This Ivy league contest feature some interesting hockey as Cornell beat
Dartmouth 7 seconds into overtime.
 
Dartmouth's Scott Fraser scored a powerplay goal 57 seconds after the opening
faceoff with assists going to Tony DelCarmine and Matt Collins. Dartmouth
totally dominated the first 10 minutes of the game but was held off the
scoreboard by excellent goaltending by Eddy Skazyk. About midway through the
first period, the complexion of the game dramatically changed. Cornell
started to play better hockey and for some reason, Dartmouth started giving
the puck up consistently  in their own end (often with nice passes directly
onto Cornell sticks).
 
Mike Bracco, Dartmouth's goalie, played extremely well and kept the score at
1-0 for the remainder of the first period and through the second period.
After only 1 goal being scored in the first two periods combined, 5 goals
were scored in the last period. To open the third, Scott Fraser picked up the
puck in the Dartmouth end and skated the length of the ice through several
Cornell nd scored an unassisted goal only 47 seconds into the third period -
making the score 2-0 Dartmouth. Cornell answered quickly, taking advantage of
Dartmouth miscues and scored three goals in less than 4 minutes. At 1:52 Jake
Karam scored from Bumstead and Sancimino (interestingly, all goals up to this
point had been scored by number 17!). At 4:36, Dartmouth was caught in a line
change and Andre Doll scored from Bumstead and Karam. Less than a minute
later at 5:32 Cornell pulled ahead 3-2 on a score by Mark Scollan from Papp
and Auger. Dartmouth evened the score at 12:56 on an unassisted powerplay
goal from Patrick Turcotte. Brilliant goal tending by Dartmouth's Mike Bracco
kept the score tied through the end of the game. Bracco continually turned
away point blank shots as Cornell put on a great deal of pressure and
Dartmouth could not clear the puck out of their own zone.
 
The game ended only 7 seconds into OT when the puck squirted out from the
faceoff to Shaun Hannah who skated in alone and put the puck past Bracco.
This was the third goal scored within the first minute of the period in this
game.
 
All-in-all this was an interesting game. Both teams played hard with the
exception of the first 10 minutes in which Cornell seemed to be sleepwalking
(sleepskating?). However, Dartmouth was not able to take advantage of
Cornell's lapse. On the other hand, Cornell DID take advantage of some of the
mistakes Dartmouth made and that was the difference in the game. It looked
like an early season game.
 
We'll see what happens tonight as Colgate comes to town. I know that
Dartmouth would like to make ammends for the triple OT loss to Colgate in the
playoffs last year.
 
Bob Gross