Staff photo by Steve Muscatello New Ulm’s Landon Depew plays the puck along the boards as a Rochester Lourdes player closes in during the first period Saturday at the New Ulm Civic Center.

NEW ULM — Kyle Hickey’s backhander with just three seconds left in overtime beat New Ulm goalie Jack Raymond and lifted Rochester Lourdes to a 3-2 win over New Ulm Saturday afternoon in nonconference boys’ hockey at the New Ulm Civic Center.

Josh Seidl and Glavine Schugel scored the goals for New Ulm.

Shane Esser and Schugel had assists for New Ulm.

Raymond stopped 31 of 34 Lourdes shots in the game.

For New Ulm and head coach Ryan Neuman, the loss was a tough one to accept as the Eagles had scored twice in the third period with the eventual game-tying goal coming from Schugel that forced the extra session with just 45 seconds left in the game.

“This loss definitely hurt,” Neuman said. “We battled back. It was not our best game and I think that both teams were a little sluggish.”

After Schugel had tied the game at 2-2 and forced an overtime, it looked like it was going to end up a tie.

Until the Eagles had a defensive meltdown in their own end with time running down with time running out.

“We had three guys just skate by [Hickey] and basically left him skate in wide open in front to Jack,” Neuman said. “He did not have much of a chance and [Hickey] is the one guy on their team that you did not want to have the puck wide open like that.”

New Ulm fell behind 1-0 in the first period when Dustin Sorenson got the puck by Raymond on a high wrist shot at the 1:32 mark.

Neither team could muster a score in the second period before New Ulm knotted the game in the third period with a power play score from Seidl who redirected an Esser shot by Lourdes’ goalie Samuel Decker at the 1:03 mark.

But Lourdes grabbed the lead back just over three minutes later on a Jared Anderson goal.

Down 2-1 late in the third period, New Ulm was able to go on a power play with 1:38 left in the game for a 5-on-4 before pulling Raymond for a 6-on-4 with less than a minute to play. There, Schugel knotted the game with 45 seconds left before losing in the extra session.

“I am not a fan of Saturday games,” Neuman said. “The kids have a different routine — they do not have school. We have played six games in 13 days and eventually they are going to run out of gas a little bit.”

New Ulm is off until January 3 when they play at Luverne.