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ITHACA, N.Y. — Jeff Kubiak scored with 49 seconds left in the third period, and the Cornell men's hockey team won its third straight game to start the season with a 4-3 victory over Princeton on Friday night at Lynah Rink.
 
Trevor Yates earned the lone assist on the winning goal, stopping an attempted Princeton breakout up the right side. He backhanded a pass to Kubiak as he approached the top of the left circle, then Kubiak snapped a shot between the legs of a Princeton defenseman and over the left shoulder of goalie Colton Phinney to send the crowd of 4,117 into a frenzy.
 
It was an appropriate ending to a game that featured countless scoring opportunities at both ends of the ice. While the first period was scoreless, the second period produced a whopping five goals. Cornell scored three times in a span of less than four minutes, bookended by Max Véronneau's goals for Princeton to leave the home side with a 3-2 lead entering the third period.
 
All three second-period Cornell goals were scored by freshmen. Beau Starrett got the scoring started with his first collegiate goal, then Anthony Angello scored twice in a span of 2:15 to give the Big Red a 3-1 lead.
 
But Princeton stormed back with Véronneau's second goal before a couple of big Cornell penalty kills kept the home side in front entering the third period. The Tigers eventually tied the game on Ben Foster's rebound goal just 1:03 into the third before Kubiak's late heroics.
 
Mitch Gillam made 21 saves to earn the victory, although Phinney made 17 of his 39 saves in the third period — including six on a single power-play opportunity when the game was still tied at 3. Cornell resumes its four-game home stand at 7 p.m. Saturday when it takes on #4/5 Quinnipiac, which won Friday at Colgate, 3-2, to improve to 7-0 on the season.