If the Clarkson Golden Knights were affected by the controversies surrounding the team and head coach Mark Morris, it certainly didn’t show on Friday night. The Golden Knights took a 2-0 lead and then held the Rensselaer Engineers scoreless for the last 44 minutes of the game to beat the Engineers, 2-1, and earn their first victory of the season.<\/p>\n
“We talked a lot about not bringing emotion into the hockey game,” said interim coach Fred Parker. “You want a certain amount, but if it gets taken away from you then you don’t do too well. They were level-headed and they worked hard for 60 minutes and that’s what we wanted.<\/p>\n
“They’re mature people and they’ve dealt with a difficult situation very well. We were due for a win and it just happened that it came tonight.”<\/p>\n
Morris is on administrative leave while the school investigates an incident that occured after practice last Saturday.<\/p>\n
The Golden Knights got on the board exactly halfway through the first period when Adam Campana came in and took a shot on Kevin Kurk. Kurk stopped the initial shot, but left a rebound which Campana pushed over him for the 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n
Only 1:37 later the Knights made it 2-0 on the power play. Randy Jones got the puck at the blue line and snapped a wrister that went high over Kurk’s left shoulder.<\/p>\n
The Engineers got their own power play goal with 4:16 left in the first period. After a scrum in front, Mikael Hammarstrom pushed the puck underneath Mike Walsh.<\/p>\n
For the next 44 minutes, the Golden Knights would withstand the pressure from the Engineers and hold on for the win.<\/p>\n
“It would have been a little bit of a different game if we had come out with a better start,” said Engineer head coach Dan Fridgen. “That was one of our goals, but the opposite happened. We did a good job to get within one and just couldn’t get that equalizer.”<\/p>\n
Kurk made 27 saves in the game while Walsh made 24.<\/p>\n
“I thought we put some pretty good pressure on them and a bounce here or a bounce there, it just wasn’t meant to be,” said Fridgen. “I thought we had some good pressure at times and there were some shots that [Walsh] didn’t see and they just hit him and we kept it pretty close and we just couldn’t get that equalizer.”<\/p>\n
The game was littered with penalties. It saw Ben Barr of the Engineers receive a major and game misconduct for a hit from behind on Rob McFeeters, plus a few 5-on-3 chances.<\/p>\n
Clarkson (1-3-0, 1-0-0 ECAC) will travel to take on Union on Saturday night while the Engineers (4-5-0, 0-1-0) will host St. Lawrence.<\/p>\n
Notes:<\/b> The shift after Campana scored the goal, he suffered an undisclosed injury and missed the remainder of the game. … Vic Pereira of the Engineers sat in the penalty box for nine minutes — all on penalties that he did not commit. He served Barr’s five minute major and two bench penalties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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