The Hobart Statesmen and Plattsburgh Cardinals battled through a defensive game, before\u00a0 the Cardinals blew it open late in the third period for a 5-2 win.<\/p>\n
Good, solid defense by both Plattsburgh and Hobart led to end-to-end action in the first\u00a0 period.\u00a0 Neither team managed a shot on net until Hobart broke with the first shot 4:13\u00a0 into the game.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
But it was Plattsburgh that opened the scoring at 4:15.\u00a0 Brendon Hodge passed from in\u00a0 the corner to linemate Rob Retter standing on the doorstep of the Statesman net.\u00a0 Retter\u00a0 tapped in the pass to give the Cardinals the 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n
Hobart evened the score at 10:17 when Matt Pane scored from in close. Hobart had been\u00a0 crashing the Cardinal net for several shifts and the work finally paid off.<\/p>\n
Both teams had power plays early in the second period, but the tight defensive play\u00a0 stymied them and neither team got any shots on goal.\u00a0 As a matter of fact, the first shot\u00a0 on goal once again didn’t come until well in to the period, 6:30 to be exact, when Hobart\u00a0 put a shot on net after a 2-on-1 break.<\/p>\n
The defenses of both teams ruled during the second period and neither team tallied a\u00a0 goal.\u00a0 Play started to open up in the waning moments of the period, though, as more\u00a0 odd-man rushes took off.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
“Hobart played unbelievable defense for two-and-a-half\u00a0 periods,” said Plattsburgh coach Bob Emery.<\/p>\n
The Statesmen took the early momentum in the third period, getting four quick shots on\u00a0 the Cardinal net in the first two minutes.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
The Statesman played very disciplined hockey\u00a0 all night, both by staying out of the penalty box and defensively in their own zone.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
“I\u00a0 thought the boys stuck with the program right to the end,” said Hobart coach Mark Taylor. “We had our lapses at times, but they never folded the tents.”<\/p>\n
Hobart took the lead 4:45 into the third period with a power-play tally.\u00a0 Matt Daley sent a\u00a0 slap shot from the point towards the net, and Chris Doolan redirected the shot in for the\u00a0 goal.<\/p>\n
The pace of the game reached feverish pitch as Plattsburgh played desperation hockey to\u00a0 try and tie the game.\u00a0 And the Cardinals did tie the game up at 12:27.\u00a0 Brian Toussaint\u00a0 passed across the slot to Mark Coletta, who was waiting on the doorstep.\u00a0 Coletta tapped\u00a0 the puck into the net to knot the game at 2.<\/p>\n
This swung the momentum strongly to the Cardinals, who just swarmed in the Hobart\u00a0 zone.\u00a0 Coletta came through again at 16:46 to give Plattsburgh the 3-2 lead.\u00a0 He took the\u00a0 shot while skating through the left faceoff circle.\u00a0 Hobart netminder Chris Connolly made\u00a0 the save but Coletta gathered in his own rebound as he crashed the net and curled the puck in the net for the goal.<\/p>\n
Brian Toussaint added an insurance goal at 17:49.\u00a0 Jason Kilcan had the puck in the\u00a0 corner and passed to Toussaint near the dot in the right faceoff circle.\u00a0 Toussaint\u00a0 rooked the puck over Connolly’s shoulder for the tally.<\/p>\n
Hobart pulled its goalie with 1:04 remaining but Plattsburgh scored the empty-net goal\u00a0 with just 1.4 seconds left to seal the 5-2 win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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