POTSDAM — The Plattsburgh State men's hockey team followed up its championship in the PrimeLink Great Northern Shootout with another strong performance Friday night.
Eric Satim scored the first two goals of the game and the Cardinals skated to a 4-1 win over Potsdam in State University of New York Athletic Conference play.
"It's a tough place to play and it was a big league win for us," said Plattsburgh State head coach Bob Emery.
"We can't do anything about the losses we've had so far. But, we now have a chance to end a decent semester with a win at Skidmore on Tuesday."
The Cardinals (6-4, 4-4), who won for the fourth time in a row, finished with a 47-19 advantage in shots on goal, including a 27-3 edge in the second period when the Plattsburgh State broke a 1-all tie and scored twice.
"We played really well in the second period and played a lot in the offensive zone," said Emery.
"Both goalies played great games. Josh Leis made the big save when called upon for us. And, their goalie (Trevor O'Neill) made some quality saves."
Leis finished with 18 saves and O'Neill turned back 43.
"Even with the shots on goal we had, we had some of our best chances miss the net," said Emery.
Satim gave the Cardinals the lead with 3:59 gone in the game.
"It was key for us to get the first goal — that was a feather in our hat," said Emery. "We haven't been getting the first goal in a lot of games this season."
The Bears (3-6, 2-6), however, tied it on Brandon Couto's goal at the 14:37 mark.
Satim then put the Cardinals in front to stay, at 2-1, with a power-play goal just 33 seconds into the second period.
Kyle Kudroch made it 3-1 with 3:32 remaining in the stanza.
Plattsburgh State finished off the scoring at 16:26 of the third when defenseman Barry Roytman tallied his first goal as a Cardinal.
"We had some guys who played hard, like Satim and (Vick) Schlueter, who won a lot of loose pucks," said Emery.
"We controlled play for the most part and we improved on not making mental mistakes, even though we're not there yet."
