West Point, NY -- The Rensselaer Engineers got five goals from five different players and dominated the Army Cadets, 5-2 at Tate Rink on Saturday evening.

"It was nice to see five different guys getting goals, where we didn't rely on one or two guys," said Engineer head coach Dan Fridgen. "That's the type of depth we're going to need as the season progresses -- different guys stepping forward."

From the outset the Engineers controlled the puck and the territorial advantage, but only scored once in the first period. Keith Dupee and Andrew McPherson broke in two-on-one on Cadet goaltender Corey Winer. Dupee fed the puck over to McPherson, who put the easy goal in.

In the second the Engineers jumped out with two more goals, the first off a Marc Cavosie shot. Cavosie took the initial slapshot which was blocked by K.C. Finnegan, but the rebound came right back to Cavosie. His second shot was high over Winer's shoulder as Finnegan provided the inadvertent screen.

Matt Murley added a goal on the power play to make it 3-0. Murley got a misdirection from Steve Caley on a Brian Pothier point shot and tapped it into an open net.

Jeff Gallo scored on a backhander coming down the ice on a two-on-one, lifting it over the shoulder of Scott Prekaski.

The Engineers added two more in the third period, one from Doug Shepherd, who walked around the Army defense and around Winer for the easy goal, and one from Brian Pothier on a blistering power-play point shot.

Cadet plebe Brian Sarner added his first collegiate goal with a power-play tally into an open net after a deflected point shot by Josh Morino.

Despite the win, Fridgen was not too pleased with the results of the game.

"When we get ahead in a game we can be overaggressive and too offensive and that takes us out of the systems that we play," he said. "That's just a matter of discipline, when you're in the last minute of a period and you allow a two-on-one the other way, knowing that you're up by three, and you don't need another one and you have to play solid defense. Sometimes we get too offensive-minded. When we do it's just mayhem out on the ice and we get out of our systems."

"We've had a lot of crazy things go wrong and we had a makeshift group out on defense and the guys played pretty well all things considered," said Army head coach Rob Riley. "In the second period we're within two and we hit the crossbar twice. They're outplaying us, and if we sneak one of those in, then....

"We just wanted to hang around; we were down 3-1, but that fourth goal was a killer. We just weren't able to cope with their speed up front."

The Engineers (9-3-0, 2-2-0 ECAC) return to ECAC action next weekend hosting Harvard and Brown, while Army (5-8-1) will be at Fairfield on Tuesday before hosting Assumption next Friday.