Saints Drop Exhibition Decision to Carleton

Final	1	2	3	Final
Carleton (Exhibition) (1-2-1)	1	2	2	5
St. Lawrence (0-0-0)	0	1	1	2

Scoring Summary
1st - 09:50	Brad Albert (Carleton (Exhibition))
2nd - 05:38	Ryan Berard (Carleton (Exhibition))
2nd - 09:33	PP - Joe Pleckaitis (Carleton (Exhibition))
2nd - 16:08	Nic Vangog (St. Lawrence)
3rd - 10:24	PP - Brandon MacLean (Carleton (Exhibition))
3rd - 16:45	Joey Manley (Carleton (Exhibition))
3rd - 18:03	Gunnar Hughes (St. Lawrence)

Carleton (Exhibition)	St. Lawrence
G: 5 Players (#5, #10, #17, #20, #22 - 1) A: Jeff Hayes - 2 Sh: Brandon MacLean - 4 Sv: Ryan Dube - 22	G: 2 Players (#14, #27 - 1) A: 3 Players (#8, #21, #25 - 1) Sh: 2 Players (#14, #28 - 4) Sv: 2 Players (#1, #34 - 5)

TEAM STATISTICS	Carleton (Exhibition)	St. Lawrence
Power Plays	2 for 5	0 for 7
Shorthanded Goals	0	0
Penalties (min)	9 (26)	7 (22)
Shots on Goal	19	24
Face Offs Won	26	27

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The best part of Sunday afternoon's 5-2 loss to Carleton University of Ottawa for St. Lawrence University's men's hockey team is that it doesn't count.

While the Saints dropped an exhibition game for the first time in four years, neither the stats, nor the loss, will count in the season statistics. What the game did provide was a good look at six newcomers for both the Saint coaching staff and the fans and some early game-action for a good part of the Saint roster.

The coaches sat out a trio of significant offensive components, captains Jake Drewiske and Kyle Flanagan and sophomore Greg Carey, who is coming off a 23-goal rookie season, and they were joined on the sidelines by assistant captain George Hughes, who logged a significant number of minutes on defense last season. It was also the fourth exhibition game of the year for the Ravens, a talented team which made the semifinals of the Ontario University Athletic Association tournament last year, while the Saints have had just one official practice.

The Saint newcomers showed some talent, but it took time for things to click and the Saints will be working on a number of aspects of the game to prepare for their official NCAA openers with a pair of games against Ferris State at Appleton Arena Friday and Saturday.

Carleton opened the scoring 9:50 into the first period as Saint starting goaltender Matt Weninger (five saves) made a good lunging first save on a shot by Ryan Berard, but Brad Albert followed up the play and banged the rebound into the net for the game's first goal.

Weninger gave way to senior Joe Spadaccini for the second period and Berard found himself alone at the side of the net and put one just under the crossbar 5:38 into the second to make it a 2-0 game. It went to 3-0 just under four minutes later when Joe Pleckaitis scored his third goal of the weekend on a pretty passing play on the power play. Pleckaitis had two goals in a 3-3 tie at Colgate on Saturday night.

The Saints cut the lead to 3-1 with 3:52 to play in the second period as Nic Vangog took a pass from rookie Chris Martin and backhanded a shot between Raven goalie Ryan Dube and the post, but Carleton responded with two goals in the third period to make it a 5-1 game.

Brandon MacLean got the first against Saint senior Robby Moss as he scored from a tough angle on the power play at 10:24 and Joey Manley scored from in close on a pass from Linden Bahm at 16:45 to complete the Carleton scoring.

Rookie Gunnar Hughes scored the second saint goal from Rick Carden and Tommy Thompson with 1:57 to play to make it a 5-2 final.

Spadaccini made four saves and Moss five to go with the five for Weninger while Dube had 22 stops for the Ravens.  Carleton finished two for five on the power play while the Saints were scoreless in seven tries.