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Ledyard Classic Champions
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Dartmouth Wins Ledyard Classic With Wild Third-Period Comeback vs. UConn
12/29/2019 9:34:00 PM | Men's Ice Hockey
Quin Foreman scored two goals in the title game to earn MVP honors.
HANOVER, N.H. – The Dartmouth men's hockey team erased a two-goal third-period deficit to defeat UConn, 4-3, to win the 31st Ledyard Classic Sunday night at Thompson Arena.
Junior Quin Foreman scored two goals, including the game winner late in the third to cap the comeback and give the Big Green (6-4-2) their first home tournament title since 2016. With two goals against the Huskies (7-7-4) and three on the weekend, Foreman earned MVP honors.
"He can really rip the puck," Koenig Family Head Coach Bob Gaudet '81 said of Foreman. "He kind of looked the defenseman and the goalie off like he was going to pass it and then shot back the other way. He was second on our team in scoring as a freshman and led it as a sophomore, but still, not a lot of people know about him."
The third period started with the two teams tied at 1-1 thanks to Ruslan Iskhakov's shorthanded breakaway goal with just four seconds left in the middle frame. UConn added two more as Carter Turnbull scored twice in just 42 seconds to put the visiting team up a pair with under 15 minutes to play.
Sophomore Drew O'Connor notched his third of the weekend less than two minutes later to start the comeback, going end-to-end and pulling the home team to within a goal as his shot from inside the blueline popped up, landed behind goalie Tomas Vomacka and trickled across the line.
Dartmouth tied it up in unusual fashion at the 9:38 mark. Reigning ECAC Hockey Player of the Week Sam Hesler appeared to be denied on the doorstep by Vomacka. But, upon video review, it was determined that the puck completely crossed the goal line before being swept out of the net.
Foreman — who had scored off a faceoff win from O'Connor at 13:36 of the second period to open the scoring — took matters into his own hands when it came to finding the winner. The junior winger knocked the puck past a UConn defender in the defensive zone after a faceoff loss, started a 2-on-1 rush, looked off the other defenseman and buried the puck in the back of the net with 3:34 left in regulation for the third straight Dartmouth goal.
Foreman and O'Connor were the driving force behind the offense all weekend, accounting for six of the nine goals scored by the home team in the two-win tournament. However, senior goaltender Adrian Clark was outstanding in the victories, so much so that he was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Goaltender, amassing a whopping 41 saves against the Huskies to win the title and finishing the weekend with 70 stops.
This marked the first time that Dartmouth had won the Ledyard Classic since the 2015-16 campaign, but its eighth title overall.
The Big Green must now refocus and get ready for a road weekend against ECAC Hockey foes Princeton and Quinnipiac next weekend.
Colorado College defeated St. Lawrence, 7-3, in the defacto Consolation Game earlier in the afternoon.
ALL-TOURNAMENT TEAM:
Chris Wilkie — Colorado College
Carter Turnbull – UConn
Alexander Payusov – UConn
Drew O'Connor – Dartmouth
Quin Foreman – Dartmouth
Most Outstanding Goaltender: Adrian Clark – Dartmouth
Most Valuable Player: Quin Foreman – Dartmouth
Junior Quin Foreman scored two goals, including the game winner late in the third to cap the comeback and give the Big Green (6-4-2) their first home tournament title since 2016. With two goals against the Huskies (7-7-4) and three on the weekend, Foreman earned MVP honors.
"He can really rip the puck," Koenig Family Head Coach Bob Gaudet '81 said of Foreman. "He kind of looked the defenseman and the goalie off like he was going to pass it and then shot back the other way. He was second on our team in scoring as a freshman and led it as a sophomore, but still, not a lot of people know about him."
The third period started with the two teams tied at 1-1 thanks to Ruslan Iskhakov's shorthanded breakaway goal with just four seconds left in the middle frame. UConn added two more as Carter Turnbull scored twice in just 42 seconds to put the visiting team up a pair with under 15 minutes to play.
Sophomore Drew O'Connor notched his third of the weekend less than two minutes later to start the comeback, going end-to-end and pulling the home team to within a goal as his shot from inside the blueline popped up, landed behind goalie Tomas Vomacka and trickled across the line.
Dartmouth tied it up in unusual fashion at the 9:38 mark. Reigning ECAC Hockey Player of the Week Sam Hesler appeared to be denied on the doorstep by Vomacka. But, upon video review, it was determined that the puck completely crossed the goal line before being swept out of the net.
Foreman — who had scored off a faceoff win from O'Connor at 13:36 of the second period to open the scoring — took matters into his own hands when it came to finding the winner. The junior winger knocked the puck past a UConn defender in the defensive zone after a faceoff loss, started a 2-on-1 rush, looked off the other defenseman and buried the puck in the back of the net with 3:34 left in regulation for the third straight Dartmouth goal.
Foreman and O'Connor were the driving force behind the offense all weekend, accounting for six of the nine goals scored by the home team in the two-win tournament. However, senior goaltender Adrian Clark was outstanding in the victories, so much so that he was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Goaltender, amassing a whopping 41 saves against the Huskies to win the title and finishing the weekend with 70 stops.
This marked the first time that Dartmouth had won the Ledyard Classic since the 2015-16 campaign, but its eighth title overall.
The Big Green must now refocus and get ready for a road weekend against ECAC Hockey foes Princeton and Quinnipiac next weekend.
Colorado College defeated St. Lawrence, 7-3, in the defacto Consolation Game earlier in the afternoon.
ALL-TOURNAMENT TEAM:
Chris Wilkie — Colorado College
Carter Turnbull – UConn
Alexander Payusov – UConn
Drew O'Connor – Dartmouth
Quin Foreman – Dartmouth
Most Outstanding Goaltender: Adrian Clark – Dartmouth
Most Valuable Player: Quin Foreman – Dartmouth
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