February 3, 2014
MEN'S HOCKEY ROUNDUP: Playoff races heating up in OUA East and West
Friday, January 31
Windsor 4 @ McGill 3 (SO)
MONTREAL - Spencer Pommells of Grande Prairie, Alta., scored in regulation and was the only player to tally in a post-overtime shootout as the visiting Windsor Lancers surprised No.5-ranked McGill 4-3 in men's university hockey at McConnell Arena, Friday.
It spoiled the 137th anniversary of McGill's first game, way back on Jan. 31, 1877, and was only the second home-ice loss of the campaign for the Redmen, who own an imposing 76-14-5 regular-season record over the last seven seasons at McConnell Arena.
"We weren't happy with our first period, didn't have the compete level that we needed to have," said McGill head coach Kelly Nobes, whose troops fell behind 2-0 in the opening frame and outshot Windsor 42-29 over the game. "But our second period was good and we were excellent in the third. Unfortunately we can't take a period off against a good team like Windsor. Their goalie also played extremely well and those two factors were the difference."
Lancers goaltender Parker Van Buskirk, who previously stopped pucks for the OHL's Windsor Spitfires, was stellar between the pipes. The 6-foot, 200-pound senior from Windsor improved to 14-8 after posting 39 saves, including two breakaways. He also turned aside all three Redmen snipers in the shootout.
Cedric McNicoll scored twice in the final stanza for the Redmen, including one on a penalty-shot, but had a last-second goal called back. The accounting major from Longueuil, Que., appeared to complete his hat-trick while notching the game-winner with only 14.5 seconds remaining in the third. His shot handcuffed Van Buskirk, rolled up over the goalie's shoulder and down his back, landing on his back leg padding, which was mostly inside the net. The referee, however, ruled that the puck had not crossed the line. Video replays, which are not used in CIS hockey, later appeared to indicate that the puck was indeed past the goal-line.
"We lost an important point in the standings, not because of that (disputed goal) but because we took 20 minutes off," declared Nobes. "The bottom line is we can't rely on a shootout. If we came out in the first period the way we played the third, we would have won the game."
The Redmen spotted Windsor an early 2-0 first period lead on goals by Pommells and Evan Stibbard, his first of two. That lead held up until the third period, when McGill rallied to outscore the Lancers 3-1. McNicoll scored at 3:07 and after Hibbard struck again, McNicoll potted his second with a penalty-shot at 10:07 to narrow the gap to 3-2. Less than two minutes later, Mathieu Pompei connected to knot the score at 3-3.
McGill rookie netminder Jacob Gervais-Chouinard was credited with 25 saves as his record dropped to 10-4.
The two teams combined for only six infractions, including the penalty shot, which was called when defenceman Kenny Bradford closed his hand on the puck in the Windsor crease. McGill was 0-for-2 on the power-play, while the Lancers went 0-for-3.
The victory for Windsor evened their lifetime record with McGill at 6-6-0, with the Redmen holding a slight 60-58 edge in goals since the teams began playing each other in 1985.
Source: McGill Sports Info
Nipissing 3 @ RMC 4
Carleton 3 @ UOIT 2 (OT)
Ottawa 4 @ Lakehead 3 (SO)
The Lakehead Thunderwolves were edged 4-3 in a shootout by the Ottawa Gee Gees in front of 2635 fans at the Fort William Gardens on Friday night.
The Gee Gees got on the board early in the first period after Wolves’ goaltender Jeff Bosch made a couple of initial saves but was finally beaten by forward Andrew Creppin.
Ottawa increased its lead to 2-0 after a defensive breakdown in the Lakehead zone that Matt White took advantage of and fired the puck past Bosch.
Later in the opening frame, Lakehead cut the lead in half on the power play when Cody Alcock found a loose puck at the side of Ottawa goalie Robin Billingham and made no mistake. Assists on the goal were credited to Jake Carrick and Andrew Wilkins.
In the second period, Ottawa took a 3-1 lead on a 5-on-3 power play when defenseman Mathieu Leduc walked in from the blue line and blasted a shot over Bosch.
Early in the third period, Mike Quesnele ripped a hard slap-shot that knocked the water bottle off the Gee Gees’ net and pulled the Thunderwolves to within one. The lone assist was credited to Mike Hammond.
With Wolves’ forward Carson Dubchak all alone on the doorstep, Billingham made a huge save to rob him of a goal.
Lakehead tied the game midway through the third on a mad scramble near the Ottawa goal. Three Thunderwolves were all banging at the loose puck before it snuck past Billingham. Captain Andrew Wilkins was credited with the goal and Cody Alcock and Keith Grondin got the assists.
Lakehead controlled most of the play in the overtime period, but were unable to capitalize. In the shootout, Ottawa’s Rock Regimbald scored to secure the 4-3 win for the Gee Gees.
Source: Thunderwolves Hockey
Western 3 @ Waterloo 2
The Waterloo Warriors were able to keep the potent Western Mustangs attack off the board for the first forty minutes on Friday night. But in a matter of 48 seconds, the Mustangs seized control.
Kyle De Coste scored two third-period goals just 48 seconds apart, and the 8th-ranked Western Mustangs extended their winning streak to six games with a 3-2 decision over the Warriors at the Columbia Icefield Arena Friday night.
Zach Harnden earned two assists for the Mustangs, who move to 17-6-0 on the season. Josh Woolley (Cambridge) and Justin Larson (Buckhorn) scored for the Warriors, who fall to 10-11-3 and remain just outside of the OUA West playoff picture.
Josh Unice made 26 stops for the Mustangs in the win, while Justin Leclerc (Saskatoon) was solid in the Waterloo net, turning aside 36 shots.
The Mustangs came out of the gates with more jump than their hosts, earning an early 10-2 lead on the shot clock and testing Leclerc early. As the period wore on though, the Warriors began pushing back, and they capitalized when Woolley grabbed a rebound above Unice's head, put the puck down at his feet, and slid home the puck in one motion to put Waterloo up 1-0 through 20 minutes.
The second period pace was, at times, frenetic, and temperatures rose between the two rivals in a period that featured very few stoppages in play. The Mustangs came close to tying the game a number of times, including ringing one off the crossbar in the late stages of the frame. But the Warriors held firm, and the hosts took their 1-0 lead into the second intermission.
The Mustangs finally broke through in the third, when Steve Reese carried the puck wide and drew all the attention to himself before throwing it in front for De Coste, who slammed it home to tie the game. Less than a minute later, Harnden fired a wrister from the left wing that squeaked through Leclerc, leaving it lying in the crease for De Coste to tap in.
