Box Score

ESTERO, Fla. -- The Cornell men's hockey team ended its 24-day holiday break with a 4-2 loss to Colorado College on Tuesday night at the Florida College Classic in Estero, Fla. Greg Miller and Colin Greening scored for the Big Red, which fell to 7-3-2 on the year. Colorado College improves to 12-4-3.

Cornell went 1-for-6 on the power play in the contest, with Greening's goal coming on the man advantage. Colorado College went 2-for-8 with the power play on the night. Cornell goaltender Ben Scrivens stopped 30 shots in the loss, while Colorado College's Joe Howe stopped 25 shots in the victory.

Early penalties to Brendon Nash and Braden Birch gave Colorado College the first chance on the power play, and the Tigers converted on the 5-on-3 as Stephen Schultz collected a weak-side rebound off a shot from Gabe Guentzel and wristed a shot past Scrivens for the early 1-0 lead.

Cornell got a crack at a 5-on-3 later in the first period, with the Tigers able to kill off all 58 seconds of the two-man advantage for the Big Red and sucessfully killing off the full penalty with just over three minutes to play in the first period, and the period ended with the Big Red trailing, 1-0.

In the second, the Tigers went up two goals on a goal by Mike Testwuide, but Greg Miller cut the deficit in half with his second goal of the season, taking a pass from Locke Jillson and beating Tigers goaltender Joe Howe.

At the 7:56 mark of the second period, the Tigers pushed the margin back up to two goals with Tim Hall's third goal of the season. The score would remain 3-1 for the next nine minutes until Colin Greening got the puck from Nick D'Agostino in the neutral zone, skated into the Colorado College zone and muscled his way to the goal, slipping the puck past Howe to cut the deficit to one at the end of the second period.

Colorado College got its fourth goal of the night on a controversial call in the third period. The Tigers' Schultz ripped a shot from the bottom of the faceoff circle to the left of Scrivens that appeared to ring off the crossbar, but one of the officials ruled the puck had gone into the goal, though the goal judge never turned on the light to signal the valid goal. Despite a lengthy conference among the officials and the goal judge, the goal stood, making the score 4-2, where it would remain for the final margin.

Cornell closes out the trip to Florida with a 4 p.m. contest against ECAC Hockey rival Princeton, which lost in a shootout to Maine after skating to a 6-6 tie through regulation.