AROUND OUA: Ravens stone-walled by D’Agostini and the Gryphons
(OTTAWA, ON) — The visiting Guelph Gryphons and netminder Andrew D’Agostini proved to be too much for the Ravens men’s hockey team on Friday night at the Ice House, as Guelph blanked Carleton 2-0. Despite being outshot 33-24 by the Ravens (9-4-0), Guelph (8-6-0) hung tough and rode a gritty road performance to the two points.
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Ravens stone-walled by D'Agostini and the Gryphons
(OTTAWA, ON) — The visiting Guelph Gryphons and netminder Andrew D'Agostini proved to be too much for the Ravens men's hockey team on Friday night at the Ice House, as Guelph blanked Carleton 2-0. Despite being outshot 33-24 by the Ravens (9-4-0), Guelph (8-6-0) hung tough and rode a gritty road performance to the two points.
"We didn't really get going until the third," lamented Carleton head coach Marty Johnston. "Their goalie saw too many shots, and we have to be better for sixty minutes."
Guelph opened the scoring less than three minutes into Friday's game, as Tryg Strand beat Ravens goaltender Pat Killeen (Corkery, ON) glove-side on a two-on-one.
Try as they might, the Ravens couldn't solve D'Agostini in the remaining 57 minutes, and the former Peterborough Pete ultimately posted a 33-save shutout.
Carleton notably squandered a 91-second 5-on-3 man advantage towards the end of the first period.
"Our power play had a chance early to make sure we had the lead, and we didn't capitalize on that," said Coach Johnston. "That was a big part of (the loss)."
The Gryphons added an empty-net goal inside the final minute of play via leading point-getter Rob De Fulviis, who capped a solid two-way performance with a desperate backhanded clearance which found the gaping Ravens cage.
"The power play, and execution in terms of handling the puck (have to be better)," said Coach Johnston. "Too many times, pucks were bouncing and passes weren't connecting — we've got to be ready to go (tomorrow)."
Carleton will be back in action at the Ice House again on Saturday night against the Western Mustangs (10-4-0).
Source: Carleton Ravens
Strong third period leads Mustangs past Paladins
KINGSTON, Ont. – Connor Chartier broke a 3-3 tie just under 11 minutes into the third period and Western added two more late in the third to defeat RMC 6-3 in Kingston Friday night.
Ray Huether led the Mustangs with a game-high three points, followed by Andrew Goldberg with a pair of goals. Greg Dodds picked up the win, his sixth in eight appearances this season.
Two goals from RMC's Owen Gill helped the Paladins, who entered the game with a 1-11-3 record, head into the third period in a 2-2 deadlock with the purple and white. Andrew Goldberg and Gill traded markers in the first before Cole Benson and Gill did the same in the middle frame.
Gill's first goal came with three seconds left in the first period, just 4:30 after Goldberg opened the scoring for the Mustangs. It was the last of seven shots on the period for the Paladins, who faced 10 in return from Western. They finished the game with just 23 shots on Dodds.
Huether registered the only assist on Goldberg's opener while Gill's first was unassisted. The next time Gill got on the scoresheet, this time early in the second to give RMC a 2-1 lead, it would be with help from Scott Domenico and Aidan Orbinski. But Western quickly responded to tie the game back up, as Benson netted his fifth of the year with assists from Trevor Warnaar and Spenser Cobbold.
After giving up 18 shots on backstop Simon-Pier Chamberland in the second, RMC tightened up their defence in the third with the game on the line to allow just 10 shots. They also forced Western into taking two penalties, one five minutes in and another with just 44 seconds left in the game.
But in the end Western was too strong. Huether scored unassisted just 58 seconds into the final frame, and Chartier quelled RMC's comeback attempt mid-way through the third 33 seconds after the Paladins scored. Luke Karaim and Goldberg added extra insurance markers to put the game out of reach.
