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RED
RAIDERS LOSE 4-2 LEAD IN THE FINAL 1:35 OF THE THIRD PERIOD AND
TIES UMASS-AMHERST 4-4 IN OT Click
here for boxscore Colgate built a 4-2 at 12:15 of the third
period on an unusual goal by Chad MacDonald (Oshawa, Ont.) when the puck bounced off his skate on a Sam Sturgis
(Minnetonka, Minn.) pass and it looked as though the
game was in the hands of the Red Raiders. However, UMass-Amherst forced the
extra-session with back-to-back goals with the goaltender
pulled. The first
came at 18:25 when Tim Turner scored with helpers from Luke
Duplessis and Toni Soderholm.
Then Soderholm found Martin Miljko wide-open camping out
back door on the left side of the net to tie the score at 4-4
with seven seconds remaining. Kevin Johns (Almonte, Ont.) gave
Colgate the 3-2 advantage at 8:28 of the third period off a feed
from Sean Nolan (Dorchester, Ont.).
Nolan, who was behind the net on the left side of UMA
goaltender Markus Helanen, skated up and found Johns on the
right side in front of the net. Johns put a stick on Nolan’s
pass and beat Helanen glove side for his first goal of the
season. The Red Raiders held the early 1-0 lead
when Nolan capitalized on Colgate’s first power-play chance
just 2:31 into the contest.
Nolan recorded his fifth goal of the season off feeds
from Scooter Smith (Calgary, Alb.) and Mike O’Malley
(New Hartford, N.Y.). Smith
carried the puck into the zone splitting two UMass-Amherst
defensemen on the left side setting up a two-on-one with Nolan.
Smith slid the pass to Nolan on the right wing and he
ripped his shot to Helanen’s glove side. UMA got on the board at 16:34 with a
power-play marker by Martin Miljko from Samuli Jalkanen and Joey
Culgin. The power-play opportunity was setup after Colgate was
whistled for too many men on the ice 1:21 into their own
power-play chance at 15:06.
Following a 39-second span of 4-on-4 action, the
Minutemen converted 49 seconds into their power-play
opportunity. The Minutemen took a 2-1 advantage at 9:33
of the second period on a rifling shot by Thomas Pock five feet
inside the blueline beating Lefevre just over his blocker. Colgate’s Matt Nicholson (London,
Ont.) evened the score at 2-2 at the 12:16 mark of the
second period with his first collegiate goal.
Colgate’s Smith tried to stuff the puck past Halanen in
front of the net, the puck trickled out to open space where
Nicholson cranked a slap shot that went five-hole past Helanen. The Red Raiders are idle next weekend and
resume action on the road for a two-game series against the
CCHA’s Ferris State in Big Rapids, Mich. on Nov. 3-4. POSTGAME NOTES:
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