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Canisius CAN 0-2-0
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Winner Penn State PSU 2-0-0
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Penn State PSU
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Score By Periods
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Canisius CAN 1 1 3 5
Penn State PSU 3 1 3 7

Game Recap: Ice Hockey |

Hockey Unable to Keep Pace in Series Finale at Penn State

Penn State scored three times in the first and third periods on its way to a 7-5 victory over Canisius in collegiate men's ice hockey action Saturday at the Pegula Ice Arena in State College, Pa.
 
Ryan Kirwan scored two goals and added an assist, Kevin Wall notched one goal and chipped in three assists and Ture Linden finished with a goal and two helpers to pace the Nittany Lions (2-0-0).
 
Graduate student Nick Bowman, seniors Daniel DiGrande and Keaton Mastrodonato, junior Randy Hernandez and sophomore Alton McDermott accounted for the five Golden Griffin (0-2-0) goals.
 
Christian Berger staked Penn State to a 1-0 lead just 1:17 into the contest with a power-play tally, firing a wrist shot over the glove of Canisius netminder John Hawthorne from the top of the point.
 
Bowman brought the Griffs level at the 8:19 mark of the opening frame when he snapped a wrist shot past the blocker of Noah Grannan from the middle of the slot to knot the score at 1-1.
 
Penn State regained their lead just 64 seconds later, however, as Linden fired a shot from the left face-off circle that changed direction off a Canisius defender and found its way into the Griffs net to make it 2-1.
 
Kirwan stretched the Nittany Lions lead to 3-1 with a little more than five minutes to play in the first where he was able to put one past Hawthorne from close range after a point shot deflected to him while he was unmarked just off the right post.  
 
The teams traded goals during the second period as DiGrande made it 3-2 contest at the 7:39 mark of the middle frame with a 5-on-3 goal before Tyler Gratton restored Penn State's two-goal advantage as he finished off a transition opportunity.
 
In the third, the Nittany Lions used a power-play goal from Kirwan and an event-strength marker by Wall less than two minutes apart to build a 6-2 cushion.
 
McDermott notched his first of the campaign to trim the Canisius deficit to 6-3, but Ashton Calder once again made it a four-goal game with an even-strength tally just past the 12-minute mark of the third.
 
Hernandez and Mastrodonato closed out the score sheet in the final three minutes of regulation as Hernandez netted his first of the season at the 17:35 of the third before Mastodonato scored on the power play in the last minute of regulation to determine to the final margin.
 
Head Coach Trevor Large's Postgame Comments Game Notes
• Penn State out-shot Canisius, 35-33, for the contest, highlighted by a 17-5 margin in the first period.
• Both teams scored twice on the power play as Canisius was 2-for-5 with the man advantage while Penn State was 2-for-3.
• Canisius suffered just its second loss in the Trevor Large era when scoring five or more goals in a contest. It's only other loss under such circumstances was a 9-6 setback against Niagara on Nov. 17, 2018.
• Bowman, Mastrodonato and Hernandez all finished with a goal and an assist in the contest.
• DiGrande netted his third career power-play goal in the contest while Mastodonato notched his fourth career power-play tally.
• Melaragni tallied two assists in the game as he recorded multiple assists in a game for the second time in his career (Jan. 14, 2022 at Holy Cross).
• Senior Brenden Datema and freshman Stefano Bottini made their Canisius debuts in the contest.
 
Up Next
Canisius returns to action Oct. 14-15 with a non-conference series at Ferris State. Start time for both contests is slated for 7 p.m. at Ewigleben Ice Arena in Big Rapids, Mich.
 
For complete coverage of the Canisius hockey team, please follow the Griffs on social media at @GriffsHockey on Twitter and Instagram.
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