{"id":10809,"date":"2010-10-29T23:36:51","date_gmt":"2010-10-30T04:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/?p=10809"},"modified":"2010-10-31T11:52:32","modified_gmt":"2010-10-31T16:52:32","slug":"potsdam-dominates-brockport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/2010\/10\/29\/potsdam-dominates-brockport\/","title":{"rendered":"Potsdam dominates Brockport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Perhaps it’s appropriate Potsdam chose the Halloween weekend as the time to exorcise their recent demons at Brockport.\u00a0 The Tuttle North Ice Arena was where the Bears season came to an end the past two seasons in the playoffs.<\/p>\n

Led by a Colin MacLennan hat trick, 26 saves by Trevor O’Neill, and a controversial goal that turned the tide, Potsdam defeated Brockport, 5-2, to open the 2010-11 SUNYAC campaign.<\/p>\n

“O’Neill was very strong tonight.\u00a0 He was on time as we like to say with key stops at key moments of the game,” Potsdam head coach Chris Bernard said.\u00a0 “I thought it was a solid team effort all the way around.\u00a0 We had good puck pursuit.\u00a0 We had good contributions all the way up and down the lineup.\u00a0 So we are pleased.\u00a0 They are a good hockey club.\u00a0 They pushed us hard.\u00a0 It’s good to get points on the road.”<\/p>\n

“We did not play well in the second period,” Brockport head coach Brian Dickinson said.\u00a0 They really took it to us.\u00a0 They kept pouring it on.\u00a0 They outworked us.”<\/p>\n

The key moment of the game came early in the second period with the score tied, 1-1.\u00a0 Fraser Smith took a shot that smacked the underside of the crossbar, came down, and was covered up by Oliver Wren on the goal line.\u00a0 The referee, who was right on the line on the side of the net where the shot went, initially did not call the goal when it hit the crossbar, but did so when it came down.\u00a0 The refs then checked with the goal judge to confirm their call.\u00a0 Wren strongly argued.<\/p>\n

“From my angle, that’s a bar and down,” Bernard said who had the bench closest to that net.\u00a0 “It was in the net.\u00a0 Obviously, the ref was in a great position.\u00a0 He called it right away as a goal.\u00a0 If you were on the other side of that, you want to make an argument.\u00a0 From our end of the rink, from our vantage point, I felt it was a real sound shot and found the back of the net.”<\/p>\n

“I don’t thinks it was in,” Dickinson said.\u00a0 “I really don’t think it was in.\u00a0 Ollie didn’t think it was in.\u00a0 From my angle, it clearly hit the bar and came straight down into the crease.\u00a0 The official agreed, but he felt our goalie carried it into the net.\u00a0 It was under his pads, so I’m not sure how he could rule that.\u00a0 Integral part of the<\/p>\n

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Sy Nutkevitch (19) and Brett Jendra (16) collide on open ice (photo: Angelo Lisuzzo).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

That came at 4:30 and about nine minutes later freshman Brandon Couto made it 3-1 with his first collegiate goal.\u00a0 It came after intense pressure by Potsdam kept the puck in Brockport’s zone for an extended period of time.\u00a0 Finally, with a number of tries up close, Wren appeared to either lose sight of the puck or thought it was already in.\u00a0 Couto, standing at the post, stuffed the loose puck in.<\/p>\n

Brockport’s one and only strong chance in the second period came on a two-on-one, but the Golden Eagle player whiffed on the one-timer.<\/p>\n

Brockport came out in the third period trying to mount a comeback, but O’Neill turned them away each time.\u00a0 The Bears finally got the insurance goal at 11:06 when MacLennan in the slot, redirected a shot by Matt Miller past Wren.<\/p>\n

Just over two minutes later, MacLennan made it 5-1 with his hat trick.\u00a0 From the right side, he received a cross-ice pass from David Carr and one-timed a blast into the net.<\/p>\n

Mike Hayward got one back for the home team on the power play at 17:26 off a rebound from in close.<\/p>\n

The first period was Brockport’s strongest stanza, as they used all the ice spreading the game out.<\/p>\n

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Potsdam's Colin MacLennan (16) ties the game at one in the first period (photo: Angelo Lisuzzo).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“We’re trying to learn to play without the puck,” Dickinson said.<\/p>\n

The Golden Eagles got on the board first for the second game in a row at 12:15 on a beautiful finesse play.\u00a0 James Cody danced around one defender, then dropped it down low to Tom Galiani.\u00a0 O’Neill was overaggressive on the play, and Galiani skated around him and easily deposited it into the open net.<\/p>\n

Brockport nearly made it 2-0 when Brett Jendra went in on a clean breakaway.\u00a0 O’Neill stood his ground to make the save.\u00a0 The rebound came out to Hayward, but the net had been knocked off, so his shot that went in did not count.<\/p>\n

Just before the period ended at 18:56, Potsdam tied the game on a four-on-three power play.\u00a0 It was MacLennan’s first goal, once again one timing a cross-crease pass, this time from Sy Nutkevitch.<\/p>\n

Wren wound up with 28 saves.<\/p>\n

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Tom Galiani (19) gives Brockport the 1-0 lead (photo: Angelo Lisuzzo).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“I don’t think he’s our problem,” Dickinson said.\u00a0 “We obviously have to score more goals.\u00a0 Wren over two games has been nothing short of spectacular for us.”<\/p>\n

Brockport (1-1, 0-1) stays home to face Plattsburgh, who lost to Geneseo tonight, 7-3.<\/p>\n

Potsdam (1-0) travels to Geneseo to face the Ice Knights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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