Colgate goalie Steve Silverthorn made 23 saves in the Raiders’ 3-1 win over the Tigers at Hobey Baker Rink Saturday. With the victory, No. 12 Colgate (20-8-2, 12-4-2 ECACHL) leaps over Harvard in league standings to second place.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Princeton (6-17-2, 4-13-1 ECACHL) is winless in its last six games.<\/p>\n
Colgate opened the scoring early. A long slapshot from Tony Masotto beat goalie B.J. Sklapsky 2:21 in. Princeton head coach Guy Gadowsky replaced Sklapsky with Eric Leroux a minute later.<\/p>\n
“I tipped [the puck] and it bounced over the defenseman’s stick. I just beat the defenseman wide. It took a pretty good bounce off the boards for me and I just let it go right away,” Masotto said of his unassisted tally.<\/p>\n
The Tigers maintained offensive pressure on Silverthorn throughout the first half of the game but weren’t able to tie the score. With the Raiders nursing a 1-0 lead with just under eight minutes to go in the second period, Princeton forward Landis Stankievech had a point-blank scoring chance on the power play but was robbed by Silverthorn.<\/p>\n
“Early on Silverthorn came up pretty big,” Masotto said. “Later we really started to get things going.”<\/p>\n
A few minutes later Colgate cushioned its lead with two goals in 1:12. With just under three minutes to go in the period, Dave Thomas won a faceoff to Jon Smyth, who immediately zipped a shot from the circle behind Leroux.<\/p>\n
Darryl McKinnon made it 3-0 at 18:16. He skated in on Leroux and took a shot that was saved, but he followed up with his own rebound for his seventh goal of the season.<\/p>\n
The penalty-filled game produced seven power plays for Princeton, which earlier in the season was one of the best power-play teams. However, the Tigers were unable to capitalize on any of their seven attempts Saturday.<\/p>\n
“We’ve always been pretty good on the penalty kill but the past couple weeks we’ve really tightened down,” Masotto said. “The coaching staff has been working with most of the guys. I think that’s going to be big coming down the stretch.”<\/p>\n
Princeton avoided being shut out for the third time in its last four home games when league scoring leader Dustin Sproat tallied his 15th goal of the year at 18:29 of the third. Gadowsky saw it as a positive sign for his team.<\/p>\n
“I thought that was a big goal,” he said. “We have two games left in the ECAC and we haven’t been able to score here, and we finally got one. To me, that’s a big goal.”<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Gadowsky attributed Princeton’s recent lack of offense to a lack of depth.<\/p>\n
“This is a very good league with excellent coaches,” Gadowsky said. “You have to have depth if you want to score consistently because if you do it all with one line or a few players you’re going to get keyed on pretty easily.”<\/p>\n
Colgate returns home Friday to face Union, and Princeton will play Dartmouth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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