RPI vs. Colgate
Houston Field House
Troy,NY 11/6/99
attendance 4732
officials Mike Noeth, Tim Crowley, Brian Bouyea
period 1
P 5:18 RPI Pothier (high stick)
G 7:12 Col (0-1) Morin(MacDonald,O'Malley) ppg
P 7:43 Col Potter (high stick)
G 8:56 RPI (1-1) Reigstad(Caley,Henkel) ppg
P 12:24 RPI Caley (holding)
P 12:37 RPI Pothier (boarding)
P 13:23 Col Nolan (slash)
G 16:18 Col (1-2) Varecka(Rajamaki,Murphy)
P 19:51 RPI Tapper (slash)
G 19:59 Col (1-3) McDonald(Nolan,Murphy) ppg
period 2
P 2:35 Col Bryce (slash)
P 5:14 RPI Butterwick (rough)
P 8:30 Col Campbell (slash)
P 11:12 Col Long (hold)
P 14:04 RPI Coupal (trip)
P 17:05 Col Rajamaki (rough)
period 3
P 2:01 RPI Butterwick (hit from behind)
P 2:37 RPI Pothier (hold)
G 3:02 Col (1-4) MacDonald(Long) 4x4
P 3:02 Shepherd (misconduct)
G 3:46 RPI (2-4) Tapper(Dupee) shg
P 5:45 RPI Butterwick (charge)
P 6:04 Col Long (hook)
P 11:55 RPI Gardiner (slash)
P 15:37 Col Potter (hold)
P 15:37 RPI Munn (rough)
P 18:51 RPI Murley (misconduct)
scoring 1 2 3 T
Colgate 3 0 1 4
RPI 1 0 1 2
saves 1 2 3 T
RPI(Prekaski) 14 5 13 32
Colgate(Harder) 10 16 8 34
Colgate skated into Troy last night coming off an embarassing 8-6 loss to Union in Schenectady on Friday. RPI, coming in after a hard fought 5-4 OT victory Friday night was trying to extend its winning streak to 7 straight. Colgate had a game plan, stuck to it and skated away with a well deserved 4-2 victory. Colgate's game plan was to play disciplined defense, not give up rebounds and to shadow both Brad Tapper and Matt Murley (double teaming Tapper when necessary).
On offense, the combination of Andy McDonald and Sean Nolan gave the Engineers fits all night. The Engineer defensemen couldn't handle McDonald's speed and they just couldn't move Nolan out of the slot during Colgate's numerous power plays.
The Engineers came out flat (perhaps emotionally drained after Friday night's game) while the Red Raiders came out hungry for the 2 points that eluded them the night before. And again,
(this is starting to sound like a broken record), the Engineers hurt themselves all night with penalties. RPI committed 11 minors tonight + 2 misconducts. Freshman Carson Butterwick and senior captain Brian Pothier both were called 3 times each for minor infractions. Two of Colgate's four goals were on the power play but RPI was short handed so often they couldn't get any offense going. Colgate's defense was superb,
standing the speedy RPI forwards up on the blue line and forcing the Engineers to make low quality shots. They cleared Harder's rebounds and moved the puck to center ice where their forwards were already streaking up ice on the attack.
Dan Fridgen did return to his goalie rotation, starting Scott Prekaski in the nets tonight. Prekaski played a decent game although a mental error did give Colgate their second goal when Prekaski tried to stick aside a weak shot from Erkki
Rajamaki and swept it right onto the stick of a waiting Pat Varecka who slammed the puck into the empty net. The only bright spot for RPI was in the third period when Keith Dupee
threaded a pass up the middle to a breaking Brad Tapper who raced the length of the ice to beat Shep Harder on a breakaway to score a short handed goal (his league leading 13th of the year).
But in general, Colgate has to be very pleased with their game tonight. They played very disciplined, they contained the potent RPI offense and managed to score 4 goals in the process. No excuses for the Engineers tonight; they were "whupped" by a team that just plain outplayed them. Now that
RPI has been burned by their excessive penalties and actually lost because of them, maybe they will finally discipline themselves a little and make some positive effort to stay out of the box. If they don't, they're going to be in real trouble next weekend when they travel north for the dreaded
north country trip.
The Engineers face St. Lawrence next Friday and Clarkson on Saturday and then return home the following weekend to face Holy Cross from the MAAC .
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