Butcher
Ben Butcher had a goal and an assist for the Bengals
4
Winner Elmira ELMIRA 8-6
3
Buffalo State BUFM 7-6-1
Winner
Elmira ELMIRA
8-6
4
Final
3
Buffalo State BUFM
7-6-1
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 F
Elmira ELMIRA 0 1 3 4
Buffalo State BUFM 0 3 0 3

Game Recap: Men's Ice Hockey |

Elmira claws back to sink Men’s Hockey, 4-3

BUFFALO, N.Y.—Elmira scored three goals in the final ten minutes including the game-winner with just 30 seconds remaining to erase a two-goal deficit and steal a 4-3 victory from host Buffalo State tonight in non-conference action.
 
THE BASICS
FINAL SCORE: Elmira – 4, Buffalo State – 3
LOCATION:  Ice Arena – Buffalo, N.Y.
RECORDS:  Elmira (8-6-0), Buffalo State (7-6-1)
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
  • Ben Butcher (Bellingham, WA/Langley) led the Bengals with a goal and an assist, and Colin O'Connor (Kankakee, IL/Providence Catholic) and Mac Wood (Simcoe, ON/SCS) also scored.
  • Butcher opened the scoring midway through the second period poking the puck past the Soaring Eagles' goalie off a feed from Andrew Husted (Niagara Falls, NY/Grand Island) who drove down the right wall.
  • Elmira evened the score later in the period with a power-play point shot that found its way through traffic into the top of the net.
  • Buffalo State would reclaim the lead with a pair of quick goals in the closing minutes of the middle period.
  • O'Connor tallied his third of the year on the power play when his shot from the point ricocheted off a defender's foot and in, and Wood scored his eighth of the year just over a minute later on the rush off a pass from Butcher.
  • Elmira cut the deficit to one with its second power-play goal of the game just past the midway point of the third period and then tied the score with 4:32 left in regulation.
  • The Soaring Eagles finished the comeback when a partially-blocked shot from the point bounced to a wide open man just the right of the Bengals' goal who shoveled it home.
  • Buffalo State outshot Elmira 33-28.  The Soaring Eagles were 2 for 4 on the power play, while Buffalo State was 1 for 5.
  • Trevor Micucci (Hamburg, NY/Connections Acad.) finished with 24 saves in the loss.
 
FOR THE FOES
  • Andrew Pucci scored the game-winning goal for Elmira.
  • Blake O'Neill had a goal and an assist, and Connor Powell and Matthew Cousino also scored.
 
UP NEXT
Buffalo State will host nationally-ranked University of New England for another non-conference game on Friday at 7 p.m.
 
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