All nine of the goals on Friday were scored at even strength, continuing a recent trend for the Mustangs. But it's hard to fault either team for not scoring on the man advantage on a night that saw both teams combine for just three infractions, only one of which was assessed to RMC.
Tomorrow night sees the Mustangs take to the ice in Ottawa for a game against the Carleton Ravens. The Ravens are coming off of a 2-0 shutout loss at the hands of the Guelph Gryphons that broke their five-game win streak, and will be looking to get back on the winning track against the Mustangs.
NOTES: Western's win snapped a two-game losing streak for the purple and white, the longest of the season so far. Huether's three-point night moves him into second in team scoring with 16 points through 14 appearances. It's safe to say he's hot with nine points in his last five.
Source: Western Mustangs
Wolves fall in OT shootout to Blues
The Lakehead Thunderwolves were edged 5-4 by the Toronto Varsity Blues in an overtime shootout in front of 2318 fans at the Fort William Gardens on Friday night.
Toronto's Patrick Marsh opened the scoring at 5:59 of the first period, but an unassisted goal by Lakehead's Sam Schutt at 7:01 tied the game at 1-1 and brought the stuffed animals raining down from the stands on teddy bear toss night.
The Wolves went ahead 2-1 late in the first when Tyler Kunz fired a rocket from the point past Toronto goalie Andrew Hunt while Lakehead held the man-advantage, with Cody Alcock and Billy Jenkins getting the assists.
The Varsity Blues tied the game at 2-2 early in the second period when Christian Finch flipped the puck over Wolves' netminder Devin Green from the top of the crease.
Lakehead regained the lead after Billy Jenkins broke in alone and beat Hunt five-hole at 6:34, but Finch replied for Toronto when he skated around the Wolves' defence and rifled the puck past Green on the blocker side.
Later in the period, the Blues took their first lead of the game when Marsh scored from the edge of the crease while Toronto was on the power play.
Lakehead knotted the score at 4-4 early in the third period when Alcock knocked home Jake Wright's rebound, but neither team could capitalize for the remainder of regulation time and the game was headed into overtime.
The first extra period of four-on-four hockey was played relatively close to the vest, but opened up considerably five minutes later during three-on-three play in the second overtime.
The Wolves had plenty of scoring opportunities beginning with a near miss by Garick Gary on an odd-man rush, and shortly after that Alcock rang one off the post.
Later in the second O.T., Toronto's Hunt made back-to-back big saves off Alcock and Schutt to send the game into a shootout.
Matthew Campagna scored for Toronto on the first attempt, and that was all it would take as none of Lakehead's three shooters were able to solve Hunt.
Total shots on goal for the game were 52-41 for Lakehead.
The Molson Three Stars of the game were:
1. Cody Alcock, Lakehead
2. Christian Finch, Toronto
3. Andrew Hunt, Toronto
Lakehead picks up a point for the overtime loss, but remains in the West Division cellar with an OUA record of 1-10-2.
The Wolves will look to exact a measure of revenge in the Saturday rematch beginning at 7:00 PM.
Source: Lakehead Thunderwolves
McGill's Milne magnificent as potent power-play renders Ridgebacks rickety
MONTREAL -- Rookie Daniel Milne of Unionville, Ont., collected a personal best five points and McGill tied a school record with six power-play goals en route to a 7-3 rout over the University of Ontario Institute of Technology Ridgebacks in men's hockey at McConnell Arena, Friday.
The Redmen, ranked No.2 in the nation, improved to 8-1 lifetime against UOIT. McGill led 3-0 after the first and held on to a 4-3 margin after two, before outscoring UOIT 3-0 in the final frame. McGill had a 43-21 advantage in shots, including a disproportionate 26-4 margin in the opening period. The school record for most shots in a period is 31 against RMC on Jan. 14, 2000.
