February 7, 2010
Another big weekend for us - Wesleyan on Friday, a team we are trying to beat out for a playoff spot - the first
period starts out well for us with a shorthanded goal at 2:30 Walker from John - we continue to
play well and take a 2-0 lead at 8:38, Cooper from Derosa and Plimmer - we stretch the lead to 3-0
on a PP at 12:49, Cooper again from PLimmer and Walker - all three goals came after some nice passing
and finishing something we have been missing of late -------- Wesleyan tries to get back into the
game at 3:29 of the second period and the play starts to even out with chances at both end - we
regain the 3 goal lead at 17:25 on the PP, Derosa from Davis and John and take that lead into the 3rd
----- we seem to put the game on ice at 0:55 when Diaco grabs a loose puck near the crease and
squeezes it home - if you can believe this now the fun really gets outrageous - Wesleyan pulls their
goalie with 15:10 left in the period, I do not think you have seen that too often - to sum up the
bizaare scoring from here on in is a study in futility - now it is - we start off up by 4 - in order
we score an empty netter, they score a 6 on 5, we score two more emptynetters (it is now 8-2), they
score a 6 on 5 followed by 2 scores on a game ending 6 on 4 PP after our usual major penalty in the
last 5 minutes of a game - final 8-5 ---- lost in the shuffle was a hat trick by Diaco, the goal
above and two empty nets (that needs an asterisk), one by Plimmer and assists to Vitale (2), Derosa
and Cooper --- I would prefer not to go through that again, it is painful to watch
Trinity came in last night raring to go - they really dominated in the first period and ran up a 2-0
lead - in the second they made it 3-0 and had continued to outplay us - we got a break on a d zone
turnover with Diaco scoring from Davis and Barker - this seemed to perk us up and we played better
but Trinity was on their A game and shut us down for the rest of the period - in the third we played
well but could not crack the scoring column - we pulled the goalie with a little over 4 minutes to
play, had some good chances but finally they lofted the puck from the defensive face off circle all
the way down the ice and into the net to seal the win --- Trinity is a very good team and will be
heard front in the playoffs I am sure
Off to Maine on the weekend, Friday night at UNE and Saturday at on to So. Maine --------- we need to
keep on getting points every weekend in order to grab a playoff spot - nothing is sure at this point
as you can see by the standings
21 Williams 10-3-1
21 Amherst 9-3-3
21 Bowdoin 10-4-1
20 Trinity 9-4-2
18 Middlebury 7-3-4
17 Hamilton 8-6-1
16 Colby 6-5-4
13 Tufts 5-7-3
9 Conn Col 4-10-1
6 Wesleyan 3-12-0
Middlebury and Williams have a game in hand that probably is this week - there is much at stake
as you can see, Ben
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