BRIDGEWATER, Mass. – The Saint Anselm College men's ice hockey team skated to a 4-4 tie with Stonehill College on Tuesday.

The Hawks are now 8-9-2 on the season with a 5-4-2 mark in Northeast-10 Conference action. The Skyhawks go to 5-10-2 overall and 2-5-2 in the NE10. The teams played to two draws while Saint Anselm captured a win in the three-game regular season series.

Saint Anselm is back in action on Friday, Feb. 4 and Saturday, Feb. 5 with a home-and-home series against Assumption University. Friday's puck drop from Worcester, Mass. is scheduled for 6:50 p.m.

Sophomore Jac Cordeiro (Barnstable, Mass.) opened the scoring at 9:12 of the opening frame after he forced an offensive zone at the top of the slot. Cordeiro fired a wrist shot that beat Skyhawks goaltender John Day and into the left side of the goal.

The Hawks doubled the lead at 13:22 of the first period as freshman Mark Blaney (Braintree, Mass.) unleashed a shot that found the twine through traffic from the left point, directly off a face-off win by classmate Chase Reynolds (Middletown, Conn.).

The Skyhawks scored their first of three consecutive goals to close the opening period as Drew Gardner kept the puck in the attacking end. He stepped into a wrister that found the back of the net through traffic at 14:55 of the opening period on the power play.

Stonehill would strike early in the second period as John Peloso put a shot on junior goaltender Nick Howard (Burlington, Mass.). Howard got a piece of the puck but not enough as it trickled into the goal, knotting the score at two.

Max Pineo gave the Skyhawks a 3-2 lead at 13:03 of the second stanza as he managed to get in behind the Hawks defense and snap a shot from the left faceoff dot, beating Howard.

The Hawks would respond just 85 seconds later, tying the score at three. Freshman Hunter Brackett (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) forced a turnover at the left hash mark and flicked a quick wrister that beat Day in the upper half of the goal, marking the first goal of Bracket's collegiate career.

With just 1:01 left on the clock in the second period, Brendan Nehmer walked out of the corner and fired two shots that Howard turned aside but Nehmer would cash in on the third opportunity, giving the hosts a 4-3 lead through 40 minutes of play.

Junior Mark Leach (Londonderry, N.H.) tied the contest at four with a power play goal. Leach received a pass from sophomore Tommy Schwartz (Ridgefield, Conn.) at the blue line. Leach managed to delay
his wrist shot and managed to find the twine through bodies from both squads at 10:16 of the final regulation period.

Both squads had power-play chances in the final minutes of the contest but neither team could capitalize with the extra skater as the teams headed to overtime.

Saint Anselm had the best chance to score in the five-minute, three-on-three overtime as senior Sean Healy (Quincy, Mass.) drove toward goal from the left corner. He put a shot on Day that was turned aside but Healy could not get a stick on the rebound chance.

Saint Anselm put 45 shots on goal compared to 28 for Stonehill. The Hawks scored once on four power play chances compared to one-for-five for the Skyhawks.

Howard stopped 24 shots on goal in the tie while Day made 41 stops for Stonehill.