Senior center Darren Haydar scored two goals and assisted on a third as New Hampshire held off St. Lawrence 5-4 at Appleton Arena Saturday night.<\/p>\n
Haydar’s three-point night moved him into seventh on the all-time UNH scoring list with 176 points and enabled the fourth-ranked Wildcats to gain a split on their weekend trip to the North Country. St. Lawrence lost its fifth straight and sixth by a one-goal margin.<\/p>\n
“Its easy to see why New Hampshire is off to such a great start,” said Saint coach Joe Marsh. “They are a very skilled offensive team which can create scoring opportunities in a big hurry. Hopefully we can take a lot of positive things out of this one. We scored some nice goals on the power play and had a strong third period, but [UNH goalie Mike] Ayers came up with some big saves to keep them in front.”<\/p>\n
The Saints enjoyed a rare early lead when freshman Stace Page scored his first collegiate goal on a power play at 9:45 of the first period, but they didn’t enjoy it long as the Wildcats tied the game exactly one minute later on a power play of their own. Haydar scored his 12th of the season on a goalmouth deflection of Garrett Stafford’s blast from the point at 10:45.<\/p>\n
That ignited a flurry of UNH goals as the Wildcats added two in the next 2:32 to make it a 3-1 lead after one period. Freshman Preston Callander scored his first collegiate goal on a shot along the ice right after a UNH power play had expired at 12:51, and freshman Justin Aikins scored his first collegiate goal at 13:17 on another redirection of a Stafford shot from the point.<\/p>\n
St. Lawrence battled back to tie in the second period with the help of two five-on-three power-play goals. Page scored the first just 25 seconds into the period to cut the Wildcat lead to 3-2 and Russ Bartlett tied it with his third of the season when he put back a rebound off an Ayers save at 6:12.<\/p>\n
UNH freshman Sean Collins scored his 12th goal of the year on a pretty move in front, tucking a backhand past Saint freshman goalie Mike McKenna at 14:09 to give the Wildcats a 4-3 lead after two periods.<\/p>\n
Haydar scored the eventual game winner when he took a pass from Collins which went off the leg of a Saint defender and skated in on McKenna, putting a wrist shot in off the goalie’s glove just 43 seconds into the final period to make it 5-3.<\/p>\n
The Saints scored their fourth power-play goal of the game with 11:08 to play when Robin Carruthers tucked his fourth of the season through Ayers’ pads, but that was as close as the Saints could get.<\/p>\n
Ayers made 14 of his 28 saves in the third period as the Saints pulled out the stops in an effort to pull even; the Wildcats did not allow the Saints a shot on goal in the final 44 seconds with the Saint net empty for an extra attacker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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