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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 [log in to unmask]