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Princeton University Athletics
Stevenson-Moore Scores Twice as Men's Hockey Downs Rensselaer 5-2
February 25, 2005 | Men's Ice Hockey
Feb. 25, 2005
Troy, N.Y. - The Princeton men's hockey team scored five goals in a 9:41 span in the second period to defeat Rensselaer 5-2 Friday night at Houston Fieldhouse. Senior Neil Stevenson-Moore scored twice for the Tigers and sophomore Grant Goeckner-Zoeller added two assists as the Tigers picked up their eighth win of the season.
The two teams played a scoreless first period that saw Rensselaer take the majority of the good scoring chances. The Engineers outshot Princeton 11-4, but Tiger netminder junior Eric Leroux stopped all 12 shots to hold RPI off the scoreboard. Princeton had four power-play chances in the game, and its best scoring chance came on the power-play when junior Seamus Young found junior Mark Masters alone on the slot, but he couldn't control the pass as the shot caromed to the corner. Sophomore Darroll Powe also had a good scoring chance late in the period when he crashed the net on a semi-breakaway, but Rensselaer goaltender Andrew Martin stopped his shot. After a scoreless first, the Tigers came alive in the second, scoring five times for their best period, statistically, of the 2004-05 season. The period began with Rensselaer scoring first to take a 1-0 lead. Brad Farynuk scored the goal from the slot after Kirk MacDonald was stripped of the puck. Farynuk won the race and slid it by a screened Leroux at 5:38.
Princeton responded 46 seconds later to even the score and took the lead at 8:10. In all, the Tigers scored five goals in a span of 9:41 to take control of the game and a 5-1 lead to the locker room for the second intermission.
The first goal came when junior Dustin Sproat, the league's leading scorer, followed up his own rebound to score his 16th goal of the year. Junior Sebastian Borza fed him on the doorstep from behind the net and Goeckner-Zoeller also assisted on the goal. Princeton went ahead 1:46 later when junior Mark Masters scored on a 2-on-1. Goecker-Zoeller carried the puck into the RPI zone and flipped to Masters who beat Martin for his fourth of the year. Junior Patrick Neundorfer created a turnover at center-ice to start the play and fed Goeckner-Zoeller for an assist.
Stevenson-Moore scored his first of two goals in the period at 8:10. Powe drove to the net and got off a shot that Martin saved, but the rebound bounced up in the air and when it came down, the puck was on Stevenson-Moore's stick, as he stood alone in front of the net. His quick shot beat Martin to the five-hole for his fourth goal of the season.
Senior Luc Paquin made it 4-1 at 11:40 when he scored off a Tiger face-off. Sophomore Christian Read lost the draw, but hounded the RPI player until he came up with the puck. He found freshman Kyle Hagel, who found Paquin. Paquin circled to in between the tops of the two circles and shot through a crowd and beat Martin for his sixth goal of the season. Princeton made it 5-1 at the 15:05 mark, when Stevenson-Moore scored his second of the game. Freshman Mike Moore held the puck in at the point and fired a shot on net that Stevenson-Moore deflected by Jordan Alford, on in relief of Martin.
Read and Moore extended their current three-game scoring streaks with their assists. Princeton outshot Rensselaer 12-5 in the period.
RPI scored the only goal in the third period at 5:16 to make the score 5-2. The Engineers came up ice on a 3-on-1 as Jake Luthi dropped a pass to Kevin Croxton, who slid a shot between Leroux's pad and the far post. Oren Eizenman also assisted on the goal. Rensselaer outshot the Tigers 10-6 in the period.
Leroux finished the night with 25 saves for his sixth win of the season. Rensselaer's goaltenders combined for 17 saves in the loss.
The win capped Princeton's season-sweep of Rensselaer as the Tigers have now swept Dartmouth and RPI this season.
Princeton returns to action tomorrow night against Union.