Colgate renewed its passionate rivalry with travel-partner Cornell, albeit in a game utterly devoid of postseason ramification. The Red imposed their will on the battered Raiders in the ECAC Hockey consolation game, defeating the ‘Gate 4-2. <\/p>\n
“Games like this are always challenging to get motivated for,” said Colgate head coach Don Vaughan. “But that said, both teams came out and played hard.”<\/p>\n
“It’s a game that nobody wants to be involved in,” echoed Cornell’s Mike Schafer, “[but] I told [my team] that every time you pull the jersey over your head, you play with pride.”<\/p>\n
Raiders captain Jesse Winchester, out of the lineup for his last career game, was asked by Vaughan to step behind the bench with him for the contest.<\/p>\n
“I told him a couple of minutes before the game that he was making his coaching debut, and he didn’t believe me,” said Vaughan. “I thought it would be fitting for [him].”<\/p>\n
The teams played with equal parts pacifism and punishment, dishing out the hits at times, but also seeking the path of least resistance other times. Raider Mark Dekanich made a terrific diving glove save halfway through the first period, but Cornell’s Doug Krantz made him look foolish four minutes later with a soft five-hole shot from low on the left wing.<\/p>\n
“We really tried to enjoy ourselves” in our last game, said Krantz of his team’s attitude.<\/p>\n
The Raiders drew even with their biggest rivals at 16:04 of the period, as 6-foot-5 sophomore Sean Carty beat Ben Scrivens on a one-timer from Mike Werner. The goal was Carty’s first career point, earned by busting down the slot and slamming the feed between Scrivens’ pads on the two-on-one rush.<\/p>\n
The Big Red power play victimized the Raiders on consecutive chances in the second, putting the Ithaca icers up 3-1 by the nine-minute mark.<\/p>\n
First, co-captain Raymond Sawada tipped Mike Devin’s point shot over Dekanich’s shoulder from in close at 7:31. Sophomore Justin Krueger followed it up with a rip over the goalie’s blocker from the left-wing dot at with 8:57 gone in the frame.<\/p>\n
Vaughan elected to replace his bread-and-butter ‘keeper halfway through the period, to a rousing applause from Colgate’s bench and backers. Senior classmate Justin Kowalkoski — “Moose”, to his teammates — came in for his seventh appearance of the season, and 18th of his career.<\/p>\n
Cornell converted on yet another power play opportunity 3:16 into the third, as second-year skater Colin Greening deflected fellow soph Brendon Nash’s shot through Kowalkoski’s pads.<\/p>\n
Junior Dan DiLeo replaced Scrivens with just under three minutes to play, making his first-ever appearance for the Big Red. <\/p>\n
“A lot of guys on our team who play a lot could learn a lesson [from DiLeo],” said Schafer. “[He] works hard day-in and day-out.”<\/p>\n
Tyler Burton gave the newcomer his first-ever goal-against, knocking home a cross-crease rebound of Ben Camper’s shot from the right.<\/p>\n
Vaughan had his goalies change “on the fly” late in the third, as he was intent on Dekanich finishing his Colgate career on the ice.<\/p>\n
“I’m not sure that’s legal in the NHL,” laughed Schafer afterward, “but we were trying to figure out how to change our guy [too].”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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