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Men's Hockey Falls 5-4 in Overtime at Colgate
November 21, 2009 | Men's Ice Hockey
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HAMILTON, N.Y. (11/21/09) -- Colgate's Francois Brisebois scored his second goal of the game two minutes into overtime to lift his team to a 5-4 win over the 19th-ranked Princeton men's hockey team on Saturday night at Starr Rink.
Brisebois and teammate David McIntyre each scored two goals and had an assist in the Colgate win. Princeton senior Dan Bartlett scored twice for the Tigers and classmate Jody Pederson had a goal and an assist in the back-and-forth game.
The game winner came as on an odd-man rush as Colgate countered a Princeton chance with a rush the opposite way. Robbie Bourdon skated the puck low, pulling a Princeton defender and Tiger junior goaltender Alan Reynolds to the left side of the ice, before feeding a pass to Brisebois on the opposite post for the game-winning goal.
The teams traded goals through the first two periods as Princeton gained leads of 1-0 and 2-1 before Colgate tied the game at 2-2 entering the third period. Bartlett opened the scoring three minutes into the game when he converted with his first of two goals. Senior Cam MacIntyre carried the puck into the Colgate zone, pulling up just before the goal line and feeding Bartlett for the score.
Colgate answered on the power play when Nick Prockow scored at 11:52. Brisebois held the puck behind the net and started one way, drawing the Princeton defense, before passing it the opposite way for Prockow to tuck into the open side of the goal.
Princeton bounced back though and Pederson made it 2-1 in Princeton's favor on the power play with less than two minutes left in the period as he one-timed a Colgate clearing attempt past Colgate netminder Alex Evin.
Princeton turned up its play in the second period, but could not crack Evin in the stanza despite firing 22 shots on the Colgate goal in the period. Colgate would eventually even the score late in the period when Brisebois netted his first goal of the game on a play very similar to his game winner as McIntyre worked the puck low on an odd-man rush before feeding Brisebois on the far post.
Princeton regained the lead when Bartlett scored 59 seconds into the third period on a shot from the blue line that ducked inside the top right corner of the goal off a feed from senior Brad Schroeder. The lead only last three minutes though before Colgate again drew even on the first of two goals from McIntyre in a span of just over a minute. First he scored on a breakaway when Austin Smith sprung him into the Princeton zone alone and then he won the race to a rebound of Smith shot and tucked it under Reynolds.
Colgate held the lead and did a good job of limiting Princeton's chances, but the Tigers would end up drawing even with 1:24 remaining in regulation. After a faceoff win, the Tigers gained possession in the Colgate zone and junior Mike Kramer would collect the tying goal when redirected Pederson's point shot through Evin. Junior Taylor Fedun also assisted on the goal.
In overtime, Princeton controlled the first two shifts and held the puck on Colgate's half of the ice until the Raiders were able to counter and net the game winner at the two-minute mark.
Princeton outshot Colgate 47-27 but falls to 3-4-1 overall and 2-3-1 in the ECAC with the loss. Reynolds made 22 saves in the loss, while Evin stopped 43 shots to earn the win.
The game was Princeton's fourth overtime game in eight total games this season after the Tigers played just two regular-season overtime games a season ago. It was also the third-straight time a Princeton-Colgate game has gone to overtime. The Tigers won the previous two. Saturday's Colgate win snapped a six-game Princeton win streak in the series between the two schools.
Princeton returns to action on Wednesday night at 13th-ranked Quinnipiac. The Bobcats, which beat Cornell on Saturday night, are a perfect 6-0 in the ECAC and sit atop the league standings.