Box Score
ST CATHARINES, Ont. – The Brock University men's hockey team (5-4-2 OUA) fell 4-3 in a shootout against the 4th ranked McGill Redmen (8-1-1 OUA) on Friday evening at the Seymour-Hannah Centre.
The Badgers got the scoring started five minutes into the first period on a power play goal scored by
Kaine Geldart with
Matt Abercrombie drawing the lone assist on the goal.
Geldart gave Brock a 2-0 lead on his second power play goal of the game just more than a minute after his first.
Kevin Christmas and
Andrew Radjenovic set up Geldart on the goal.
The second period was all McGill on the score sheet as Samuel Carrier, Carl Gelinas and Marc-Olivier Vachon all added goals to take a 3-2 lead heading into the third period.
The Badgers showed no signs of giving up as they battled back in the third period to tie the game on
Jordan Gignac's second goal of the season. Matt Stajan and
C.J. Dickson came through with the assists to send the game into overtime tied at 3.
The Redmen came out firing in the overtime period outshooting Brock 7-0 in the frame but could not beat
Dalton McGrath between the pipes for the Badgers sending the game into a shootout.
Radjenovic got Brock started with a goal in the shootout but that was all they could muster up as McGill made good with their first two attempts to take the 4-3 shootout win.
McGill's Andrew Flemming allowed three goals on 20 shots to pick up the win. McGrath was solid in goal for the Badgers registering 33 saves to help his team pick up a big point against one of the top teams in the CIS. McGrath also became the fastest goalie in school history to record 1,000 career saves. In 33 career regular season games, he has now recorded 1,026 saves.
The Badgers will take on the Ottawa Gee Gees (6-5-0 OUA) Saturday afternoon at the Seymour-Hannah Centre with puck drop scheduled for 3:15pm.