Hat trick or treat, anyone? Not quite, but Dartmouth sophomore Tanner Glass came pretty close. Glass banged in two goals during the Big Green’s three-goal first period, which powered No. 12 Dartmouth to a 4-1 win over Connecticut on Sunday night before 3,031 in a Halloween special at Thompson Arena. <\/p>\n
Trying to cast off the stink of a 2-1 loss to Quinnipiac on Saturday, Dartmouth (1-1) fired 22 shots at freshman UConn goaltender Brad Smith over the first 20 minutes and gained an insurmountable 3-0 lead for its troubles. <\/p>\n
The Big Green ripped 47 shots Smith’s way for the game, one night after piling 46 on – but getting only one past – Quinnipiac netminder Jamie Holden. <\/p>\n
“We talked a bit about just getting more inside penetration, getting more quality scoring opportunities,” said Glass, who recorded the first multi-goal game of his college career. <\/p>\n
“We had a lot of shots (Saturday), a lot of chances, and we wanted to get inside, get in the goalie’s face and take away his eyes on a lot of those plays.” <\/p>\n
Which is exactly what Dartmouth did at the outset. The Big Green went to work early, taking a 1-0 lead on a power play just two minutes into the game. Defenseman Grant Lewis pinched in from the right point and fed Mike Ouellette behind the Huskies’ net. Ouellette quickly reversed play with a pass to Glass at the right post for the jam past Smith (43 saves). <\/p>\n
Hugh Jessiman made it 2-0 at 6:17, roofing a point-blank backhander over Smith’s shoulder, again on the man-up. Glass filled the Connecticut net once more at 17:06, banging a high-slot drive past Smith and off the left goalpost on counterattack passes from Ouellette and freshman Nick Johnson. <\/p>\n
“Mike is a really solid center iceman; he’s just a hard-working, skilled kid,” Dartmouth coach Bob Gaudet said. “Tanner is a big, strong guy who finishes checks, but can shoot a puck and score. And Johnson is a guy who just quietly goes about his job; he’s not a flashy kid, sort of like Tanner in some respects. You never know, but it seems to be a good complement of styles and personalities.” <\/p>\n
Connecticut (1-3-1) showed more spark in the second period, and even managed to solve Dartmouth goaltender Sean Samuel (20 saves) with an Eric Helstedt man-advantage strike at 4:45. The Big Green gave UConn 11 power plays on the night, but the Huskies didn’t find a way through Dartmouth’s penalty killers again, even when given two-man edges in each of the final two periods. <\/p>\n
Connecticut coach Bruce Marshall admitted the worst thing that could have happened to the Huskies was seeing Dartmouth lose on Saturday. <\/p>\n
“I tried to prepare my team for that, what had just happened to them, and they wanted to make a statement,” Marshall said. “They didn’t respond to that. They did in the second period, we kind of woke up, but by then it was too late to chip away at it.” <\/p>\n
Senior Max Guimond set the final margin of victory for Dartmouth at 4:50 of the third, jamming home a Jarrett Sampson drive that squeezed through Smith’s pads. <\/p>\n
The complete-game win was the first of Samuel’s career. The sophomore netminder had earned his first college win by beating Minnesota State at Vermont’s Sheraton-BankNorth Classic last December despite being pulled in the third period. <\/p>\n
Having opened with a pair of nonconference games, ECAC action is next for the Big Green in the form of home contests with Yale on Friday and Princeton on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Greg Fennell covers Dartmouth hockey for the Valley News<\/b> of West Lebanon, N.H.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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