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MARC CAVOSIE'S HAT TRICK LEADS MEN'S HOCKEY TO WIN OVER YALE
TROY, N.Y. Marc Cavosie had a hat trick and Nathan Marsters made 26 saves as Rensselaer skated to a 4-2 win over Yale in an ECAC men?s hockey game before 2,927 at the Houston Field House.
Both teams entered the game with 2-0-1 records over the last two weeks and the two starting goalies, Dan Lombard of Yale and Rensselaer?s Marsters, were sizzling after a pair of fine outings. The difference was a two-minute stretch where RPI scored three times and Marster?s theft of numerous great scoring chances. The Bulldogs also allowed too many odd-man rushes and Lombard (31 saves) got little help around the goal.
Yale (3-5-2, 3-4-2 ECAC) dominated play in the opening period by outshooting Rensselaer 13-9, but the home team capitalized on its big chance for a 1-0 lead. The Engineers (5-4-1, 2-1-1) got four of those shots on goal in the final minute on part of their second power-play opportunity.
The Bulldogs second power-play attempt was cut short by a Nick Deschenes tripping penalty at 14:51, and the Engineers took advantage of their short advantage. Ryan Shields dug the puck out of the corner and fed Jim Vickers, who got it to Cavosie, who one-timed it from the left faceoff circle. The puck flew past Lombard a foot off the ice on his glove side at 16:34. It was Cavosie?s seventh goal of the season and RPI?s third shot on goal. At that point, the Elis were outshooting the home team 13-3, including seven shots from point-blank range.
Denis Nam and Spencer Rodgers had three great chances between them but Marsters came up with huge stops. The RPI sophomore made a spectacular glove-save on a 10-foot hard wrist shot by Rodgers midway through the period.
The game?s first goal ended Lombard?s shutout streak at 141:09, the longest scoreless string of his career. It was also the first time in three games that the Blue had allowed a power-play score.
For the second straight week, the Bulldogs scored shorthanded, but this was a big, game-tying goal. With Greg Boucher serving the last minute of a stick-holding penalty at the opening faceoff of the second stanza, Rodgers controlled the puck on the draw and flipped it ahead to a streaking Luke Earl. The Yale captain skated in alone on Marsters and fired a high wrister past his glove just six seconds into the frame. The shorthanded goal was the second of Earl?s career and gave him three goals on the year.
Yale made it 2-1 with excellent forechecking. Nathan Murphy, working behind the home net, got the puck to Ryan Steeves (4 th goal). The Bulldog sophomore wheeled and fired a low shot on Marster?s glove side at 10:46, which was the first of three goals over a one-minute span.
RPI, undefeated at home this year with a 4-0-1 mark, answered with a pair in 47 seconds to recapture the lead. Carson Butterwick?s wrister from the left circle off a rush beat Lombard low on the glove side at 10:59, just 13 seconds after Yale had taken the lead. Cavosie nailed his second when Ryan Shields found him on the right side of the slot with a perfect crossing pass and no defender in sight. The junior center easily one-timed it into the open side of the net.
Cavosie (9 th ) completed the hat trick with an amazing play to make the score 4-2 midway through the second. Linemate Conrad Barnes led Cavosie near the Yale blueline with a defenseman all over him. Cavosie, who has eight of his goals in three games this season, not only managed to break free but controlled the puck before deking Lombard and backhanding it on the ice past the fallen netminder. It was his second triple-goal outing this season and his fourth career hat trick.
RPI, in scoring three goals, reversed the dominance of the first period by outshooting the Bulldogs 16-5. It was the first period this season Yale had allowed three goals.
Both squads had numerous quality scoring chances in the third stanza. Steve Munn?s penalty with 1:15 left in the game got Yale coach Tim Taylor to pull Lombard for the additional skater, but the Bulldogs could muster just one shot on net.
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