Rensselaer’s last game saw the Engineers garner only 12 shots on goal against Massachusetts in a 4-3 loss. Tonight, the Engineers took 52 shots on goal and only allowed Iona 13 shots. And the Engineers put two on the board giving Kevin Kurk his first collegiate shutout, 2-0.<\/p>\n
“I thought from the drop of the puck we had our forecheck, took a lot of shots and we did a lot better job in our own end of the rink,” said Engineer coach Dan Fridgen. “There were a couple of opportunities they had, but you can expect that in 60 minutes of hockey, but everyone was moving their feet, and getting after the puck and finishing their checks.”<\/p>\n
The Engineers outshot the Gaels in the first period, 12-4, but could not score until the second.<\/p>\n
Ryan Shields took an initial shot, but the puck caromed to Scott Romfo at the point. Romfo’s shot rebounded straight to Shields who put it past a surprised Ian Vigier for the 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n
“We were putting some good pressure on them and I got a chance to walk out of the corner,” said Shields. “Romfo just threw it on net and I found it sitting there and I just batted it in.”<\/p>\n
Later in the second period the Engineers made it 2-0 off of a Brad Farynuk wrist shot that clanged in off of the post and past Vigier.<\/p>\n
“The coaches keep telling us to get it to the net and I honestly thought I was just getting it close to the net,” said Farynuk. “It was just a lucky shot.”<\/p>\n
The Engineers outshot the Gaels 23-2 in the second period and then 17-7 in the third, as Kurk made a spectacular glove save to keep the game at 2-0 and earn his first collegiate shutout.<\/p>\n
“It feels good, but my defense played great and I didn’t really have to do much,” said Kurk. “I just wanted to be there for them. It’s kind of special, but I’d rather have the win. I’ll take the win over a shutout any day.”<\/p>\n
“I thought he played real strong in the pipes,” said Fridgen. “Give them credit, they didn’t pack their bags. He made a real good glove save at the end of the game. We wanted to make sure they didn’t get that goal, because they were down 2-0 on Alaska-Anchorage last week and they wound up tying the game. I thought we did a good job of keeping our composure.<\/p>\n
“We played strong defensively and played well in our own end and it started with the goaltending.”<\/p>\n
Iona (0-3-1) will host Holy Cross on Saturday night in its first MAAC game of the season. The Engineers (2-3-0) will travel to Army on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Rensselaer’s last game saw the Engineers garner only 12 shots on goal against Massachusetts in a 4-3 loss. Tonight, the Engineers took 52 shots on goal and only allowed Iona 13 shots. And the Engineers put two on the board giving Kevin Kurk his first collegiate shutout, 2-0. “I thought from the drop of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3536"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}