Western would extend their lead to 3-1 on a controversial goal mouth scramble, in which it appeared Leclerc was shoved into the net. The officials saw no foul, however, and Stefan Salituro was given credit for the Mustangs goal.
With the goaltender out and just under two minutes to play, Larson drew the Warriors to within one goal with a bullet from the slot. But try as they might, the Warriors couldn't get the game-tying marker.
Waterloo will now use the next week to tune up for a pair of huge games next weekend, as the Warriors will host the Brock Badgers on Friday night before welcoming the Guelph Gryphons on Saturday night.
Notes: Waterloo went 0-for-3 on the power play, while Western went 0-for-1…Warriors captain Joe Underwood (Canton) missed his third straight game with an upper-body injury…Larson's goal was his team-leading 17th on the season.
Source: Waterloo Sports Info
Queen’s 6 @ Concordia 2
MONTREAL (January 31, 2014) - The Queen's men's hockey team (15-4-5) took down the Concordia Stingers (8-12-3) 6-2 in Quebec Friday night.
Queen's came out on fire, and Concordia could not put them out. The Gaels scored the first four goals of the game and they kept the Stingers scoreless until the third period.
The first period was a little slow to start, with the only action being the two penalties (one against each team) and a goal by Stephane Chabot (Rockland, Ont.). He scored for the Gaels in the fourteenth minute off an assist by Blair Wentworth (Calgary) and Andrew Wiebe (Thunder Bay, Ont.).
The second period was a different story with Queen's leaving Concordia to try and crawl back in the third. On a powerplay in the third minute, Chris Van Laren (Kingston, Ont.) found the back of the net thanks to help from Patrick McGillis (Calgary) and Joey Derochie (Sudbury, Ont.). Jordan Soquilla (Maple Ridge, B.C.) made the lead 3-0 seven minutes later off a pass from Tyler Moore (Winnipeg).
The momentum continued into the third with Moore scoring on a powerplay only 25 seconds into the period. Concordia fought back mid-way through the third, bringing the score to 4-2. Although they were up by two, Queen's kept on the offensive attack. In the seventeenth minute McGillis found the net with a pass from Moore. To take it to a 6-2 victory, Yannick Laflamme (Thetford Mines, Que.) of the Gaels scored the last goal of the game with only nine seconds left in regulation time.
In an exemplary team win, six different players scored goals for Queen's. Chris Clarke had 24 saves in 60 minutes of ice time.
The Gaels sit in a tie for third in the East heading into their game against Nippissing (5-15-2) at 7:30pm Saturday evening at the Memorial Centre in Kingston.
Source: Queen's Sports Info
Saturday, February 1
York 7 @ Ryerson 5
TORONTO -- Four unanswered goals in the third period propelled the York Lions over the Ryerson Rams, 7-5, on Saturday afternoon at the Mattamy Athletic Centre at the Gardens.
The loss drops Ryerson to 15-10 on the season and with three games remaining in the regular season they have lost five of their last six games.
The game started out well for the Rams, as five minutes into the first period, Dean Willmott scored his first goal of the season short-handed to put the Rams in front.
York would answer back five minutes later as Michael Santini would score his first of the game, followed by veteran Jesse Messier also putting one home to make it 2-1.
Before the end of the period, defenceman Kent McPherson would even the game at two going into the intermission.
Just two minutes into the second, Santini would score his second of the game and give York a 3-2 lead.
Michael Fine would answer back with his eighth and ninth goals of the season, both on the powerplay, and it would be Ryerson taking a 4-3 lead. Fine’s second goal would come with under a second remaining in the period and gave his team the momentum going into the third.
A defensive breakdown on the part of the Rams would come in the third period as the red-hot Santini scored his 12th goal of the season and third of the game to tie the game at four.
Mike Lombardi would then stretch the game to 6-4 with two goals in 24 seconds from Santini and Tyler McGee. Santini finished the game with five points (3G, 2A).
York would add an empty net goal and rookie Lucas Froese would pot his sixth goal of the year with 18 second left on the powerplay, but it was too little too late.
Troy Passingham started in net for Ryerson, giving up six goals on 38 shots. Andrew Perugini got the nod in net for the Lions and made 30 saves for his ninth win of the year.
After the game, head coach Graham Wise said that his team needs to tighten up defensively.
“Defensive hockey,” Wise said when asked about what his squad needs to improve on. “Let’s keep pucks out of our net.”
Ryerson resumes their OUA schedule next Saturday, Feb. 8 when they host the Laurier Golden Hawks at the Mattamy Athletic Centre at the Gardens. Puck drop is set for 7:30 p.m.
With teams chasing Ryerson in the standings, the next three games will prove to be important.
“We better get back on the winning track, we have three games left. We’re in a battle,” Wise said.
Source: Ryerson Sports Info
Windsor 2 @ McGill 6
MONTREAL -- Cedric McNicoll and Patrick Delisle-Houde each scored twice and added an assist as the No.5 ranked McGill men's hockey team tripled the Windsor Lancers 6-2 at McConnell Arena, Saturday.
The resulted avenged a 4-3 overtime shootout loss to the Lancers on Friday night and improved McGill's record to 19-5-2 with two games remaining before playoffs. The Redmen are tied with UQTR (20-4-0) for the OUA East division lead but could finish anywhere from first to fourth.
McGill, which had a 35-32 edge in shots, led 1-0 after one period and 4-1 after two. After the two teams combined for only six penalties the night before, this game featured 26 infractions for 76 minutes.
"The boys came our strong and played a full 60 minutes tonight," said McGill head coach Kelly Nobes. "They were focused before the game, they were prepared and wanted to make sure that we got the two points. We matched Windsor in all aspects of the game. We were physical, moving our feet, getting in front of the net and our special teams were solid. It was a good response after not showing up for the first period the previous night, which cost us a key point in the standings and that was good to see with playoffs only a few weeks away."
Defenceman Ryan McKiernan and forward Neal Prokop rounded out the scoring for McGill. McKiernan, a senior from White Plains, N.Y., who collected three points and continues to lead the Redmen in scoring, is the top point-scoring rearguard in the nation with 31 points, including a dozen goals, in 26 games.
Eric Noel, a junior from St. Jochim, Ont., and Christian Steingraber, a fifth-year blueliner from Oregon, Ohio, replied for Windsor.
The Redmen went 2-for-9 on the power-play and now rank fifth of 20 OUA teams with a 22.8 per cent success rate. On the other side of the ledger, McGill now leads the league with an 87.5 penalty-kill rate after erasing nine of 10 shorthanded situations.
Goaltender Jacob Gervais-Chouinard of Sherbrooke, Que., turned aside 30 of 32 shots -- including a lofty 18 saves in the final period -- for the win, improving his record to 11-4. The 21-year-old rookie ranks fourth among OUA goalies for wins, is sixth in goals-against average (2.25) and ninth in save percentage (.922).
