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One of the Hottest Teams in College Hockey Stumbles, RIT: Puck Drop

Originally posted on Boston College Eagles on SI
By Christopher Walsh | Last updated Nov 19, 2025 6:00 AM ET

Rochester Institute of Technology's hot start to the 2025-26 men's college hockey season cooled a little when the Tigers took a 2-1 overtime loss at Niagara in Atlantic Hockey America league play on Tuesday night. With it, the Tigers' nine-game winning streak, their third-longest as a Division 1 program (since 2005-06), came to an end.

Freshman Evan Konyen opened the scoring late in the first period, but freshman Tyson Zimmer answered early in the second period for the Screaming Eagles (6-6 overall, 3-4 AHA), and senior defenseman Ethan Lund got the game-winner in overtime just 23 seconds after sophomore Deivs Rolovs made a clutch save on senior Tyler Mahan. Tomas Anderson had started the game in net and made 23 saves.

RIT (9-3, 6-3) was coming off playing Friday and Saturday at Robert Morris.

"I hated our second period, but that may have been our best third period of the year," first-year RIT coach Matt Thomas said in a statement. "Sometimes it goes that way. We knew this was going to be a tough game — a Tuesday night after a long weekend in the middle of a long road stretch — and it proved to be."Our execution needed to be better, but the good news is we still earned a big conference point."

During the streak, RIT defeated Clarkson, Air Force (2), at Colgate (2), and Meryhurst (2) before the weekend sweep of the Colonials in moon Township, Pa. Even with the loss the Tigers are still solidly in second in the AHA standings, four points behind Holy Cross (7-1-1 AHA)

RIT will visit Bentley on Friday night at 7 p.m. ET, and then heads to Belfast, Northern Ireland to play in the Friendship Four over Thanksgiving Weekend. Niagara, which was coming off a weekend home sweep of Army, will next face RPI on Nov. 28 and 29.

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