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BUFFALO, N.Y. - Canisius defenseman Lincoln Erne and RIT's Jake Joffe battle for position in front of the Canisius net during their matchup at LECOM Harborcenter on Jan. 4, 2020
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Winner RIT RIT 12-10-3, 8-6-3 AHA
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Canisius CAN 6-13-4, 5-8-4 AHA
Winner
RIT RIT
12-10-3, 8-6-3 AHA
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Final
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Canisius CAN
6-13-4, 5-8-4 AHA
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 F
RIT RIT 2 3 2 7
Canisius CAN 1 2 1 4

Game Recap: Ice Hockey |

Hockey Has Streak Snapped in Setback to RIT

Canisius saw its eight-game unbeaten streak come to an end as it was defeated by RIT, 7-4, in Atlantic Hockey action Friday at LECOM Harborcenter in downtown Buffalo.
 
Seven different players found the back of the net for the Tigers (12-10-3, 8-6-3-1 AHA), with Aiden Dupuis recording two assists to go along with his first-period goal for a three-point night.
 
Senior Matt Hoover tallied two goals for the Golden Griffins (6-13-4, 5-8-4-3 AHA) while junior Austin Alger and freshman Ryan Miotto pitched in individual markers.
 
Hoover staked Canisius to a 1-0 lead just 5:12 into the contest with a wraparound effort, but RIT responded with a pair of goals just 1:56 apart during the middle stages of the opening frame to take a 2-1 lead.
 
Dupuis began the sequence at the 9:36 mark of the first, taking advantage of turnover deep in the Canisius zone to score a shorthanded goal and tie the game at 1-1. Regan Seiferling put the Tigers in front moments later, coming out of the penalty box and beating Griffs netminder Jacob Barczewski with a shot to the glove side while on a breakaway.
 
RIT took control of the contest in the first half of the second, notching with three goals in the opening 10:01 of the frame to build a 5-1 cushion.
 
Elijah Gonsalves expanded the Tigers' margin to 3-1 with a rebound goal during a power-play opportunity just 2:23 into middle frame while Chris McKay made it a three-goal contest with an even-strength tally exactly three minutes later. Joffe closed out the barrage one second past the midway point of the contest as he stuffed home a loose puck from just off the right post to put the visitors comfortably in front.
 
Canisius countered with two goals just 91 seconds apart before in the final minutes of the second to make it a 5-3 contest as Miotto finished off a 2-on-1 opportunity with 2:08 remaining in the frame for his third of the campaign before Alger put home a rebound in the last minute for his fifth of the season.
 
Colton Trumbla restored the Tigers' three-goal lead less than five minutes into the third, redirecting Joffe's centering feed into the Canisius cage to make it 6-3.
 
Hoover notched his second of the contest on a power-play goal with 1:44 remaining to pull the Griffs within two, but Shawn Cameron answered right back for RIT just 24 seconds later to close out the scoring.
 
Head Coach Trevor Large's Postgame Comments
"It's a disappointing loss. It's something where maybe we've tested our fate a little bit too many times being down recently and coming back and winning games. Tonight, we get down 5-1 and things weren't going our way. It felt like everything that RIT put in and around the net was going in. Goaltending has been really solid for us recently. Today we didn't get that. The power play has been great as of late. Tonight, it was okay. We just didn't have our best effort. We need to find a way. We've been crawling back in every game and in this one we make it 5-3 going into the third period and maybe it's another comeback for us, but we've been trying to do that maybe too many times recently and tonight we needed a better effort in the 60 minutes to get a result that we were going after, So. We'll lick our wounds and get ready to compete tomorrow.
 
"We've learned that we need to do our job in the D zone and tonight we were a little all over the place. We were trying to do too much at times. Defensively, we weren't picking up guys in and around the net. We were trying to do too much and thinking a bit too much about offense when the game didn't call for it and all of a sudden, they're behind us, they're in around Barzo (Jacob Barczewski) and (Matt) Ladd and those guys battled, but second-chance opportunities and empty nets and tap ins you do not blame the goalie for all ended up in our net. We need to pick up players and it seemed like that hindered us getting momentum, and all of a sudden, they get a couple goals. That happened a few times in the game tonight, so we need to correct that quick."
 
Game Notes
• Friday's game served as the 79th all-time meeting between Canisius and RIT. The Tigers increased their lead in the Division I era of the series to 24-17-2 with Friday's triumph.
• Canisius out-shot RIT by a 36-30 margin for the contest, highlighted by an 11-6 edge in the third period.
• The Griffs were 1-for-5 with the man advantage while the Tigers were 1-for-2 with the power play. Canisius scored a power-play goal for the 10th straight contest.  
• The Griffs moved to 5-5-1 this season when scoring the first goal of the contest and slipped to 5-1-1 when netting four or more goals in a game in 2019-20.
• Hoover tallied multiple goals in a game for the second time this season and eighth time in his career. He also registered multiple points in a game for the sixth time this season.
• Sophomore Mitchell Martan recorded multiple assists for the second straight contest as he extended his point-scoring streak to three games (5a).
• Alger stretched his point-scoring streak to three games to three games with his two-point effort on Friday (1g, 1a). Alger also notched multiple points in a game for the third straight game and fifth contest this season.
• With his assist on Hoover's third-period tally, senior defenseman Matt Stief became just the fourth defenseman in the Division I era of the program to record 50 assists in his career. The point was also his 20th of the season, 17 of which have come while the Griffs have been on the power play.
 
Up Next
• The two teams complete their home-and-home series Saturday with a 7 p.m. contest at the Gene Polisseni Center.
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