FINAL from Appleton: SLU 4, Harvard 3

Third period notes

Saints go on the power play with 3:28 to play.

St. Lawrence fails to score on a power play with 10 minutes left in the game... whether that comes back to haunt them is still pending.

Carden hits the pipe on a one-on-one.

The Saints need to settle here. Harvard is taking lots of shots on net and dominating puck possession.

Goal Harvard Moriarty. St. Lawrence can't get it out of their own end.

Richter has come back in net for Harvard.

Goal Harvard Alex Biega on a one timer to the left of Petizian.

A loss or a tie from RPI and a St. Lawrence win would give SLU fifth place in the ECAC and a meeting with Clarkson in the first round of the playoffs next week. RPI is currently tied, 1-1, with Cornell heading into the third period.

Second period impressions

St. Lawrence has not lost on senior night this millennium.

Well, it feels like we've played a game and a half here. What a wild second period. There were 10 combined penalties in the period and almost no even-strength play. Players are falling all over the ice and lots of shoving and talking going on after each play ends. The third period is certainly going to be interesting, but Petizian is playing very well tonight. Save a disastrous collapse from St. Lawrence, I don't see another lead lost in the third period tonight. St. Lawrence appears pretty determined.

Second period notes

Goal Harvard Louis LeBlanc inside of 10 seconds to play. Saints take a 4-1 lead into the third period.

Goal SLU George Hughes on a sniper shot from the blue line, just 18 seconds into yet another power play.

Flanagan heads to the box for hooking.

Both teams are playing with a lot of emotion here tonight and it's starting to come out negatively on the ice. Lots of chirping and lots of shoving.

The officiating tonight has been particularly awful. St. Lawrence just got whistled for too many men as Caister was coming out of the box after his penalty and heading straight for the bench. Marsh protested a bit before finally sending Keller to serve the penalty.

Petizian is hurt after Del Mauro ran into him. We'll see if Tisi heads in and what this penalty with be. Caister heads to the box as well as Del Mauro.

Richter has come out of net in favor of Ryan Carroll for Harvard.

Goal SLU Brandon Bollig scores off an assist from Flanagan. SLU was 3-on-1 and Flanagan found the right man.

Goal SLU Mike McKenzie scores after a Harvard defensemen tried to hold him down. He skated in front of the crease and slapped in a rebound.

Petizian continues to play well. He made nine saves in the first period and already has three here in the second.

Good news... Keller is back on the ice to start the second period. He was probably getting stitched up. When he left the ice, he had a pretty good cut above his left eye.

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First period impressions

St. Lawrence came out with a lot of energy, but slowed after the opening few minutes. It didn't result in a Harvard goal. When Harvard's David Valek checked Derek Keller (who still hasn't returned) hard into the boards, the Saints seemed to be ignited. They scored within the first two minutes of the game-misconduct. Unfortunately one of the referees blew a play dead with the puck uncovered in the crease. Curran was there and had his stick on it just after the whistle. A solid first period nonetheless. Check out the two videos of the plays described below.

First period notes

Petizian makes a couple nice saves heading into the second half of the first period. He's also taken a few hits. Harvard is not exactly back on their heels.

End of the five minute game misconduct and St. Lawrence has a goal waved off after the official blew the play dead.

Goal SLU: Aaron Bogosian

St. Lawrence seems a little out of sync again tonight. A lot of miss communication. So far it hasn't cost them, but a hard hit on Derek Keller sends him to the locker room. David Valek gets a game misconduct.

Saints can't get it out of their own zone and a tip in front almost gets by Petizian, but the senior gloved it.

Senior night should give a little added spark to St. Lawrence tonight. Already the players are out with a bit more fire.

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It's senior night here at Appleton, and in typical Joe Marsh fashion, all six starters are seniors.

Tonight, the forwards for St. Lawrence are: Mike McKenzie, Travis Vermeulen and Alex Curran.

Jeff Caister and Derek Keller start off the defense, while Alex Petizian gets the start in net for the Saints.

Combined, this starting crew has 346 career points. Mike McKenzie leads them all with 108.

Alex Petizian comes in still under the SLU career GAA record, which was 2.55. He currently has a 2.52 GAA.

Starting for Harvard:

Forwards: Connor Morrison, Doug Rogers, Daniel Moriarty

Defense: Chad Morin, Alex Biega

Goalie: Kyle Richter.