Flew to the Ground...

The paper's in the drop box and I'm staring down three hours of front desk work at the Alumni Gym so it's time to get the blog up to speed here.

November 14th and 15th brought St. Lawrence and Clarkson to Thompson Arena for our first two game home stand of the season. Both teams are consistently ranked among the best in the nation and whether home or away and as back to back opponents, they are always tough.

I lured him in...

On Friday night, St. Lawrence brought the skilled, strong skating brand of hockey we have come to expect from the Saints. Stejskal put the first point on the board with the only goal of the first period, hammering home a rebound from his crease side office. In the second period, Stevens scored to give us a two goal lead but the Saints took a pair of goals late in the second to even the score.

Jody O held solid for us through the third and we thought we had the game under control when Shields scored late in the third but the Saints tied it up for the second time with just over a minute to do.

When I posted after our loss to UVM I promised that the lessons we learned that game wouldn't be forgotten and Estoclet proved that to be true, as he buried the game winner off a 2-1 rush. The biggest difference between this game and our Vermont loss was that going into the overtime period we were set on playing for the win as opposed to holding on for the tie.

With a piece of bread...

Saturday night brought the Clarkson Knights into Thompson Arena in front of one of our biggest crowds of the season. It is easy to take for granted the support of a community and school body but Saturday night we played to a packed house including a full student section and it was no coincidence that we put together one of our best games of the season.

Clarkson got on the board first halfway through the first period but after that it was all green and white. In what is becoming our trademark style of play, the underclassmen carried the offensive effort with goals from Fleming, Stejskal, Reber, Estoclet, and first-time scorer but longtime rockpile Connor Goggin. Jody O was solid as usual and the game closed out at 5-1.

Play of the game for St. Lawrence had to go to Adam Estoclet for not falling down during his goal celly for a change, and the Clarkson highlight had to be the team effort of the Dartmouth medical staff for getting six zippers in my chin between the first and second periods while equipment manager Brian 'Corky' Corcoran battled to keep my whites white.

For anyone actually following our win song I'm unfortunately going to have to cut it short for the sake of the NCAA page moderators. Suffice to say the boys have learned the tune and will be looking to put it to good use.