Box Score

ITHACA, N.Y. -- A pair of goals just 24 seconds apart helped the Cornell men's hockey team salvage a 2-2 tie against Colgate on Saturday night in the home opener at Lynah Rink. Colin Greening and Joe Devin scored goals for the Big Red, which remains unbeaten on the season at 2-0-2, both overall and in league play. Colgate, meanwhile, moves to 4-3-1 on the year and 1-2-1 in ECAC Hockey action.

Colgate took the lead in the first period, scoring on the Raiders' first power play chance of the game. Austin Smith followed a rebound off a shot from Jason Williams, lofting a shot over the glove of Cornell goaltender Ben Scrivens to give Colgate the 1-0 lead at the 6:20 mark of the period.

The Raiders, after taking that lead into the dressing room for the first intermission, came out and got a second goal at the 2:58 mark of the second period. The Raiders, on an odd-man rush, had leading scorer Brian Day hooked down by Cornell defenseman Mike Devin, and Day was awarded a penalty shot, which the sophomore calmly slotted between the pads of Scrivens for a 2-0 lead.

Colgate would take the 2-0 lead into the locker room for the second intermission, and appeared to have the game locked away after killing off two minutes worth of a 5-on-3 power play for the Big Red after three successive penalties in the span of two minutes gave Cornell its best shot of the night.

Still, the Big Red kept plugging away, and the effort finally paid off at the 13:31 mark of the third period when Colin Greening took a pass from Mike Devin and ripped a shot at Colgate goaltender Charles Long before falling to his knees and watching the puck sail into the top half of the goal.

With the Lynah Rink crowd buzzing with after Cornell cut the lead to one, Colgate coach Don Vaughan called a timeout to settle his team - a move that backfired when just 24 seconds later, Blake Gallagher sent a pass to Joe Devin between the circles, and the sophomore fired a shot that beat Long over his glove to knot the score at two.

Cornell had another extended power play when Colgate's Nick Prockow was whistled for a hitting from behind major and a game misconduct on a hit on Cornell's Joe Scali. The major extended from the third period into the overtime session, but Colgate was able to withstand the Cornell attack for the full five minutes.

Cornell finished the game 0-for-10 on the power play and with 28 shots on goal, 26 of which were stopped by Long. Not included in that total are a pair of golden opportunities, one by Michael Kennedy early in the first period and one by Blake Gallagher in the third, that rang off the goalpost. Colgate, meanwhile, finished 1-for-3 on the man advantage and tallied 20 shots on the Cornell goal, with Scrivens turning away 18 of those.

Cornell returns to action on Friday, playing host to Harvard in the annual rivalry game at Lynah Rink. The Big Red then faces Dartmouth on Saturday, with both games starting at 7 p.m.

Post-Game Notes
With Colgate's Brian Day attempting a penalty shot in the second period, Cornell's Ben Scrivens became the first goaltender in Cornell history to face three penalty shots in his career. He previously saved one from Wayne State's Tylor Michel as a freshman and surrendered a goal to Quinnipiac's Mike Atkinson last season.... all three penalty shots faced by Scrivens have come at Lynah Rink.