Official release from RPI's SID

MEN'S HOCKEY TIES PRINCETON, 2-2
Tigers tally late goal to gain the deadlock

The Princeton Tigers scored an even-strength goal late in the third period to earn a 2-2 tie against Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in an Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Division I men's hockey game at the Houston Field House in Troy, N.Y.

The Tigers pulled out the tie when Matt Maglione scored on a hard wristshot at the 17:42 mark of the third period.  Senior Scott Prime won an offensive zone faceoff to teammate Tommy Colclough.  He fed Maglione, who tallied his fourth of the season from the top of the right circle.

With the tie, the Tigers are now 3-20-1 overall and 2-14-1 in the league.  The Engineers are now 9-19-3 overall and 3-11-3 in the ECAC.  RPI maintains its four-point lead over Princeton, which was 2-0-1 against the Engineers this season, for 11th in the standings.

Princeton took an early lead when sophomore Mike Patton tapped the puck into a vacated net 4:47 into the first period.  The play developed when defenseman Steve Slaton drove down the right side, drawing RPI netminder Nathan Marsters out of the net.  Slaton then found Patton, who was in front of the net, for the goal  his seventh of the season.  Princeton captain
George Parros also earned an assist on the goal.  The Engineers evened the score with just 39 seconds left in the period when sophomore Nick Economakos scored on a rebound of a Danny Eberly shot.  Eberly, RPI's captain who was returning to lineup after missing seven games due to an injury, took a pass from Carson Butterwick as an Engineers' power play was expiring.  Eberly took a slapshot that Nate Nomeland saved but the rebound
went directly to Economakos, who scored his seventh of the season from just outside the crease.

Butterwick gave the Engineers a 2-1 lead with an unassisted shorthanded goal at 4:28 of the second period.  A senior forward, Butterwick took the puck on an errant hard-around, skated down the left side on a 2-on-1 and beat Nomeland with a wrist shot for his fourth of the season.

Marsters, who was making back-to-back starts for the first time this season, finished with 21 saves while Nomeland stopped 24 shots.

The Engineers are back on the ice on Saturday night when they host ECAC foe Yale at 7pm at the Houston Field House.  The Tigers will play at Union in a league game on Saturday night at 7pm.