Late Goal Earns Dartmouth 1-1 Tie With Cornell

Friday, November 4

Hanover, N.H.

7:00 PM

Dartmouth College

1-0-1, 0-0-1ECAC

Cornell

0-1-1, 0-0-1ECAC

OT 1

Cornell

Dartmouth

Late Goal Earns Dartmouth 1-1 Tie With Cornell

11/4/2016 9:29:00 PM | Men's Ice Hockey

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By: Dartmouth

HANOVER, N.H. – Junior Corey Kalk scored 6:39 into the third period to help the Dartmouth men's hockey team earn a 1-1 tie Friday night at Thompson Arena against Cornell.

The ECAC Hockey opener for both teams ended in a 1-1 draw as the Big Red (0-1-1, 0-0-1) scored the first tally of the night two minutes and 13 seconds earlier on a shorthanded opportunity.

“That was a defensive battle, just like all our games are with Cornell,” head coach Bob Gaudet '81 said. “We played well against a tough, strong opponent and the result is a typical Dartmouth-Cornell game.”

An evenly played contest, the Big Green (1-0-1, 0-0-1) outshot the visitors, 29-24, but it wasn't until Kalk fired a shot from the top of the circles across his body moving through the zone that his team finally beat Cornell's Mitch Gillam.

“I thought we were good all night,” Kalk said. “We just had to be really good to get one by him (Gillam), though.

“I was playing on a line with two freshmen who were really pushing the tempo. They gave me some room and a nice pass and just wanted to put a shot on goal that made him move and challenge him,” Kalk continued. “I was pretty happy with the result.”

Dartmouth's Devin Buffalo was no slouch, either, at the other end of the ice, making 23 saves to earn a point. The junior made a point-blank stop on the doorstep with seven minutes remaining in the second to keep it scoreless through two.

Buffalo's only blemish was the result of a great individual effort from Mitch Vanderlaan on the penalty kill. He carried into the zone, had his initial shot blocked by Connor Yau only to corral the loose puck and slap it through traffic and into the back of the net without the Dartmouth netminder seeing it.

Freshman Cam Strong picked up the lone assist on Kalk's goal, picking up his second point in as many games to start his career after a tally against Michigan in the opener. He and Kalk now have points in both games thus far, the only two Dartmouth players to do so.

The special teams for both sides was less than stellar as the Big Green were 0-for-6 on the power play, while their counterparts in red were 0-for-5.

One of only two teams in the nation without a tie in a league game last season (Minnesota being the other), the Green and White opened this year's ECAC Hockey schedule with a draw that ends up being the 100th in Gaudet's career between stints at Brown (31) and in Hanover (69).

Dartmouth returns to action Saturday night, hosting Colgate in a rematch of last season's first-round thriller that the Big Green won in double overtime of Game 3. The Raiders return to Thompson following a 1-1 tie in Cambridge Friday night against No. 12 Harvard, despite being outshot 42-15.