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Berlin Scores and Phinney Earns Shutout for Men's Hockey
January 26, 2016 | Men's Ice Hockey
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PRINCETON, N.J. (1/26/16) - Sophomore Ryan Berlin scored his first goal of the season and junior Colton Phinney made 23 saves as the Princeton men's hockey team defeated American International College, 1-0 on Tuesday night.
It was Princeton's first game back after an 18-day hiatus for finals exams, but you couldn't tell from the stands. It was a fast-paced scoreless first period that saw the Tigers outshoot the Yellow Jackets 23-6.
Another 20 minutes of scoreless hockey followed before Berlin broke the stalemate early in the third period. Junior Tommy Davis incepted the puck at the right blue lines as AIC tried to wring the puck around the boards, and lofted the puck towards the net. Berlin was stationed in front and was able to shot over the shoulder of Jacob Caffrey was his third career tally.
"The other team rimmed it and I threw it on net and it popped out to Ryan Berlin who like a good hockey player was in the slot," Davis said.
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— Princeton Hockey (@puhockey) January 27, 2016
Playing in his first career game, Caffrey was the star for the Yellow Jackets tonight, making 45 saves as his team fell to 5-18-2 on the season.
"I think our D corps has been slowly throughout the season getting more and more solid and more comfortable with our different partners and stuff like that," Davis said. "Tonight was a good team effort to get the shutout and it starts with Colton and progresses outwards."
On the other end, Phinney made 23 saves in his second shutout of the season as Princeton improves to 5-12-2 overall.
"It's good to get any win under your belt with youre rebuilding," Princeton head coach Ron Fogarty said." Personally it's great, we won four last year, now we have five with a chance to win more."
Princeton was 0 for 2 on the power play and did not take a single penalty in the game.
Just five weekends remaining in the regular season as the ECAC Hockey final stretch begins this weekend. Princeton will travel to Harvard on Friday, Jan. 29 for a 7:30 p.m., game on NESN, and then to Dartmouth on Saturday for a 7:35 p.m., game.
"I thought we played well in the second and third periods against Dartmouth and the whole game against Harvard," Fogarty recalled the series against these teams from November. "We played well. And we hope we'd have improved and we have. It's tough. Harvard's a very good team, Dartmouth is streaking and you just try to get points, as many as you can each game, especially with how tight the standings are."