Big Green Hold Off Princeton, 3-2, to Earn Two League Points

Friday, November 13

Princeton, N.J.

7:00 PM

Dartmouth College

2-3, 2-3

Princeton

1-4, 0-3

Dartmouth

Princeton

Big Green Hold Off Princeton, 3-2, to Earn Two League Points

11/13/2015 9:01:00 PM | Men's Ice Hockey

Box Score

By: Dartmouth

PRINCETON, N.J. – The Dartmouth men's hockey team scored three times in the first period and held on for a 3-2 win Friday night at Hobey Baker Rink against a tenacious Princeton team.

Corey Kalk, Jack Barre and Nick Bligh all found the back of the net to give the Big Green (2-3-0, 2-3-0 ECAC) the early three-goal advantage in the opening frame.

Kalk's second of the year was thanks in large part to a great pass from Brett Patterson at the blueline before the sophomore danced his way through a defender and deposited a shot in the back of the net at 9:55. Barre made it 2-0 just 2:01 later on a redirect in the slot from a Ryan Bullock shot that also hit Troy Crema's stick on the way through.

For Crema — the reigning ECAC Hockey Player of the Week — it marked his sixth point in the last three games.

Bligh's team-leading fourth of the season came with just 58 seconds remaining in the opening stanza after Brad Schierhorn and Tim O'Brien did some digging along the boards to free the puck up for Bligh's blast at the top of the left dot.

There was no quit in the Tigers (1-4-0, 0-3-0 ECAC), however, as they chipped away at the deficit with a heightened level of intensity in the final two periods.

Ryan Kuffner finally solved James Kruger as a Princeton power play expired and after the Dartmouth netminder was spectacular in almost singlehandedly holding the home team off the board as long as he could.

Jonathan Liau pulled Princeton to within one at 7:23 of the third, but that was the final time Kruger allowed anything behind him. The senior goaltender finished the night with 30 saves, as did Colton Phinney at the other end of the ice.

Neither team scored a power-play goal with the home team 0-for-2 and Dartmouth unable to net one on three opportunities. Shots on goal were 35-32 in favor of the visitors.

The Big Green now head to Hamden Saturday for a 7 p.m. match-up with No. 4 Quinnipiac at the TD Sports Center.