Quinnipiac University
St. Lawrence
Sam Anas' OT Winner Gives No. 14 QU Men's Ice Hockey 3-2 Win At St. Lawrence
11/22/2014 12:00:00 AM | Men's Ice Hockey
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CANTON, New York – Quinnipiac men's ice hockey's Sam Anas scored the game-winner in overtime as the No. 14 Bobcats topped St. Lawrence, 3-2, in Canton, New York. With the win, Quinnipiac improves to 8-3-1 overall and 5-1-0 in ECAC Hockey while St. Lawrence drops to 8-5-1 overall and 4-2-0 in league play.
Anas' two-goal outing is his third of the year as he now increases his team-leading goal tally to nine on the year. The overtime game-winner was also his 30th career goal. Quinnipiac freshman Landon Smith (Greenwood Village, Colorado) had two assists while freshman Tanner MacMaster (Calgary,Alberta) scored his first career goal.
Quinnipiac's last overtime, game-winning goal came on Mar. 17, 2013 in the ECAC Hockey Quarterfinals when Kevin Bui scored to defeat Cornell in the third and deciding game of the league series at High Point Solutions Arena. Quinnipiac's last overtime win on the road came on Mar. 12, 2010 when the Bobcats won the longest game in NCAA men's ice hockey history at Union in Game 1 of the ECAC Hockey Quarterfinals at Messa Rink in Schenectady, New York. In that game, Greg Holt scored 10 minutes into the fifth overtime to end the game.
Midway through the first period, the Bobcats struck first as MacMaster scored his first goal of the year to stake Quinnipiac to a 1-0 lead. Alex Barron (Glendora, California) started the play when he won a battle in the corner to the right of St. Lawrence's Kyle Hayton, skated behind the Saints' goal and fed Tanner MacMaster (Calgary, Alberta) in the face-off circle to the left of St. Lawrence's goalie. MacMaster's shot was partially stopped by Hayton, but dribbled by the Saints' goalie to put Quinnipiac out in front with a one-goal lead.
Inside the first two minutes of the start of the second period, St. Lawrence's Patrick Doherty potted his fifth goal of the year after he took a pass from defenseman Eric Sweetman and one-timed a shot past Quinnipiac's Michael Garteig to tie the game at 1-1. The Saints took the lead with four minutes to play in the period on Matt Purmal's second goal of the season with a helper from Tommy Thompson.
With ten minutes left to play Smith and Matthew Peca (Petawawa, Ontario) headed into the corner to the left of Hayton. Smith got his stick on the puck , but couldn't dig it out before Peca was able to carve the puck away from a St. Lawrence defender and get the puck to Sam Anas (Potomac, Maryland) along the boards. Anas stepped through the St. Lawrence defense and wristed a shot on goal from the slot that beat Hayton to tie the game at 2-2.
Less than three minutes into overtime, Anas banged home the game-winner after taking a pass from Justin Agosta (East Meadow, New York) just above the left face-off circle.Garteig picked up an assist on the play after taking control of the puck in the Bobcats zone and tipping it up to Agosta. Anas, after taking the pass from Agosta, walked across the St. Lawrence zone before finding a lane to wrist a shot on Hayton. The puck was lifted over the Saints' goalie's shoulder where it found the cross bar and clanged home to break the 2-2 tie.
Quinnipiac returns to action next weekend with a two-game series against the University of Massachusetts. The Bobcats host the Minutemen on Friday, Nov. 28 at 7 p.m. at High Point Solutions Arena at the TD Bank Sports Center before traveling to Amherst, Massachusetts for the second of their two-game set against UMass at the Mullins Center on Saturday, Nov. 29.
