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CANTON — The sophomore slump is not a myth if you ask St. Lawrence University forward Greg Carey.

It's taken Carey, who had 23 goals as a freshman, nearly his entire sophomore season to return to that machine-like goal scoring.

He scored twice, including the game-winner, as the Saints held off Quinnipiac, 4-3, for its third straight ECAC Hockey win on Friday at Appleton Arena. It moved St. Lawrence into a tie for seventh in the conference.

Carey had six points and four goals in St. Lawrence's last three wins. When Carey scores, St. Lawrence is 4-2-1 this season. The Saints are undefeated when he scores twice.

“I've just been working harder,” Carey said. “(Assistant coach Greg) Carvel is big on deserving success and I just try to work hard and be deserving of success.”

Carey netted his 10th goal of the season on a shot through traffic from the center point at 13 minutes and 59 seconds of the first period. He capped St. Lawrence's scoring with the team's fourth goal at 11:36 of the second for a 4-0 lead. Justin Baker and Peter Child added scores only 35 seconds apart in the first two minutes of the second period for St. Lawrence.

Meanwhile, the Saints were again mired in penalties. They took 13 in total, giving Quinnipiac an unimaginable 10 power-play opportunities.

“Hopefully they're all out of our system now,” associate head coach Mike Hurlbut said. “We certainly got our share and I know it's frustrating for these guys.”

The Bobcats came in averaging just shy of 20 percent on the power-play conversions. If they had merely met that mark, they would have won.

“We missed an opportunity tonight,” Quinnipiac coach Rand Pecknold said. “When you're 0-for-10, that's not a good sign. Our power play was not good tonight and St. Lawrence's penalty kill was really good. We just dug ourselves a hole.”

All the power plays allowed Quinnipiac to more than double St. Lawrence's shots on goal, 35-16. But the Bobcats couldn't beat Weninger through the first two periods.

Weninger stopped all 19 shots in the first 40 minutes and helped kill four more penalties in the second period. He finished with 32 saves.

“I thought we did a good job penalty killing,” Weninger said. “Give our team credit for hanging on and playing the way we did tonight.”

St. Lawrence broke its season-long trend by not blowing its third-period lead, although it did surrender three goals in the final 20 minutes on Friday. The Saints have been outscored 44-19 in the third period this season.

Jeremy Langlois, Spencer Heichman and Connor Jones each scored in the third period for Quinnipiac.

“We've blown too many games like that,” Weninger said. “We need to be more efficient and more effective with the lead.”

It was just three games ago that St. Lawrence would have taken a goal almost as much as a win. The Saints were shutout in back-to-back games by Rensselaer and Union during a stretch where SLU went 0-7-1 in conference.

Since, SLU has scored 13 times and moved out of last place in the conference to within range of a first-round bye. The Saints are just five points behind Harvard for fourth place with five games left.

“When you hit rock bottom you realize you can't go anywhere but up,” Carey said. “I think feeling that bad and what happened during that (RPI-Union) weekend, it gives you a little fire.”

■ NOTES: St. Lawrence Jordan Dewey suffered a broken forearm against Brown and will miss the remainder of the season. Dewey, a junior defenseman, had four goals and three assists this year.

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I will be live blogging and chatting throughout tonight's game between SLU and Quinnipiac starting at 6 p.m. The puck drops at 7 p.m.

A big weekend culminated with a spectacular come-from-behind win for the Saints against Brown. SLU trailed by three early and fought back to win, 5-3, to complete the weekend sweep of Yale and Brown.

It earned four points in the conference standings and moves SLU into a tie for ninth place, but only four points out of fifth.

Here are the links to the two recaps:

SLU 4, Yale 3 (OT)

SLU 5, Brown 3

It was not the conclusion to the ECAC Hockey road trip St. Lawrence wanted. The Saints left the Capitol District without scoring a goal.

No. 14 Union moved into first place in the conference after blowing out the Saints, 6-0, on Saturday. St. Lawrence also lost to RPI, 4-0, on Friday and is currently tied with Engineers for last place.

The Saints (8-15-3 overall, 4-9-1 ECAC) have not scored against Union in two meetings this season. The loss was the fourth straight for SLU, which hasn’t won since Jan. 6 against Minnesota State.

It was also the first time since the 2003-04 season that St. Lawrence suffered back-to-back shutouts. The Saints haven’t scored in 143 minutes, 48 seconds of hockey. Their last goal came via Chris Martin at 16:12 of the second period against Clarkson on Jan. 21.

“Going into Union when you’re struggling is not going to cure your ills,” SLU associate head coach Mike Hurlbut said. “They don’t give you a lot defensively, and while I thought we did some things a lot better than we did last night at RPI, we made some mistakes that they capitalized on.”

Troy Grosenick needed 26 saves to post his fourth shutout this season for Union (15-6-6, 9-3-3). He leads the nation in goals against average (1.58) and save percentage (.940).

Not that it would have mattered against St. Lawrence. Union struck for two goals in the first period.

Kelly Zajac started it at 10:30 off a swift pass from Wayne Simpson through the crease. Three minutes later, Jeremy Welsh netted his team-leading 18th goal off a St. Lawrence turnover.

The Saints were held to just four shots on goal, two of which came from outside the Union zone, in the first period. It marked the fifth straight game SLU did not record double-digit shots in the opening 20 minutes.

The Saints managed 11 shots on net in the second period, while union extended its lead to 3-0 when Mat Bodie scored with just four seconds left.

Massena native Matt Hatch put the game away at 3:39 of the third with Union’s fourth goal. He added one more score in the period. Max Novak also scored for Union.

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