Both he and Parker Van Buskirk, his counter-part at the other end of the ice, each drew a minor penalty in the contest. Van Buskirk, who shone like a beacon en route to a Windsor win the previous night, started but was yanked after conceding four goals on 28 shots over the first two periods. He was saddled with the loss and his record dropped to 14-9. Freshman Taylor Speed took over in the Windsor net for the final stanza and was beaten twice on seven shots.
McGill, which needs one victory to reach the 20-win plateau for the sixth time in school history, will close out the OUA schedule with two more home games, where they own a 10-1-1 record. They will host the UOIT Ridgebacks (7-14-4) from Oshawa on Feb. 7, followed by the Nipissing Lakers (5-16-3), from North Bay, Ont., on Feb. 14.
Source: McGill Sports Info
Guelph 7 @ Western 6 (OT)
LONDON, Ont. – Nicklas Huard—Guelph's leading scorer—waited over 60 minutes to make his first mark on the scorers sheet Saturday night but he made it count, capping off his teams comeback with a goal 2:27 into overtime to send the Gryphons to victory over the Western Mustangs men's hockey team at Thompson Arena.
Huard's goal put the finishing touches on a game that saw Guelph crawl back from a 4-0 first period deficit before erasing two one-goal Western leads in the third. Postgame, Mustangs Head Coach Clarke Singer spoke about giving up such a big advantage.
"What happens when you get up some times is you lose focus and you lose the intensity you have to start the game," Singer said. "That's what happened, I thought we had a fabulous start—one of our best starts of the year—we were aggressive, we were doing a lot of things well kind of following up from our game in Waterloo on Friday night."
"Then we just lost that edge we've talked about so much this year […] we just lost the intensity defensively and with the puck and on our forecheck and as soon as you lose it it's tough to get it back"
The line of Steve Reese, Zach Harnden, and Kyle De Coste came out swinging for the Mustangs, registering three goals and seven points between the three of them before the first ten minutes had even ticked off the clock. Harnden finished a nice passing play on the man advantage to open the scoring before Reese and De Coste added goals of their own 5:44 in and 7:11 in, respectively.
The Mustangs didn't let up after getting their first three either, pushing their lead to four goals with a goal from Matt Clarke at 1:17. Clarke received a Daniel Erlich pass from the side of the net and made no mistake, finishing from the top of the crease.
On the other side of the ice, Mustangs netminder Greg Dodds wasn't kept very busy in the period, only facing seven shots and turning them all aside with no problem. Guelph would make up for that lull in the second period, however, firing eleven quality shots at the net and cashing in on four of them. Western responded with a goal from Matt Paltridgeto send the two teams at the dressing room with the score 5-4.
Dodds could hardly be blamed for Guelph's second period outburst, as many of the chances came from in tight and he made a number of nice saves to ensure the outcome wasn't worse. One of those saves came on a penalty shot awarded to Leonard Fabbri, who made a move to the left only to find Dodds' outstretched pad.
On top of that, two of Guelph's goals came on nice individual efforts, with Robert De Fulviis making a nice move in close for the Gryphons' second goal of the period and Kenneth Peroff scoring on a n unbelievable snap shot from the blueline for the third.
Western's only goal of the period also came thanks to a nice play, as Erlich made a nice—albeit dangerous—saucer pass across the blueline to get the puck to Paltridge. With some space in front of him, Paltridge carried the puck to just above the faceoff dot before snapping it past Hamilton for his third of the season.
In the third—with the score closer than it had been since the 14-minute mark of the first—the play continued to be back and forth, as both teams exchanged chances through the first ten minutes but were unable to find the twine.
A penalty to Guelph's Leonard Fabbri 9:17 into the period gave the Mustangs a chance to apply sustained pressure for the first time in a while, although despite good passing along the perimeter Western found themselves unable to capitalize.
Their inability to score with the man advantage would prove costly later in the period, when a penalty to Colin Macdonald allowed Guelph to set up in Western's zone and tie the game at five. Kenneth Peroff did the damage for the Gryphons, receiving the puck at the left point and firing it through a number of screens and past Dodds.
As if in some divine test of Western's will to win, however, they would get a chance to make up for their power play zero just over a minute later with a penalty to Guelph's Kyle Neuber. Neuber bowled over Dodds to earn himself a goaltender interference infraction, his team's fourth penalty of the evening. This time, the Mustangs made no mistake, with Erlich banging in the puck from in close.
But if that power play was a test of the Mustangs will, it wasn't over yet; the Gryphons capitalized on the man advantage for the second time in a row to tie the game once again at six. Cale Jefferies potted the goal—his fifth of the season—jumping on a rebound from Peroff's point shot to stun the Western crowd and send his bench onto their feet.
Despite going into overtime on the power play, the Mustangs just didn't have any more in the tank, and after failing to score on the man advantage they gave up a game-deciding 2-on-1 to Nicklas Huard. Huard, Guelph's leading scorer, made no mistake, using the Mustangs defender as a screen and ripping the puck past Dodds.
After the game, Singer admitted it would have been nice to get a goal on the overtime man advantage but also noted he hardly blamed his power play units.
"[Our power play] scored three goals and they got us up with a couple minutes left on a nice goal too," Clarke said. "So power play did a great job tonight—certainly would have been nice to get that winner in OT but the ice is bad there too right and sometimes the puck's not moving as you would like it early in the period. But three power play goals I'll take that any night."
Saturday's loss marked the second tough-luck start in a row for Dodds, the Mustangs backup goaltender, who lost a 3-2 heart-breaker to Laurier in January with less than a second left on the clock. After the game, Singer gave his thoughts on the first-year netminder's night
"It's obviously tough for Greg, he's played great for us all year and tonight we gave him absolutely no help," Singer said. "We allow a couple PK goals, there's lots of traffic on shots from the point that he can't see so they had a couple seeing-eye goals.
Puck wasn't going his way tonight just like ours the last couple periods but Dodds has been great for us all year and he'll bounce back," he added.
Source: Western Sports Info
UQTR 6 @ RMC 2
Ottawa 4 @ Lakehead 3 (OT)
The Lakehead Thunderwolves lost 4-3 in overtime to the Ottawa Gee Gees on Saturday night in front of 2413 fans at the Fort William Gardens in Thunder Bay.
It was the second night in a row that the Wolves fell to Ottawa in overtime by the identical score.
The Wolves got off to a rocky start when Lakehead defenceman Mike Quesnele was assessed a five-minute major and a game misconduct for charging early in the first period.
