Final Results
Jan 14, 08 - 19:00

Redmen 4 - Concordia (Carnival Game; webcast live) 1

Game Report by Earl Zukerman

MONTREAL – Shawn Shewchuk of Lloydminster, Alta., set up three goals as No.9-ranked McGill conquered Concordia 4-1, before a Winter Carnival Week crowd of 890 in men’s university hockey at McConnell Arena, Monday.

The Redmen, who outshot the Stingers 44-24, won for the 12th time in their last 14 league games and improved to 13-4-1, while the Stingers fell to 9-10-1.

It was also McGill’s fourth straight win over Concordia and improved their record to 14-1-1 in the last 16 confrontations with their cross-town rivals.

In a game that featured 102 minutes in penalties, the Redmen survived a rocky start, killing off four consecutive minors in the first 10 minutes, including a couple of two-man disadvantages and escaping with a scoreless opening period.

McGill came out firing on all cylinders in the middle stanza as Shewchuk set up power play goals by Sam Bloom of Toronto, Yan Turcotte, a defenceman from Laval, Que., and Simon Courcelles, the freshman from Rosemere, Que., who leads the team with an impressive 13 markers, including eight on the power play, in just 17 games.

Shewchuk leads the Redmen in points with a 6-21-27 record. He now ranks second among league assist leaders.

Simon-Pierre Sauvé gave the Stingers a brief life after breaking a shutout bid by McGill netminder Mathieu Poitras with a power play goal to make it 3-1 late in the second period.

But McGill iced the contest when Serbian sophomore Marko Kovacevic beat besieged Stingers netminder Maxime Joyal on a breakaway at 3:03 of the final period.

Special teams play went exceptionally well for the Redmen who were 3-for-8 on the power play and killed off eight of nine manpower disadvantages. McGill owns the third-best PP in the 18-team OUA, scoring on 24.1 percent of their chances (32 of 133). The Redmen have the second-best penalty-killing unit in the league, snuffing out 105 of 117 situations for an 89.7 kill rate.

Tempers flared after that and fighting majors were assessed to McGill sophomore Vincent Lambert and Concordia rookie Nicolas Sciangula, who drew an additional penalty for instigating, which carries an automatic two-game suspension. Lambert’s major means he will miss Friday’s visit from Queen’s, an affair that is expected be another sellout crowd.

REDMEN RAP: The game was webcast live, a first for the Redmen hockey team, through a link on the McGill Athletics website (www.athletics.mcgill.ca) and among those watching was former McGill forward Lucas Madill, who graduated last spring and is now completing a graduate degree at UNB, where he is playing for the defending national champs… The webcast went fairly smoothly and it appears that Friday’s home game vs. Queen’s will also be webcast, with a 6:55 pm air time.

SCORING SUMMARY

Concordia 1 at McGill 4

- Jan 14, 2008 -

FIRST PERIOD
(No Scoring)

Penalties -
McG: Y. Turcotte (boarding) 3:30,
McG: S. Pearce (hooking) 5:16,
McG: C. Churchill-Smith (high sticking) 6:52,
McG: L.S. Allaire (cross checking) 7:49,
CON: N. Sciangula (boarding) 10:27,
CON: B. Gager (holding) 16:01,
McG: L. Verrilli (roughing) 16:01

SECOND PERIOD:
Scoring -
1. McGill, S. Bloom (5) (D. Urquhart, S. Shewchuk) 4:33 PP
2. McGill, Y. Turcotte (3) (S. Shewchuk, S. Bloom) 7:06 PP
3. McGill, S. Courcelles (13) (D. Urquhart, S. Shewchuk) 15:33 PP
4. Concordia, S. Sauvé (6) (T. Blanchard, R. Des Alliers) 17:47 PP

Penalties -
CON: M. Element (roughing) 0:29,
CON: M. Baslyk (cross checking) 3:05,
CON: A. Palombaro (tripping) 5:14,
McG: M. Kovacevic (hooking) 7:39,
CON: M. Baslyk (checking from behind, game misconduct) 8:20,
CON: R. Des Alliers (roughing) 10:51,
McG: S. Courcelles (roughing) 10:51,
McG: G. Doucet (slashing) 12:33,
CON: S. Sauvé (hooking) 14:02,
McG: L.S. Allaire (checking from behind, game misconduct) 16:09

THIRD PERIOD:
Scoring -
5. McGill, M. Kovacevic (2) (L. Verrilli, M. Leclerc) 3:03

Penalties -
CON: R. Smith (hooking) 7:03,
McG: G. Doucet (hooking) 8:47,
CON: J. Ciampini (boarding) 11:13,
McG: B. Gazdic (hooking) 11:55,
CON: A. Sciangula (elbowing) 15:52,
CON: N. Sciangula (instigator, fighting, game misconduct) 15:52,
CON: V. Lambert (fighting, game misconduct) 15:52,
McG: E. L’Italien (roughing) 15:52,
CON: J. Goodsell (slashing) 17:49,
CON: M.A. Rizk (hooking) 19:47

SHOTS BY PERIOD:
CON: 11 7 6 -- 24
MCG: 8 16 20 -- 44

GOALS BY PERIOD:
CON: 0 3 1 -- 4
MCG: 0 1 0 -- 1

POWER PLAYS (Goals / Chances):
Concordia 1-9.
McGill 3-11.

PENALTIES: (No. / Mins):
Concordia 17-53.
McGill 15-49.

GOALTENDERS:
Concordia
Maxime Joyal --- [L, 0-2-0], SV: 40, GA: 4 60:00

McGill
Mathieu Poitras [W, 12-2-0], SV: 23, GA: 1, 60:00

Start : 7:00 PM

End : 9:45 PM

Attendance (Capacity): 890 (950)

Referee: Dominic Bedard

MOLSON CUP THREE STARS:
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1. Simon Courcelles, McGill
2. Shawn Shewchuk, McGill
3. Maxime Joyal, Concordia