SLU   2   0   4  = 6
   Princeton  2   0   2  = 4
 
 First period:
  SLU   Prin
   0     1    0:41 Prin  Bigelow     (Zilinskas, Flahr)
   1     1    3:05 SLU   Kapeller    (Skene, Blackburn)
   2     1   12:50 SLU   McCarthy    (Perry,Skene)    PP (5 on 3)
   2     2   14:07 Prin  Morris      (Sears)  sh
 Third period:
   3     2    5:53 SLU   McGeough    (Beattie, Verbeek)  PP
   3     3    6:29 Prin  O'Connor    (O'Brien, Fust)
   4     3   14:10 SLU   Massoud     (Beattie, McGeough) PP
   5     3   15:35 SLU   McCarthy    (Meany)
   5     4   19:16 Prin  Kopek       (Sears)   (6 on 5)
   6     4   19:46 SLU   Albert      (Carvel, Allain)
 
 Saves
    SLU       -Giroux  10   8   5  =  25
    Princeton - Konte  12  10  14  =  36
 
Saint Lawrence took a hard fought victory from the Princeton Tigers,
never quite opening up a big enough lead to make it comfortable for
the home fans.  Princeton started the scoring by taking the puck
right to the Saints end and keeping it their until they scored within
the game's first minute. SLU bounced back when Dan Skene put a big
check on a Princeton defender in the corner.  Actually Skene went down
and the Princeton player glared at him while the puck squirted along
the backboard  to Blackburn who fed Kapeller nicely in front for the
goal. SLU scored later in the period while on a 5-on-3 power play, but
immediately gave up a shorthanded goal Princeton's Sears flipped the
puck out of the zone and Morris out-hustled the Saints who were very
slow getting back to recover the puck.  Morris easily went in alone
and beat Giroux.
   No scoring in the second, but a lot of action as the refs decided
to let them play and things got pretty chippy, culminating in a
brief melee which landed several players in the box (SLU's Meany
leading the way with two minors and a 10 minute misconduct).  A slew
of slashing calls followed that only refs seemed to see.  I would
guess that players from both teams were pretty frustrated trying
to figure out the officiating by this point.
   Plenty of scoring in the third as SLU kept trying to finish
Princeton off and they just wouldn't stay down. McGeough scored on
a power play for SLU only to have Princeton's O'Connor answer within
a minute. Another SLU power play clicked with just over 5 minutes
left and McCarthy got his second goal after a good take-away by Meany
(in one of his rare moments on the ice - not in the box) to give
SLU a 2-goal cushion. But Princeton pulled their goalie and got
within one again from a big pile in front of the SLU goal.
With Princeton's goal empty again, SLU finally controlled the puck,
got it to the other end of the ice, but still needed several tries
at the empty net before Albert finally got it. Incidentally, both
SLU third period power play goals came with the regular 1st and 2nd
power play units on the bench in favor of a "regular" line.
     Princeton definitely appeared to be running out of gas at the
end - but first year goalie Konte kept them in it with some big saves.
A few Princeton players (Norris, O'Brien, O'Connor, Sears ...) seemed
to log a lot of ice time.  I'll bet that they have a real tough
time over at Cheel keeping up with Clarkson tomorrow night. SLU is
looking forward to its rematch with Yale.
     Finally, I had the pleasure of meeting hockey-l's own Wayne
Smith at tonight's game.  It's just too bad that he had to make
this long a trip to see some REAL hockey after being stuck so long
with just Maine to watch!  Just kidding Wayne - he'll be away from
his machine until at least Sunday so my hockey-l subscription will
be safe until then.
 
Robin Lock
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