KINGSTON -- Antoine Dufort-Plante of Montreal., scored the game-winner with 97 seconds remaining as McGill escaped with a narrow 3-2 victory over the Royal Military College Paladins in OUA men's hockey at Constantine Arena, Saturday.
 
It was McGill's 29th consecutive victory over the Paladins since a 2-1 loss in Kingston on Jan. 26, 2008. The Redmen improved to 71-8-4 lifetime against RMC since the long-time rivals first crossed paths in 1892. It is McGill's oldest active rivalry, followed by Queen's in 1895, another team based in Kingston, a town known for having the largest concentration of federal correctional facilities in Canada.
 
RMC led 2-1 after the first period before McGill rallied with one goal in the second and another in the final stanza.

Team captain Jerome Verrier of Drummondville, Que., opened the scoring for the Redmen with a power-play goal at 12:24 of the first period. But Scott Emerson and Liam Murray both capitalized for RMC, at 2:41 and 17:50 respectively.

Sophomore Keanu Yamamoto of Spokane, Was.,  tied the game 2-2 at 17:15 of the middle stanza, setting the stage for  Dufort-Plante's late heroics. The 5-foot-10, 170-pound sophomore forward netted the game-winner from the slot at 18:23 of the final period, assisted by linemates Nicolas Poulin from St. Hubert, Que, and Samuel Tremblay of Blainville, Que.
 
McGill outshot their hosts 37-24 as RMC goaltender Austin Hannaford made 34 saves in a losing cause.

Freshman Antoine Samuel, of Lac Etchemin, Que., made his second regular season start for the Redmen, who traveled the morning after a night-game victory over Concordia. Samuel conceded two goals on 10 shots faced before being replaced after the first period by junior Louis-Philip Guindon of Lac Etchemin, Que., who kicked aside all 14 shots to register the victory.
 
McGill went 1-for-4 on the power-play and successfully snuffed out all five shorthanded situations.
 
McGill improved to 7-3-1 and sit in a three-way tie for third place with UOIT (7-4-1) and Carleton (6-2-3). The Redmen, who are one point behind second-place Queen's (8-3-0) and four behind division-leading Ottawa, will play Concordia (4-5-1) on Nov. 16 at the Ed Meagher Arena, with a 7:30 p.m puck-drop. RMC (3-8-1) hosts Nipissing (5-1-1) on the same date at 7 p.m.

REDMEN RAP: McGill was without the services of defenceman Nikolas Brouillard, the team's leading scorer, who was serving the first of an automatic two-game suspension incurred from a major penalty assessed in Friday night's win over Concordia.


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2018-19 OUA MEN'S HOCKEY STANDINGS
 

Rank	West	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS	PCT	GF	GA	STK	P10	PIM
1	Ryerson	11	9	1	1	19	0.864	59	31	5-0-1	8-1-1	132
2	Brock	11	8	3	0	16	0.727	34	26	3-0-0	7-3-0	111
3	York	10	7	2	1	15	0.750	41	28	2-0-0	7-2-1	106
4	Windsor	11	7	4	0	14	0.636	42	32	0-1-0	6-4-0	195
5	Lakehead	11	7	4	0	14	0.636	37	39	0-2-0	6-4-0	176
6	Western	11	4	6	1	9	0.409	26	34	0-2-1	4-5-1	163
7	Laurier	11	4	7	0	8	0.364	30	36	3-0-0	4-6-0	134
8	Guelph	11	3	6	2	8	0.364	29	29	1-0-0	3-5-2	106
9	Toronto	11	2	6	3	7	0.318	25	42	0-4-3	2-5-3	118
10	Waterloo	12	2	7	3	7	0.292	29	57	0-3-1	2-5-3	338
Rank	East	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS	PCT	GF	GA	STK	P10	PIM
1	Ottawa	10	9	0	1	19	0.950	42	23	9-0-1	9-0-1	149
2	Queen's	11	8	3	0	16	0.727	38	27	2-0-0	7-3-0	157
3	McGill	11	7	3	1	15	0.682	41	29	2-0-0	7-3-0	183
4	Carleton	11	6	2	3	15	0.682	39	31	1-0-0	6-1-3	167
5	UOIT	12	7	4	1	15	0.625	42	36	2-0-0	5-4-1	201
6	UQTR	11	6	5	0	12	0.545	30	34	0-2-0	6-4-0	124
7	Concordia	10	4	5	1	9	0.450	30	38	0-2-1	4-5-1	210
8	Laurentian	10	4	6	0	8	0.400	29	38	0-1-0	4-6-0	162
9	RMC	12	3	8	1	7	0.292	24	46	0-1-1	2-7-1	217
10	Nipissing	10	2	8	0	4	0.200	30	41	0-6-0	2-8-0	153