Late Goal Sinks Dartmouth at Rensselaer, 2-1

Saturday, November 8

Troy, N.Y.

7:00 PM

Dartmouth College

Rensselaer

11/8/2014 9:23:00 PM | Men's Ice Hockey

By: Dartmouth

TROY, N.Y. – It wasn't quite Game 3 of a postseason series, but Rensselaer exacted a bit of revenge Saturday night against the visiting Dartmouth men's hockey team by scoring the game-winning goal with 18.2 seconds left in regulation to take the 2-1 league win.

Zach Schroeder put a rebound inside the far post through a sea of bodies in the low slot to give the Engineers (4-6-0, 3-1-0 ECAC Hockey) the victory and hand the Big Green (1-1-1, 1-1-1 ECAC Hockey) their first setback of the season.

RPI came out fast to start the final period, trying to get some retribution against the team that had erased a two-goal deficit in the third and decisive game of the first-round series at Houston Field House last March. The Big Green's amazing comeback win that night in this same rink ended the Engineers' season and sent the team from the Upper Valley on to the ECAC Hockey Quarterfinals.

Saturday's contest was highlighted by a battle of two good starting netminders all night as junior James Kruger stopped 23 and his counterpart at the other end of the rink in Rensselaer's Jason Kasdorf turned aside 21.

Jesse Beamish got the scoring started with a power-play goal at 14:40 of the first period. The junior batted the puck out of mid-air into the crease and off a defenseman's stick, only to have it pushed back to him for the easy rebound tally — his first of the year.

Tyler Sikura and Brett Patterson were credited with the helpers on the play, giving the trio of Dartmouth skaters a three-point weekend following Friday's comeback win at Union.

A Milos Bubela goal was the result of some nice passing on an odd-man rush for RPI, tying the game at 1-1 nearly five minutes into the final period and setting up for the late-game heroics provided by Schroeder later in the frame.

The Dartmouth penalty kill continues to play well, subduing both of RPI's extra-man opportunities on the game and improve to a perfect 6-for-6 on the season. The power play was 1-for-5 on the night with the Beamish tally marking the lone scoring success.

RPI outshot the visitors, 25-22.

The Big Green will open their home season on Friday, Nov. 14 vs. Yale in the first of three straight at Thompson Arena. Games against Brown (Nov. 15) and Harvard (Nov. 18) follow the meeting with the Bulldogs.