WATERLOO, Ont. - The Ryerson Rams capped off a frenzied 67 minutes of hockey with a 5-4 shootout win over the Laurier Golden Hawks on Saturday night. 

In regulation, every Ryerson goal came via special teams. Gregory DiTomaso (Etobicoke, Ont.), Devon Paliani (LaSalle, Ont.), and Steven Harland (Toronto) all lit the lamp on the power play. Mathew Santos (Toronto) also found the twine on a rare short-handed goal for Ryerson's third of the game. Matt Mistele (Whitby, Ont.), having tied the program record for points on Thursday, collected two assists against Laurier to cement himself as Ryerson's all-time point scoring leader with 134 and counting. 

The referees had little use for their whistles early in the first as momentum went back and forth. Ryerson seemed to dominate the opening ten minutes, pouring shots in on Laurier's Matt Williams. However, the Rams failed to convert on two power plays, and a Matt Mistele breakaway was caught offside.  

Late in the period, Laurier's Grayden Gottschalk and Steven MacLean both beat Garrett Forrest's (Ashburn, Va.) glove within 40 seconds. The Rams went into the locker room after the first down 2-0. 

In the second, a tic-tac-toe passing play on the man-advantage sliced the Hawks' lead to one when DiTomaso rifled a point shot past Williams off of Mistele's feed. Laurier bounced back on a power play of their own when Matt McJannet slipped in a puck off a scrum about three minutes later. 

While down 3-1, the Rams finally hit their stride, striking twice more and knotting things up. Paliani capitalized on yet another power play dish from Mistele, and the always dangerous Santos caught a perfect shorthanded pass from Patrick Fellows (Mississauga, Ont.) and finished on the breakaway. 

The Rams and Hawks continued to trade chances, with Laurier striking first in the third. Two minutes later, Harland tied things up yet again on the power play, tapping in a bouncing puck for his second in as many games. 

David Miller (Burlington, Ont.) clanked one off the outside post with about four minutes left, but the game remained locked at 4-4 entering overtime. 

Early in the extra frame, Mistele drew a slashing call but the Rams failed to find the dagger. The squad's power play unit went 3-for-8 on the night. The Hawks had an overtime power play of their own which the Rams handled cooly, forcing a shootout after collecting a 40-23 shot advantage. 

In the shootout, Hayden McCool (Whitby, Ont.) missed the Rams' first attempt, but Paliani buried their second shot. Forrest stopped all three Laurier shooters and made 19 saves on the night to secure the win. 

Ryerson remains on the road for two more games next week, but head back to Toronto's Varsity Arena to take on the Varsity Blues on Thursday with puck drop at 7:00 p.m.