SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. - Junior Marshall Murphy (Little Canada, Minn./Northern Colorado Eagles) made 55 saves to backstop the Saint Michael's College men's ice hockey team to a 1-1 draw with Saint Anselm College on Friday evening at Cairns Arena during the opener of a two-game Northeast-10 Conference series.
RECORDS
- Saint Michael's (3-3-1, 2-2-1 NE10), Saint Anselm (4-2-1, 3-2-1 NE10)
SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS
- Murphy, 55 saves (career high)
- First-year Ashton Allain (Brentwood, Tenn./Walpole Express), 1 goal (1st career)
- Junior Zach Taylor (Hanover, Mass./South Shore Kings), 1 assist, 4 blocks, +1, 11-for-24 faceoffs
- Senior Jeremy Routh (Hamden, Conn./New Hampshire Jr. Monarchs), 1 assist, +1
- Senior Sam Johnson (Freeport, Maine/Walpole Express), 3 blocks
- Senior Matt Schreiner (Falmouth, Mass./Walpole Express), 2 blocks, 14-for-25 faceoffs
- First-year Jake Lincourt (Smithfield, R.I./Walpole Express), 7-for-13 faceoffs
OPPONENT LEADERS
- Junior Jac Cordeiro, 1 goal
- Senior Nick Howard, 23 saves
GAME FACTS
- The Purple Knights moved to 3-0-1 in their last four home meetings with the Hawks.
- The teams tied for just the fourth time in 46 all-time meetings, having last drawn on Nov. 22, 2014.
- Murphy's 55 saves were good for 10th in program history, with first-year Cole Manahan (Hermantown, Minn./Vernal Oilers) already posting a season-high 57 stops on Nov. 5.
THE ACTION
- Murphy made 18 first-period saves to help keep the teams scoreless.
- The Purple Knights took the lead around the midway mark of the second stanza, with Taylor finding Routh, whose pass to the slot was hammered home by Allain with 8:32 gone.
- Saint Anselm drew even in the third frame, as first-year Garrett Alberti passed from the end boards toward the left post for Cordeiro, who tallied at 7:25.
- The Hawks went on a power play with 1:37 to go in overtime, but Murphy made a pair of stops before Taylor blocked four shots - all in the final minute, including one that ricocheted into neutral ice to salt away the final seconds - with Murphy denying another shot in between.
NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S GAME
- Saturday vs. Saint Anselm, 4 p.m.
- The Purple Knights will host a Mobilization of Volunteer Efforts (MOVE) Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Week food drive during the game.
