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Princeton University Athletics
Princeton University
No. 7 Harvard
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Men's Hockey Falls 4-1 at No. 7 Harvard
January 29, 2016 | Men's Ice Hockey
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (1/29/16) - It was entertaining and fast paced from start to finish and the Princeton men's hockey team held its own with No. 7 Harvard through the end, but the Crimson walked away with a 4-1 win on Friday night at Bright-Landry Hockey Center.
It was a 2-1 game up until 12:49 of the third period when Jimmy Vesey scored to make it 3-1, before adding an empty-net goal with 27.4 seconds remaining.
"I will take that game every day – how we played," Princeton head coach Ron Fogarty said. "We did a lot of good things between the dots, disrupted a lot of transition from Harvard with the sticks down and had four grade A scoring opportunities: a post, a 2-on-1, a couple open nets and I would take that type of game and how we played the rest of the way through.
Harvard (11-4-3, 7-3-3 ECAC) converted on its first power-play opportunity of the game to give itself a 1-0 lead. The Crimson's power play ranks second nationally and Sean Malone increased the percentage at 1:56. Tyler Moy sent a blueline pass to Clay Anderson who fired on the netminder Colton Phinney. The puck ricocheted off his pad and out into the slot where Malone got his stick on it and sent it blocker side.
Moy notched his second point of the night with his sixth goal of the season at 5:40. He picked up a loose puck in the neutral zone and had an odd-man rush to the goal where he put the puck over the outstretched left leg of Phinney.
Junior defender Tommy Davis scored his first goal of the season to cut the Tigers deficit to one. Freshmen Ryan Kuffner and Max Véronneau assisted on the goal at 9:04 of the second.
Véronneau collected the puck at the blue line and rifled it towards the goal where it was gloved by Kuffner. Kuffner dropped the puck and played it to Davis at the top of the right circle for the one-timer.
Check out Tommy Davis' first goal of the season pic.twitter.com/CPzbm9BLwl
— Princeton Hockey (@puhockey) January 30, 2016
Vesey expanded the lead back to two at 12:49 of the third. It was a quick transition goal came just after Véronneau snapped a shot that went off the toe of Madsen and slowly trickled away. Alexander Kerfoot set up Vesey with a beautiful pass across the slot for the backdoor goal.
Vesey added an empty-net goal with 27.4 seconds remaining.
Shots fell 36-34 in favor of Harvard, with Princeton outshooting the Crimson 18-12 in the second period followed by the teams trading 11 shots in the third.
Phinney finished with 32 saves including this beauty late in the third.
Take a peek at this save by Colton Phinney pic.twitter.com/a2GdCBVAQO
— Princeton Hockey (@puhockey) January 30, 2016
Harvard was 1 for 3 on the power play, while Princeton was 0 for 1.
Princeton (5-12-2, 3-7-2) faces off with Dartmouth tomorrow evening at 7:35 p.m., at Thompson Arena.