Colgate Halts Dartmouth's Win Streak at Six

Saturday, February 14

Hanover, N.H.

7:00 PM

Dartmouth College

COLGATE

2/14/2015 9:17:00 PM | Men's Ice Hockey

By: Dartmouth

HANOVER, N.H. - Colgate handed the Dartmouth men's hockey team a 3-0 defeat Saturday night at Thompson Arena, snapping the home squad's six-game win streak and seven-game unbeaten streak in the process.

Netminder Zac Hamilton recorded his first collegiate shutout for the Raiders (16-11-3, 8-7-2 ECAC Hockey), stopping 22 shots from the Big Green (12-9-4, 9-7-2 ECAC Hockey) in the three-goal win.

Dartmouth was looking for its first seven-game win streak since the 1978-79 season. Oddly enough, members of that team were honored during the first intermission Saturday as part of the weekend's celebration of the program's four teams to reach the Final Four.

“I felt like we played hard all night,” head coach Bob Gaudet '81 said in his postgame comments. “We needed that one something to break the momentum and turn things around for us, but unfortunately that never came.”

Colgate's John Lidgett scored his team's first and third goals of the night with a Joe Wilson marker sandwiched between. Lidgett's first of the night came 9:19 into the contest on the power play giving the Raiders a 1-0 lead that lasted until early in the third.

Wilson knocked home a rebound in the crease on at 3:22 of the final frame, while Lidgett sealed things with his second of the night at 8:29.

Charles Grant made several highlight-reel saves in the game, finishing the night with 28 total stops in the Dartmouth crease, but was saddled with just his second loss of the season. Hamilton was steady at the other end, turning aside 22 in the game and benefiting from an Eric Robinson shot in the high slot that rang off the post in the third.

The 35 minutes in penalties were a new high for Dartmouth this season, thanks to a five-minute major and a game misconduct called against Brandon McNally in the second period and a 10-minute misconduct against Geoff Ferguson in the final five minutes of regulation.

The Big Green managed to kill off the McNally major which had turned into a 5-on-3 for the final 1:20 due to a bench minor for too many men on the ice, but were unable to turn that momentum into anything on the scoreboard. Colgate finished the night 1-for-4 on the power play, while the Green and White didn't convert on either of their two opportunities.

Dartmouth travels to Clarkson and St. Lawrence next weekend in the final road weekend of the regular season.