Thanks for joining us for a new edition of Hockey Talk. This week we chat with Hamden coach Bill Verneris, Amity coach Gary Lindgren and West Haven coach Joe Morrell. Each coach chats about their team's recent performances and forecast how their teams will improve to compete strongly down the stretch.
Amity pulled a big D1 win over West Haven the Big Three did the job for the Spartans. Enjoy the rebroadcast of the game. You can visit our store to order a DVD or purchase a MP4 download of the game.
The Hamden Green Dragons overpowered Notre Dame to earn a crucial mid-season win over the Green Knights. Enjoy the rebroadcast of the game. You can visit our store to order a DVD of the game or purchase a MP4 movie download of the game for your digital device.
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Hamden went on the road to face Notre Dame WH and came away with a convincing win. Enjoy the rebroadcast of the game. Please visit our store to order a DVD or download the MP4 movie file to your digital devices.
New Canaan improved to 10-0 with a 6-1 win over Ridgefield in game played at the Darien Ice Rink in Darien, CT on Monday night. The Rams are the only unbeaten team in D1. Enjoy the rebroadcast of the game and visit our store if you want to download the MP4 movie file of the game to your computer.
Leo Bowler had the call of the game between Xavier vs. Notre Dame WH. The Green Knights scored 3 goals in the third period to sneak past Xavier. Enjoy the rebroadcast of the game and remember you can download the game to your digital device just visit out store for details.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The final score, 5-2, was not indicative of the way this classic men’s ECAC Hockey contest was played. Kenny Agostino’s goal with 11:16 left in the third broke open a 2-2 game and sent No. 1 ranked Yale on to victory over Clarkson before a sold-out Ingalls Rink.
On a night when the Bulldog power play went 0-for-7, the home team still got two goals from Chris Cahill (3 points) and other scores from Brian O’Neill and Denny Kearney. Kevin Peel pitched in two assists while Ryan Rondeau stopped 21 of 23 shots to help the Blue improve to 16-2 overall, 10-1 in the ECAC, and remain atop the conference standings.
Rondeau and the Yale penalty-kill were successful on seven of eight attempts. The senior goalie stopped all 10 shots in the second period, when the Elis needed him the most.
Yale outshot Clarkson (11-9-2, 5-4-1) during one of the most physical games of the season. The Knights’ netminder Paul Karpowich made 28 saves and was the primary reason the game was so close most of the way.
“All game long we were creating odd-man opportunities and we were able to break through in the third period,” said Keith Allain ’80, Yale’s Malcolm G. Chace Head Coach of Hockey. “We went into third period with a lead and relinquished it. That would make some teams weaker, but it appeared to make us stronger. I thought we had our best moments of the game after that, which tells you a lot about our character.”
The Bulldogs had trouble staying out of the penalty box in the first period. Three calls could have turned into big trouble for the Blue, instead they took a lead into intermission.
The Blue got on the board first thanks to a pretty Cahill feed. Colin Dueck gathered the puck at his own blueline and quickly sent it up to Cahill, who saw O’Neill breaking over the blueline a step ahead of the defense. Cahill put it on the junior’s stick going full steam for the net. O’Neill made one fake to his forehand and tucked it backhand at 11:24 for his 11th tally of the year.
The visitors cashed in on their second power-play chance. A shot from the point and a rebound out to the right of the crease turned into a relatively easy Nick Tremblay put-back into a small opening inside the near post at 16:24. Tremblay had to beat a Yale defender to the loose puck to net his sixth of the year.
The Bulldogs turned the tide on the Knights’ third man-advantage to take a 2-1 lead before intermission. Cahill, who now has a career-high 11 goals, did almost all the work himself. He made a big hit on a Clarkson defenseman on their blueline and then sprinted out to the middle after Limbert had the puck at center ice. Limbert fed Cahill who raced in alone (the defender that would have been there was the guy Cahill hit) on Karpowich. The senior forward froze the goalie on his forehand and then tucked a backhander into the net at 17:18 for the first shorthanded goal of his career.
Both goalies came up with big saves on grade-A chances. Rondeau stopped Adam Pawlick at 15:47 with a point-blank blocker save on a mini breakaway before Karpowich knocked aside Brendan Mason’s odd-man rush at 14:54 during a Yale penalty-kill.
The second period may have been scoreless, but it was not lacking action. After being outshot by four in the first, Clarkson had a 10-8 advantage. Both sides had great scoring chances, most notably Broc Little, who broke in alone on the man-advantage and shot one off Karpowich’s pad with 3:05 left. In addition, both teams were blanked on four power plays.
