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Knights latest women's hockey victim in Princeton shutout streak

Posted 1/8/11

Potsdam, NY – Unable to muster a single goal in the first game back from break, the Clarkson University Women’s Hockey team found itself as yet another team to be shut out by Princeton …

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Knights latest women's hockey victim in Princeton shutout streak

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Potsdam, NY – Unable to muster a single goal in the first game back from break, the Clarkson University Women’s Hockey team found itself as yet another team to be shut out by Princeton University, as the Tigers posted their fourth straight shutout in a 2-0 ECAC Hockey victory over the Golden Knights in front of 236 fans Friday night at Cheel Arena.

The Golden Knights lost their third straight conference game, and dropped to 6-11-3 overall and 3-4-1 through eight league contests. Princeton won its sixth straight game to improve to 9-10-1 and 6-6-1 in ECAC Hockey play.

The first period opened with Princeton taking the action into the Golden Knights’ end, as the Tigers sent many long shots on the Clarkson cage. The majority of the shots didn’t have a lot behind them, so Clarkson goaltender Erica Howe (Ottawa, ONT) turned most of them aside with ease. However, the Tigers took advantage of an early opportunity when the Knights were whistled for a penalty, and Princeton got on the scoreboard on its first power-play chance of the game. Freshman Denna Laing corralled a loose puck near the boards at the bottom of the left circle, and sent a pass out to the point. There, senior defenseman Sasha Sherry wristed a shot through traffic and the puck snuck through several screens and past Howe at 13:26.

Clarkson nearly knotted the score up at 1-1 just two minutes later as freshman Jamie Lee Rattray (Kanata, ONT) skated in on an odd-player rush, but her top shelf wrister clanged off the post and bounced away behind the red line, ending the Knights best scoring opportunity.

The second period was a repeat of the first frame, except that this time the ice was slanted in Clarkson’s favor. Though the Knights didn’t match Princeton’s first-period shot output, the time that Clarkson spent in the Tigers’ defensive end mirrored what they had to endure defensively in the first period. Unfortunately, for the Knights, they couldn’t equal Princeton’s scoring total, as the two teams skated to a scoreless second stanza with Clarkson possessing an 8-2 edge in shots.

Princeton’s vigor showed again at the start of the third, as the Tigers kept the puck in the Clarkson end for most of the first five minutes of the last regular session. Clarkson’s Howe made a nice stop in the opening moments and then lucked out as another Tigers’ shot bounded off the post. That luck would not continue for Howe and Clarkson, though, as Princeton tallied its second goal of the contest at the 5:19 mark of the third period. Junior Heather Landry finished off a pair of passes from Sherry and Danielle DiCesare at the bottom of the right circle, sliding the puck around Howe on her glove side.

The second goal from the Tigers finished off the scoring, though Clarkson attempted to get back into the contest late by pulling Howe out of its goal. The final two minutes were played with Howe out of the net, but the Knights, despite a few errant pucks that looked like they could flutter into the Princeton goal, could not get on the scoreboard.

Rachel Weber posted her fourth straight shutout, and fifth in the past six games, making 18 saves. She extended her shutout streak to 246 minutes, 39 seconds. Howe finished with 23 shots in the Clarkson net, as Princeton held a 25-18 lead in shots.