When you give up two shorthanded goals and still win, you must be doing something right. <\/p>\n
Union survived shorthanded tallies by Zach Mayer and Christian Jensen on Saturday to take a 5-2 ECACHL victory from winless Yale at Ingalls Rink. <\/p>\n
It is the sixth straight win for the league-leading Dutchmen (6-0 ECACHL, 7-5 overall), and broke the team record for consecutive ECACHL victories. The old record of five was set Jan. 18-Feb. 1, 2003. <\/p>\n
It also ties the team’s overall record for consecutive wins. The Dutchmen won six in a row Dec. 21-Jan. 10 during the 1996-97 season. <\/p>\n
But the Dutchmen, who got goals from Scott Brady, Casey Ftorek, Jordan Webb, A.J. Palkovich and Olivier Bouchard, aren’t celebrating the team’s best-ever league start. <\/p>\n
“It means nothing until we’re 7-0, and then that means nothing until we’re 8-0,” said Ftorek, whose power-play goal late in the first period gave the Dutchmen a 2-1 lead. “We have to play every game like it’s our last and most important. That’s contributed to a lot of our victories this year.” <\/p>\n
Union coach Nate Leaman wasn’t happy with the shorthanders by Yale (0-6, 0-8), both on breakaways. Mayer scored with 27.9 seconds left in the first period to tie the score, 1-1. Jensen took advantage of a Sean Streich giveaway in the Union zone and beat goalie Justin Mrazek with 4:06 left in the second, cutting Union’s lead to 4-2. <\/p>\n
“They were outworking us,” Leaman said. “Later in the game, I thought we had some good chances. But they really had their feet moving on the penalty kill, and were pressuring us on the breakout hard. We coughed it up a couple of times. You have to give them credit.” <\/p>\n
Ftorek’s power-play goal with 11.3 seconds left in the first helped Union quickly recover from Mayer’s goal and gave the team the lead back. He blasted a shot from the slot past goalie Josh Gartner. <\/p>\n
“We went out for the faceoff, and wanted to gain back some momentum after the shorthanded goal, which was kind of a dagger with [less than] 30 seconds left,” Ftorek said. “The pass came across, and I was fortunate to get a good shot off and it went in. I think it put the momentum right back on our side for the start of the second period.” <\/p>\n
The Dutchmen got the first two goals of the second period. Webb scored his team-leading 11th goal of the season, a power-play tally, less than five minutes in. <\/p>\n
Webb picked up his 99th career point when he assisted on Palkovich’s goal with 7:50 left in the second. He sent a pass to defenseman Michael Beynon coming off the bench. Beynon skated around the net, and hit Palkovich with a pass as he was coming down the right wing. Palkovich one-timed it past Gartner.<\/p>\n
“A guy who made a big play on it was [defenseman] Chris DiStefano,” Webb said. “I just happened to be the other defenseman. I think there was some confusion with the line change. Chris made a nice play, playing the body on the guy. I just managed to get it from their player. I saw [Beynon] coming off the bench. I just tried to get it to him as quickly as I could.” <\/p>\n
Ken Schott covers college hockey for <\/i>The Daily Gazette in Schenectady, N.Y.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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