The scoring started at the 14:22 mark of the first period when junior Ryan Belonger intercepted an offensive zone pass from Alberta and went high to give the Sun Devils the 1-0 lead. In the second period freshmen Jack Rowe and Ryan Stevens passed back and forth on the odd-man rush until Rowe scored the goal.
ASU entered the third with a 2-0 lead, but two goals 41 seconds apart tied the game and sent it to overtime.
In was in the extra time that David Jacobson stood tall. ASU’s freshman goaltender faced nine shots in the five-minute frame and made sure the game went into the record books as tie. In total he made 41 saves in just his second start of the season.
ASU split the series with the two-time defending Canadian national champions, winning Friday in a shootout and falling Saturday in the same fashion.
ASU returns to action next week when it travels to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The Sun Devils’ play again on home ice on Jan. 5 at Oceanside against UCONN, the first Division I home game in ASU history.