After relinquishing a season-high eight goals Friday night to St. Lawrence, the Cornell defense put the rest of ECAC Hockey on notice that this defensive debacle was just a fluke with the Red’s sixth shutout of the year on Saturday night. Unfortunately for the Red, leading the nation in this category does not guarantee a victory when the offense takes the weekend off. This is exactly what transpired Saturday evening at Cheel Arena as Cornell and Clarkson skated to a lackluster 0-0 overtime tie.

Saturday night marks the first time this year that the Red was unable to rebound with a victory following a loss in its previous outing.

After splitting last weekend’s games and dropping one spot in the rankings to No. 4 in the country, the men’s hockey team heads north this weekend to square off against St. Lawrence (12-10-2, 4-6-2 ECAC) and Clarkson (7-13-4, 5-6-1).

The Red (14-2-3, 9-1-2) will be in Canton, N.Y. tonight to take on St. Lawrence at 7 p.m. in Appleton Arena. The Saints have struggled for the most part in ECAC play and are currently ninth in the conference standings. Cornell and St. Lawrence have already met once earlier this season, with the Red registering a 1-0 victory on December 6 at Lynah Rink.

Grudges between teams or players can start with a misplaced elbow and end with a three-game suspension and injury. Hockey is a notoriously physical game, and when players get frustrated it is not surprising that they occasionally express themselves with a dirty check.

Dartmouth and Harvard’s men’s hockey teams played to a 5-5 tie on Sunday afternoon in Hanover, N.H. The Green’s Evan Stephens scored the tying goal with less than 4:00 to play in regulation.

Harvard junior Doug Rogers powered the Crimson with a hat trick and an assist in the contest. Harvard overcame a two-goal deficit and scored four of its goals on the power play en route to its highest offensive output of the season. The tie pushed Dartmouth into fourth place over Quinnipiac and helped Harvard into sixth place over Clarkson.

Cornell witnessed its 10-game unbeaten steak come to an unexpected end Friday night, thanks to a feisty Yale team that handed the Red its first home loss since March 18. The Bulldogs’ 4-3 victory marked the team’s first win at Lynah Rink since 1999 and improved the Bulldogs to 5-1 against ranked competition this season.

Cornell’s (14-2-3, 9-1-2 ECAC Hockey) inability to convert on three successive power plays to start the game was a harbinger of things to come according to Cornell head coach Mike Schafer ’86.

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Cornell bounced back from its 4-3 loss Friday night with a resounding 5-1 win over Brown on Saturday. Sophomore forward Joe Devin led the way for the Red, notching two goals, including the game winner. Michael Kennedy, Blake Gallagher and Sean Collins each added a goal and an assist to help Cornell cruise to victory.

Head coach Mike Schafer ’86 and his players were very pleased with the way the team (14-2-3, 9-1-2 ECAC Hockey) responded after Friday’s defeat.

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“It was really important mentally to come out the way we did after the way we played [Friday],” Schafer said. “It was just a much better performance. It was a good bounce-back here tonight. We played the way we are capable of.”

Check Monday's edition of The Cornell Daily Sun for additional coverage of the men's hockey team

Cornell bounced back from its 4-3 loss Friday night with a resounding 5-1 win over Brown on Saturday. Sophomore forward Joe Devin led the way for the Red as he notched two goals, including the game winner.

Check Monday's edition of The Cornell Daily Sun for additional coverage of the men's hockey team.

Cornell witnessed its 10-game unbeaten steak come to an unexpected end Friday night thanks to a feisty Yale team that handed the Red its first home loss of the season. The Red failed to defeat the Bulldogs on its home ice for a forth consecutive time, losing 4-3.

“At this point in the season, playing as well as we are, anything less than four points isn’t really good enough,” said men’s hockey junior netminder Ben Scrivens, “especially playing two Ivy League teams, which could definitely help our chances for an Ivy League title this year.”

This is the attitude of the men’s hockey team going into this weekend, as Cornell (13-1-3, 8-0-2 ECAC Hockey) prepares to host two teams that would seem less than threatening to the No. 3 team in the nation: Yale (11-5-1, 6-3-1) tonight and Brown (1-12-4, 1-6-3) tomorrow night.

On a 10-game unbeaten streak after last weekend’s sweep at Union and Rensselaer, the Red is looking to defend its home rink in front of the Red’s student fans who have returned to Ithaca after the break.

­Cornell, ranked fifth in the nation, earned a pair of road victories this weekend at Union and Rensselaer to surge past Princeton into sole possession of first place atop the ECAC ledger. Televised nationally on Friday evening, Cornell snapped Union’s three-game winning streak, downing the Dutchmen, 4-1. The Red completed its third four-point weekend against ECAC competition with a 3-0 shutout over the Engineers Saturday night.Knuckle puck: Sophomore Riley Nash has two goals and two assists to lead the Red’s offense over the weekend.