The Wolves were able to kill off the penalty, and soon after Jake Carrick fired a hard wrist shot that eluded Ottawa goalie Warren Shymko. The assists went to Mike Hammond and Andrew Wilkins.
Lakehead came out playing very physical in the second period, including a big hit by Wilkins.
The Wolves increased their lead to 2-0 on the power play when a Mitch Fillman wrist shot from the point found its way through traffic and was tipped in front by Ryan Magill. Kelin Ainsworth had the second assist.
After Hammond shot a quick wrist shot off the crossbar, freshman defenseman Nathan Bruyere followed up on the play and put the rebound past Shymko, giving the Wolves the 3-0 lead midway through the second. Kelin Ainsworth had the extra helper.
Shymko was subsequently pulled and replaced by Robin Billingham in the Ottawa net.
Five minutes into the third period, Ottawa’s Charles Power fired a wrist shot that made its way through traffic and got by Wolves’ goaltender Jeff Bosch to narrow Lakehead’s lead to 3-1.
Stephen Blunden made the score 3-2 at 14:30 of the third period, giving the Gee Gees a late spark. When Ottawa’s Taylor Collins tied it up with less than 30 seconds to go in the game, that spark turned into a flame.
In overtime, Stephen Blunden broke in all alone and put the puck past Bosch with only nine seconds left on the clock, giving Ottawa the 4-3 win.
Source: Thunderwolves Hockey
Laurier 0 @ Toronto 5
The University of Toronto Varsity Blues men's hockey team snapped a three-game losing streak with a big 5-0 win over the Laurier Golden Hawks on Saturday night (Feb. 1) at Varsity Arena.
With the win, the Blues improve to 12-10-2 and are tied for seventh place with the Guelph Gryphons, while the Hawks drop to 9-13-2 and sit 10th in the OUA West division.
Fourth-year forward and Blues leading scorer Michael Markovic opened the scoring 2:41 into the game when he wired a rebound from the slot past Laurier netminder Vinny Merante. U of T struck again less than two minutes later when Tyler Liukkonen fed Christian Finch the puck, who one-timed it into the back of the net.
Markovic notched his second of the game midway through the first on the man advantage, receiving a pass from Paul Van De Velde behind the net before slotting it past Hawks back-up goalie Duncan Long.
Rookie Dean Klomp kept the offence rolling, scoring his first goal as a Varsity Blue when he wired the puck top shelf over Long. Toronto held a 4-0 lead after 20 minutes of action.
Assistant captain Jeff Brown rounded out the win 6:11 into the second frame when he picked off a Laurier defender and slotted the puck into the bottom right corner of the net for the short-handed marker.
Brett Willows posted 26 saves in his first shut out win of the season.
The Varsity Blues return to action next Saturday, February 8 when they travel to Windsor to take on the Lancers. Game time is 7:30 p.m.
Source: Toronto Sports Info
Nipissing 1 @ Queen’s 4
KINGSTON, Ont. (February 1, 2014) – Queen's (16-4-5) took down the visiting Nipissing Lakers (5-16-3) 4-1 on Saturday night in men's OUA hockey action at the Memorial Centre in Kingston.
In the opening period the Lakers jumped on the Gaels just after puck drop. Brogan Bailey beat Gaels starting netminder Kevin Bailie (Belleville, Ont.) only 1:25 into the game to go up 1-0 on the Gaels.
Queen's was quick to respond as Tyler Moore (Winnipeg) notched his seventh of the season just 26 seconds after the Nipissing goal to open the game. Joey Derochie(Sudbury, Ont.) and Patrick McGillis (Calgary) added the helpers.
The Gaels captain Corey Bureau (Amherstview, Ont.) then put Queen's out in front at the 15:52 mark with his sixth on the year.
In the second Queen's kept the pressure on and Alexi Pianosi (Halifax) had his point shot beat the Nipissing netminder for his first goal of the season. Chris Van Laren(Kingston, Ont.) and Braeden Corbeth (Oakville, Ont.) added the assist for Queen's.
Derochie added a powerplay marker finding room on the short side over the shoulder of Nipissing netminder Kirk Rafuse.
Bailie held Nipissing at bay the remainder of the frame stopping all six shots faced in the period including a quick glove off a shot from Connor O'Donnell in the slot with six minutes remaining.
Queen's held stong defensively in the third and took home a 4-1 victory. Bailie finished with 24 saves in the game for his 10th win of the season.
The Gaels now with 16 wins on the season are only one win shy of tying the franchise record of 17 set in the 1979-80 season where the team finished 17-3-2 under head coach Fred O'Donnell.
Queen's will look to tie the mark this Thursday February 6th when they host the RMC Paladins in the 28th annual Carr Harris Challenge Cup at the K-Rock Centre.
Source: Queen's Sports Info
Sunday, February 2
Concordia 2 @ Carleton 7
Sunday afternoon’s OUA hockey game between the visiting Concordia Stingers and Carleton Ravens didn’t exactly start off well for the home team but it certainly ended in fine fashion.
Down 1-0 to Concordia at the end of the first period with not much going right, the Ravens scored seven of the game’s next eight goals as they cruised to a 7-2 win.
“We (Carleton) had some opportunities to score early in the game but didn’t and were down by a goal because of a bad giveaway,” explained Ravens head coach, Marty Johnston. “I told the guys not to panic and stick with things. I thought that after we got that first period out of the way, we skated and played extremely well.”
Carleton (18-5-1) had four multi point scorers including Mike McNamee (Perth,ON), Damian Cross (Nepean, ON), Joe Pleckaitis (Ottawa, ON) and Joey West (Orleans, ON) who picked up a goal and assist apiece.
The Cross, McNamee and Pleckaitis line combined for six points and were a scoring threat every time they stepped on the ice.
“It (being down 1-0) definitely was not the start we wanted but things got a lot better for us in the second and third periods,” said McNamee, the Ravens leading scorer.
Other Carleton scorers included Mitch Zion (Manotick, ON), Tyler Taylor (Kitchener,ON) and Mitch Porowski (Ottawa, ON). Linden Bahm (KInburn, ON) picked up two assists.
Carleton goalkeeper Francis Dupuis (Ottawa, ON) had another strong outing stopping 22 of 24 Concordia shots. Dupuis is now 11-1 in his 12 starts and has given up only 19 goals to lead the OUA with a 1.57 Goals Against average.
The Ravens went 1-5 on the power play while the (8-13-3) Stingers finished 1-1.
Carleton outshot Concordia 47-24.
The No. 7 Ravens will be back in action on Friday, February 7 for an OUA East showdown when the No. 6 UQTR Patriotes (20-4-0) come to town. Game time at the Carleton Ice House is 7:00PM.
