CANTON, N.Y. - Tim Makowski had assists on all three goals to lead the St. Lawrence University men's hockey team to a 3-2 come-from-behind victory over Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in an ECAC Hockey contest at Appleton Arena. RPI drops to 5-3-0 overall and 1-2-0 in the conference, while the Saints improve to 4-4-0 and 1-0-0.

The game started with a torrid back-and-forth pace through the first half of the first period, which saw just one stoppage in play in the opening ten minutes. The ice began to tilt in favor of the Engineers as Jordan Steinmetz was given a five-minute major and a game misconduct with 7:02 left.

On the ensuing power play, the Saints held strong for a few minutes before RPI broke the 0-0 tie. A beautiful passing play from Lauri Sertti and Ryan Mahshie found the stick of Austin Heidemann in the slot, who fired a shot to the top right corner to make it a 1-0 game.

In the final minute of the first frame, a defensive miscue made it a 2-0 game as Jakob Lee intercepted a pass with no one between himself and Emil Zetterquist. Lee backhanded a shot home to give the Engineers the 2-0 lead after 20.

St. Lawrence flipped the game in the second as it heavily out shot RPI, 17-5. The Saints capitalized with a goal 1:10 in. Makowski sent a pass up the side boards to Felikks Gavars, who carried the puck into the Engineers' end. The first-year dropped the puck back to Josh Boyer, who collected it from the far hash of the right circle and ripped a wristshot over the short side shoulder of RPI's Jack Watson to cut into the lead.

With all of the momentum on their side, the Scarlet and Brown tied up the contest less than five minutes later. Makowski once again assisted on a goal, as he hauled in a Greg Lapointe pass and found Luc Salem. The junior defender stepped to the middle and threaded a wrist shot through a Will Arquiett screen and on goal that beat Watson and tied the game at 2-2.

Nine and a half minutes into the third, St. Lawrence took the lead. Makowski collected a puck at the top of the RPI zone and sent a shot in that was stopped by Watson. Lasak collected the rebound and put a shot off the pad of the goaltender, but stuck with the play and snuck his second attempt past the foot of Watson for a 3-2 lead.

The Engineers did not lay down as they applied pressure late with an empty net. Mahshie had a good look for RPI with 37 seconds left in regulation, then with the final seconds ticking on the clock the big-bodied Sutter Muzzatti got two shots onto Zetterquist creating a heavy scrum. The shots were saved and the rebound out to TJ Walsh was stymied by the left pad of the senior goaltender to give St. Lawrence the win.

Zetterquist stopped 23 shots in the win, while Watson stopped 33 shots in the loss.

After generating 11 shots in the first period, RPI had just 14 more in the second and third, as they were outshot 36-25.

The Engineers went 1-for-4 on the power play, scoring on the five-minute opportunity, while the Saints went 0-for-2.