It took Krzysztopf Weickowski’s skate to finally put an end to Cornell’s power-play woes.<\/p>\n
After posting a morbid 1-for-28 mark on the man advantage in its first four games, the Red’s special teams unit finally struck at 10:20 of the third period Saturday night against Brown, when a Matt McRae slap shot inadvertently ricocheted off Weickowski’s skate and slid past Bears’ goaltender Brian Eklund, giving Cornell 1-0 lead. <\/p>\n
The Red (2-2-1, 2-1-1 ECAC) added a last-minute, empty-net goal by David Kozier — also on a power play — for a 2-0 win over the Bears (1-5, 0-5 ECAC), and a critical three-point weekend after skating to a 1-1 tie with Harvard the night before. <\/p>\n
“I went to put my stick down but [the puck] hit my skate instead. Some bounces just go that way,” Weickowski said. I didn’t mean to kick it in, but it went off my skate and I’ll take it.”<\/p>\n
“It was time we got that kind of break, and it was a big break for us,” Cornell coach Mike Schafer said.<\/p>\n
After an uneventful first period, the Red seemed to take control offensively at the beginning of the second. A bit after four minutes into the period, defenseman Larry Pierce, who had just finished serving a holding penalty, fielded a cross-ice pass from Ryan Vesce at the red line. He then whipped the puck back to Vesce, who fired a point-blank shot from just in front of the net. <\/p>\n
Though Eklund was able to erase the chance with a terrific save, the play set the tone for the rest of the game, firing up the Lynah Rink crowd in the process.<\/p>\n
Then at 16:52 of the third, Cornell’s Greg Hornby was given a game misconduct and a five-minute major penalty for hitting from behind, leaving the Red to produce a near-flawless penalty kill.<\/p>\n
Only minutes later, the Red finally capitalized on its own power play, sealing the victory.<\/p>\n
“It’s tough, especially in the third period, to kill that,” Cornell netminder Matt Underhill said. “It’s such a boost. I don’t think they even got a shot on their power play.<\/p>\n
“And then to go right back on the power play and score a goal, that was unbelievable.”<\/p>\n
Underhill, despite facing only 16 shots, was sharp enough to keep a clean score sheet.<\/p>\n
“Matt did a great job,” Schafer said.<\/p>\n
Cornell will face Maine at home on Tuesday while Brown will host the Black Bears three days later. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It took Krzysztopf Weickowski’s skate to finally put an end to Cornell’s power-play woes. After posting a morbid 1-for-28 mark on the man advantage in its first four games, the Red’s special teams unit finally struck at 10:20 of the third period Saturday night against Brown, when a Matt McRae slap shot inadvertently ricocheted off […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1359"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}