Hi hockey folks -
 
Well... the wonderful wacky world of Dartmouth hockey continued on Saturday
night when Dartmouth fell to Yale 7-6. Although there were no tennis balls,
there were two gorillas who showed up for the game (in the stands - not on
the ice) and there was a streaker between the second and third periods. It is
amazing how fast the fans can turn around from apathetic to "normal" fans
(note- tennis balls, gorillas, and streakers). Attendance is up from around
1100 at the start of the year to about 3400 - definitely a boost for the
team.
 
Dartmouth, as it is wont to do this year, spotted their opponent a few goals
early in the period. A ppg at 4:09 and another goal at 4:33, gave Yale a 2
goal lead that put Dartmouth in the position of catchup for the rest of the
game. Dartmouth answered quickly, however (they woke up) with a goal less
than a minute later and tied the game at 9:22 with a power play goal of their
own. Yale scored 14:25 the end of the period to make it 3-2 on another ppg.
 
The second period was rather uneventful with both goalies coming up with a
few big plays and Yale ending up with a 5-3 lead.
 
The third period was the Scott Fraser show. Yale scored first, at 11:17 to
take a 6-3 lead, but from then on Dartmouth put on increasing pressure.
Fraser scored his first goal of the period at 13:36 on a pp (this gave each
team two ppgs), but les than 30 seconds later Yale came right back on a break
in and scored preserving the 3 goal lead for Yale (7-4). Fraser got another
goal at 16:12 and a third at 19:42. Dartmouth almost scored again in the last
18 seconds to send the game into OT, but came up short.
 
The game leaves Dartmouth with 6 wins out of its last 8 games and an overall
record of 7-9-0. What is interesting, though, is that 6 of the 7 wins were
come from behind wins and all the wins were one goal wins. TEN of Dartmouth's
16 games have been one goal games, with an additional 2 or 3 being empty net
2-goal games.
 
Bob Gross