Dartmouth Men's Hockey Beats Up On Brown

Saturday, January 10

Hanover, N.H.

7:00 PM

Dartmouth College

BROWN

1/10/2009 12:00:00 AM | Men's Ice Hockey

By: Dartmouth

HANOVER, N.H. - The Dartmouth men's hockey team used a four-goal outburst in the second period to take a 5-1 victory over Brown in league action on Saturday night. The victory helps the Big Green rebound from a loss on Friday and improve to 10-6 overall, 7-4 in the ECAC. The loss drops the Bears to 1-10-4, 1-5-3 in the league. Joe Gaudet (Etna, N.H.) was the top scorer for Dartmouth as the junior potted two goals and an assist in the win.

In the second stanza, Dartmouth scored both early and late, recording a goal four minutes into the period, midway through the frame and with under two minutes to play.

Midway through the opening period a powerful slap shot by Rob Pritchard (Burnaby, B.C.) almost had the home team on the board first but Brown netminder Dan Rosen made a tremendous kick save to prevent the goal.

Gaudet was able to crack the scoreboard, however at 7:28 with a wraparound. Gaudet took the initial shot that was saved by Rosen but the Big Green foward was able to pick the puck back up and wrap it around the left post. Scott Fleming (Plainfield, Ont.) and Matt Reber (Edina, Minn.) both assisted.

Brown tied the game quickly into the second period when Bobby Farnham blasted the puck on net as Dartmouth netminder Jody O'Neill (Nepean, Ont.) never saw it sail over his left shoulder.

Less than two minutes later Pritchard and the Big Green scored another one, giving his team a lead it would never relinquish. Connor Shields (Edmonton, Alta.) passed down as Kyle Reeds (St. Louis, Mo.) took a shot with Pritchard there for the putback.

With under 10 minutes left in the frame Dartmouth took a two-goal lead when Reber put a shot on Rosen that the netminder saved but a Brown defender crashed into the net. Fleming had the presence of mind to gather the puck and tuck it past the prone Rosen for the score.

With less than two mintues to play the Big Green scored back-to-back goals, taking a 5-1 lead into the break. At 1:48 Peter Boldt (Greenwich, Conn.) brought the puck down passing back to Adam Estoclet (Orono, Minn.) who passed back across the ice to Doug Jones (Marietta, Ga.) as the rookie potted his fourth of the season. Just :52 later Gaudet added another one as assists went to Reber and Evan Stephens (Bessemer, Mich.).

In the third the Big Green had several chances, putting 18 shots on net but Rosen was up to the challenge as he stopped every night.

Dartmouth's power play woes continue as the Green went 0-2 in its chances against Brown. The Big Green has potted just one extra man goal in its last six games. On the flip side the penalty killing unit has been stellar, allowing just eight opponent power play strikes this season.

O'Neill finished with 21 saves on the night and is now 10-5 on the season. Rosen had a season-high 42 saves and is 1-8-3.

Dartmouth will be back in action next weekend, traveling to Manchester to take on the University of New Hampshire at the Verizon Wireless Arena.