Golden Knights Latest Victim in Princeton Shutout Streak
| Scoring Summary | |
|---|---|
| 1st - 13:26 | PP - Sherry, Sasha (Princeton) |
| 3rd - 05:39 | Landry, Heather (Princeton) |
| Princeton | Clarkson |
|---|---|
|
G:
2 Players (#5, #9 - 1)
A: 3 Players (#9, #14, #16 - 1) Sh: 3 Players (#5, #16, #22 - 3) Sv: Rachel Weber - 18 |
G:
N/A
A: N/A Sh: 4 Players (#14, #24, #25, #26 - 3) Sv: Erica Howe - 23 |
| TEAM STATISTICS | Princeton | Clarkson |
|---|---|---|
| Power Plays | 1 for 3 | 0 for 3 |
| Shorthanded Goals | 0 | 0 |
| Penalties (min) | 3 (6) | 3 (6) |
| Shots on Goal | 25 | 18 |
| Face Offs Won | 21 | 15 |
Potsdam, NY – Unable to muster a single goal in the first
game back from break, the Clarkson University Women’s Hockey
team found itself as yet another team to be shut out by Princeton
University, as the Tigers posted their fourth straight shutout in a
2-0
ECAC Hockey victory over the Golden Knights in front of 236 fans
Friday night at Cheel Arena.
The Golden Knights lost their third straight conference game, and
dropped to 6-11-3 overall and 3-4-1 through eight league contests.
Princeton won its sixth straight game to improve to 9-10-1 and
6-6-1 in ECAC Hockey play.
The first period opened with Princeton taking the action into the
Golden Knights’ end, as the Tigers sent many long shots on
the Clarkson cage. The majority of the shots didn’t have a
lot behind them, so Clarkson goaltender Erica Howe (Ottawa, ONT)
turned most of them aside with ease. However, the Tigers took
advantage of an early opportunity when the Knights were whistled
for a penalty, and Princeton got on the scoreboard on its first
power-play chance of the game. Freshman Denna Laing corralled a
loose puck near the boards at the bottom of the left circle, and
sent a pass out to the point. There, senior defenseman Sasha Sherry
wristed a shot through traffic and the puck snuck through several
screens and past Howe at 13:26.
Clarkson nearly knotted the score up at 1-1 just two minutes later
as freshman Jamie Lee Rattray (Kanata, ONT) skated in on an
odd-player rush, but her top shelf wrister clanged off the post and
bounced away behind the red line, ending the Knights best scoring
opportunity.
The second period was a repeat of the first frame, except that
this time the ice was slanted in Clarkson’s favor. Though the
Knights didn’t match Princeton’s first-period shot
output, the time that Clarkson spent in the Tigers’ defensive
end mirrored what they had to endure defensively in the first
period. Unfortunately, for the Knights, they couldn’t equal
Princeton’s scoring total, as the two teams skated to a
scoreless second stanza with Clarkson possessing an 8-2 edge in
shots.
Princeton’s vigor showed again at the start of the third, as
the Tigers kept the puck in the Clarkson end for most of the first
five minutes of the last regular session. Clarkson’s Howe
made a nice stop in the opening moments and then lucked out as
another Tigers’ shot bounded off the post. That luck would
not continue for Howe and Clarkson, though, as Princeton tallied
its second goal of the contest at the 5:19 mark of the third
period. Junior Heather Landry finished off a pair of passes from
Sherry and Danielle DiCesare at the bottom of the right circle,
sliding the puck around Howe on her glove side.
The second goal from the Tigers finished off the scoring, though
Clarkson attempted to get back into the contest late by pulling
Howe out of its goal. The final two minutes were played with Howe
out of the net, but the Knights, despite a few errant pucks that
looked like they could flutter into the Princeton goal, could not
get on the scoreboard.
Rachel Weber posted her fourth straight shutout, and fifth in the
past six games, making 18 saves. She extended her shutout streak to
246 minutes, 39 seconds. Howe finished with 23 shots in the
Clarkson net, as Princeton held a 25-18 lead in shots.
