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TROY, N.Y. – Joakim Ryan scored two goals and assisted on Dustin Mowrey's tying goal with 30 seconds remaining in the third period, and the No. 14/15 Cornell men's hockey team scraped out a 3-3 tie against No. 10/13 Rensselaer on Friday night at Houston Field House.
 
The Big Red scored two goals with goaltender Andy Iles pulled in favor of an extra attacker in the final 1 minute, 35 seconds to erase a two-goal deficit. The first came when John McCarron sent the puck from behind the Engineers' goal to Christian Hilbrich on the left side. He passed across to Ryan, who fired a shot over the glove of RPI goalie Scott Diebold.
 
As Ryan was shooting the puck, he absorbed a hit that drew a penalty on RPI's Ryan Haggerty. That allowed the Big Red to pull Iles again and work on a six-on-four advantage in search of the equalizer. Ryan worked the puck to McCarron on the left wall, and he alertly passed to the high slot. Mowrey had space to turn and pick a spot over Diebold's glove to tie the score at 3.
 
Iles made sure the deadlock lasted through overtime, making five saves in the extra frame – including a pair of stops on Ryan Haggerty from in tight in the final minute. In his 75th consecutive start for the Big Red, Iles finished the game with 21 saves.
 
The home side had a strong start and appeared to have a golden opportunity less than three minutes into the game when Mike Zalewski speeded away on a breakaway. But Cornell defenseman Kirill Gotovets caught up to him near the top of the slot in the Big Red zone, and knocked the puck away with a well timed head-first dive to the ice.
 
The Engineers were then granted the game's first power play shortly thereafter, but the Big Red comfortably killed off the penalty – thanks in part to a board-rattling hit by Mowrey on Curtis Leonard's entry on the left side.
 
That set the stage for Cornell to take the lead at the 7:52 mark on Ryan's second goal of the season. After taking a pass from Jacob MacDonald along the blue line, Ryan wristed a shot that found its way through traffic – provided in part by Matt Buckles and Rodger Craig – and just inside the near post. Freshman forward Jeff Kubiak drew the secondary assist for his first collegiate point.
 
RPI was whistled for two penalties late in the period, giving Cornell a power play to start the second. But it was the home side which grabbed momentum with an early two-on-one break that was foiled by Iles. The Engineers maintained control deep in the Big Red zone before the puck popped back out to Guy Leboeuf at the left point. With tons of space in front of him and Mike Zalewski providing a screen, Leboeuf picked a corner and tied the game at 1 just 30 seconds into the period. It was the first shorthanded goal Cornell has surrendered since Jan. 28, 2012 – a span of 52 games.
 
The Engineers then took the lead with 4:30 left in the period on Haggerty's 11th goal of the season. Working on the power play, he found space toward the top of the left circle and whipped a shot over the shoulder of a once-again screened Iles. The Big Red has now surrendered at least one power-play goal in each of its five games this year.
 
The Big Red came out stronger early in the third period, but a turnover in the defensive zone led to RPI's third goal. Zalewski gained possession in the right circle and tried to feather a pass across to Matt Neal on a two-on-one. A Cornell defenseman got his stick to it and the puck popped into the air, but Neal calmly batted it from about knee high into the wide side of the net.
 
Friday's game was the first time Ryan had three points in a game since his collegiate debut, when he had two goals and an assist against Mercyhurst on Oct. 29, 2011. McCarron's two assists against RPI gives him a team-high nine points through just five games.

Cornell continues its swing of four straight road games at 7 p.m. Saturday, when it visits two-time league champion Union at Messa Rink in Schenectady.