The Ridgebacks, who hail from Oshawa, Ont., and may not have known their way around the rink too well, certainly became very familiar with the penalty box, time and time again. The game featured 24 penalties and 91 minutes in penalties, including 17 infractions for 69 minutes dished out to UOIT. McGill made them pay a steep price for their transgressions, connecting on six of a whopping 12 man-advantage opportunities. The half-dozen PPGs equalled a team record originally set against the Montreal Victorias way back on Jan. 31, 1934, and subequently matched in 1992 (vs St. Thomas), 1993 (Toronto) and 2001 (Concordia).
The Ridgebacks countered with a 1-for-5 effort on their PP chances.
Milne, a 21-year-old management freshman, joined the Redmen this fall after spending three years with the OHL's Owen Sound Attack and the 2012-13 season with the University of Michigan. The 5-foot-10, 191-pound winger assisted on the opening goal by Mathieu Pompei at 9:42 of the first period and gave McGill a 2-0 lead less than six minutes later. Milne then set up Simon Tardif-Richard's winning tally (that put McGill ahead 4-1 midway through the middle stanza), assisted on Samuel Labrecque's second goal at 8:24 of the third to make it 6-3 and rounded out the scoring with his ninth of the season at 14:08 of the final period. Milne now sits 11th in the OUA scoring with a 9-10-19 record in 15 games.
Pompei, a senior centre from Laval, Que., merited three points and moved into third place among OUA scorers with 10-13-23 in just 15 contests. Halfway through the season, he has already matched his career high in goals, while setting personal bests for most assists and points.
Labrecque, a 5-foot-6, 182-pound rearguard who also had a three-point soiree, upped his stellar season totals to 13 goals and 27 points in 15 contests and continues to lead the CIS scoring race. It marks the second straight season that the native of Granby, Que., has reached the 13-goal plateau and he is just two goals shy of the single-season school record for a defenceman, set by Gilles Hudon, who connected for 15 in 24 games, way back in 1981-82.
Rounding out the scoring for McGill was rookie blueline Dominic Talbot-Tassi, who also finished with three points. The civil engineering freshman from Mascouche, Que., is tied for ninth in CIS scoring with 22 points, including six goals, in 15 games. He is part of McGill's high-octane defensive corps that leads the nation with a combined 23 goals from the back-end.
Replying for UOIT, all in the middle period, were forwards Ryan Doucette of Waterloo, Ont., Mark Petaccio of Sicklerville, N.J., and James Woodcroft of Milton, Ont.
Redmen goaltender Jacob Gervais-Chouinard, making his 11th consecutive start, registered 18 saves and improved his record to 13-1. The accounting junior from Sherbrooke, Que., leads the nation in wins and is ranked fourth in both goals-against average (2.14) and save percentage (.926).
Brendan O'Neill made 36 saves in a losing cause for UOIT and saw his lofty record tumble to 9-5. The Ridgebacks who sit third in the OUA East with a 9-4-1 record, will close out the semester with home games next week against Toronto (Dec. 3) and Ryerson Dec. 4).
McGill, which improved their OUA East-leading record to 13-2-0, will head to Kingston on Saturday, to take on the Queen's Gaels (8-3-0), a team that had Friday off. The game will be streamed live on OUA.tv, beginning at 7:30 p.m. Live stats will also be available online.
REDMEN RAP: Centre Liam Heelis, a transfer from Acadia, did not dress... He suffered a lower-body injury in the previous game at York and his status is considered day-to-day... Among the faces in the crowd was Desmond Senior (B.Eng '58, B.Arch '68), who skated for the Redmen from 1954 to 1957 and spends most of the year in Belgium but maintains a residence in the Montreal area... Also spotted was player agent and tax specialist Gordon Cleland (B.Com '70) who played football for the Redmen in the late 1960s and took advantage of the long American Thanksgiving holiday weekend to travel from Connecticut and visit his son, a McGill engineering freshman who plans on playing for the baseball Redmen next season.
Source: McGill Redmen
No. 7 Patriotes get the best of No. 8 Lions in battle of ranked teams
The No. 8 nationally-ranked York University Lions men's hockey team fell to the No. 7 UQTR Patriotes on Friday night (Nov. 27) in Trois-Rivières, Que., by a score of 5-2.
