From bfisk@NETSPACE.ORG Sun Mar 15 00:35:17 1998 Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1998 00:32:47 -0500 From: Brian Fisk To: HOCKEY-L@MAINE.MAINE.EDU Subject: Brown-Princeton Game 2 Summary and Box Saturday night the Brown Bears fought to keep their playoff hopes alive and defeated the Princeton Tigers handily by a score of 6-0. It was sophomore goalie Scott Stirling's first career shutout and the first one for Bruno since a February 1995 win over Dartmouth. Comparing tonights game to Friday's is like comparing apples and oranges. Brown played a sharper, more agressive defense and altogether played much better as a team. Princeton's rough-and-tumble style got them in a lot of trouble tonight, as Hansen found his whistle tonight and used it frequently. Brown got on the board quickly with a goal by Damian Prescott just 22 seconds into the game, where got the feed from Michael Bent and beat Erasmo Saltarelli. Brown would go on a the power play later in the period after a holding call on Joe Pelle, where Jade Kersey deflected a shot from the left point for Brown's second goal at 16:17. The second started off with a few penalties but none of them would be converted. Later Brent Hoiness would drive up the left wing deep and then in, and somehow slipped one through the legs of Saltarelli to hit the backside of the far post and deflect into the goal at 7:50. Saltarelli was very unhappy about this goal and protested loudly, but it stood. Four minutes later Paul Giblin would score Brown's fourth goal at 11:45 by just stuffing and stuffing it until finally it slipped through Saltarelli's pads and in. Princeton started off the third period with backup goalie Nick Rankin between the pipes, and Brown welcomed him to the game with a goal 38 seconds into the period. Jeff Lawler drove across the slot left to right and shot, and Rankin made the stop on the ice face-first. But momentum carried him away from the action and the puck was left in the crease, where Bent knocked it in. The middle of this period was full of penalties to both sides, including a spearing major/game misconduct for Brown defenseman Jimmy Andersson and a 10 minute misconduct to Princeton's Casson Masters for roughing it up shortly thereafter. Princeton also inserted third-string goalie Craig Bradley halfway through the period. No goals would come out of the ensuing craziness (including a minute of 3-on-3) but at the end of the period Jade Kersey got the puck behind the Princeton net and fed Paul Giblin in front, who beat Bradley cleanly into the right side of the net. The period would end with Brown up 6-0 to force game three on Sunday. Princeton's penalties certainly hurt them tonight, as they never really developed an offensive rhythm, but Brown played very well tonight. This is interesting in light of the fact that freshman standout Jon Zielinski left last night for good with a knee injury, and Brown was forced to shake up its lines for essentially the first time in 1998. It seemed to work out OK. However more shakups may be necessary tomorrow as it looks like Andersson won't be playing after his game misconduct in the third. We'll see which teams show up tomorrow to get to Placid. -- March 14, 1998 Meehan Auditorium ECAC Quarterfinal Game 2 Unofficial Box Score (from notes and Providence Journal-Bulletin) Princeton 0 Brown 6 -------------------- Princeton 0 0 0 0 Brown 2 2 2 6 First Period: ------------- Scoring: BRN- PRESCOTT (Bent, Lawler) 0:22 BRN- KERSEY (Warrington, Bent) 16:17 PPG Penalties: BRN- PRESCOTT (cross-checking) 5:49 PRN- SHIRREFFS (interference) 5:49 PRN- PELLE (holding) 14:33 PRN- SHIRREFFS (high-sticking) 16:48 Second Period: -------------- Scoring: BRN- HOINESS (Lawler) 7:50 BRN- GIBLIN (Brackenridge, Warrington) 11:45 Penalties: BRN- PRESCOTT (interference) 0:34 PRN- BENCH (too many men) 2:10 (served by Bertoli) BRN- SMITH (holding) 4:31 PRN- BERTOLI (hooking) 9:16 PRN- BERTOLI (hooking) 14:50 PRN- ZAVODNY (cross-checking) 15:57 PRN- CAMPBELL (10 minute misconduct) 15:57 Third Period: ------------- Scoring: BRN- BENT (Lawler) 0:38 BRN- DUVAL (Kersey, DiRenzo) 18:22 Penalties: BRN- LAWLER (hooking) 3:35 BRN- SMITH (high-sticking) 6:30 PRN- APPS (roughing) 6:30 BRN- QUINNELL (holding) 6:52 PRN- BERTOLI (holding the stick) 6:52 BRN- SMITH (roughing) 10:19 BRN- ANDERSSON (spearing, 5:00 major and game misconduct) 10:47 PRN- MORIN (cross-checking) 10:47 BRN- QUINNELL (roughing) 11:08 PRN- MASTERS (roughing, 10 minute misconduct) 11:08 PRN- SINCLAIR (elbowing) 15:03 BRN- LONGFIELD (holding) 18:59 Shots on Goal: -------------- PRN- 2 13 16 -- 31 BRN- 9 19 7 -- 35 Goaltending: ------------ BRN- Scott Stirling (60:00, 31 saves) PRN- Erasmo Saltarelli (40:00, 24 saves) PRN- Nick Rankin (9:54, 4 saves) PRN- Craig Bradley (10:06, 1 save) Officials: ---------- Referee: Hansen Linesmen: Emantiam, Bergoust HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to INFO-HOCKEY-L@Maine.edu, The College Hockey Information List.