York Leads RPI to Comeback Win Over Dartmouth

Photo by Sara Melikian

Final	1	2	3	Final
Dartmouth (4-14-0; 2-8-0 ECAC)	1	0	0	1
Rensselaer (13-11-1; 6-5-0 ECAC)	0	0	2	2

Scoring Summary
1st - 12:52	SH - Connor Goggin (Dartmouth)
3rd - 05:46	Helfrich, Tyler (Rensselaer)
3rd - 09:23	Kerins, Paul (Rensselaer)

Dartmouth	Rensselaer
G: Connor Goggin - 1 A: 2 Players (#17, #24 - 1) Sh: 3 Players (#14, #23, #29 - 3) Sv: James Mello - 19	G: 2 Players (#11, #15 - 1) A: 3 Players (#6, #16, #19 - 1) Sh: Brandon Pirri - 5 Sv: Allen York - 27

TEAM STATISTICS	Dartmouth	Rensselaer
Power Plays	0 for 3	0 for 4
Shorthanded Goals	1	0
Penalties (min)	4 (8)	4 (8)
Shots on Goal	28	21
Face Offs Won	25	25

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TROY, N.Y. – Sophomore netminder Allen York (Wetaskiwin, AB/Camrose Kodiaks) made 27 saves, including the final 21 shots he faced, to propel the Rensselaer men’s hockey team to a, 2-1, come-from-behind victory over Dartmouth, at the Houston Field House. With the win the Engineers improve to 13-11-1 overall and 6-5-0 in ECAC Hockey, while the Big Green fall to 4-14-0 (2-9-0).

York made a number of key saves in the opening stanza – 11 in all – and kept the Big Green off the scoreboard over the final two periods to secure his 10th win of the season.

Trailing 1-0 and being outshot, 18-14 heading into the third period, the Engineers saw junior Tyler Helfrich (Calgary, AB/Prince George Spruce-Kings) and senior Paul Kerins (Weston, ON/North York Rangers) record even-strength tallies to take a 2-1 lead with 10:47 to go in the game.

Helfrich netted his fifth of the season off a face-off in Dartmouth territory. Sophomore Patrick Cullen (Washington, DC/Indiana Ice) fired a shot directly off the draw, forcing a left-pad save from Big Green sophomore goalie James Mello (Rehoboth, MA/N.H. Junior Monarchs). Helfrich stepped and flipped the puck into the top-right corner of the cage for the equalizing goal.

The eventual game-winner came on a shot from the left circle by Kerins, who beat Mello high, glove-side. Senior Peter Merth (New Westminster, BC/Burnaby Express) and freshman Brandon Pirri (Toronto, ON/Georgetown Raiders) picked up the helpers on Kerins’ seventh of the year.

Dartmouth tallied the games first goal – a shorthanded marker by freshman Mark Goggin (Glen Ellyn, IL/Choate Rosemary Hall) – at 12:52 of the opening frame. Skating into the RPI zone on a 2-on-1, junior Scott Fleming (Plainfield, ON/Wellington Dukes) sent a centering pass to Goggin, who slid the puck past York’s left pad. Big Green junior Evan Stephens (Bessemer, MI/Cedar Rapids Roughriders) earned the second assist.

York (10-9-1) made 16 of his 27 saves in the second and third periods. Mello (0-2-0) finished with 19 stops at the other end of the ice.

RPI is back in action tomorrow afternoon, when it hosts Harvard University (4pm). Dartmouth visits 13th-ranked Union College tomorrow evening (7pm).