Dartmouth Men's Hockey Team Gets Walloped by St. Lawrence

Sunday, January 13

Hanover, N.H.

5:00 PM

Dartmouth College

ST. LAWRENCE

Dartmouth Men's Hockey Team Gets Walloped by St. Lawrence

1/13/2008 12:00:00 AM | Men's Ice Hockey

By: Dartmouth

Boxscore

HANOVER, N.H. - St. Lawrence University scored three third period shorthanded goals highlighted by Travis Vermeulen's hat trick as the Saints downed the Dartmouth men's hockey team, 8-3 on Sunday in Thompson Arena in front a national audience on ESPNU.

A four-goal third period by SLU stopped a Dartmouth rally that had the Big Green come from a 4-1 deficit to make it 4-3 early in the stanza.

The loss drops Dartmouth to 6-8-1 overall, 3-7-1 in the ECAC while the Saints pulled even at 9-9-3 overall and 4-4-2.

The Saints led, 4-1, heading into the third period, but Dartmouth rallied with two goals by defenseman Evan Stephens (Bessemer, Mich.), the first on a deep rebound off an initial save by SLU netminder Alex Petizian at 4:14 and the second at 8:42 on a power play shot from the point through traffic.

The Saints regained control when Mike McKenzie scored his second of the night on a three-on-one at 11:59 and then Vermeulen finished off his first collegiate hat trick with back-to-back shorthanders.

Petizian was then called for a delay of the game penalty at 15:31 and the Saints scored twice on the ensuing Dartmouth power play.

Dartmouth scored first in a fast-paced first period as J.T. Wyman (Wayzata, Minn.) was credited with his 10 th of the season after his shot along the ice right after a faceoff in the Saint end hit the skates of a Saint defender and deflected inside the far post at 6:54.

The Saints responded quickly at 7:50 to tie it at 1-1 and then took the lead just 2:09 later. It could have been an even bigger lead as Big Green goalie Mike Devine (Orchard Park, N.Y.) had to come up big in front with 5:30 to play and Brock McBride had a great bid off a Sean Flanagan set-up, but Devine managed to get a glove on it.

McKenzie gave the Saints a 3-1 lead on the game's first power play at 4:06 of the second.Another big bounce off the end boards made it a 4-1 game as the second period wound down. Matt Generous blasted a high shot from the point and it came back out to Brock McBride, who was all alone in front of an empty net after Devine was caught out of position.

Devine finished with 19 saves and junior Dan Goulding (Toronto, Ont.) was credited with five. Petizian had 27 for the Saints.

Dartmouth will be back in action on Tuesday, traveling to Boston University for a 7:30 matchup.