Box Score

PRINCETON, N.J. -- The Cornell men's hockey team's three-game winning streak came to an end with a 5-3 loss to Princeton on Saturday night at Hobey Baker Rink in Princeton, N.J. Blake Gallagher had a goal and an assist with Patrick Kennedy chipping in a pair of assists in the loss for the Big Red.

Colin Greening and Joe Devin added goals for Cornell, which fell to 13-6-3 on the year and 10-3-2 in ECAC Hockey play. Mike Devin and Brendon Nash both added an assist, with the Big Red finishing the night 2-for-6 on the power play. Ben Scrivens got the start and allowed four goals in the first 26:36, with Mike Garman making 21 stops in relief.

For Princeton, five different players scored, with Mark Magnowski tallying the game-winner to go along with an assist. Marc Hagel also had a goal and an assist, with Kevin Lohry tallying a pair of helpers. Mike Kramer, Will MacDonald and Jody Pederson rounded out the goal-scorers for the Tigers, who got 30 saves from Zane Kalemba. Princeton finished the night 1-for-3 on the power play.

Princeton got on the board first, with Kramer scoring on a rebound from a point shot by Magnowski on the power play 10:42 into the first period. The Tigers would make the score 2-0 later in the period when MacDonald picked up the puck in the Cornell zone, skated between the circles and ripped a shot that was initially stopped by Scrivens, but the puck got past the senior netminder and trickled across the goal line, sending the Tigers to the locker room ahead, 2-0, at the end of one period.

In the second, the Big Red got on the scoreboard on its first power-play chance of the night. Just 2:40 into the period, Joe Devin tipped home a shot by Patrick Kennedy that went between the legs of Kalemba, cutting the deficit in half.

Princeton would respond with the next two goals, scored less than a minute apart. Dan Bartlett started the play on the first of the two, circling around the Princeton net and flipping a wrap-around chance that Scrivens stopped, but the rebound came off between the circles to Pederson, who sent the puck top shelf to give the Tigers a 3-1 lead with 14:10 to play in the second. Then, less than a minute later, Magnowski ripped a shot from the blue line that dipped underneath the glove of Scrivens and into the goal, prompting Cornell head coach Mike Schafer to lift the senior in favor of sophomore Garman.

Garman was tested early, and the sophomore looked sharp in his first action of the season. A turnover in the Cornell end led to a quick wrist shot by Bartlett, but Garman made a beautiful glove save on the play. Then, with Cornell killing off a boarding call on Brendon Nash, Garman made a trio of saves from close range to keep the deficit at three goals.

With Garman providing a steady influence in net, the Big Red began to work at getting back in the game. A 5-on-3 after a tripping call on Lohry and a roughing call on Michael Sdao proved to be the spark, as Cornell cut the deficit to two goals with Gallagher's one-timer from the faceoff dot to the right of Kalemba, clanging off the crossbar and into the net with 6:15 to play. Then, with 2:57 remaining in the period, Gallagher gave the puck to Greening behind the Princeton goal, and the senior captain worked his way to the front of the crease, gave a deke to get Kalemba to commit low, and then roofed a shot into the net, making the score 4-3, where it stood after two periods.

Cornell came out with intensity in the third period, trying for the tying goal, but Kalemba was sharp, turning aside all six of the shots he faced in the period. Princeton added to the final margin with 51 seconds to play when Hagel scored an empty-net goal.

Cornell returns to action on Friday when it takes on Brown in a 7 p.m. contest at Lynah Rink, and will face Yale in a matchup of the top two teams in ECAC Hockey on Saturday night at 7 p.m.