Dartmouth Men's Hockey Defeats Brown, 4-3

Friday, February 16

Providence, R.I.

7:00 PM

Dartmouth College

Brown

2/16/2007 12:00:00 AM | Men's Ice Hockey

By: Dartmouth

Boxscore

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The Dartmouth men's hockey team earned valuable points in a tight league race, surviving the Brown Bears, 4-3 at Meehan Auditorium. The Big Green improves to 13-10-3, 9-7-3 ECACHL while Brown falls to 9-12-5, 5-11-2.

A power play goal by the Bears at 16:04 in the opening frame put Brown on the board first. Ryan Garbutt shot to the left side of the net with Big Green netminder Mike Devine (Orchard Park, N.Y.) making the save as Brian Ihnacak was there for the putback.

The Big Green answered at 15:18 with a bang-bang play. David Jones (North Vancouver, B.C.) connected with linemates Tanner Glass (Craven, Sask.) and Nick Johnson (Calgary, Alta.) to even the game at one early in the first period.

Dartmouth pulled ahead 13:25 in the second period on the power play. Glass brought the puck around behind the net shooting to T.J. Galiardi (Calgary, Alta.) on the left side circle as the freshman took a shot, collected the rebound and one-timed the puck over netminder Dan Rosen's shoulder. The goal was Galiardi ninth of the season and his first in six games.

The Big Green's top line of Glass, Johnson and Jones put Dartmouth ahead, 3-1 at 8:51 when Glass lifted the puck over Rosen's glove after a nifty centering pass from Jones.

Brown answered with a power play goal of its own at 11:29 when Jeff Prough fired a shot off a screen that Devine never saw.

J.T. Wyman (Wayzata, Minn.) fired a shot from the point at 19:15 with Kevin Swallow (Stanwood, Mich.) there to tip it in, giving the Big Green its two goal lead back with 45 seconds left in the second stanza. Jon Grecu (Calgary, Alta.) brought the puck around behind the net passing to Grant Lewis (Upper St. Clair, Pa.) on the left points. Lewis fired quickly across ice to Wyman as Swallow scored his seventh goal of the season and Dartmouth's third power play of the game.

Brown scored quickly in the third period on an extended five minute power play when Matt Vokes fired a shot from the point over Devine's right shoulder but that was the closest the Bears got.

Dartmouth finished with a slight edge in shots, 38-35 while both teams notched three extra-man goals.

The Big Green will be back in action on Sunday at 4:30 pm in a nationally televised game against the Yale Bulldogs. The contest will be shown live on ESPNU.