Box Score

NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Despite dropping a 4-1 contest in the regular-season finale at Yale on Saturday night, the Cornell men's hockey team still secured a bye in the upcoming ECAC Hockey tournament as the fourth seed.

Greg Miller scored a short-haned goal for Cornell on the night, while Mike Garman stopped 38 Yale shots in the loss. Locke Jillson and Keir Ross both collected an assist on the night as Cornell finished the game scoreless in four power-play chances.

For Yale, Andrew Miller had a pair of goals, while Broc Little and Clinton Bourbonais chipped in one each. Kenny Agostino had a pair of assists, with Brian O'Neill, Denny Kearney, Chad Ziegler and Kevin Limbert each adding one. Ryan Rondeau made 18 saves in the victory for the third-ranked Bulldogs.

A confluence of events transpired on Saturday evening, the result of which was a fourth-place tie between Cornell, Rensselaer and Princeton. Along with the Big Red's loss to Yale, Rensselaer tied Quinnipiac, 2-2, and Princeton dropped a 5-0 contest to league regular-season champion Union. With the three teams tied, Cornell won the tiebreaker to take the fourth seed, with Rensselaer finishing with the fifth seed and Princeton taking the sixth.

After a scoreless first period that saw Garman make 14 saves, the Bulldogs got on the scoreboard with Miller's first goal of the night, a power-play goal. Miller ripped a wrist shot from the dot to the right of Garman that clanged off the goal post and in on his glove side at the 9:17 mark of the period.

The Bulldogs made the score 2-0 when Bourbonais fired a shot from the slot through a pair of Cornell defensemen that again rang off the post and in with 4:19 to play in the second period. Yale then made the score 3-0 with Little's goal, being sprung on a breakaway with a pass from his own blue line. The puck hopped over the stick of a Cornell defenseman and onto Little's, and he finished the play off with a left-side wrist shot with 3:13 to play in the second.

Cornell wasn't finished, though, as despite being on the penalty kill, Ross sent a pass ahead to Jillson, who led Miller with a pass that the sophomore controlled before beating Rondeau with a wrist shot from the slot, slipping the puck underneath the senior netminder with 1:50 to play in the period. 

Despite pressing to draw the game closer, Cornell could not cut into the deficit, and Miller capped the scoring of the game with an empty-net tally with 2:07 to play in the contest with a shot from his own blue line.

Cornell will now take the week off, and will have a bye through the ECAC Hockey first round. Cornell will play host to a quarterfinal series at Lynah Rink against an opponent to be determined on March 11-13. Tickets for the quarterfinal series will go on sale on Monday at 10 a.m. by both phone orders and orders placed at the Cornell Athletic Ticket Office at Bartels Hall. Prices are $18 for adults and $13 for Cornell students.