Dartmouth Men's Hockey Stopped by Harvard

Saturday, January 26

Hanover, N.H.

7:00 PM

Dartmouth College

HARVARD

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

1/26/2008 12:00:00 AM | Men's Ice Hockey

By: Dartmouth

HANOVER, N.H. - In an ECAC Hockey matchup it was Harvard that came away with valuable league points as the Crimson notched two goals in the second to defeat the Dartmouth men's hockey team, 3-1 on Saturday in Thompson Arena. After a scoreless first period Harvard notched two goals less than three minutes apart to take the lead.

Doug Rogers and Jon Pelle connected on goals at 13:23 and 16:15 of the second period to spot the Crimson a two-goal lead. Dartmouth's Evan Stephens (Bessemer, Mich.) got one back for the home team with :54 seconds to go in the frame. Joe Stejskal (Grand Rapids, Minn.) got the puck at center ice as both teams were in transition. He passed quickly up to Stephens along the right side boards as the freshman rocketed the puck over netminder Kyle Richter's shoulder.

Harvard put the game away on a Pelle strike at 3:07 in the final stanza. Josh Gillam (Peterborough, Ont.) and Joe Gaudet (Etna, N.H.) had chances to get the Big Green on the board in the third as both had shots on net on the same power play but Richter was up to the challenge as he finished the game with 18 saves.

In the opening frame neither team seemed to have much momentum as the game was a very start and stop contest early on. The Crimson had a chance to go up on a one-on-one but goalie Mike Devine (Orchard Park, N.Y.) looked like the netminder that stopped 84 shots last week as he came up big. The two teams skated into the first break scoreless as Harvard had seven shots to Dartmouth's three.

The second period had Dartmouth showing a little more life until the Crimson's first goal shifted the momentum to the visitors. Harvard outshot Dartmouth 30-19 in the game as the Big Green has now been outshot in its last 10 contests.

With the loss Dartmouth falls to 8-9-1 overall, 3-8-1 in the ECAC. Harvard improves to 7-9-3, 6-6-2 in the league as the victory is Harvard's first since defeating the Big Green on Dec. 1.