NEW HAVEN, Conn. - The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) men's ice hockey team secured a 5-3 ECAC victory at Yale this evening.

The Engineers offense featured one goal and one assist apiece from Tyler Hotson and Jakob Lee, a power-play goal from both Felix Caron and Arvil Bergmanis, and a short-handed score from Jack Brackett.

Following a disallowed goal by the Engineers in the opening 35 seconds of the game, Caron re-started the scoring with a man-up strike at 9:05 in the first using assists from Will Gilson and Elliott McDermott. Hotson would not wait long to double the margin, as he used help from Lee and Jagger Tapper to put RPI ahead 2-0 less than 100 seconds after Caron's score.

Yale would get on the board with less than four minutes left in the first period, but Bergmanis' power-play goal eight minutes into the second, which included an assist from Hotson, cushioned the margin once more for the Engineers.

The hosts found the back of the net again in the closing stages of the second to cut the advantage to 3-2 before Brackett and Brad McNeil worked together to give the Engineers their first short-handed goal of the season at 7:09 in the third.

Facing another multi-goal deficit, the Bulldogs again rallied to within one score with 10:22 remaining, however an unassisted tally by Lee with in the final minutes of regulations sealed the wire-to-wire win for the Engineers.

Next up, RPI will look to carry the momentum into a 5:00 pm meeting at Brown tomorrow night.