{"id":8936,"date":"2008-03-22T14:10:27","date_gmt":"2008-03-22T19:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2008\/03\/22\/plattsburgh-erases-early-lead-defeats-elmira-6-3\/"},"modified":"2010-08-23T11:55:32","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T16:55:32","slug":"plattsburgh-erases-early-lead-defeats-elmira-6-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/2008\/03\/22\/plattsburgh-erases-early-lead-defeats-elmira-6-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Plattsburgh Erases Early Lead, Defeats Elmira 6-3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Plattsburgh overcame an early 2-0 deficit and defeated rival Elmira College 6-3 in the second NCAA Division III Semifinal at historic Herb Brooks Arena.<\/p>\n

“Not to be overconfident, and nothing against Elmira, which is an excellent team, but I thought we were the better team,” said Plattsburgh coach Bob Emery. “I watched them on tape three times this week, and I thought if we didn’t beat ourselves, we would win. We didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t start out that way.”<\/p>\n

Elmira scored twice in the first 4:27 to take control of the game early. Just 1:59 into the contest, Sebastian Gulder’s shot bounced off of Derrick Ryan and past Cardinal goaltender Bryan Hince. <\/p>\n

The Soaring Eagles would make it 2-0 at 4:27, when on the power play Nicholas Dumoulin’s shot from the point was redirected by Rusty Masters.<\/p>\n

“I thought we came out ready to play,” said Elmira coach Tim Ceglarski. “But I thought coach Emery called a great timeout.”<\/p>\n

Emery’s timeout at 4:27 settled his team down. “I reminded them that we weren’t playing our game. We were making mistakes and were minus two.”<\/p>\n

Plattsburgh got back in the game with two goals to close out scoring in the first period. At 10:48, Elmira goaltender Casey Tuttle couldn’t corral a rebound, and Dylan Clarke pounced on it to cut the lead in half. At 14:29, Riley Hill deflected a shot from the point from Nick Rolls on the power play to even the score at two each.<\/p>\n

“It was the greatest feeling in the world going into the locker room tied,” said Clarke. <\/p>\n

“Everybody was pumped up,” said Plattsburgh’s Andrew Andrew Willock. “We knew we had it, to be honest. We knew that we could dominate down low.”<\/p>\n

Plattsburgh took its first lead of the game at 2:34 of the second period with another power play goal. Clarke again redirected a shot by Tuttle.<\/p>\n

But the Soaring Eagles weren’t through. At 6:01 Stefan Shoen took a feed from Russell Smith and beat Hince to even the score.<\/p>\n

“I was proud of the way our guys fought back,” said Ceglarski. “But I thought we did a bit of puck watching, and not closing the gap in the defensive zone.”<\/p>\n

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Andrew Willock (14) scores to give Plattsburgh a 5-3 lead. (Russell Jaslow)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Plattsburgh would answer and take the lead for good just 1:37 later. At 8:38, Tuttle made the initial save on a shot by Clarke, but Ward Smith put in the rebound. Willock would score at 14:41 to make it 5-3 going into the third period.<\/p>\n

Joey Wilson got the only goal of the final stanza, swatting a bouncing puck out of mid-air that barely crossed the goal line.<\/p>\n

A pro-Plattsburgh crowd of 5,625 was on hand, the largest to see a Division III playoff game.<\/p>\n

“We have the greatest fans in Division III,” said Emery. “No matter what rink we play in, they’re there to pump us up.”<\/p>\n

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Plattsburgh’s Bryan Hince makes a save.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Hince was solid after the first, stopping 14 of 15 shots over the final two periods.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think I got off to a rocky start,” he said. “One puck went in off a guy’s pants and another was redirected. I didn’t lose any confidence.”<\/p>\n

The six goals by Elmira was the most the Soaring Eagles have given up all season.<\/p>\n

“I’m more proud of this team than any I’ve every coached,” said Ceglarski. “I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think the guys got the respect they deserved after starting the season 17-0-2 in one of the toughest leagues in the country. I don’t have children but I’m a proud father right now.”<\/p>\n

“We don’t have superstars on this team,” said Emery of his Cardinals, which unlike the other three teams in Lake Placid, failed to place a player on the All-American team. “But we’re balanced and we have good players who work together.”<\/p>\n

Plattsburgh will play for its third national title in school history tomorrow against St. Norbert, which is riding a 28-game unbeaten streak.<\/p>\n

“We’ll watch some tape tonight,” said Emery. “But I try not to focus on the other team and worry about taking care of ourselves.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Plattsburgh overcame an early 2-0 deficit and defeated rival Elmira College 6-3 in the second NCAA Division III Semifinal at historic Herb Brooks Arena. “Not to be overconfident, and nothing against Elmira, which is an excellent team, but I thought we were the better team,” said Plattsburgh coach Bob Emery. “I watched them on tape […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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\/8936"}],"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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8936\/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=8936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8936"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}