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ROSEN, BROWN STOP SAINTS, 3-1
Feb. 16: Brown University jumped out to a 3-0 lead against St. Lawrence on Saturday night and goaltender Dan Rosen made it stand up for a 3-1 ECAC Hockey win as the Saints were swept on their road weekend.
The Saints, playing shorthanded on defense due to injuries, were hurt more by a lack of goal scoring in Saturday’s game as they had nine power play chances including four partial five on three opportunities, but managed just one goal with under four minutes to go in the game.
“I thought the effort was there, but we didn’t get to some rebounds and Rosen made some very good saves,” said Saint coach Joe Marsh. “We had some people playing on defense who don’t normally play back there and they did a pretty good job. We need to get some guys back and see what we can do in the final four games of the season.”
The Saints were without Jared Ross for the weekend and Shawn Fensel was unable to play on Saturday after being hurt in the Yale game. Derek Keller, who just returned from a shoulder injury, reinjured his shoulder and did not play after the midway point of the second period. Bobby Torney made his second collegiate start and turned in a solid effort and Aaron Bogosian and Brock McBride spent time on defense.
The Saints fall to 10-16-4 overall and 5-11-2 in the ECAC while Brown pulled to within a point of the Saints at 4-17-4 overall and 4-11-3 in league play.
The Bears cashed in on the first power play opportunity of the game as Devin Timberlake took the puck from between the skates of a Saint defender, walked out from behind the net and tucked it past Saint goalie Justin Pesony at 3:53 of the first. It was the third power play goal in as many chances against the Saints during the weekend.
The remainder of the period was end to end action with the two teams combining for 29 shots, but no further scoring. Pesony, who turned in a strong game in goal, came up big on Timberlake on a shorthanded bid in the final minute of the period and Brown’s Dan Rosen somehow got back across the net and denied Jeremiah Cunningham on a power play rebound try off an initial shot by Zach Miskovic with 13 seconds to play to keep it a 1-0 game after one.
The Saints had several good opportunities on a power play midway through the second, but couldn’t come up with the equalizer. Brown came off the Saint pressure with a rush and made it a 2-0 game at 10:32 as Sean Muncy worked the puck behind the net and as the Saint defense moved to him, Muncy fed freshman Jesse Fratkin, who was all alone in the short slot and buried his first career goal.
Brown made it a 3-0 game at 4:52 of the third when Aaron Volpati was all alone at the side of the net when a pass bounced off a Saint defender’s skate and right onto his stick. Volpati put the puck between Pesony and the post for his fourth of the year.
The Saints finally cashed in on their seventh power play chance of the game as Brock McBride sent the puck to Kevin DeVergilio at the side of the net and DeVergilio snapped the puck past Rosen for his eighth of the year with Mike McKenzie also assisting at 16:09. That goal came with two seconds left on a five-on-three, but the Saints came up empty on the rest of the man advantage and on a later power play with just over three minutes to play.
BULLDOGS HOLD ON FOR 4-3 VICTORY OVER SAINTS Feb. 15: Yale freshman Broc Little snapped a 3-3 tie with just under 16 seconds to play in the second period an Eli goaltender Billy Blase made it stand up as the game winner with a solid third period as Yale turned back St. Lawrence University 4-3 in a ECAC Hockey game Friday night.
Yale, 11-9-4, 7-6-4 swept the season series with the Saints and maintained its hopes for a first-round bye with the win while the Saints fell to 10-15-4 overall and 5-10-2 in league play.
“That was a good hockey game on the part of both teams in terms of the intensity,” said Saint coach Joe Marsh. “We certainly had our chances to score a few more goals, but I thought both goaltenders made some key stops. It came down to a couple of breaks here or there and Yale was able to cash in.”
The Saints went into Friday’s game in ninth place, four behind Harvard and Yale, which were tied for sixth in a typically tight ECAC Hockey race with just three weekends left in the regular season. They will try to salvage a split of the road series on Saturday when they play at Brown, which lost 4-3 to Clarkson in overtime in Friday action.
Brock McBride opened the scoring for the Saints as he scored his 12th of the season just ten seconds into the first power play opportunity for either team in the game. Kevin DeVergilio won a offensive zone faceoff and Derek Keller tapped the puck ahead to McBride who was in the slot and snapped a wrist shot past Yale goalie Billy Blase at 7:57.
Mike McKenzie then made it a 2-0 lead at 9:56 as he worked the puck out in front and sent a backhand past Blase with McBride and Sean Flanagan assisting.
The Saints had a chance to increase the lead as they had another power play opportunity at the 10:44 mark, but a turnover in the defensive end as they were trying to set up the man advantage gave the puck to Yale’s Blair Yaworski and he snapped a shorthanded shot into the upper corner at 10:57 to make it a 2-1 game.
That goal ignited the Eli offense, but they did not tie the game until just 42.6 seconds remained in the period, converting on a power play as Mark Arcobello jammed his seventh of the year between Saint goalie John Hallas and the post to tie the game.
The Saints took a brief 3-2 lead in the second period when Jeremiah Cunningham made a big play on a penalty kill. Cunningham knocked a Yale player off the puck deep in the Yale end and then fed Casey Parenteau, who was all alone in front of Blase and Parenteau buried his tenth of the year at 12:32. The lead did not last long, however, as two Saint players collided in the Yale end after the Saints won the faceoff and Yale came out with a five-on-two rush.
Yaworski finished off the rush with a shot which banked in off the crossbar at 13:23 to give the
The goaltenders ruled the third period but both teams had some great chances. Blase made a series of saves on the lone Saint power play of the period, stopping McBride, McKenzie and DeVergilio in a scramble in front while Hallas came up big on Michael Karwoski with 6:37 to go in regulation.
While the Saints pulled Hallas for an extra attacker with 40 seconds left and spent much of that stretch in the Yale zone, they could not come up with the equalizer.
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