Brown, the Saints failed to capitalize on early power plays. St. Lawrence missed on three opportunities in the opening period. The game’s first goal came from St. Lawrence’s Alex Curran.

Travis Vermeulen started the play with a pass to Mike McKenzie. He then found Curran at the top of the right faceoff circle. Curran’s wrister beat Brown goalie Mike Clemente at 13 minutes, 27 seconds of the first period.

The Saints made it 2-0 late in the second period on a shorthanded goal during their second penalty kill of the game. Aaron Bogosian intercepted a Brown pass inside the defensive zone and headed up ice with McKenzie trailing. Bogosian dropped a pass to McKenzie from between the faceoff circles. McKenzie snapped a shot inside the far post at 17:17. It was his eight of the year and first career shorthanded goal.

Kyle Flanagan had a chance to put the game out of reach after being tripped on a breakaway during a St. Lawrence power play. He was awarded a penalty shot, but Clemente got enough of his blocker on Flanagan’s attempt to keep it out of the net.

The ensuing momentum led to Brown’s first goal — on the game’s second penalty shot. Jack Maclellan was tripped after beating the St. Lawrence defense at 11:25 of the third.

Maclellan snuck one past SLU goalie Alex Petizian’s pads to pull Brown to 2-1.

Petizian finished with 32 saves with 14 coming in the third period. Clemente stopped 26 shots for Brown.