Feb. 5, 2011 - 3:00 PM
Redmen Ice Hockey at Carleton (SSN; Away)
Lost 0-3 at Carleton
CU Ice Palace .
Redmen blanked back-to-back for first time in 107 years
Feb. 5, 2011
OTTAWA - Jason Caruana, Joe Pleckaitis and Joey Manley each scored as the Carleton
Ravens blanked a depleted McGill lineup 3-0 in men's hockey action at the Carleton
Ice Palace, Saturday. McGill was missing six regulars, who have accounted for
72 of their 130 goals to date.
It marked the second time in as many games that the No.2-ranked Redmen, the
top-scoring team in the nation, had been held off the scoresheet by the upstart
Ravens. It was also the first time in 107 years that McGill had endured back-to-back
shutouts against a varsity team in regular season play. The last time it happened
was during the 1903-04 season, the first year of competition for the Queen's
Cup in the old Canadian Intercollegiate Hockey Union, when McGill was skunked
5-0 by Toronto (Feb.5/04) and 3-0 by Queen's (Feb. 19/04).
Carleton, which was also missing three of their top players, jumped into an
early 2-0 lead with Caruana and Pleckaitis scoring only 43 seconds apart before
the game was five minutes old. Manley drained whatever air was left in McGill's
proverbial balloon when he made it 3-0 at 19:26 of the middle period.
Despite being outscored, the Redmen actually outshot Carleton in each period
to finish with a 26-20 edge in the game.
"I was not happy with the end result but was satisfied with the effort
we gave out there against a very good team like Carleton," said Redmen
head coach Kelly Nobes. "None of our lines were intact so our game plan
was to limit their odd-man rushes and to wait for some breaks of our own. We
made a couple of mistakes in our defensive zone coverage early on which resulted
in two quick goals. I thought that we had a territorial advantage over the last
two periods but we were missing our 'closers' and lacked the finish needed to
find the back of the net."
Rookie goaltender Ryan Dube of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., who started instead
of injured Matthew Dopud, made 26 saves to register his second goose-egg in
as many starts for Carleton and improved his record to 7-4. The Ravens backup
now owns a shutout sequence of 168 minutes and 48 seconds against McGill this
season.
Redmen starter Hubert Morin, an engineering junior from St. Georges de Beauce,
Que., returned to the lineup after missing two games when shaken up in a collision
against UQTR on Jan. 21. He took the loss and his record fell to 14-2.
Both teams were futile on the power play, with McGill going 0-for-6, while
the Ravens were scoreless in five attempts.
Three of McGill's missing players - all-Canadian defenceman Marc-Andre Dorion
(23 games: 7-28-35), team captain Evan Vossen (15-10-25) and defensive specialist
Maxime Langelier-Parent (4-17-21) - are expected back at practice on Feb. 8
after playing for Canada at the world university FISU Games in Turkey. Others
missing in action include two injured stars from McGill's top line - all-Canadian
left-winger Francis Verreault-Paul (leg), who has missed seven contests but
still leads the nation in goals and owns a 28-14-42 record in 19 games. Also
out for an undetermined time is right-winger Andrew Wright (upper body), who
has tallied 12 markers and 33 points in 24 contests. A third injured forward
is Patrick Belzile (16GP: 3-5-8) who has missed nine games with a broken hand.
The victory improved Carleton's record to 17-7-2 and moved the Ravens into
second-place in the OUA East, one point ahead of third-place Nipissing (16-8-3)
and three ahead of UQTR (16-8-1).
The division-leading Redmen are now 22-2-2 with two games remaining before
playoffs - at home to Ottawa on Feb. 11 and at Concordia on Feb. 13, where they
will battle for the Corey Cup. McGill is expected to have at least three of
their star players back in time for their next game and a win will break the
team's single-season record for most victories, established last year under
the reign of interim head coach Jim Webster.
REDMEN RAP: Third-year defenceman Ben Morse played with a full-face visor despite
suffering four broken teeth from a deflected slapshot in the previous week's
game at Carleton...He is slated to make a second trip to the dentist in the
next few days when he visits with Dr. Jay McMullan, who patrolled the Redmen
blueline between 1981 and 1984... Also pressed into service was forward Jean-Francois
Boisvert who had missed the previous seven games with an upper-body injury...
Over the past century, McGill has also been shutout back-to-back during the
same season on three other non-regular-season occasions: in the 2007 OUA East
quarter-finals, they lost 1-0 and 2-0 to the Toronto Varsity Blues... It also
happened in 1939, during non-intercollegiate competition, when they lost 2-0
to the Quebec Aces (Jan. 14/39) of the Quebec Senior Hockey League and 4-0 to
the Concordia Civics (Jan. 18/39) and the double whammy occurred again in 1933,
when they battled the Montreal Canadiens senior farm team to a 0-0 draw (Feb.
20/33) and lost 3-0 to the Montreal Royals (March 1/33) of the QSHL.
SOURCE:
Earl Zukerman
McGill Athletics & Recreation
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SCORING SUMMARY:
McGill 0 at Carleton 3
(Saturday, February 5, 2011 at CU Ice House)
1st Period-
1, Carleton, Justin Caruana 5 (Andrew Self, Jordan Deagle), 3:41.
2, Carleton, Joe Pleckaitis 10 (Jeff Hayes, Justin Caruana), 4:24.
Penalties-
Dupont Mcg (interference), 0:39;
Klassen Car (interference), 4:55;
Klassen Car (holding), 10:22;
Boisvert Mcg (boarding), 13:25;
Carre Car (slashing), 16:08;
TEAM Car (bench minor), 20:00.
2nd Period-
3, Carleton, Joey Manley 18 (Joe Pleckaitis, Connor Barrett), 19:26.
Penalties-
Conacher Mcg (tripping), 8:36;
Carre Car (slashing), 13:03;
Longpre-Poirier Mcg (interference), 14:43.
3rd Period-
(no scoring).
Penalties-
Klassen Car (slashing), 12:56;
Longpre-Poirier Mcg (slashing, roughing, 10-min misconduct), 19:04;
Bakker Car (slashing), 19:04;
Good Car (roughing), 19:37.
GOALS BY PERIOD:
McGill 0-0-0 -- 0
Carleton 2-1-0 -- 3
Shots on Goal-
McGill 9-10-7 -- 26.
Carleton 8-9-3 -- 20.
Power Play Opportunities-
McGill 0 / 6;
Carleton 0 / 5.
Penalties (No/Mins):
McGill 7 / 22;
Carleton 8 / 16.
Goalies-
McGill, Hubert Morin (L, 14-2-0, 20 shots-17 saves; 60:00).
Carleton, Ryan Dube (W, 7-4-0, 26 shots-26 saves; SHO; 60:00).
Attendance-289
Referee-Chad White.
MOLSON CUP THREE STARS:
1. CAR - 31 Ryan Dube
2. CAR - 20 Joe Pleckaitis
3. CAR - 27 Justin Caruana
