Killorn Lifts Harvard Past Yale in Final Minutes
| Scoring Summary | |
|---|---|
| 1st - 03:40 | Greiner, Luke (Harvard) |
| 1st - 15:11 | Jaskowiak, Nick (Yale) |
| 1st - 15:24 | O'Neill, Brian (Yale) |
| 2nd - 00:55 | Killorn, Alex (Harvard) |
| 3rd - 09:38 | PP - Everson, Marshall (Harvard) |
| 3rd - 16:08 | Young, Gus (Yale) |
| 3rd - 18:41 | Killorn, Alex (Harvard) |
| Yale | Harvard |
|---|---|
|
G:
3 Players (#2, #5, #9 - 1)
A: 3 Players (#10, #17, #18 - 1) Sh: Nick Jaskowiak - 4 Sv: Jeff Malcolm - 31 |
G:
Alex Killorn - 2
A: 2 Players (#9, #63 - 2) Sh: Alex Killorn - 10 Sv: Steve Michalek - 36 |
| TEAM STATISTICS | Yale | Harvard |
|---|---|---|
| Power Plays | 0 for 1 | 1 for 4 |
| Shorthanded Goals | 0 | 0 |
| Penalties (min) | 4 (8) | 1 (2) |
| Shots on Goal | 39 | 35 |
| Face Offs Won | 36 | 40 |
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Alex Killorn scored his second goal of
the game with 1:19 left on the clock, guiding the Harvard
men’s hockey team to a 4-3 win against rival Yale in front of
a sellout crowd of 3,095 at Bright Hockey Center and a national
television audience Friday night.
Marshall Everson set up the winning goal after scoring to give
Harvard (5-6-8, 4-4-6 ECAC Hockey, 2-2-2 Ivy League) a lead earlier
in the third period. Luke Greiner also scored to help the Crimson
climb into a tie for fourth in the ECAC Hockey standings and second
place in the Ivy League. Steve Michalek made a career-high 36
saves, including 16 in the third period, while Danny Biega and
Colin Blackwell logged two assists each.
The winning goal came less than three minutes after Gus Young tied
the score for Yale (8-10-2, 5-7-1, 2-3-0). Everson found Killorn
behind the defense with a long cross-ice pass. Yale’s Jeff
Malcolm stopped Killorn’s initial shot from the right side,
but a hard-charging Blackwell and Killorn converged on the rebound
and the senior shoveled in his 13th goal of the season.
Malcolm finished with 31 saves, as Yale held a 39-35 shots edge.
The Crimson, however, committed only one penalty and held the
Bulldogs scoreless for a stretch of nearly 40 minutes after two
quick goals in the first period. Harvard finished 1 for 4 on its
power-play chances and held a 40-36 edge at the faceoff dot and a
15-11 blocked-shots advantage.
Yale registered the game’s first three shots, but it was the
home team getting on the board in the game’s fourth minute.
Eric Kroshus won the puck along the left wall, skated in and
centered to Greiner. The junior, who also won a team-high nine
faceoffs, beat Malcolm with a low shot.
The Bulldogs quickly turned the tide in the final five minutes of
the period, scoring twice in 13 seconds. Nick Jaskowiak netted the
first, sending a shot through traffic that took a deflection on the
way into the goal at the 15:24 mark. Brian O’Neill then
roofed a wrist shot to send Yale to the locker room with the lead
despite an 11-10 shots edge for Harvard.
Harvard played a strong second period, putting 15 shots on Malcolm.
One found the net in the first minute. After Danny Biega got the
puck from Dan Ford behind the net and passed to Killorn in his own
zone, the senior took the puck up the left side. He went behind the
net and snuck in a wraparound shot by the right post before Malcolm
could get across.
Yale outshot Harvard, 17-9, in the third period, but Michalek held
strong while Everson and Killorn came up with big goals. The
Bulldogs held the nation’s top power play scoreless in its
first three chances, but the Crimson took advantage of its fourth.
Biega had a point shot blocked to Blackwell at the left circle.
Rather than shoot, the rookie waited and passed across to Everson
for the finish.
Young grabbed a loose puck on the left side of the Harvard zone and
tied the game at 3-3 with a shot to the far side at the 16:08 mark.
Killorn’s goal kept Harvard from skating in overtime for the
ninth time in 12 games.
