WINCHENDON, Mass. (February 5, 2022) -- A lackluster first period and an uneventful second left the Franklin Pierce University men's ice hockey team in need of something late on Saturday night at Jason Ritchie Ice Arena. Something late they found though, as the Ravens struck three times in the final frame. An extra-attacker goal from junior Conor Foley (Nahant, Mass.) with 70 seconds to play allowed the crimson and grey to snatch a point from the verge of defeat, as the Ravens forged a 3-3 (OT) tie against visiting Post.

Following the tie, Franklin Pierce now stands at 6-11-1 (3-6-1 NE10), while Post moves to 6-13-1 (4-8-1 NE10). The two teams will wrap up the weekend series on Sunday, with a 1 p.m. puck drop at Jason Ritchie Ice Arena.

Franklin Pierce honored its 12-player senior class prior to the start of the game, but it was Post which did the early celebrating once the game started. The Eagles opened the scoring 8:18 into the game, thanks to junior John Krapian, who finished off his fifth of the season right out front on the power play, after Patrick Murphy found his stick from the right side.

Towards the end of the first period, Post forced a turnover in its own zone and was able to split through the Raven defense going the other way. Senior forward Jake Raleigh was harangued after gaining the blue line, but was ultimately able to get a shot off that beat graduate student goaltender Ian Wallace (West Islip, N.Y.) up high at 18:58.

After a scoreless second period, it was the Ravens who went to work early in the third. Only 4:07 into the period, senior Ryan Gorbett (Cleveland Heights, Ohio) scored his eighth of the season on the power play to cut the deficit in half. Sophomore Trevor Lawler (East Bridgewater, Massachusetts) took a slap shot from the blue line which deflected off the skate of an Eagle defender, and it went right to Gorbett at the right post for the easy finish.

Just under five minutes later, an ugly turnover by Post directly in front of its own goal allowed Foley to bury a backhand for his 10^th of the campaign to level the score at 2-2 with 11 minutes to play.

The tie was short-lived though, as senior Stephen Jacobs (Hingham, Mass.) took a high-sticking penalty 97 seconds later and Post converted on the power play at 11:31 to reclaim the lead. It was a tic-tac-toe passing play, as Raleigh sent a feed from the right side across to the left circle for Michael Karas, who sent it right back across to senior Evan Lugo at the right post, for the latter's fourth of the year.

Franklin Pierce got Wallace to the bench for the extra attacker in the final 90 seconds, and were rewarded with an equalizing tally with just 1:10 to play. From the right side, Gorbett sent the puck to the middle of the blue line for senior Dave Cambria (West Bridgewater, Mass.). Cambria teed up his shot from there, and Foley got a piece of it en route to notch his third multiple-goal game of the season.

Neither team could find the net in overtime, though both goaltenders were forced to make saves. Wallace (2-6-1) finished the night with 32 saves against 35 shots in the Franklin Pierce crease. Senior Brandon Brown (6-14-1) was two better at the other end, as he stopped 34 of 37 shots in the Post net.