Dartmouth Men's Hockey Ties Brown in Tight Game

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Dartmouth Men's Hockey Ties Brown in Tight Game

2/4/2006 12:00:00 AM | Men's Ice Hockey

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Dartmouth Men's Hockey Ties Brown in Tight Game

Feb. 4, 2006

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The Dartmouth men's hockey team (11-10-2, 9-5-2 ECACHL) had to play from behind for the second night in a row tying Brown (3-14-6, 2-10-4), 2-2 at Meehan Auditorium in Providence. The Big Green earned three points on the weekend and are now in third place in the ECAC Hockey League with 20.

Brown lit the lamp first off a power play strike with 2:30 left in the opening stanza. Antonin Roux won the faceoff passing to Cory Caouette who fired through the crowd in front of the net to put the Bears up, 1-0.

The Big Green tied things up with :34 seconds remaining in the second period. Jarrett Sampson (Prince Albert, Sask.) took a shot with Dartmouth on the power play for the seventh time of the game but it was saved by Brown netminder Mark Sibbald. Nick Johnson (Calgary, Alta.) scooped the puck up from the right side circle firing top-shelf for the tying goal. Along with the goal the Big Green seemed to turn things around with shots. After being outshot 14-7 in the first period, Dartmouth came back to outshoot the Bears 14-8 in the second.

Brown pulled ahead as a screen in front of the net set up Chris Poli to net the go-ahead goal with 11:56 left in the game. David Jones (North Vancouver, B.C.) was the Big Green hero netting the tying strike with less than a minute to go in the contest. Tanner Glass (Craven, Sask.) passed up from behind the net to J.T. Wyman (Wayzata, Minn.) who fired in with Jones getting his stick down for the tip-in.

Dartmouth seemed to score the game-winner with less than a minute to go in the extra stanza. Three straight shots on net by Sampson, Sean Offers (St. Albert, Alta.) and Johnson with three minutes to go kept the puck in the Brown end. With pressure mounting Johnson got the puck on the Bears' blueline firing in with it scooting over the line and around Sibbald before the goalie was able to push the puck out of the net.

Sibbald finished the game with 34 saves and Dartmouth netminder Mike Devine (Orchard Park, N.Y.) had 35. The tie is the Bears sixth of the season and its tenth overtime game while its just the third for the Big Green.

Dartmouth will be home next weekend against Quinnipiac on Friday at 7:00 pm and then in a nationally televised matchup with Princeton at 4:30 pm on ESPNU.