HAMILTON – Tyler Penner (Winnipeg, Manitoba) scored the game-tying goal with 12:10 left in the third period Saturday evening as the Colgate men’s ice hockey team picked up a 1-1 tie in overtime with the Arizona State Sun Devils in front of a sold out crowd at Class of 1965 Arena.
The Raiders’ offense was dominant from start to finish in Saturday, outshooting the Sun Devils 48-22 with a 20-5 edge in the first period alone.
Penner finally broke through for the Raiders on Colgate’s 35th shot of the game with the game-tying goal. Fellow sophomore Ben Sharf (Williamsville, New York) made a great play to keep the puck in control for the Raiders after the Sun Devils couldn’t take it away. Sharf skated toward the end line before throwing the puck toward the net where Penner managed to bat the puck past Arizona State goaltender Joey Daccord for his first goal of the season.
Colgate peppered Daccord throughout the first period to the tune of 20 shots thanks to a five-minute power play after a boarding major by Anthony Croston. The Raiders tallied seven shots in that stretch but could not find the back of the net.
The Raiders and Sun Devils were scoreless for first 29 minutes of the game before Tyler Busch put Arizona State on top, 1-0. Busch had been in the penalty box for a checking penalty and stayed near the blue line when the penalty expired. Steenn Pasichnuk fired a pass from the Sun Devils own end line and through the Raiders defense to Busch who finished with the one-on-one breakaway against Colgate goaltender Colton Point (North Bay, Ontario).
Moments before Busch’s breakaway, Point had turned away a shorthanded breakaway from Louie Rowe for one of his 21 saves in the game as Point remains unbeaten in the 2017-18 season.
BOTTOM LINE
Colgate 1, Arizona State 1 (OT)
WIN/LOSS RECORDS
The Raiders improve to 3-2-3 on the season and remain unbeaten at the Class of 1965 Arena (2-0-2) with Saturday’s tie while Arizona State’s winless streak hits seven games with a 1-5-2 record.
KEY RAIDER INFO
-Penner’s goal was his first of the season and second of his career while the sophomore also tallied his first point
-Sharf picked up his second point of the 2017-18 season with an assist on Penner’s goal
-Point continued to dominate with 21 saves on 22 shots from the Sun Devils
-Point owns the best GAA (1.28) and save percentage (.955) among goaltenders that have played more than one game in the 2017-18 season
-Colgate’s 48 shots on goal were its most since firing 49 on Army West Point on Dec. 31, 2016 at the Ledyard Classic in Hanover, New Hampshire
-The Raiders close out the month of October with 225 saves with three more days left to donate to the goaltenders’ cause to raise money for breast cancer research through the October Saves program.
FACTS AND FIGURES
-The Raiders owned shots battle with a 48-22 advantage, including 20-5 in the first period and 4-0 in overtime
-Neither team managed to put home a power-play goal as each went 0 for 3
-Colgate dominated faceoffs on Saturday with a 40-24 edge led by Adam Dauda’s (Kitchener, Ontario) game-high 15 for 20 performance
-Saturday’s game was the first sellout of the season and second-ever at Class of 1965 Arena since the grand opening of the building on Oct. 1, 2016.
’GATE GRAB BAG
-The Colgate men’s and women’s ice hockey programs finished the month of October unbeaten at the Class of 1965 Arena with a combined 9-0-2 record in 11 games. The men’s ice hockey team went 3-0-2 while the women’s ice hockey was a perfect 6-0-0.
FROM THE SOURCE
Head Coach Don Vaughan
“I was really happy with our game today, I thought it was our best game of the year. Sometimes the pucks don’t go in, we had some great looks and their goalie made some big saves and Bobby [McMann] hit a couple more posts. Our effort was really good, it’s the first time against a big, heavy team where we actually controlled the offensive boards and kept possession down low. That’s a really good sign.”
“That was a pro shot, that’s a NHL release. The goalie never moved, and Bobby’s seen enough of that, he’s hit a lot of goal posts in a year and a month. They’ll go in though, he’s a really good hockey player and they’ll start to bounce the other way soon.”
“We had a lot of really good looks, we had our power play going pretty well but often its an ugly one like that that gets you back in it. Ben Sharf did a really good job of keeping that alive down low, it was in a lot of feet and Penner found a way to get it towards the net.”
“I think we’ll see a whole lot more of what we saw today. We fired 48 shots at them and that’s a lot of pucks, if we can continue to do that we’ll have some success. Defensively, we played well and at the end of the day that’s what it’s going to take, especially in our league, you have to be able to defend well.”
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UP NEXT
The Raiders open up ECAC Hockey play next week on the road as they will face the Princeton Tigers at Hobey Baker Rink on Friday night before facing the No. 13/13 Quinnipiac Bobcats on Saturday night at High Point Solutions Arena.
