OTTAWA -- Alexandre Boivin scored twice as the Carleton Raven's defeated No. 6 ranked McGill University 4-2 in OUA men's hockey at the Ice House, Saturday.
 
The Ravens took their regular season series with McGill, including a 5-4 overtime win on Nov. 17 and a 6-2 loss to the Redmen last week. As a result, Carleton improved to 14-5-5 and moved into sole possession of third place in the OUA East, one point ahead of McGill (14-6-4). Four games remain for each team before playoffs.
 
The game featured 52 minutes in penalties, including 32 to Carleton, which leads the league with 502 minutes in 24 games. McGill had a 38-28 edge in shots but the Redmen were 0-for-6 on the power play while the Ravens went 1-for-7. McGill's PP unit now sits at 13th in the 20-team conference with a 16.3 per cent success rate.  The PK unit ranks fifth at 87.6 per cent.
 
Carleton forward Matthew Forchuk opened the scoring at 5:49 of the first period, taking advantage of a turnover by McGill goaltender Louis-Philippe Guindon, who misplayed the puck behind his net to Adam Chapman, who quickly centred it to Forchuk in front of the empty net.
 
Samuel Tremblay, a junior from St. Hubert, Que., tied the game at 17:20 of the opening stanza with his eighth marker of the season.
 
The Raven took the lead only 20 seconds into the middle fram when Boivin connected on his first of two, connecting on a power-play. McGill again notched the equalizer when Christophe Lalonde from Mirabel, Que., struck at 10:08 of the second period to tie the game up 2-2. But Boivin potted the game-winner for the Ravens just five minutes later and Jacob Smith added an empty netter at 19:21 of the final frame.
 
Junior netminder Francois Brassard started for the Ravens and kicked out 34 of 36 shots, improving his record to 12-7. McGill's Guindon, a science junior from St. Joseph du Lac, Que., saved 24 of 27 shots in a losing cause as his record fell to 14-9.
 
With two weeks remaining before playoffs, only five points separate second place from seventh on the log-jammed OUA East. The Redmen, who are assured of a playoff berth, could still finish anywhere from second to seventh place.

McGill (14-6-4) remains overnight in Ottawa to confront the first-place Gee-Gees (18-1-4) on Sunday (Jan. 27) at the Minto Sports Complex in a 3 p.m. start. The game will be streamed live on OUA-TV. A McGill victory would move the Redmen out of fourth and into a tie with Queen's (17-7-0) for second in the division. Carleton (14-5-5) is off until Feb, 1 when they travel to seventh-place UQTR (13-7-4).

FACES IN THE CROWD: Among those in attendance at the game was Mike Buffone, a native of Ottawa who who skated for the Redmen from 1992 to 1996.

SCORING SUMMARY


2018-19 OUA Men's Hockey Standings
 

POS.	OUA West	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS	PCT	GF	GA	STRK	P10	PIM
1	Brock	24	17	5	2	36	0.750	75	51	7-0-2	7-1-2	312
2	Ryerson	24	17	5	2	36	0.750	116	82	5-0-1	5-4-1	329
3	Western	24	14	9	1	29	0.604	71	65	1-0-0	7-3-0	409
4	York	23	12	9	2	26	0.565	81	77	1-0-0	3-6-1	325
5	Guelph	24	10	10	4	24	0.500	70	65	3-0-1	5-3-2	284
6	Laurier	24	11	12	1	23	0.479	69	66	0-1-0	5-4-1	334
7	Windsor	24	11	13	0	22	0.458	70	76	0-1-0	4-6-0	402
8	Lakehead	24	10	13	1	21	0.438	67	92	0-4-0	2-8-0	444
9	Waterloo	25	8	12	5	21	0.420	72	102	0-2-0	5-3-2	498
10	Toronto	24	8	12	4	20	0.417	54	71	0-1-0	5-4-1	257
POS.	OUA East	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS	PCT	GF	GA	STRK	P10	PIM
1	Ottawa	23	18	1	4	40	0.870	95	56	8-0-2	8-0-2	315
2	Queen's	24	17	7	0	34	0.708	83	60	2-0-0	6-4-0	294
3	Carleton	24	14	5	5	33	0.688	85	72	2-0-1	5-3-2	509
4	McGill	24	14	6	4	32	0.667	87	63	0-1-0	6-3-1	357
5	Concordia	24	14	8	2	30	0.625	85	85	1-0-1	7-2-1	421
6	UOIT	24	13	7	4	30	0.625	73	66	1-0-0	5-2-3	361
7	UQTR	25	13	9	3	29	0.580	91	81	0-1-0	6-3-1	413
8	Nipissing	23	7	16	0	14	0.304	67	99	1-0-0	4-6-0	362
9	Laurentian	23	6	16	1	13	0.283	54	83	0-2-0	1-8-1	387
10	RMC	24	5	18	1	11	0.229	49	102	1-0-0	2-8-0	453