Box Score Colorado College rallied from an early two-goal deficit to earn a 2-2 tie with No. 1-ranked Minnesota Duluth Saturday night at The Broadmoor World Arena.
 
Sophomore Cole McCaskill scored from the slot with 1:58 left in the third period to even the game at 2-2. Freshman Kade Kehoe gathered the puck in his own end, juked a UMD defender at the red line and found McCaskill, who sent a wrister past UMD goalie Hunter Miska for his second tally of the season.
 
After a scoreless five-minute overtime period, the game officially ended in a tie. Thanks to a five-minute major called against UMD's Carson Soucy with eight seconds left in the first OT, the Tigers had a 4x3 power play for the majority of the second overtime to determine the extra point in the NCHC standings.
 
Despite attempting 10 shots in the second overtime, CC could not get anything past Miska, sending the game to a sudden-death shootout, where Tiger senior Matt Hansen missed his opportunity, but UMD's Alex Ialfallo beat Tiger netminder Alex Leclerc to give the Bulldogs a two-point night.
 
Early on, it looked like the Bulldogs would run away with the game.
 
Dominic Toninato made it 1-0 with a power-play goal just 58 seconds into the contest. After CC defenseman Teemu Kivihalme was called for cross-checking 11 seconds in, Toninato was parked in front of the CC net and deflected a shot by Neal Pionk past Leclerc.
 
The Tigers then went on the power play at the 1:38 mark of the first, but Iafallo took a pass from Willie Raskob and snuck through the Tigers for a breakaway goal nine seconds later to make it 2-0.  
 
The Tigers controlled the play for much of the second period, outshooting UMD 11-6, but it was the last one of the period that finally got CC on the board as Hansen scored his fourth goal of the season with 6.7 seconds remaining in the period. Sophomore Westin Michaud fired a shot from the right circle that freshman Branden Makara deflected right to Hansen, who had an open net from the left circle.
 
Colorado College kept the heat on in the third period as well, putting 16 shots on net, the most in a period since collecting 16 in the second frame against Omaha on Jan. 14. Again, the Tigers scored on their final shot of the period when McCaskill tied the game.
 
"I am proud of our guys," head coach Mike Haviland said. "We were down 2-0 1:47 in and we did a good job of upping the ante and competing. We never gave up, kept coming and got better as the game went on. It was one of our better games for sure."
 
The Tigers' 39 shots on Saturday were the second-most in one game this season, two shy of the 41 against UMass in the second game of the campaign. Miska turned away 37 shots, while Leclerc finished with 22 saves on 24 UMD shots. McCaskill and freshman Kristian Blumenschein, who hit the post with a shot during the second overtime, led all players with six shots apiece, each posting a career-high.
 
Hansen's power-play goal was the only conversion in 10 attempts for CC, while the Bulldogs were 1-for-6 on the power play.
 
The Tigers host Western Michigan next weekend in the final home games of the season, Feb. 24-25.