The goaltending battle for the starting role was largely between two new players, freshman Emmett Croteau and senior Austin Roden.

By that time, it was apparent that the team had no real chance of earning an at-large bud to the NCAA tournament as they sat 30th in the PairWise standings.

Over the final three weeks, Roden turned in several key performances, including a pair of overtime wins against Cornell and Quinnipiac.

After pulling Roden early, Mathieu Gosselin scored his team-leading 11th goal of the season and the Knights found themselves down by just 1 with more than two minutes to play.

The shots came fast and furious in the final moments but Clarkson was unable to get the tying goal and saw their season end in a rather dismal fashion.