Source: Carleton Sports Info
Windsor 4 @ McGill 3 (SO)
MONTREAL - Spencer Pommells of Grande Prairie, Alta., scored in regulation and was the only player to tally in a post-overtime shootout as the visiting Windsor Lancers surprised No.5-ranked McGill 4-3 in men's university hockey at McConnell Arena, Friday.
It spoiled the 137th anniversary of McGill's first game, way back on Jan. 31, 1877, and was only the second home-ice loss of the campaign for the Redmen, who own an imposing 76-14-5 regular-season record over the last seven seasons at McConnell Arena.
"We weren't happy with our first period, didn't have the compete level that we needed to have," said McGill head coach Kelly Nobes, whose troops fell behind 2-0 in the opening frame and outshot Windsor 42-29 over the game. "But our second period was good and we were excellent in the third. Unfortunately we can't take a period off against a good team like Windsor. Their goalie also played extremely well and those two factors were the difference."
Lancers goaltender Parker Van Buskirk, who previously stopped pucks for the OHL's Windsor Spitfires, was stellar between the pipes. The 6-foot, 200-pound senior from Windsor improved to 14-8 after posting 39 saves, including two breakaways. He also turned aside all three Redmen snipers in the shootout.
Cedric McNicoll scored twice in the final stanza for the Redmen, including one on a penalty-shot, but had a last-second goal called back. The accounting major from Longueuil, Que., appeared to complete his hat-trick while notching the game-winner with only 14.5 seconds remaining in the third. His shot handcuffed Van Buskirk, rolled up over the goalie's shoulder and down his back, landing on his back leg padding, which was mostly inside the net. The referee, however, ruled that the puck had not crossed the line. Video replays, which are not used in CIS hockey, later appeared to indicate that the puck was indeed past the goal-line.
"We lost an important point in the standings, not because of that (disputed goal) but because we took 20 minutes off," declared Nobes. "The bottom line is we can't rely on a shootout. If we came out in the first period the way we played the third, we would have won the game."
The Redmen spotted Windsor an early 2-0 first period lead on goals by Pommells and Evan Stibbard, his first of two. That lead held up until the third period, when McGill rallied to outscore the Lancers 3-1. McNicoll scored at 3:07 and after Hibbard struck again, McNicoll potted his second with a penalty-shot at 10:07 to narrow the gap to 3-2. Less than two minutes later, Mathieu Pompei connected to knot the score at 3-3.
McGill rookie netminder Jacob Gervais-Chouinard was credited with 25 saves as his record dropped to 10-4.
The two teams combined for only six infractions, including the penalty shot, which was called when defenceman Kenny Bradford closed his hand on the puck in the Windsor crease. McGill was 0-for-2 on the power-play, while the Lancers went 0-for-3.
The victory for Windsor evened their lifetime record with McGill at 6-6-0, with the Redmen holding a slight 60-58 edge in goals since the teams began playing each other in 1985.
Source: McGill Sports Info
Nipissing 3 @ RMC 4
Carleton 3 @ UOIT 2 (OT)
Ottawa 4 @ Lakehead 3 (SO)
The Lakehead Thunderwolves were edged 4-3 in a shootout by the Ottawa Gee Gees in front of 2635 fans at the Fort William Gardens on Friday night.
The Gee Gees got on the board early in the first period after Wolves’ goaltender Jeff Bosch made a couple of initial saves but was finally beaten by forward Andrew Creppin.
Ottawa increased its lead to 2-0 after a defensive breakdown in the Lakehead zone that Matt White took advantage of and fired the puck past Bosch.
Later in the opening frame, Lakehead cut the lead in half on the power play when Cody Alcock found a loose puck at the side of Ottawa goalie Robin Billingham and made no mistake. Assists on the goal were credited to Jake Carrick and Andrew Wilkins.
In the second period, Ottawa took a 3-1 lead on a 5-on-3 power play when defenseman Mathieu Leduc walked in from the blue line and blasted a shot over Bosch.
Early in the third period, Mike Quesnele ripped a hard slap-shot that knocked the water bottle off the Gee Gees’ net and pulled the Thunderwolves to within one. The lone assist was credited to Mike Hammond.
With Wolves’ forward Carson Dubchak all alone on the doorstep, Billingham made a huge save to rob him of a goal.
Lakehead tied the game midway through the third on a mad scramble near the Ottawa goal. Three Thunderwolves were all banging at the loose puck before it snuck past Billingham. Captain Andrew Wilkins was credited with the goal and Cody Alcock and Keith Grondin got the assists.
Lakehead controlled most of the play in the overtime period, but were unable to capitalize. In the shootout, Ottawa’s Rock Regimbald scored to secure the 4-3 win for the Gee Gees.
Source: Thunderwolves Hockey
Western 3 @ Waterloo 2
The Waterloo Warriors were able to keep the potent Western Mustangs attack off the board for the first forty minutes on Friday night. But in a matter of 48 seconds, the Mustangs seized control.
Kyle De Coste scored two third-period goals just 48 seconds apart, and the 8th-ranked Western Mustangs extended their winning streak to six games with a 3-2 decision over the Warriors at the Columbia Icefield Arena Friday night.
Zach Harnden earned two assists for the Mustangs, who move to 17-6-0 on the season. Josh Woolley (Cambridge) and Justin Larson (Buckhorn) scored for the Warriors, who fall to 10-11-3 and remain just outside of the OUA West playoff picture.
Josh Unice made 26 stops for the Mustangs in the win, while Justin Leclerc (Saskatoon) was solid in the Waterloo net, turning aside 36 shots.
The Mustangs came out of the gates with more jump than their hosts, earning an early 10-2 lead on the shot clock and testing Leclerc early. As the period wore on though, the Warriors began pushing back, and they capitalized when Woolley grabbed a rebound above Unice's head, put the puck down at his feet, and slid home the puck in one motion to put Waterloo up 1-0 through 20 minutes.
The second period pace was, at times, frenetic, and temperatures rose between the two rivals in a period that featured very few stoppages in play. The Mustangs came close to tying the game a number of times, including ringing one off the crossbar in the late stages of the frame. But the Warriors held firm, and the hosts took their 1-0 lead into the second intermission.
The Mustangs finally broke through in the third, when Steve Reese carried the puck wide and drew all the attention to himself before throwing it in front for De Coste, who slammed it home to tie the game. Less than a minute later, Harnden fired a wrister from the left wing that squeaked through Leclerc, leaving it lying in the crease for De Coste to tap in.
Western would extend their lead to 3-1 on a controversial goal mouth scramble, in which it appeared Leclerc was shoved into the net. The officials saw no foul, however, and Stefan Salituro was given credit for the Mustangs goal.
