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The University of Toronto Varsity Blues men's hockey team dropped a 5-1 decision to the Nipissing Lakers on Saturday, October 11 at Varsity Arena.
 
With the loss, the Blues drop to 1-1-0 after their first weekend of OUA action.
 
Fourth-year U of T forward Paul Van De Velde opened the scoring with 23 seconds remaining in the first period when he wired a shot into the top corner of the net. Toronto was up 1-0 at the first intermission.
 
Nipissing evened the score 1:09 into the second period when Brogan Bailey tapped in a rebound.
The Lakers looked as though they would score again a minute later but Brett Willows came up with a beautiful sprawling save to keep the game deadlocked.
 
The Lakers did go ahead with two goals one minute apart midway through the game. At the 9:08 mark of the second period, Craig Campbell one-timed a 2-on-1 pass from Brock Morrison into the net. Bailey then put the visitor's up by two, putting in his own rebound off a weird bounce off the back boards.
 
Toronto's Patrick Marsh almost cut the deficit when his shot rang off the cross bar with four minutes remaining in the second, but the Bailey notched his third of the game, a powerplay marker, off a pass from Matt Paton to give Nipissing a 4-1 lead heading into the final frame.
 
Nipissing's Mitch Deacon added a short handed goal in the third period to round out the 5-1 victory.
 
Willows posted 19 saves in the loss.
 
The Varsity Blues return to action next Friday, October 17 as they host the Lakehead Thunderwolves at Varsity Arena. Game time is set for 7:30 p.m.  

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