(Canton, N.Y.)- Kyle Laurie (Canton, N.Y.), scored three goals and had one assist, Rick Simone (Baldwinsville, N.Y.) scored twice and Dustin Deleel (Massena, N.Y.) made 17 saves leading the SUNY Canton men’s ice hockey team to a season-opening 8-3 win over the St. Lawrence University club team Wednesday night in Canton.

The Northstars (1-0) were playing their first game in the Canton Pavilion in over a year after the rink closed last season for repairs to the floor.

The Saints jumped out to a 1-0 lead at 2:52 of the first period when Wyot Woods tucked a low shot past Deleel. SUNY Canton tied the game four minutes later on a power play goal from Laurie, who was the team’s third leading scorer last year. Laurie scored another power play goal two minutes later and following a goal from Austin Chase (Newport Beach, Calif.) completed the hat trick with just over one minute remaining and SUNY Canton led 4-2 after one period.

The Northstars scored three more times in the second period, including two from Simone and one from Maik Tatavosian (Irvine, Calif.), and then Andrew Rak scored 14 seconds into the third period unassisted for the final score.

Chase also had an assist for SUNY Canton and Nick Emmick (Richford, N.Y.) and Kyle Gadway (Champlain, N.Y.) had two assists each.

David Rile and Lance Branch also scored for St. Lawrence and Walter Scherer stopped 34 shots in goal.

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