The Golden Knights got the equalizer early in the third. Just as Brendan Mason was coming out of the penalty box, and with Clarkson on a 4-on-3, Julien Cayer picked up the puck in the corner and wheeled around from the lower edge of the right circle. The Clarkson forward fired it low and inside the near post for his first goal just 1:37 in.
The Blue had a chance to get ahead again four minutes later with 71 seconds of 5-on-3 hockey but could not manage a shot on net. Clarkson packed its penalty-kill down low and did a great job of not allowing many shots to get past the first line of defense, most that did went off target.
Yale finally grabbed the lead again when Josh Balch grabbed a loose puck in his end and chipped it off the wall and ahead for Agostino near center ice. With a defender draped all over him, the Yale freshman swooped from the wall to the lower slot before using his right hand to flick the puck over Karpowich.
“Balch [Josh] made a great play to get it up to me. I was able to get around them and chip it over the goalie,” said Agostino, who used his left hand to ward off a defender.
“Kenny made a great individual effort with a one-handed shot over the goalie,” said Allain. “He was just ok up to the break, and came back after the holiday almost as a different person.”
The Knights had plenty of opportunities to pull their goalie under two minutes, but waited until the clock went below a minute. Four seconds later Kearney had the puck (after a Peel poke check assist) heading over the red line. He fired low into the empty net with 47 seconds left and set off an eruption from the big crowd.
Cahill capped the scoring by tapping home his own rebound with one tick left after an Andrew Miller feed.
BULLDOG BITES: Chris Cahill earned first star honors and Kevin Peel was the No. 2 guy… Tonight was the fifth straight sellout at Ingalls Rink… There are no tickets available for Saturday night’s game against St. Lawrence… Yale now has a five-point lead in the ECAC standings.
Filed by Steve Conn, Yale Sports Publicity Director
The game was a classic between two fierce on the court rivals. There was much at stake in the Quinnipiac Division of the SCC. Please enjoy the rebroadcast and visit our store if you would like to purchase the audio MP3 file.
Thanks to Ned Burt here is the email account of the miracle finish for Hamden
I don't know if you heard about our game last night with ND of Ffld but wish you had been there.
Eric Shugrue stood on his head stopping shot after shot. Down 2-0 in third period when CJ Carignan scored at 11:58 on assists from Jimmy Burt and Pat Lynch.
Mike Lee then has a freshman turnover at mid ice and Charlie Zuccarini scoops it up and scores a pretty goal against Varga. 3-1 deficit at the 12:59 mark.
17 seconds to go empty net Paul Amarone takes faceoff to the right of Shugrue. Amarone pushed it forward Burt grabs it avoids 1 defenseman and scores 5 hole. 9.7 seconds left on clock.
Hamden coach Bill Verneris calls a TO and tells Carignan to slap shot the center ice face off to the right boards. Burt wide right with Paul Amarone between he and Carrigan. Carrigan pounds puck down towards right wall near top of the circle Burt gets to it skates down almost to the goal line and fires a prayer at the net that goes off Shugrue's skate and into the net with 4.3 ticks left.
Two goals in 5 seconds and we win 1:11 in OT on a high slot wrist shot by Nicky Amarone set up by Pat Lynch hustle and great feed from down low.
Never seen anything like it in my life! Oh do I wish you were there doing the Call!!!
Enjoy the snow!
The Xavier Falcon's (8-3) qualified for the CIAC D1 hockey tournament off a pulsating 2-1 overtime win over the Amity Spartans (4-6). The Falcons carried the play all night long and the aggressive style paid off when Dan Walsh stole the puck at the Amity blue-line and roofed a backhander past Spartan goalie Alec Mansfield to score the short-handed overtime winner.
Xavier slipped by Amity in a great hockey game on Thursday night. Listen to the post game interviews. Xavier coach Scott Gainey talks about his clubs work ethic and will to win.
Amity coach Gary Lindgren speaks about his club's jump to D1 and more.
We will be adding many more interviews as the season moves along. Enjoy!
Enjoy the men's college basketball replay of the game between Franklin Pierce vs. SCSU. You can visit our store to order a DVD or download the mp4 movie file of the game.
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1PM - Catholic Memorial vs. Fairfield Prep
The Tigers looked ready for a deep playoff run after a convincing win over Glastonbury. Enjoy the replay.
Watch the replay of the Fairfield Warde Ludlowe vs. Cheshire game.
Watch the replay of the Notre Dame vs. Fairfield Prep hockey game. Don Boyle is on the call of the game.
Dick Nanamore had the call of Hall Southington vs. Cheshire.
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