M-Hockey Roundup: Colin Williams nets shootout winner
Brock, 4 @ Laurier, 5
WATERLOO, Ont. - Colin Williams from Orangeville, Ont. scored the shootout winner to lift the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks to a 5-4 decision over the Brock Badgers. It was Laurier's first win in the shootout this season. The Hawks improve to second place in the OUA West at 10-4-4 while the Badgers fall to 7-5-6.
In the first period Laurier jumped out to a 2-0 lead. After a turnover in the Laurier end, Mitchell Good (Wellesley, Ont.) broke out quickly out, made a move to the left side of a Brock defenseman and hit Mike Gauthier (North Vancouver, B.C.) with the pass who made no mistake for his third of the year. Mitchell Good gave Laurier a 2-0 advantage while Laurier was on the power play.
The Badgers Jordan Gignac (Hamilton, Ont.) tipped in a point shot by Kevin Christmas (Hamilton, Ont.) a minute and a half into the second period to cut the deficit to one. The Hawks scored another power play marker as Jean-Michel Rizk (Dunham, Que.) banged in a rebound for his eleventh of the year. Matt Abercrombie (Sarnia, Ont.) responded just over a minute later scoring into an empty net as Ryan Daniels (Pickering, Ont.) lost the puck behind the net. Daniels finished the game with 32 saves on 36 shots while Kurt Jory (Brandon, MB) turned aside 29 of 33 shots.
The Badgers Adam Schwark (Saskatoon, Sask.) took a pass from the corner and snapped the puck over the left shoulder of Ryan Daniels. Brock took the lead with a rebound goal from Derek Brochu (Welland, Ont.). Ryan Bellows (St.Catharines, Ont.) tied the game up less than twenty seconds later. Laurier head coach Greg Puhalski commented on the tying goal, "The tying goal showed some character." The goal brought the game into overtime. Overtime solved nothing, and so the game went into a shootout.
Ryan Daniels stopped five rounds of the shootout, while Kurt Jory stopped the first four rounds, but was beaten five-hole by Colin Williams for a 5-4 Laurier win.
Source: Golden Hawk Athletics
RMC, 1 @ Queen’s, 6
KINGSTON, Ont. (January 6, 2011) – The Queen's Gaels (6-8-2) men's hockey team used three first period goals to defeat the RMC Paladins (1-15-1) 6-1 Thursday night to snap their six game losing streak.
Coming into the game, the Gaels last victory was a 5-4 shootout win over the Ottawa Gee-Gees back on November 5.
The win also marks the first victory in regulation for Queen's this season after winning their first five games in either overtime or a shootout.
The Gaels opened the scoring on the powerplay midway through the first period as Stephane Chabot of Rockland, Ont., scored his first of the season, beating RMC goalie Andrew Flemming of Quispamsis, N.B., high over the shoulder.
Just 17 seconds later, Scott Kenway of Calgary, created a turnover in the Paladins zone and from the slot, beat Flemming past the blocker to make it 2-0.
Before the period was out, Gaels leading scorer Joey Derochie of Sudbury, Ont., put on a stick-handling display, beating an RMC defender before roofing a backhander over Flemming stretching the lead to three.
After Ben Munroe of Kingston, Ont., notched another powerplay marker early in the second, Justin Lacey of Sudbury, Ont., got the Paladins on the board with a powerplay goal of his own.
From there, Queen's would shutdown the Paladins, not allowing them to sustain any pressure in the offensive zone.
Payton Liske of Welland, Ont., and Jordan Mirwaldt of Winnipeg, would add powerplay goals in the third period to round out the scoring.
For the game, the Gaels went 4 for 8 on the powerplay while RMC finished the game 1 for 3.
David Aime of Clandeboye, Man., earned his second win of the season, turning aside 22 shots while Flemming stopped 32 shots in the loss for RMC.
Source: Gaels Athletics
SCHEDULE AND RESULTS
Thurs. Jan. 6
Brock, 4 @ Laurier, 5
RMC, 1 @ Queen’s, 6
Fri. Jan. 7
7 p.m. – Ottawa @ Carleton
7:15 p.m. – Western @ Brock
7:30 p.m. – Guelph @ UOIT
7:30 p.m. – Windsor @ Lakehead
8:30 p.m. – Toronto @ Queen’s
Sat. Jan. 8
3 p.m. – Nipissing @ Ryerson
7 p.m. – McGill @ Ottawa
7 p.m. – Toronto @ RMC
7:30 p.m. – Guelph @ Waterloo
7:30 p.m. – York @ UOIT
Sun. Jan. 9
3 p.m. – McGill @ Concordia
4 p.m. – Queen’s @ UQTR
4 p.m. – RMC @ Nipissing
7 p.m. – Waterloo @ York
