Dartmouth Offense Wakes Up to Hand St. Lawrence 5-2 Loss

Friday, February 21

Canton, N.Y.

7 PM

Dartmouth College

12-10-4, 9-8-2ECAC

St. Lawrence

3-24-4, 1-17-1ECAC

Dartmouth

St. Lawrence

Drew O'Connor

Photo by: Doug Austin

Dartmouth Offense Wakes Up to Hand St. Lawrence 5-2 Loss

2/21/2020 9:30:00 PM | Men's Ice Hockey

Box Score

Drew O'Connor scores two goals, including league-leading 17th of the season.

By: Pat Salvas

CANTON, N.Y. – Sophomore Drew O'Connor scored twice and five players had multi-point performances in a 5-2 win for the Dartmouth men's hockey team Friday night at St. Lawrence.

O'Connor is now tied for the league lead in goals with 17, tying his season total from his rookie campaign a year ago. The Big Green's (12-10-4, 9-8-2 ECAC) leading scorer now has 28 points, two more than he had all of last season in eight fewer games.

In addition to the sophomore power forward, Matt Baker (0-2-2), Jeff Losurdo (0-2-2), Will Graber (1-1-2) and Tanner Palocsik (1-1-2) all found their names on the scoresheet twice in the game against the Saints (3-24-4, 1-17-1 ECAC).

Junior defenseman and team captain Brendan Demler got the scoring started with the first goal of the game and his first of the season just 3:27 into the contest. Despite a 20-2 edge in shots on goal after the opening stanza, the score was tied as Keenan Suthers netted the home team's first marker.

St. Lawrence took a 2-1 lead at 13:23 of the second on a David Jankowski tally, only see the lead slip away thanks to O'Connor's first of the night and Palocsik's third of the season in a 60-second span in the final minutes of the frame.

Palocsik's marker would stand up as the game winner, his second in as many Fridays as O'Connor's second of the contest and a Graber empty-netter followed in the third.

Adrian Clark needed to make just 16 saves to earn the win as the visitors finished with a 39-18 edge in shots on goal. SLU used Francois Boisvert for the first 36:05, making 23 saves in that time before giving way to Daniel Mannella for 11 saves over 22 minutes and change.

With the win, Dartmouth jumps up to sixth in the ECAC Hockey standings with 20 points, just one back of fifth-place Rensselaer.

The Big Green head down the road to Potsdam Saturday night to take on No. 5 Clarkson. Dartmouth won the earlier match-up, 3-2, in Hanover last month.