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Box Score

Canisius CAN 7-3-0

Air Force AF 2-9-1

Canisius CAN

7-3-0

Final

Feb. 19, 2021

Air Force AF

2-9-1

Score By Periods
Team	1	2	3	OT 1	F
Canisius CAN	1	0	2	0	3
Air Force AF	0	2	1	1	4

Game Recap: Ice Hockey | 2/20/2021 12:46:00 AM

Hockey Falls in Overtime at Air Force

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Willie Reim scored his second goal of the game at the 3:43 mark of overtime to lift Air Force to a 4-3 victory over Canisius in Atlantic Hockey Association action Friday at the United States Air Force Academy's Cadet Ice Arena.

Reim also accounted for the first Falcons (2-9-1, 2-9-1 AHA) goal of the contest while Brandon Koch and Ty Pochipiniski recorded the other two Air Force tallies.

Sophomore Keaton Mastrodonato registered a goal and an assist while freshmen Jackson Decker and Jack Lyons both scored their first collegiate goals for the Golden Griffins (7-3-0, 7-3-0 AHA), who saw their four-game winning streak come to an end with Friday's setback.

Reim's game-winning goal came after Mastrodonato was able to get the Griffs to overtime by scoring an extra-attacker goal with just 98 seconds remaining in regulation, tying the game when he redirected senior Logan Gestro's pass over the glove of Schilling from the middle of the slot to tie the game at 3-3.

In the extra session, the Falcons maintained possession for a majority of the 3-on-3 overtime before Reim ended the game when his centering feed deflected off the stick of a Canisius defender and into the cage.

Earlier in the contest, Decker staked Canisius to a 1-0 lead in the final minute of the opening frame as he cross-ice pass was deflected into the Air Force goal by a Falcons defenseman.

Air Force responded to Decker's tally with a pair of goals during the final six minutes the second period to take a 2-1 lead.

Reim tied the game at the 14:10 mark of the middle frame, using a Luke Robinson stretch pass to get behind the Canisius defense before placing the puck past sophomore netminder Jacob Barczewski with a backhanded effort.

Koch gave the Falcons the lead with 2:10 to play in the second with a power-play tally as his wrist shot from the top of the point found its way through traffic and over the right shoulder of Bacrzewski to make it a 2-1 contest.

Lyons brought the Griffs level a little more than two minutes into the third as he beat Air Force netminder Alex Schilling with a wrist shot during a 2-on-2 rush to tie the game at 2-all.

Pochipiniski restored the Falcons advantage at the 12:12 mark of the third, deflecting a point shot from Koch past Barczewski to put Air Force in front, 3-2.

Head Coach Trevor Large's Postgame Comments
"We got out-competed by an opponent tonight. That's very disappointing. We are not an excuse-driven culture. There may be lots of excuses about why we didn't have energy and why we did not out-compete Air Force tonight. But we don't live in that world, so we're very disappointed. With multiple guys, and almost throughout our entire roster, there was not enough effort and it's really disappointing. We're leaving with one point and that's not what we came here to do. We did get a goal with an extra attacker out, but tonight we got more than we deserved. We didn't deserve anything tonight. So, we lick our wounds, we try to recover as much as we can and we know we need to be much better tomorrow. We know that it's a big game to get our momentum going back in the right direction.

"They were harder than us in the second, especially around our net. It looked like a lot of times our guys assumed good things were going to happen without making sure that they happened. That goes to potentially not giving the opponent enough respect. We've been talking about that through a lot of our games that we can't assume that the puck is going to get by them and we're going on offense. We didn't necessarily cheat the game because Air Force didn't give us a chance. They just say absolutely peppered Barzo. Jacob Barczewski was unbelievable today. He is the main reason for leaving with any points in this game tonight. He was spectacular and we left him out to dry, to be honest. It was multiple Grade A after multiple Grade A chances and we were trying to get some momentum back, we had some new shifts. But overall, the second period was extremely poor for our group. We started to play better in that third period. It looked like maybe we got a little bit tired, but those are absolutely things that are going to happen in every hockey game you play. Tonight, we got out-competed and that is not okay in our culture. So, we're going to quickly fix that and prepare for tomorrow."

Game Notes
• Canisius moved to 16-24-10 all-time versus Air Force with Friday's setback. The Griffs are also slipped to 9-13-5 versus the Falcons at Cadet Ice Arena.
• Air Force out-shot Canisius by a 39-21 margin for the contest, highlighted by an 18-8 edge in the second period.
• Canisius was 0-for-2 on the power play while Air Force was 1-for-2 with the man advantage.
• The Griffs went to overtime for the second straight contest and second time this season. Canisius is now 1-1 in overtime games in 2020-21.
• Canisius suffered its first loss of the season when scoring first, moving to 5-1-0 this season when tallying the first goal of the game.
• Decker and Lyons became the first two Canisius defenseman to score a goal this season with their respective goals this evening.
• Mastrodonato tallied multiple points in a game for the fifth time this season and the eighth time in his career with his two-point effort on Friday. Mastrodonato also extended his current point-scoring streak to five games with his two points in Friday's series opener.
• Senior Grant Meyer tallied two assists on Friday, his second multiple-point effort of the season and the 13th of his career.

Up Next
• The teams conclude their two-game series Saturday with a 7:05 p.m. EST contest at the Cadet Ice Arena.

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