Officials: Doiron (R), Dunn, Smith
Reprinted with permission of The Dartmouth, Inc.
by Jeffrey Beyer
On Friday night, the Big Green played hard all game, as has been their modus operandi this year under Head Coach Bob Gaudet. But as has happened so many times recently, the puck simply did not bounce Dartmouth's way, and the Green ended up on the short side of a one-goal game yet again.
Having fought back from a 3-1 deficit in the third period, the Green seemed poised for overtime before Clarkson's Chris Clark broke their backs with his third goal of the night with just 2:01 left in regulation.
A bad clear by the Green was picked off by the Golden Knights' Dana Mulvihill, whose initial shot was saved by Jason Wong '00. But Clark picked up the rebound in front and flipped it into the open net to put Clarkson on top 4-3.
The loss might not have been so disheartening had the Green not played so well in the third and appeared to have had several chances to win.
Trailing 3-1, the Green struck quickly. First, Ryan Chaytors '99 beat Clarkson's Dan Murphy with a tricky shot at 5:59 of the first to pull the Green to 3-2.
Then Tom Ruzzo '97 knotted it at 3-3 with a power play goal at 9:16 of the third. Ruzzo -- playing the point as the fourth forward on the Green's new powerplay "superunit" -- took a great feed from Risk and ripped the puck past Murphy top shelf.
The Green opened the scoring 6:18 into the opening stanza on a pretty goal from Byrne. Zach Hafer '99 came up the left side with Byrne on his right on a 2-on-1, drew the Clarkson defender to him and flipped the puck across to Byrne, who buried it for a 1-0 Dartmouth lead.
But Clarkson stayed poised and jumped on top 2-1 with two goals just 55 seconds apart later in the first. It was Mulvihill doing the honors for the Golden Knights at 15:07 of the first, and Clark's first score of the night at 16:02 made it 2-1 Clarkson.
Clark added a powerplay goal with 41 seconds left in the second period to extend Clarkson to a 3-1 lead.
The Big Green would fight back in the third but ultimately fall short.
Dartmouth, which has picked up four points in its last four ECAC games, now has two non-conference matchups – home against Denver on Saturday and away versus UMass-Lowell next Wednesday – before resuming the ECAC schedule at St. Lawrence and at Clarkson in two weeks.
| Scoring by Period | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | Total |
| Clarkson | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Dartmouth | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
Clarkson: 1 for 5
Dartmouth: 1 for 5
| Goals | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Period | Team | Goal | Assists | Time |
| 1 | D | Byrne | Hafer, Fleming | 6:18 |
| 1 | C | Mulvihill | Gates, Ollila | 15:07 |
| 1 | C | Clark | Cole Mitchell | 16:02 |
| 2 | C | Clark | Wallace, Roy | 19:19 (PPG) |
| 3 | D | Chaytors | Risk | 5:59 |
| 3 | D | Ruzzo | Risk Whitworth | 9:16 (PPG) |
| 3 | C | Clark | Mulvihill, Wallace | 17:59 |
| Saves by Period | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player-Team | Min. | 1 | 2 | 3 | Total |
| Murphy (C) | 60:00 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 23 |
| Wong (D) | 58:55 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 20 |
| Penalties | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Period | Team | Player | Penalty | Time |
| 1 | D | Sturgis | interference | 7:47 |
| 1 | D | Whitworth | cross-check | 9:43 |
| 1 | D | Peet | unsportsmanlike | 15:39 |
| 1 | C | Wallace | unsportsmanlike | 15:39 |
| 2 | C | bench | too many men | 4:28 |
| 2 | C | Ashford | interference | 10:25 |
| 2 | C | Cole | hit/behind - major | 11:27 |
| 2 | C | Cole | game misconduct | 11:27 |
| 2 | D | Wilgosh | slashing | 17:53 |
| 2 | D | Chaytors | slashing | 19:02 |
| 3 | D | Chaytors | high stick | 3:30 |
| 3 | D | Burkart | roughing | 5:12 |
| 3 | C | Clark | roughing | 5:12 |
| 3 | C | Gates | high stick | 7:19 |
| 3 | C | Huskins | cross-check | 8:07 |
| 3 | D | Peach | 10-misconduct | 8:07 |
| 3 | C | Mitchell | fighting-major | 20:00 |
| 3 | C | Mitchell | Game DQ | 20:00 |