{"id":19153,"date":"2014-03-21T23:35:05","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T04:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/?p=19153"},"modified":"2020-08-24T22:18:32","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T03:18:32","slug":"jacklins-ot-goal-sends-robert-morris-to-its-first-aha-championship-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/2014\/03\/21\/jacklins-ot-goal-sends-robert-morris-to-its-first-aha-championship-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacklin’s OT goal sends Robert Morris to its first AHA championship game"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Robert Morris players celebrate after a 5-4 overtime win over Niagara in the Atlantic Hockey semifinals (photo: Omar Phillips).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

ROCHESTER, N.Y.<\/b> — When bodies get tired and nerves get a little worn, it’s often not the pretty play that gets the job done in overtime.<\/p>\n

Robert Morris nearly had a highlight-reel goal twice in OT, but it was the right bounce in front of the net that led to its 5-4 win over Niagara to advance to the Atlantic Hockey championship.<\/p>\n

[scg_html_aha2014]The Colonials had pressure in front of the Niagara as a puck bounced to Zac Lynch on the left side. At 14:56 in OT, Lynch found Scott Jacklin open on the right side and sent a goal mouth pass in Jacklin’s direction.<\/p>\n

“The puck was bouncing all over the place,” said Jacklin. “It bounced to Lynch and I was wide open and I called for it. I whiffed on it. It hit the heel of my stick and actually went in off the toe of my skate.<\/p>\n

“But we’ll take it,” he said.<\/p>\n

“If he could shoot, he’d have 30 goals,” deadpanned coach Derek Schooley about Jacklin. “He’s got 15.”<\/p>\n

“Sometimes they’re never pretty in overtime,” said Niagara coach Dave Burkholder. “It bounced off of the helmet of one of our guys and onto the tape of a guy in white.”<\/p>\n

It almost did come down to a dramatic goal in overtime, though.<\/p>\n

Robert Morris defenseman Chase Golightly was called for holding just 1:42 into the extra period. Leading Colonials scorer Cody Wydo rushed up ice short-handed as the crowd held its breath, but he was stymied by the extended right pad of Niagara netminder Jackson Teichroeb.<\/p>\n

“I’ve got to get that upstairs really to get that in,” said Wydo. “I just didn’t get enough of it.”<\/p>\n

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Pressure at both ends of the ice shifted the tide toward one team or the other for short spans over the next 12 minutes.<\/p>\n

As dramatic as overtime was, it never should have gotten that far, said Schooley, whose team was still up by a pair with just over three minutes left.<\/p>\n

“We should never have been in overtime,” said Schooley. “A young team needs to not get caught up in the moment. They need to play for 60 minutes.”<\/p>\n

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The Colonials had taken a 4-2 lead at 12:29 of the third period when Lynch worked the puck along the right wing boards and headed toward the net, feeding Wydo coming in from the left side.<\/p>\n

But two goals by Niagara in 47 seconds, including the tying goal banged home by Hugo Turcotte on a rebound, sent the game into overtime.<\/p>\n

“We were a little lackadaisical on the backcheck,” Jacklin said.<\/p>\n

Robert Morris got on the board before three minutes had elapsed in the first period on a pretty play when Matt Cope slid a pass from the right half wall to the slot, where Greg Gibson fired it over Teichroeb.<\/p>\n

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The teams traded goals from there until Robert Morris opened its two-goal lead in the third, with Niagara peppering \u00a0Robert Morris goalie Dalton Izyk with 36 shots through 40 minutes.<\/p>\n

With both semifinal games going into overtime and pushing the start of this game to 8:58 p.m. EDT, it’s a quick turnaround for the Colonials after a prolonged day.<\/p>\n

“Honestly, I don’t even know what’s going on right now,” said Jacklin, as the clock ticked past 12:30 early Saturday morning. “You prepare the same way for 38 straight games and then you have to wait an extra hour and a half, two hours?<\/p>\n

“I’m just glad we know the game is at 7:05 tomorrow,” he said. “We’ll be ready.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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