COLGATE MEN'S ICE HOCKEY RIDES THE WAVE WITH 4-2 WIN AT YALE
First back-to-back wins of season for CU behind three power-play goals in final two minutes of second period

Game Boxscore

New Haven, Conn. -- Colgate University scored three power-play goals in a 1:26 span in the final two minutes of the second period to give the Red Raiders to a 4-2 victory at Yale in ECAC action men's ice hockey action Friday night.

The victory closed out the season sweep of the Bulldogs and marked the first time this season that Colgate (7-16-4, 5-9-1 ECAC) has recorded back-to-back victories.  The Red Raiders now have five consecutive wins against Yale dating back to 3/4/00 and it was the first Colgate win in New Haven since 3/13/99 when they won 7-2 in the ECAC Championship first round.

After a 1-1 first period, the second period was in favor of Yale (10-12-0, 6-9-0 ECAC) thanks in part to three power-play chances in the first 16 minutes of the period.  Colgate goaltender David Cann (Brampton, Ont.) came up huge stopping a breakaway attempt by Luke Earl (Simsbury, Conn.) at 9:41 of the second and finished with 30 saves on the night for his second consecutive win in his fourth straight start.

The Red Raiders offensive explosion was prompted by their power-play which was setup by Yale's Lee Jelenic after laying a viscious hit on Bob Vandersluis, which resulted in a five-minute major call for boarding at 16:54.

Colgate took full advantage of its chances scoring three times in the second with the man-advantage.  Cory Murphy (Kanata, Ont.)  started things off with his sixth of the season just over a minute into the power-play at 17:59 from Etienne Morin (Levis, Que.) and Rob Brown (Brockville, Ont.).  Morin skated behind the net and found Murphy wide open in the slot and he hit a slapper in the right corner of the net.

Just 17 seconds later, Mike O'Malley (New Hartford, N.Y.) registered his 8th of the season  from Nolan and Muprhy.  Then a little over a minute later, Bryan Long (Londmeadow, Mass.) connected for his fourth of the year from Ben Bryce (Carleton Place, Ont.) and Scooter Smith (Calgary, Alb.).

The Bulldogs killed off the remainder of the penalty which carried 1:56 over into the third period and then scored an even-strength goal with Jeff Hamilton's (Englewood, Ohio) 14th of the season from Joe Dart at 3:22 of the third.  Dart make a great feed to a wide-open Hamilton on the right side of the net underneath the face-off circle, Colgate goalie David Cann  was hugging left post and couldn't recover to Hamilton's shot.

Colgate resumes action at Princeton tomorrow with face-off at 7 p.m., while Yale hosts Cornell in completion of their ECAC weekend.