Green 5, Red 4 in OT

Some bad bounces and some bad luck cost us this game, but sometimes you got to make your own luck.

New lines again tonight. Probably caused by the injuries to Michael Kennedy and Joe Scali, and the need to distribute scoring more effectively.

Barlow-Nash-Jillson
Greening-Gallagher-Devin
P Kennedy - Mugford -Collins
Kary-Punches-Nicholls

On the bright side, it generated scoring. On the down side, our defense suffered. The lines themselves, nothing particularly exciting. Except for greening+gallagher. so much speed!

Just a strange game. There were times when we were flying. There were times when our offense was clicking, when our defense was tight, when our passes were crisp. There were also times when we were flat.

We could have had more goals. R Nash had two separate 1-on-0 chances, just him vs O'Neill, and he did not get a good shot on either chance. We had a few odd-man-rushes that did not even generate a scoring chance.

Yale, Princeton both won, moving us into 3rd. 1 point behind princeton, 1 ahead of dartmouth. St Lawrence won. They have 17 points in 5th place, we have 23 in 3rd. With 5 games left in the season, their maximum point total is 27. If we get 4 more points, or if they fail to get 4 points (or any combination of the two), 5th place is unable to pass us, and we clinch a first-round bye. Knock on Wood. Oddly, 9th place Clarkson is only 2 points behind 5th SLU(t). Their max is 25...they could still pass us. Odd how we are potentially 1 night away from clinching a first round bye [knock on wood], but we could still mathematically end outside of the top-8 and not have a home playoff round at all [I think...i'm too tired to figure out if teams 5-8 play each other during this time. If so...we are ok].

2 teams with 15. 2 with 16. 1 with 17. A win tomorrow in Lynah East clinches 6th or better. Combined with Clarkson and Yale wins, clinches 4th or better.

KNOCK ON WOOD.

LGR