ST. CLOUD, Minn. – After losing a 2-0 lead late in the third, the St. Olaf College men's hockey team earned two points in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) standings by winning a shootout, 1-0, following a 2-2 road tie against Saint John's University on Friday night at the Herb Brooks National Hockey Center.

Behind a goal from first year Jonathan Panisa in the first period and one from sophomore Sean Walsh in the second, St. Olaf (11-9-2, 5-7-1 MIAC) led 2-0 until Saint John's (12-9-3, 8-5-2 MIAC) scored twice in the final four minutes of the third period to send the game to overtime. After a scoreless extra session, sophomore Jonathan Young scored the lone goal of the shootout, as classmate Thomas Lalonde kept the Johnnies' three skaters from scoring.

Lalonde made a career-high 40 saves – one more than his previous collegiate-high total – in the game for the Oles, who were outshot, 42-26, by the Johnnies on the night. After earning two points in the standings, St. Olaf sits sixth with 18 points, trailing Bethel University by one point for the fifth and final spot in the MIAC Playoffs with three games remaining (two for the Royals).

Panisa opened the scoring with the lone goal of the opening period for the Oles, tallying his seventh of the season by blasting home a one-timer after junior Brendan Darby forced a turnover in the offensive end and teed up Panisa in the slot at the 16:30 mark. The goal was Panisa's seventh of the season, while Darby collected his third assist.

St. Olaf stretched its lead to 2-0 after two periods by getting a goal from Walsh late in the middle period. After getting sprung up the left side following a blocked shot, Walsh drove to goal and threw the puck in off the back of Saint John's goaltender Bailey Huber while falling down for his eighth goal of the season.

The Oles killed off a SJU power play in that expired two seconds before the end of the period to preserve their two-goal advantage. In the third, the Johnnies killed off a five-minute major penalty for contact to the head five minutes in before getting two goals from Jack Olsen in the final four minutes to send the game to overtime. Olsen got the Johnnies on the board with a power-play goal at 16:00 before tallying an extra-attacker goal with 1:15 remaining to knot the game at 2-2.

In the extra session, Lalonde turned aside all four shots he faced, while Huber had just one save to make for Saint John's. After the scoreless overtime, Young scored on St. Olaf's second attempt in the shootout and all three Johnnie takers were unable to convert.

The series finale between the Johnnies and Oles is slated for 5 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 11 at St. Olaf Ice Arena.