Yale Takes First Game in Home-and-Home Series with Brown
| Scoring Summary | |
|---|---|
| 1st - 00:43 | Quick, Kyle (Brown) |
| 1st - 10:37 | PP - Maclellan, Jack (Brown) |
| 1st - 14:10 | PP - O'Neill, Brian (Yale) |
| 2nd - 08:54 | PP - Laganiere, Antoine (Yale) |
| 2nd - 17:57 | Harlow, Matt (Brown) |
| 3rd - 10:28 | Dueck, Colin (Yale) |
| 3rd - 13:38 | Miller, Andrew (Yale) |
| 3rd - 18:06 | O'Neill, Brian (Yale) |
| Brown | Yale |
|---|---|
|
G:
3 Players (#4, #9, #27 - 1)
A: 5 Players (#4, #12, #18, #20, #22 - 1) Sh: Matt Lorito - 6 Sv: Mike Clemente - 34 |
G:
Brian O'Neill - 2
A: Jesse Root - 2 Sh: Antoine Laganiere - 6 Sv: Jeff Malcolm - 34 |
| TEAM STATISTICS | Brown | Yale |
|---|---|---|
| Power Plays | 1 for 3 | 2 for 4 |
| Shorthanded Goals | 0 | 0 |
| Penalties (min) | 4 (8) | 3 (6) |
| Shots on Goal | 37 | 39 |
| Face Offs Won | 33 | 34 |
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Yale men’s hockey team has
been waiting for an offensive explosion from its captain, and it
happened in a 5-3 win over Brown in ECAC Hockey action at Ingalls
Rink. Brian O’Neill (Yardley, Pa.) scored two goals and had
one assist to help the No. 14/15 Bulldogs erase 2-0 and 3-2
deficits on the way to an important conference victory in the first
game of a home-and-home series with the Bears.
The Bulldogs (6-3-1, 4-1-0 ECAC), who scored five of the
game’s last six goals, converted two of four advantages while
edging Brown in shots, 39-37.
He may not have earned one of the three stars, but junior goalie
Jeff Malcolm (Lethbridge, AB) stood on his head at times while
stopping 34 of 37 shots against a team that produced a ton of
odd-man rushes.
The Bears (3-6-1, 2-3-0), who had more shots on net than Yale in
the first two frames, got 34 saves from Michael Clemente.
Yale lost the first seven face-offs and one of those resulted in
the game’s first goal 43 seconds after the opening draw. Kyle
Quick fired a low wrister from the point that caromed off a Yale
player’s stick, bounced off the far post and went in. Malcolm
had no chance to react to the change in direction.
The visitors took advantage of their second power-play chance to
go up 2-0 when Jack Maclellan skated in from the left circle and
hit the top of the net from 15 feet away at 10:37.
The Blue got one back with 5:50 left in the first, jumping all
over its first advantage. O’Neill, coiled and ready in the
left circle, one-timed a great crossing feed from Tommy Fallen
(Plymouth, Minn.) that slipped inside a slight opening. It was the
captain’s fourth goal of the year.
Yale won 13 of the last 18 face-offs in the opening period and
picked up the pace nearly enough to even things before
intermission.
The Elis got the equalizer midway through the second on its second
advantage. Clinton Bourbonais (Colchester, Conn.) did a lot of the
dirty work to create the opportunity, and Antoine Laganiere (Ile
Cadeux, Que.) was there to snap the rebound past Clemente for his
third tally of the season. Bourbonais skated past a defender and
then fired a point-blank shot off the goalie’s pads. The big
Yale winger followed up from a crowd of players.
Brown grabbed the lead back with 2:03 left in the second on a shot
from the point that was tipped in by freshman Matt Harlow, his
first collegiate score. Quick sent the puck toward the net and
Harlow was able to get his stick on it through traffic.
That goal spoiled a great period by Malcolm, who stopped four
odd-man rushes and numerous grade-A chances among his 11 saves. The
first half of the third period was another Malcolm highlight show,
but the home team tied it up again just past the midway point.
Junior blueliner Colin Dueck (Calgary, AB), looking for his first
goal of the year, took a back pass from Charles Brockett (Shaker
Heights, Ohio) and unleashed a low shot from the left circle at
10:27 to make it 3-3.
The Bulldogs made it two straight with a goal by Andrew Miller
(Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) nearly three minutes later. Miller, who
missed the Boston College game with an injury, was in the high slot
with some space when Jesse Root (Pittsburgh, Pa.) spotted him from
the corner. Miller took the feed, wound up and sent a low lazor
past Clemente at 13:38.
The Miller goal seemed to open up the Ingalls shooting gallery.
Pucks were flying at and around both goalies and the Bulldogs were
the ones to take advantage of it. O’Neill (5th goal) added
his second after Miller stole the puck at the Brown blueline and
then got it to Root. O’Neill notched his first even-strength
tally of the year with another one-timer from the left circle. This
one took a different path to the net.
