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Max Bulawka '26
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Tufts TUF 8-4-2, 5-2-1
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Hamilton HAM 9-4-1, 5-3-1
Tufts TUF
8-4-2, 5-2-1
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Final
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Hamilton HAM
9-4-1, 5-3-1
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 OT 1 F
Tufts TUF 0 2 1 0 3
Hamilton HAM 0 0 3 0 3

Game Recap: Men's Ice Hockey | | Jim Taylor

Men's hockey rallies from three-goal deficit to tie Tufts, 3-3

Bulawka '26 completed the comeback with 1:32 left in the third period for the Continentals

CLINTON, N.Y. – Hamilton College's Max Bulawka '26 scored with 1:32 left in the third period and helped the Continentals complete a furious rally in their 3-3 NESCAC tie with the Tufts University Jumbos inside Hamilton's Russell Sage Rink on Saturday, Jan. 13.
 

Season Update

  • The Continentals (9-4-1, 5-3-1 NESCAC) picked up a point in the conference standings for the first time in the last three home games.
  • Tufts (8-4-2, 5-2-1) came into Sage Rink with an eight-game win streak.
 

How It Happened

  • Philippe Lamarre gave the Jumbos a three-goal cushion 1:04 into the third period and it looked like Tufts was well on its way to a ninth straight victory.
  • Just 19 seconds into Hamilton's third power play of the afternoon, Grisha Gotovets '25 put the Continentals on the scoreboard at 5:30 of the third. Gotovets scored on a wicked wrist shot from the right faceoff circle after he received a pass from Luke Tchor '27.
  • Tchor pulled Hamilton within a goal with 8:34 remaining on a sharp-angle shot. He collected a loose puck and scored from the bottom of the left faceoff circle after Jackson Krock '26 had brought the puck into the attacking zone.
  • Bulawka received a pass from James Philpott '25 in the neutral zone and he skated across the blue line. His wrist shot from the high slot beat the goaltender low on the glove side. Hamilton had pulled its goaltender for a sixth skater about 40 seconds before Bulawka's equalizer.
  • The Continentals dominated the five-minute overtime period with six shot attempts to the Jumbos' one and two faceoff wins. Three of Hamilton's shots were on goal.
  • After a scoreless first period, Tyler Sedlak gave Tufts a 1-0 lead 4:26 into the second. Sylas Oberting made it a two-goal advantage with 4:30 to go in the period.
  • The Continentals had a 5-on-3 power play for 1:34 midway through the second period but couldn't convert.
  • The Jumbos hit the crossbar with a shot midway through the third period when they were already up 3-1.
 

Notes

  • Tchor, who had a goal and an assist, finished the weekend with five points. He leads the NESCAC with 10 goals and 18 points.
  • Philpott – a defenseman – is tied for second in the conference with nine assists.
  • Bulawka is second in the NESCAC behind Tchor with 16 points on seven goals and nine helpers.
  • Gotovets has at least one point in five of the last six games.
  • Krock registered an assist and won 17 of 27 faceoffs.
  • Josh Nadler '26 made 34 saves in his third career start at Hamilton.
  • Peyton Durand kept Tufts in the game by stopping 45 shots.
  • The Continentals killed both of their penalties. Hamilton leads the NESCAC in penalty-killing percentage at 97.8 percent and has allowed just one power-play goal in 14 games.
  • The last tie between the Continentals and the Jumbos was on Feb. 13, 2015.
 

Next Game

Hamilton plays another conference game at Amherst College (9-5-0, 5-4) on Friday, Jan. 19 at 7 p.m.
 
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