With the goaltender out and just under two minutes to play, Larson drew the Warriors to within one goal with a bullet from the slot. But try as they might, the Warriors couldn't get the game-tying marker.
Waterloo will now use the next week to tune up for a pair of huge games next weekend, as the Warriors will host the Brock Badgers on Friday night before welcoming the Guelph Gryphons on Saturday night.
Notes: Waterloo went 0-for-3 on the power play, while Western went 0-for-1…Warriors captain Joe Underwood (Canton) missed his third straight game with an upper-body injury…Larson's goal was his team-leading 17th on the season.
Source: Waterloo Sports Info
Queen’s 6 @ Concordia 2
MONTREAL (January 31, 2014) - The Queen's men's hockey team (15-4-5) took down the Concordia Stingers (8-12-3) 6-2 in Quebec Friday night.
Queen's came out on fire, and Concordia could not put them out. The Gaels scored the first four goals of the game and they kept the Stingers scoreless until the third period.
The first period was a little slow to start, with the only action being the two penalties (one against each team) and a goal by Stephane Chabot (Rockland, Ont.). He scored for the Gaels in the fourteenth minute off an assist by Blair Wentworth (Calgary) and Andrew Wiebe (Thunder Bay, Ont.).
The second period was a different story with Queen's leaving Concordia to try and crawl back in the third. On a powerplay in the third minute, Chris Van Laren (Kingston, Ont.) found the back of the net thanks to help from Patrick McGillis (Calgary) and Joey Derochie (Sudbury, Ont.). Jordan Soquilla (Maple Ridge, B.C.) made the lead 3-0 seven minutes later off a pass from Tyler Moore (Winnipeg).
The momentum continued into the third with Moore scoring on a powerplay only 25 seconds into the period. Concordia fought back mid-way through the third, bringing the score to 4-2. Although they were up by two, Queen's kept on the offensive attack. In the seventeenth minute McGillis found the net with a pass from Moore. To take it to a 6-2 victory, Yannick Laflamme (Thetford Mines, Que.) of the Gaels scored the last goal of the game with only nine seconds left in regulation time.
In an exemplary team win, six different players scored goals for Queen's. Chris Clarke had 24 saves in 60 minutes of ice time.
The Gaels sit in a tie for third in the East heading into their game against Nippissing (5-15-2) at 7:30pm Saturday evening at the Memorial Centre in Kingston.
Source: Queen's Sports Info
Saturday, February 1
York 7 @ Ryerson 5
TORONTO -- Four unanswered goals in the third period propelled the York Lions over the Ryerson Rams, 7-5, on Saturday afternoon at the Mattamy Athletic Centre at the Gardens.
The loss drops Ryerson to 15-10 on the season and with three games remaining in the regular season they have lost five of their last six games.
The game started out well for the Rams, as five minutes into the first period, Dean Willmott scored his first goal of the season short-handed to put the Rams in front.
York would answer back five minutes later as Michael Santini would score his first of the game, followed by veteran Jesse Messier also putting one home to make it 2-1.
Before the end of the period, defenceman Kent McPherson would even the game at two going into the intermission.
Just two minutes into the second, Santini would score his second of the game and give York a 3-2 lead.
Michael Fine would answer back with his eighth and ninth goals of the season, both on the powerplay, and it would be Ryerson taking a 4-3 lead. Fine’s second goal would come with under a second remaining in the period and gave his team the momentum going into the third.
A defensive breakdown on the part of the Rams would come in the third period as the red-hot Santini scored his 12th goal of the season and third of the game to tie the game at four.
Mike Lombardi would then stretch the game to 6-4 with two goals in 24 seconds from Santini and Tyler McGee. Santini finished the game with five points (3G, 2A).
York would add an empty net goal and rookie Lucas Froese would pot his sixth goal of the year with 18 second left on the powerplay, but it was too little too late.
Troy Passingham started in net for Ryerson, giving up six goals on 38 shots. Andrew Perugini got the nod in net for the Lions and made 30 saves for his ninth win of the year.
After the game, head coach Graham Wise said that his team needs to tighten up defensively.
“Defensive hockey,” Wise said when asked about what his squad needs to improve on. “Let’s keep pucks out of our net.”
Ryerson resumes their OUA schedule next Saturday, Feb. 8 when they host the Laurier Golden Hawks at the Mattamy Athletic Centre at the Gardens. Puck drop is set for 7:30 p.m.
With teams chasing Ryerson in the standings, the next three games will prove to be important.
“We better get back on the winning track, we have three games left. We’re in a battle,” Wise said.
Source: Ryerson Sports Info
Windsor 2 @ McGill 6
MONTREAL -- Cedric McNicoll and Patrick Delisle-Houde each scored twice and added an assist as the No.5 ranked McGill men's hockey team tripled the Windsor Lancers 6-2 at McConnell Arena, Saturday.
The resulted avenged a 4-3 overtime shootout loss to the Lancers on Friday night and improved McGill's record to 19-5-2 with two games remaining before playoffs. The Redmen are tied with UQTR (20-4-0) for the OUA East division lead but could finish anywhere from first to fourth.
McGill, which had a 35-32 edge in shots, led 1-0 after one period and 4-1 after two. After the two teams combined for only six penalties the night before, this game featured 26 infractions for 76 minutes.
"The boys came our strong and played a full 60 minutes tonight," said McGill head coach Kelly Nobes. "They were focused before the game, they were prepared and wanted to make sure that we got the two points. We matched Windsor in all aspects of the game. We were physical, moving our feet, getting in front of the net and our special teams were solid. It was a good response after not showing up for the first period the previous night, which cost us a key point in the standings and that was good to see with playoffs only a few weeks away."
Defenceman Ryan McKiernan and forward Neal Prokop rounded out the scoring for McGill. McKiernan, a senior from White Plains, N.Y., who collected three points and continues to lead the Redmen in scoring, is the top point-scoring rearguard in the nation with 31 points, including a dozen goals, in 26 games.
Eric Noel, a junior from St. Jochim, Ont., and Christian Steingraber, a fifth-year blueliner from Oregon, Ohio, replied for Windsor.
The Redmen went 2-for-9 on the power-play and now rank fifth of 20 OUA teams with a 22.8 per cent success rate. On the other side of the ledger, McGill now leads the league with an 87.5 penalty-kill rate after erasing nine of 10 shorthanded situations.
Goaltender Jacob Gervais-Chouinard of Sherbrooke, Que., turned aside 30 of 32 shots -- including a lofty 18 saves in the final period -- for the win, improving his record to 11-4. The 21-year-old rookie ranks fourth among OUA goalies for wins, is sixth in goals-against average (2.25) and ninth in save percentage (.922).
