Andrew Skinner ripped a wrist shot from the right face-off dot with just under four minutes remaining in the game to give St. John's a tie with host Bishop O'Connell in the opener of the MAPHL 2017-18 season at the Kettler Capitals Iceplex in Arlington.

O'Connell's Ryan Lenaghan opened the scoring at 9:16 of the first period with a shot from the blue line and the Knights took that one-goal advantage into the first intermission. Alex Vouras and Victor Musoke assisted on the goal. 

The Cadets' Cole Maner tied the game when he got a feed from Alan Long and wristed a shot from between the face-off circles at 7:46 of the second period. The deadlock lasted less than five minutes before O'Connell's Musoke scored a power play goal, with an assist from Ben Gibbons, to put the Knight's back on top and set up Skinner's third period heroics.  Drew Tsakounis and A.J. Maner got the assists on Skinner snipe.