For fifty-six minutes of play on Saturday night in Montreal, the Waterloo Warriors stuck right with the McGill Redmen, playing a solid two-way game and outscoring their hosts along the way.

Unfortunately for the Warriors, the game was decided in the other four minutes.

The defending national champions from McGill scored twice in the first 2:12 of the game, and added two more in the final two minutes of the third en route to a 5-2 victory over the Warriors on Saturday night.

Patrick Delisle-Houde and Marc-Olivier Vachon each registered three points for the victorious Redmen, who won their fifth straight game after starting the season 0-3. For the Warriors, rookie forward Colin Behenna (Waterloo/) scored his sixth goal of the season and added an assist in the loss. Waterloo has now alternated wins and losses in their last four, as their record falls to 5-3-0 on the season.

Steve Whitely (Petrolia/) also scored for the Warriors in the loss, as he added his first goal of the season to his 7 assists. Between the pipes, Keaton Hartigan (Kitchener/) started his fourth game in a row and made 32 saves in the loss. At the other end of the ice, McGill veteran Hubert Morin was far less busy, turning aside 20 Warriors shots for the victory.

At the onset of the first period, it was made rapidly apparent that the Warriors were suffering from either an emotional hangover the previous night's big win over UQTR, a bad case of bus legs, or a combination of both. The Redmen capitalized just 16 seconds after puck hit ice, when Delisle-Houde scored his first of the night in the game's first shift. Then, just 1:56 later, Mathieu Pompei put McGill up 2-0 and dug the Warriors a deep hole early.

The Warriors also found themselves in penalty trouble in the opening frame, taking four minor penalties to McGill's one. It finally caught up to Waterloo with just under three minutes to play when, on a man-advantage and with a delayed penalty upcoming to the Warriors, Vachon beat Hartigan to put the Redmen up 3-0 after 20 minutes.

With their adeptness at erasing deficits in the forefront of their collective mind, the Warriors were a different team in the second. After getting outshot 13-6 in the first period, the Warriors topped McGill in shots in the second, 12-10. They also scored the only goal of the middle twenty minutes, as Behenna added to his team-leading points and goals totals, making the game 3-1 entering the final stanza.

In the third, Hartigan kept the Warriors in touch early, and Whitely's marker on the power play drew Waterloo to within a goal with just over 7 minutes to play. Unfortunately for the Warriors, that's as close as they would get – the Redmen fended off the Waterloo advances and turned the tables when Christophe Longpre-Poirier and Delisle-Houde scored late-game goals just 31 seconds apart to salt it away for the defending champs.

The Warriors will now return home after a split in Quebec to complete their OUA East division crossover schedule next weekend at home, where they'll welcome a pair of visitors from the nation's capital to the Columbia Icefield Arena. On Friday, November 9, Waterloo will host the Ottawa Gee Gees, before taking on the Carleton Ravens on Saturday, November 10. Puck drop for both games are slated for 7:30pm.

Notes: Waterloo went 1-for-7 on the power play, while McGill went 1-for-8…Warriors assistant captain Josh Schappert (Winnipeg/), who battled an injury in the preseason, missed his second straight game. It's unsure if his absence is related to the same injury…With his third-period assist on Whitely's goal, Justin Larson (Buckhorn/) extended his point streak to 6 games.