The Vermont Catamounts’ offense immediately overpowered the Engineers’ blue line in the first period, getting numerous scoring chances on RPI goalie Kevin Kurk. The Catamounts finally beat Kurk at 13:43, when Vermont’s Jeff Corey scored on a one-timer from an odd-man rush.

Vermont’s momentum carried through to the second period, when they exploded on the score sheet. The Catamounts’ Ben Driver initiated the streak, when he scored from a huge rebound of the leg pads of Kurk at 1:46 into the second. Vermont struck again just minutes later, when Bryson Busniuk slipped the puck through Kurk’s five-hole at 4:12. With frustrations obviously mounting at the RPI bench, Kurk was pulled in favor of Nathan Marsters. However, Marsters didn’t help his team’s situation much; he was scored on by Brad Leisenring at 6:04. The Catamounts weren’t done with their show of offensive power, as they scored yet again at 8:18 on the power play when Jeff Miles netted his team-leading 13th goal.

The third period was the best showing RPI made throughout the game, finally solving Vermont’s Shawn Conschafter at 2:30 into the third when Kirk MacDonald took a feed from Nick Economakos.

There was a scuffle midway through the period, that resulted in nine penalties assessed. This gave the Engineers some fire, as Mark Yurkewecz scored on the power play at 9:29. Keith McWilliams tried to edge the Engineers closer to the mark set by Vermont when he netted a goal at 15:23, but it wasn’t enough as the Engineers couldn’t muster enough offense to bring the score to a tie. In the end, the Engineers were outshot 31-25 in their 5-3 loss to the Catamounts.

After losing their last three games, including their game against Vermont the night before, the 11th ranked RPI Engineers looked to improve their luck by playing seventh ranked Dartmouth, who were in the midst of a five game winless streak, themselves. However, when they arrived in New Hampshire on Saturday, the Engineers found that they had their work cut out for them.

The first period revealed just which team had the fire, as Dartmouth came screaming out of the gate with an offensive flurry. The Big Green’s efforts finally came to fruition when Dartmouth’s Kent Gillings one-timed a tape-to-tape pass from teammate Hugh Jessiman into the corner of the net, over Marsters, at 7:20 into the first on the power play. However, the Big Green weren’t finished with the period, as they struck again just over five minutes later when Jessiman potted his first of three goals in the evening on a sneaky redirection that caught Marsters off guard at 12:41.

RPI almost fell into a larger deficit on several occasions throughout the rest of the first, but Marsters kept them alive while the forwards kept icing the puck, in hopes of waiting out the Dartmouth offensive rush.

While the first period was a bit of an offensively one-sided affair in Dartmouth’s favor, the second period was an entirely different matter. At 6:04, Conrad Barnes knocked over one of Dartmouth’s players, causing a scuffle between the two squads. After the smoke of this melee had cleared, Barnes was charged with two penalties. However, numerous other roughing penalties were also assessed, which eventually evened the two teams out, although RPI’s entire second offense line was placed into the penalty box. Carson Butterwick finally broke RPI’s scoring drought, when at 9:27 he scored on his own rebound on the power play to bring the score to 2-1 for Dartmouth.

Dartmouth began dominating once again but could not capitalize on numerous scoring chances. The Big Green finally lost their advantage when their defenseman Trevor Byrne was penalized. The Engineers took advantage of the power play opportunity when Scott Basiuk slapped a shot through traffic past Big Green goalie Nick Boucher to tie the game. However just as the Engineers looked poised to take the game, much like Dartmouth did in the first period, Boucher’s acrobatics between the pipes saved his team much grief as he kept the game until the end of the second period.

Just minutes into the third period, Dartmouth was awarded a two-man advantage, which they used to their benefit as they scored seven seconds into their penalty at 3:19 when Dartmouth’s Lee Stempniak netted a rebound from the left to bring the Big Green ahead by one.

Dartmouth’s Max Guimond followed suit, when he scored at 7:41 on a backhanded shot to bring his team’s lead to two goals. Jessiman got his second goal on a huge individual effort as he broke past the RPI defense and got around Marsters to knock in the easy goal at 11:37 into the third period.

The Engineers managed to muster up some offense when, at 13:32, Kevin Croxton managed to beat Boucher on the glove-side on the power play. However, Boucher kept his team on the winning side as he essentially sealed off his end of the ice. Gillings got his second goal of the night late in the game to kill any hopes of an Engineer comeback, when at 17:47 he batted in the loose puck past Marsters to bring his squad up to 6-3. Jessiman sealed the game at 18:45 when he completed his hat trick on an empty net.