Box Score

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Saint John's hockey ended the 2020-21 season with a 3-2 win, the 150th of head coach Doug Schueller's career, over Hamline on Friday, March 19, in St. Paul.

Senior defenseman Travis Brown (Otsego, Minn.) scored two goals, including what proved to be the game-winner in the third period, and senior Mac Berglove (Elk River, Minn.) made 19 saves in their final collegiate games. 

The game was the third in four days for the Johnnies (6-2-2, 4-0-1 MIAC) and the first for Hamline since Feb. 27 (a 3-2 home win over Gustavus Adolphus).

The two teams broke out of a scoreless tie with two goals apiece in the second period. HU (1-4-0, 1-2-0 MIAC) found the scoreboard first on a goal from Austin Wisely, during a 3-on-2 rush, 4:45 into the second.

Sophomore forward Auggie Moore (Edina, Minn.) tied the game with his fifth goal of the season with 11:54 left in the period, but HU regained the lead with a power-play goal from Kyle Wendorf 27 seconds later (12 seconds into the man advantage). The power-play tally was the Pipers' second in 22 chances this season (9.0 percent).

SJU received its first power play thanks to a five-minute major with 9:15 left in the second, but the Johnnies were whistled for an offensive-zone penalty 23 seconds later. The visitors successfully killed off the two-minute infraction and returned to the man advantage, where Brown tied the game on a one-timer from the left faceoff circle with 5:01 left in the second.

Brown ripped home a faceoff win, once again near the left faceoff circle, to give SJU its first lead of the game 3:28 into the third period. The tally was his fifth of the season and 16th of his career.

Moore nearly made it 4-2 but was denied on a shorthanded breakaway with 12:01 left. He ended the season with a five-game point streak.

The Pipers went 1-for-6 on the power play, to the Johnnies' 1-for-3 showing (in which two of the three opportunities came from the same five-minute major penalty). SJU out-shot HU, 36-21.