The Lake Forest College men's hockey team was defeated 8-1 by host St. Norbert College Tuesday night (October 27) in the season opener for both teams.

The Green Knights started the scoring with a power play goal at the 5:42 mark of the opening period and doubles their lead at 12:41. Lake Forest pulled back to within a goal at the 14:12 mark when freshman Thomas Bark (Toronto, Ontario/Streetsville Derbys) got control of the puck behind the St. Norbert net and fed classmate Trent Brown (Ayr, Ontario/Elmira Sugar Kings) in front of the goal. Brown lit the lamp for his first career goal.

The home team regained the two-goal advantage just 18 seconds into the second period and added a score at 10:09. The score remained 4-1 in favor of St. Norbert going into the third.

Three Green Knights goals in the first seven minutes of the final period put the game out of reach and another with a minute remaining in the contest closed out the scoring.

Lake Forest will open Midwest Collegiate Hockey Association play next weekend (November 6-7) at Finlandia University. The teams will play Friday night at 7:14 (EST) and Saturday afternoon at 4:00.