This is the season for giving. Perhaps that’s why No. 20 Dartmouth was in such a generous mood in dropping a 4-1 decision to North Dakota in the second half of the Ledyard National Bank Classic twinbill at Thompson Arena.<\/p>\n
The Big Green (5-5-2) didn’t out-and-out hand the ‘W’ to the Fighting Sioux (8-10-1), but Dartmouth more than set the table for a visitor hungry for a little success. UND left the table satisfied, with third-period goals from Robbie Bina, Andrew Kozek and Ryan Duncan that were frequently abetted by Dartmouth misdeeds.<\/p>\n
NoDak meets St. Lawrence in the finale; the Saints ousted No. 9 Boston University on an overtime penalty shot, 4-3, in yesterday’s opener. Dartmouth gets the Terriers in the 4 p.m. consolation contest, the first time in seven Ledyard Classics that the Big Green hasn’t at least played for the tourney title.<\/p>\n
“You’ve got to be smarter in what you do on the ice,” said Dartmouth coach Bob Gaudet, whose team gave up two shorthanded goals, one power play goal and went 0-for-10 on the man up with little sustained pressure. “That’s what we have to focus on.”<\/p>\n
UND and the Big Green got to the third period tied at 1 thanks to matching shorthanded goals to open each period.<\/p>\n
Rylan Kaip got the first for the visitors. Racing down the left wing, Kaip gathered the rebound of his own shot off a Dartmouth defenseman and fired a screened wrister through the pads of Big Green goaltender Mike Devine just 2:21 into the game. Dartmouth’s David Jones answered in similar fashion at 1:29 of the second, racing around North Dakota defender Scott Foyt to rip a wrister past UND netminder Philippe Lamoureux’s glove hand.<\/p>\n
But the breaks gradually favored NoDak, and it paid off on the scoreboard. Bina’s point drive deflected off a Dartmouth stick and bypassed goalie Mike Devine (14 saves) at 6:33 of the third. Kozek zipped a wrister past Devine at 9:01 on a counterattack created when Chris Porter jammed the puck past a Big Green point man on a four-on-four. Duncan clinched it with a T.J. Oshie-fed shorthanded writer into the empty net at 19:18.<\/p>\n
On three of NoDak’s four goals, either a Dartmouth point man had a shot blocked or failed to contain at the blue line, surrendering an odd-man rush in response.<\/p>\n
“We haven’t got a bounce go our favor in six, seven weeks, on the offensive side of the puck,” North Dakota coach Dave Hakstol said. “There’s a lot of things that go into our struggles, but it’s not that we’ve played all that poorly.”<\/p>\n
Lamoureux finished with 25 saves for the Sioux.<\/p>\n
Greg Fennell covers Dartmouth College hockey for the <\/i>Valley News of West Lebanon, N.H. <\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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