ASU Hockey: Sun Devils final minute goal goes down as a tie

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Arizona State head coach Greg Powers said after last Saturday’s game against UMass-Lowell that Steenn Pasichnuk had been going through “some things” in the beginning of the season.

“The back injury kind of set me back a bit,” Pasichnuk said. “There’s a bit of stuff off the ice that we were going through too.”

The sophomore winger that they originally recruited is now back and can say that he is the latest addition in continuing the Sun Devil hot streak.

In a game that was neck-and-neck, the brotherly duo of Steenn and Brinson were able to capitalize in the final seconds of the middle frame to put the Devils a strike ahead of the Quinnipiac Bobcats.

“They’re on the same wavelength obviously,” Powers said. “It was like they were up at the pond in Bonnyville.”

“It felt good coming from my little brother,” Steenn said. “It looks like he’s looking out for me.”

It was his first goal of the season.

But the first goal wasn’t just sweet for the player who scored.

The team has been struggling to make an opening statement on a first night of two-game series all season.

“It’s something we haven’t been able to do much on Friday nights,” Louie Rowe said.

Friday night’s game was no different as they pushed their limits to try and break this mold.

But the Sun Devils held the frustrated Bobcats off as much as possible as they skated into double overtime.

While Rowe scored the game winning goal in the final minute of the game, a trend that the team has been following throughout the season, the game officially went down as their first tie at home.

“We would have liked to have won in regulation,” Rowe said. “It’s kind of one of those things where we fought to the end and I think we earned a win in our books tonight.”

But according to Steenn, the team still didn’t put in the full 60 minutes that it takes to ‘win every single night in this league.’

“Come mentally prepared and ready to go,” Steenn said. “I think if we do that then we’re going to have no problem beating these guys tomorrow.”

“They’re going to come out flying tomorrow and we’re going to come out flying,” Powers said. “They came out here to go home with at least a win so we’re going to get their best effort.”