Both he and Parker Van Buskirk, his counter-part at the other end of the ice, each drew a minor penalty in the contest. Van Buskirk, who shone like a beacon en route to a Windsor win the previous night, started but was yanked after conceding four goals on 28 shots over the first two periods. He was saddled with the loss and his record dropped to 14-9. Freshman Taylor Speed took over in the Windsor net for the final stanza and was beaten twice on seven shots.
McGill, which needs one victory to reach the 20-win plateau for the sixth time in school history, will close out the OUA schedule with two more home games, where they own a 10-1-1 record. They will host the UOIT Ridgebacks (7-14-4) from Oshawa on Feb. 7, followed by the Nipissing Lakers (5-16-3), from North Bay, Ont., on Feb. 14.
Source: McGill Sports Info
Guelph 7 @ Western 6 (OT)
LONDON, Ont. – Nicklas Huard—Guelph's leading scorer—waited over 60 minutes to make his first mark on the scorers sheet Saturday night but he made it count, capping off his teams comeback with a goal 2:27 into overtime to send the Gryphons to victory over the Western Mustangs men's hockey team at Thompson Arena.
Huard's goal put the finishing touches on a game that saw Guelph crawl back from a 4-0 first period deficit before erasing two one-goal Western leads in the third. Postgame, Mustangs Head Coach Clarke Singer spoke about giving up such a big advantage.
"What happens when you get up some times is you lose focus and you lose the intensity you have to start the game," Singer said. "That's what happened, I thought we had a fabulous start—one of our best starts of the year—we were aggressive, we were doing a lot of things well kind of following up from our game in Waterloo on Friday night."
"Then we just lost that edge we've talked about so much this year […] we just lost the intensity defensively and with the puck and on our forecheck and as soon as you lose it it's tough to get it back"
The line of Steve Reese, Zach Harnden, and Kyle De Coste came out swinging for the Mustangs, registering three goals and seven points between the three of them before the first ten minutes had even ticked off the clock. Harnden finished a nice passing play on the man advantage to open the scoring before Reese and De Coste added goals of their own 5:44 in and 7:11 in, respectively.
The Mustangs didn't let up after getting their first three either, pushing their lead to four goals with a goal from Matt Clarke at 1:17. Clarke received a Daniel Erlich pass from the side of the net and made no mistake, finishing from the top of the crease.
On the other side of the ice, Mustangs netminder Greg Dodds wasn't kept very busy in the period, only facing seven shots and turning them all aside with no problem. Guelph would make up for that lull in the second period, however, firing eleven quality shots at the net and cashing in on four of them. Western responded with a goal from Matt Paltridgeto send the two teams at the dressing room with the score 5-4.
Dodds could hardly be blamed for Guelph's second period outburst, as many of the chances came from in tight and he made a number of nice saves to ensure the outcome wasn't worse. One of those saves came on a penalty shot awarded to Leonard Fabbri, who made a move to the left only to find Dodds' outstretched pad.
On top of that, two of Guelph's goals came on nice individual efforts, with Robert De Fulviis making a nice move in close for the Gryphons' second goal of the period and Kenneth Peroff scoring on a n unbelievable snap shot from the blueline for the third.
Western's only goal of the period also came thanks to a nice play, as Erlich made a nice—albeit dangerous—saucer pass across the blueline to get the puck to Paltridge. With some space in front of him, Paltridge carried the puck to just above the faceoff dot before snapping it past Hamilton for his third of the season.
In the third—with the score closer than it had been since the 14-minute mark of the first—the play continued to be back and forth, as both teams exchanged chances through the first ten minutes but were unable to find the twine.
A penalty to Guelph's Leonard Fabbri 9:17 into the period gave the Mustangs a chance to apply sustained pressure for the first time in a while, although despite good passing along the perimeter Western found themselves unable to capitalize.
Their inability to score with the man advantage would prove costly later in the period, when a penalty to Colin Macdonald allowed Guelph to set up in Western's zone and tie the game at five. Kenneth Peroff did the damage for the Gryphons, receiving the puck at the left point and firing it through a number of screens and past Dodds.
As if in some divine test of Western's will to win, however, they would get a chance to make up for their power play zero just over a minute later with a penalty to Guelph's Kyle Neuber. Neuber bowled over Dodds to earn himself a goaltender interference infraction, his team's fourth penalty of the evening. This time, the Mustangs made no mistake, with Erlich banging in the puck from in close.
But if that power play was a test of the Mustangs will, it wasn't over yet; the Gryphons capitalized on the man advantage for the second time in a row to tie the game once again at six. Cale Jefferies potted the goal—his fifth of the season—jumping on a rebound from Peroff's point shot to stun the Western crowd and send his bench onto their feet.
Despite going into overtime on the power play, the Mustangs just didn't have any more in the tank, and after failing to score on the man advantage they gave up a game-deciding 2-on-1 to Nicklas Huard. Huard, Guelph's leading scorer, made no mistake, using the Mustangs defender as a screen and ripping the puck past Dodds.
After the game, Singer admitted it would have been nice to get a goal on the overtime man advantage but also noted he hardly blamed his power play units.
"[Our power play] scored three goals and they got us up with a couple minutes left on a nice goal too," Clarke said. "So power play did a great job tonight—certainly would have been nice to get that winner in OT but the ice is bad there too right and sometimes the puck's not moving as you would like it early in the period. But three power play goals I'll take that any night."
Saturday's loss marked the second tough-luck start in a row for Dodds, the Mustangs backup goaltender, who lost a 3-2 heart-breaker to Laurier in January with less than a second left on the clock. After the game, Singer gave his thoughts on the first-year netminder's night
"It's obviously tough for Greg, he's played great for us all year and tonight we gave him absolutely no help," Singer said. "We allow a couple PK goals, there's lots of traffic on shots from the point that he can't see so they had a couple seeing-eye goals.
Puck wasn't going his way tonight just like ours the last couple periods but Dodds has been great for us all year and he'll bounce back," he added.
Source: Western Sports Info
UQTR 6 @ RMC 2
Ottawa 4 @ Lakehead 3 (OT)
The Lakehead Thunderwolves lost 4-3 in overtime to the Ottawa Gee Gees on Saturday night in front of 2413 fans at the Fort William Gardens in Thunder Bay.
It was the second night in a row that the Wolves fell to Ottawa in overtime by the identical score.
The Wolves got off to a rocky start when Lakehead defenceman Mike Quesnele was assessed a five-minute major and a game misconduct for charging early in the first period.
