Road Brings Respite for St. Lawrence
The following article appeared November 16 on the U.S. College Hockey Online (USCHO) Web site.
By ECAC Hockey Columnist
Oh-and-five is not the way most teams draw up their first month of play, and that goes double when adding a season-opening exhibition loss to Carleton. That wasn’t by design, either. But St. Lawrence did indeed fall out of the gate and straight onto its face with a home sweep at the hands of Ferris State, a coma-inducing 10–3 KO at Michigan, a heartbreaking 6–5 overtime loss at Rochester Institute of Technology and a much quieter — though no less depressing — 2–0 loss to Union at Appleton Arena.
Things didn’t look good for SLU, but a visit from Rensselaer on Nov. 5 gave the Saints just the reprieve they needed to get the wheels back on the track. A 2–0 win begat a 3–2 win at Princeton last Friday, and a white-knuckle, 1–0 victory at Quinnipiac on Saturday. It’s not a smooth upward arc just yet, but it beats the heck out of a vertical free fall.
“[Assistant coach] Greg Carvel’s brought some great ideas to the team; obviously with his last nine or 10 years at the NHL level — the last seven with the Ottawa Senators — he really knows systems,” said associate head coach Mike Hurlbut, guiding the team during veteran coach Joe Marsh’s medical leave.
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