Mark Cross (Strasbourg, Sask.) finished Friday's game with a goal and an assist in the loss, and now has seven points on the season.
Cross opened the scoring at the 8:56 mark of the first period with assists going Reid Jackman (Etobicoke, Ont.) and Corey Scott (Calgary). The Lions lead would be short-lived, however, as the Patriotes came marching back and tied the game up at ones, on a goal coming from Guillaume Asselin.
Four minutes after the Partiotes' tying goal, Pierre-Olivier Morin gave his squad the lead at 2-1, which they took into the second period.
In the second frame the Patriotes were once again on the attack and scored twice in under a minute, the first tally coming from Marc-Olivier Mimar on the power play at 15:21 and the second from Carl-Antoine Delisle at 16:09 of the second period.
The Patriotes secured their 4-1 lead up until the 10:49 mark of the third period, when Shayne Rover (Newmarket, Ont.) scored on the power play to rejuvenate the Lions. But late in the game, with the Lions net empty, Tommy Giroux sealed the match for the Patriotes with an empty netter.
York's record now stands at 8-3-3 on the season and the Lions will look to get back in the win column on Saturday afternoon (Nov. 28) when they take on the Concordia Stingers in Montreal. Puck drop is set for 2pm.
Source: York Lions
The Champ is Here: Champigny leads Warriors past Lancers
It looks like the Waterloo Warriors' newly-formed top line is a keeper.
Joey Champigny (East Angus) scored a goal and added three assists, and Colin Behenna (Waterloo) notched three points as the Warriors won their second consecutive game with a 5-2 triumph over the Windsor Lancers on Friday night in Waterloo.
Andrew Smith (Kitchener) also added a goal and an assist, as the top line combined for 9 points in the victory. Mike Morrison (Hamilton) turned aside 38 shots in the victory, which pushed Waterloo's record to 6-8-0 on the season.
Dylan Dennome and Tyson Ness scored for the Lancers, who fell to 7-6-2 on the year. Michael Doan started in goal and took the loss, making 14 saves through 2 periods before being replaced by Blake Richard.
The Lancers went into the first intermission leading the game 1-0, but an explosive second period saw Waterloo hang four unanswered goals on Windsor. The outburst was highlighted by a 41-second-span in which Riley Sonnenburg (Cambridge) opened the scoring for the Warriors, and Behenna scored on a breakaway to take the lead.
Sonnenburg would later add an empty-netter for his second goal of the game, after Ness had scored to cut the lead to two.
The Warriors will now look to make it 3 in a row on Saturday, November 28 when they host the Ryerson Rams at 7pm. In a pregame ceremony, the Warriors will honour the 20th anniversary of the 1995-96 Queen's Cup Championship team, and the 1996 All-Canadian selection of Warriors Hall-of-Famer John Wynne.
Source: Waterloo Warriors
MONTREAL - The Brock University men's hockey team dropped to 5-7-3 on the season as they lost 7-1 to the Concordia Stingers Friday night on the road.
Concordia opened the scoring 9:38 into the first period as Olivier Hinse added a power play goal. Just over a minute later, Josh Timpano (Orillia, ON) setup Sammy Banga (Windsor, ON) for his fifth goal of the season tying the game 1-1.
Just 13 seconds into the second period, Hinse added his second goal of the night to take a 2-1 lead. From there on in it was all Stingers as they added four more in the second to take a 6-1 lead after 40 minutes. Scoring the other Concordia goals were Jessyko Bernard, Luca Ciampini (2), Philippe Hudon and Frederic Roy.
Brock starter Real Cormier (Trenton,ON) recorded 26 saves in the loss. Stingers starter Miguel Sullivan turned aside 26 of the 27 shots he faced for the victory.
The Badgers return to action Nov.28 as they take on the UQTR Patriotes on the road.
Source: Brock Badgers
