No. 12/13 Men's Hockey Picks Up Extra Point In Shootout Win

Friday, February 13

Ingalls Rink / New Haven, Conn.

7:00 PM

Dartmouth College

17-6-2, 11-4-2

Yale

7-17-1, 6-10-1

OT 1

OT 2

Dartmouth

Yale

No. 12/13 Men's Hockey Picks Up Extra Point In Shootout Win

2/13/2026 11:56:00 PM | Men's Ice Hockey

Box Score

By: Dan Richeal

NEW HAVEN, Conn.—No. 12/13 Dartmouth men's hockey earned two points on Friday night with a 4-4 tie and a shootout win over Yale.

The Big Green opened the scoring while on the power play at the 8:34 mark of the first period. Dartmouth has sustained control of the puck as CJ Foley had it at the top of the point. Foley fed it to his right to Nikita Nikora in the right faceoff circle. Nikora slap-passed it to the front of the net to Hank Cleaves who redirected home his 10^th goal of the season. For Nikora it was his 15^th assist of the year while it was Foley's 12^th.

Just 1:19 later, the Big Green doubled their lead. Ryan Schelling poke checked the puck to Austin Salani in the neutral zone and the sophomore duo of Salani and Joshua Schenk went on a two on one. Salani fed a pass across to Schenk and he buried his second goal of the year to give Dartmouth a 2-1 lead.

Under five minutes later, the Bulldogs got on the scoreboard to cut the Dartmouth lead to one.

Shots were 14-7 in favor of Yale despite Dartmouth taking a 2-1 lead to the locker room. Faceoffs were eight apiece in the first period of play.

4:39 into the second period, the Big Green took the two goal lead back. Schelling and Schenk were deep on the forecheck and forced a turnover in the Yale zone. The puck found Schenk's stick and he backhanded home his second goal of the game from just outside the crease.

At the 8:00 mark of the frame, Yale cut the lead to one once again. With 1:25 left in the middle stanza Yale tied the game at three.

The Big Green outshot Yale 9-6 in the second period while also going 11-7 in the faceoff circle.

8:08 into the third period, the Big Green took the lead back. Jack Silverberg and Nikora combined to come away with the puck on the half wall in the Yale zone. Nikora controlled the puck and found Matt Fusco on the right point. Fusco took the pass and ripped a wrister off the post and in as Silverberg screened the goalie. It was Fusco's fourth goal of the year while Nikora notched his second assist of the game and Silverberg picked up his sixth assist.

With the goalie pulled, Yale tied the game at four with 8.8 seconds remaining in regulation.

The game went to overtime despite the Big Green outshooting the Bulldogs 9-6 in the third period and 18-12 in the final 40 minutes.

In overtime, Brock Cummings had the lone shot on goal at the 1:33 mark but it was turned away. Both teams had scoring opportunities but neither could convert.

The game officially ended in a tie, but the teams went to the shootout for the extra point.

Dartmouth went first in the shootout as Hayden Stavroff was turned away. Emmett Croteau matched the save in the first round.

Brock Cummings jumped over the board to start the second round but could not convert. Croteau also turned away the Yale shooter and the shootout went to the third round.

Nikora was next up for the Big Green, he went in slow before delaying his shot. Once the goalie went down he picked the top right corner and gave the Big Green the lead.

Croteau shutdown the final Yale shooter with his left pad to secure the bonus point for the Big Green.

Shots in the game were tied at 26 with the shot attempts being 68-49 in favor of the Big Green. Croteau made 22 saves for the Big Green, his goals against average is now 1.85 while his save percentage is .924.

The Big Green won nearly 59% of faceoffs as they went 33-24. H. Cleaves had a game high 14 wins while Cummings had a 68.4 winning percentage on 19 draws.

Nikora and Schenk both tallied two-point games, Nikora now has points in four of the last five games. The junior has eight points over the five-game stretch.

The Big Green blocked 12 shots in the game with Foley accounting for four of the 12. Colin Grable and Cooper Cleaves each blocked a pair of shots.

Dartmouth is now 2-0 in shootouts this year with Nikora scoring both shootout winners.

The Green and White now travel to Providence, RI to take on Brown on Saturday, Feb. 14 at 7 PM.