Men's Ice Hockey 10/23/2019 12:00:00 AM

Men's Ice Hockey Falls in Exhibition Tilt to SUNY Plattsburgh, 5-3

Box Score

SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. - The Saint Michael's College men's ice hockey team fell to the State University of New York at Plattsburgh, 5-3, during an exhibition game on Wednesday evening in Cairns Arena.

SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

Junior Sel Narby (Huntington, N.Y./Connecticut Junior Rangers), 2 goals
Sophomore Andy Ide (Barrington, R.I./Cushing Academy), 1 goal
Junior Niall Foster (Newmarket, N.H./Walpole Express), 2 assists, 11-for-23 faceoffs
First-year Matt Schreiner (Falmouth, Mass./Walpole Express), 8-for-17 faceoffs, +1
Senior Tim Decker (Liverpool, N.Y./Canterbury School), 12 saves in 1st period
Sophomore Hugo Turcotte (Gap, France/Kimball Union Academy), 10 saves in 2nd period
First-year Alec Lindberg (Bedford, N.H./Hampton Roads Whalers), 9 saves in 3rd period

OPPONENT LEADERS

Sophomore Matt Araujo, 1 goal, 1 assist
First-year Brendan Schulte, 2 assists
Sophomore Christian DiFelice, 1 goal
First-year Andrew Bechard, 1 goal
First-year Ryan Hogg, 1 goal
First-year Christian Thomas, 1 goal
Junior Jimmy Poreda, 6 saves in 1st period
Junior Lawson Fenton, 15 saves in 2nd period
Sophomore Brandon Wells, 5 saves in 3rd period

GAME FACTS

The teams played a preseason exhibition game for the second time in as many years after meeting in Plattsburgh last October.
Narby has never scored a multi-goal game during his career.
Ide netted two goals during his rookie season.
Eight players made their Purple and Gold debuts, as all 24 skaters and three goalies saw time.
SUNY Plattsburgh held slim leads in shots (36-29) and faceoffs (38-35).

THE ACTION

A SUNY Plattsburgh scramble outside the crease 2:30 into the game featured two saves by Decker and blocks by both juniors Paul McAuliffe (Newton, Mass./Kimball Union Academy) and Cameron Stewart (Sabattus, Maine/East Coast Wizards). A penalty was called at the conclusion of the sequence, and Araujo slipped the first goal of the game inside the right post from the left circle at 3:41 on the ensuing power play.
Poreda denied Schreiner's blast from the high slot with his blocker at 7:58 before Narby had a one-timer from the low left circle at 8:49 stopped after sophomore Matt Egan (Hingham, Mass./Kimball Union Academy) sent a pass from behind the net.
Narby had another couple chances around 12:30, having a shot from the mid-slot saved before grabbing the rebound and shooting again from deeper in the slot but being denied by an advancing Poreda.
Thomas doubled the lead at 15:14, picking the upper right corner from the low slot after taking first-year Adam Tretowicz's pass from the boards.
DiFelice made it 3-0 1:11 later during a power play, scoring from the left side of the crease after grabbing the rebound of senior Ryan Kuhn's saved shot.
Just 54 seconds after entering the game to begin the second period, Turcotte snapped up a glove save of Kuhn's shot from the slot during a power play. At 1:13, Hogg added to the Cardinal lead, firing from the left circle amid a 5-on-3 advantage.
Turcotte vacated his net during a delayed penalty shortly thereafter, and Narby skated from the left point into the right circle before picking the upper left corner to put the Purple Knights on the board at 3:03.
A harried sequence later in the period saw first-year Connor Redden (Southbury, Conn./Team Maryland) tip a shot during a power play from the slot that Fenton gloved at 15:34 before junior Noah Muller (Amsterdam, The Netherlands/Düsseldorfer EG) had a shot from the left circle blockered away 20 seconds later. Cardinal sophomore Daniil Ovchinnikov countered with a rush to the other end, but Turcotte denied the shorthanded bid.
With Turcotte prone in the crease and a little more than a minute to go, he made a save with his helmet on Kuhn's shot from in close.
Ide tallied 3:18 into the third period after being denied out front but putting home a second effort.
Narby cut the deficit to 4-3 at 10:01, one-timing a shot from the left circle off Foster's pass from the slot during a power play.
Lindberg made a nice left pad save at 11:00 from first-year Samir Abouelhana's bid from the slot, but the Cardinals reestablished their two-goal lead during a power play with 13:01 gone, as Schulte's pass from the goal-line extended was tipped out front by Bechard under the netminder's left arm pit.
The Purple Knights had two more good chances to chip away at the deficit, but junior Andrew Olevitz's (Winthrop, Mass./Northern Cyclones) shot from the left circle hit Wells' should around the 14-minute mark, and first-year Jeremy Routh (Hamden, Conn./New Hampshire Junior Monarchs) rung the right post at 15:55.
Lindberg kept it a two-goal contest with a little less than a minute to go, as Kuhn weaved through two Purple Knight defenders to get in close but was stonewalled by the goalie's left pad.