The Wolves were able to kill off the penalty, and soon after Jake Carrick fired a hard wrist shot that eluded Ottawa goalie Warren Shymko. The assists went to Mike Hammond and Andrew Wilkins.
Lakehead came out playing very physical in the second period, including a big hit by Wilkins.
The Wolves increased their lead to 2-0 on the power play when a Mitch Fillman wrist shot from the point found its way through traffic and was tipped in front by Ryan Magill. Kelin Ainsworth had the second assist.
After Hammond shot a quick wrist shot off the crossbar, freshman defenseman Nathan Bruyere followed up on the play and put the rebound past Shymko, giving the Wolves the 3-0 lead midway through the second. Kelin Ainsworth had the extra helper.
Shymko was subsequently pulled and replaced by Robin Billingham in the Ottawa net.
Five minutes into the third period, Ottawa’s Charles Power fired a wrist shot that made its way through traffic and got by Wolves’ goaltender Jeff Bosch to narrow Lakehead’s lead to 3-1.
Stephen Blunden made the score 3-2 at 14:30 of the third period, giving the Gee Gees a late spark. When Ottawa’s Taylor Collins tied it up with less than 30 seconds to go in the game, that spark turned into a flame.
In overtime, Stephen Blunden broke in all alone and put the puck past Bosch with only nine seconds left on the clock, giving Ottawa the 4-3 win.
Source: Thunderwolves Hockey
Laurier 0 @ Toronto 5
The University of Toronto Varsity Blues men's hockey team snapped a three-game losing streak with a big 5-0 win over the Laurier Golden Hawks on Saturday night (Feb. 1) at Varsity Arena.
With the win, the Blues improve to 12-10-2 and are tied for seventh place with the Guelph Gryphons, while the Hawks drop to 9-13-2 and sit 10th in the OUA West division.
Fourth-year forward and Blues leading scorer Michael Markovic opened the scoring 2:41 into the game when he wired a rebound from the slot past Laurier netminder Vinny Merante. U of T struck again less than two minutes later when Tyler Liukkonen fed Christian Finch the puck, who one-timed it into the back of the net.
Markovic notched his second of the game midway through the first on the man advantage, receiving a pass from Paul Van De Velde behind the net before slotting it past Hawks back-up goalie Duncan Long.
Rookie Dean Klomp kept the offence rolling, scoring his first goal as a Varsity Blue when he wired the puck top shelf over Long. Toronto held a 4-0 lead after 20 minutes of action.
Assistant captain Jeff Brown rounded out the win 6:11 into the second frame when he picked off a Laurier defender and slotted the puck into the bottom right corner of the net for the short-handed marker.
Brett Willows posted 26 saves in his first shut out win of the season.
The Varsity Blues return to action next Saturday, February 8 when they travel to Windsor to take on the Lancers. Game time is 7:30 p.m.
Source: Toronto Sports Info
Nipissing 1 @ Queen’s 4
KINGSTON, Ont. (February 1, 2014) – Queen's (16-4-5) took down the visiting Nipissing Lakers (5-16-3) 4-1 on Saturday night in men's OUA hockey action at the Memorial Centre in Kingston.
In the opening period the Lakers jumped on the Gaels just after puck drop. Brogan Bailey beat Gaels starting netminder Kevin Bailie (Belleville, Ont.) only 1:25 into the game to go up 1-0 on the Gaels.
Queen's was quick to respond as Tyler Moore (Winnipeg) notched his seventh of the season just 26 seconds after the Nipissing goal to open the game. Joey Derochie(Sudbury, Ont.) and Patrick McGillis (Calgary) added the helpers.
The Gaels captain Corey Bureau (Amherstview, Ont.) then put Queen's out in front at the 15:52 mark with his sixth on the year.
In the second Queen's kept the pressure on and Alexi Pianosi (Halifax) had his point shot beat the Nipissing netminder for his first goal of the season. Chris Van Laren(Kingston, Ont.) and Braeden Corbeth (Oakville, Ont.) added the assist for Queen's.
Derochie added a powerplay marker finding room on the short side over the shoulder of Nipissing netminder Kirk Rafuse.
Bailie held Nipissing at bay the remainder of the frame stopping all six shots faced in the period including a quick glove off a shot from Connor O'Donnell in the slot with six minutes remaining.
Queen's held stong defensively in the third and took home a 4-1 victory. Bailie finished with 24 saves in the game for his 10th win of the season.
The Gaels now with 16 wins on the season are only one win shy of tying the franchise record of 17 set in the 1979-80 season where the team finished 17-3-2 under head coach Fred O'Donnell.
Queen's will look to tie the mark this Thursday February 6th when they host the RMC Paladins in the 28th annual Carr Harris Challenge Cup at the K-Rock Centre.
Source: Queen's Sports Info
Sunday, February 2
Concordia 2 @ Carleton 7
Sunday afternoon’s OUA hockey game between the visiting Concordia Stingers and Carleton Ravens didn’t exactly start off well for the home team but it certainly ended in fine fashion.
Down 1-0 to Concordia at the end of the first period with not much going right, the Ravens scored seven of the game’s next eight goals as they cruised to a 7-2 win.
“We (Carleton) had some opportunities to score early in the game but didn’t and were down by a goal because of a bad giveaway,” explained Ravens head coach, Marty Johnston. “I told the guys not to panic and stick with things. I thought that after we got that first period out of the way, we skated and played extremely well.”
Carleton (18-5-1) had four multi point scorers including Mike McNamee (Perth,ON), Damian Cross (Nepean, ON), Joe Pleckaitis (Ottawa, ON) and Joey West (Orleans, ON) who picked up a goal and assist apiece.
The Cross, McNamee and Pleckaitis line combined for six points and were a scoring threat every time they stepped on the ice.
“It (being down 1-0) definitely was not the start we wanted but things got a lot better for us in the second and third periods,” said McNamee, the Ravens leading scorer.
Other Carleton scorers included Mitch Zion (Manotick, ON), Tyler Taylor (Kitchener,ON) and Mitch Porowski (Ottawa, ON). Linden Bahm (KInburn, ON) picked up two assists.
Carleton goalkeeper Francis Dupuis (Ottawa, ON) had another strong outing stopping 22 of 24 Concordia shots. Dupuis is now 11-1 in his 12 starts and has given up only 19 goals to lead the OUA with a 1.57 Goals Against average.
The Ravens went 1-5 on the power play while the (8-13-3) Stingers finished 1-1.
Carleton outshot Concordia 47-24.
The No. 7 Ravens will be back in action on Friday, February 7 for an OUA East showdown when the No. 6 UQTR Patriotes (20-4-0) come to town. Game time at the Carleton Ice House is 7:00PM.
Source: Carleton Sports Info
