Report based on Gametracker
Though the former’s statistical spreadsheet reflects near-regality while that of the latter underscores what would be found in a catalog of rag-based fashions, Genevieve Lacasse would have little incentive to sympathize with Kristen Olychuck. At least not in terms of measuring up one another’s labor loads.
Olychuck, a junior and Vermont’s established starter two years running since she transferred from Sacred Heart, entered yesterday’s confrontation having faced 360 cumulative shots in 14 appearances. Lacasse, the Friars’ freshman phenom, came in having dealt with 499 opposing bids over 16 games played. Her latest swing: a most forgettable seven-goal dismantling via Dartmouth on Tuesday.
All that aside, Lacasse has had a far more expansive assortment of luxuries to indulge in this season and she gratefully accepted a quite facile end of her bargain yesterday, helping PC to paste a 3-0 victory at Schneider Arena with a slim 16 saves necessary. While Olychuck’s disconcerting stature at the bottom of all major goaltending categories in Hockey East deepened a touch, Lacasse submitted her fourth shutout overall and third in as many intraleague home contests.
Her puckslinging partners, conversely, had to crack a stubborn Catamount code to get to the brittle Olychuck, but ultimately mustered three strikes –two off the stick of the suddenly radiant rookie defender Jennifer Friedman- on a game total of 18 shots. Classmate Ashley Cottrell tagged along on the multi-point club, inserting the game winner and adding her team-best 14th helper on the year.
Although, with the mutual rigidity at each blue line border, the Friars’ connectivity took time to upload. In a rather hurried first period that hardly took a half hour to raze off the game clock, PC mustered a featherweight 6-5 shooting edge as the primal ranges of both attacking zones gained about as little outside admittance as the ongoing Extreme Makeover site at Slavin Center.
The Friars slogged out five of the game’s first six registered stabs in the first thirteen minutes before Vermont pelted Lacasse on four quick tours, including a carry-over checking penalty issued to Friedman with 21 seconds till break.
On the heels of clearing that kill to start the second, Lacasse warding off two shots in the process, Providence landed Channing Ahbe in the Vermont bin for body-checking for their second power play and circumvented the Catamount garrison for a nimble conversion. Amber Yung set up Cottrell for their lone stab of the player-up onslaught, which the freshman centerpiece converted for the icebreaker at 3:46.
Neither party had so much as broken double-digits under the SOG heading until after the halfway mark of the game. But at just that point, on PC’s next marked visit to the zone, Cottrell lassoed the remnants of Brittany Simpson’s whiff and handed things over to Friedman, who scorched home her second collegiate goal and third point in as many ventures with 10:24 gone.
Vermont’s stick rack thawed out afterwards, if only briefly, charging up five of the period’s remaining seven shots even as the Friars persistently broke up their protracted swarms with a fleeting wake-up gush at Olychuk.
The Catamounts would carry a slight, shallow, and altogether trivial 13-12 upper hand in the shooting gallery to the next new sheet. Friedman, however, carried in a still-unfulfilled twig and potted her second goal on three personal stabs 34 seconds into the closing frame, solidifying the 3-0 final.
Vermont’s offensive tanks would give out after merely three far-between retaliatory tries at Lacasse. After an utterly uneventful power play –their fourth on the day- passed with 5:34 to spare, the Friars upped their tone in the killing process. They spent the bulk of what time remained in Olychuck’s vicinity, winning four of the last five face-offs and discharging the last six shot attempts, three of which the keeper played.
Al Daniel can be reached at hockeyscribe@hotmail.com
This article originally appeared in the Friartown Free Press
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Women's Hockey Log: Friedman Wakes Up On Offense
Freshman blueliner Jennifer Friedman charged up her first career point in the form of an assist to Laura Veharanta, breaking the ice en route to a 4-2 road knockout of Vermont on Oct. 19. That same afternoon, she doubled her young accumulation of penalty minutes from four to eight.
By the conclusion of her first month on the Divine Campus, Friedman had the archetypal readings of a stay-at-home laborer with the one assist through eight games. With it, she had the fairly conventional, understandable readings of a still-acclimating newbie with the 10 PIM.
Fast-forward to the conclusion of her latest encounter with the Catamounts, yesterday’s 3-0 home win. With fifteen additional games to her credit, Friedman boasts a 3-3-6 scoring transcript and has only sprinkled three more misdemeanors to her record –one of those, incidentally, was a checking infraction late in yesterday’s first period.
Leading up to her last three outings, Friedman was inseparably complemented by classmate Christie Jensen, with whom she chiefly shoveled off the remainders of opposing attacks and set up statistically uncredited breakouts. But lately, the two have each partnered with a veteran and are unmistakably feeding off of the more seasoned twigs.
Jensen, who has been paired with sophomore Leigh Riley, finally scraped out her first point in last Tuesday’s 7-3 falter at Dartmouth. Friedman, who has ascended to a starting position with captain Brittany Simpson, coincidentally has a three-game point streak in the works after not having so much as a shot on net in her previous four ventures.
Repeated resilience
Goaltender Genevieve Lacasse has been forked out of her cage early in two of her last four starts, but has shaken off both muddles in the form of subsequent shutouts. She had been unplugged after a three-goal, seven-shot crumble in Part I of a two-game stay at Cornell, giving Danielle Ciarletta the rest of the weekend’s workload, but turned around to blank New Hampshire on a 43-save dolphin show. Yesterday’s less strenuous triumph of Vermont promptly rinsed the vinegar from Tuesday’s career-worst shellacking at Dartmouth.
With her continual backstopping resolve, the Friars –now 12-9-2 overall- have consistently averted consecutive losses since their chin-clipping 0-3 start. Having enhanced their conference record to 7-2-1, they have leapfrogged UConn –which dealt with Mercyhurst both yesterday and Friday- for sole claim to second place in this morning’s standings.
Sticking around up frontBarring any future emergency voids in the defensive corps, two-way connoisseur Erin Normore seems affixed to her full-time, even-strength role as a forward. Naturally, the crafty senior was perched on one the points with understudy Amber Yung on the Friars’ decisive power play conversion. But meanwhile, she won six of her 10 face-offs on the day.
Normore and classmate Katy Beach swapped their spots on the depth chart yesterday, Normore winging Mari Pehkonen on the right side opposite Kate Bacon, Beach centering Jean O’Neill and Abby Gauthier.
Quick Feeds: Ashley Cottrell nailed her second game winning goal on the season, linking her up with linemates Alyse Ruff and Veharanta as the other Friars with multiple clinchers. Ruff, meantime, shared credit with Simpson on Friedman’s third period dagger…Cottrell, Friedman, Ruff, Simpson, and Veharanta all finished with a day’s rating of +2…With the lone assist on Cottrell’s goal, Amber Yung splashed a personal six-game scoring drought…Freshman winger Lauren Covell was reworked into the lineup after she was omitted the last two games, filling in Arianna Rigano’s normal spot with Pam McDevitt and Stephanie Morris on the fourth line…After PC finished killing Vermont’s third power play at 7:44 of the second, the game ran through strictly even-strength play for the next 24 minutes and 42 seconds. Beach’s ultimately harmless interference minor was the lone infraction on either side in the closing frame…The overall shortage of developments -34 aggregate shots, three goals, six minor penalties- amounted to the quickest finish (one hour, 50 minutes) to a Friars game this season.
Al Daniel can be reached at hockeyscribe@hotmail.com
This article originally appeared in the Friartown Free Press
By the conclusion of her first month on the Divine Campus, Friedman had the archetypal readings of a stay-at-home laborer with the one assist through eight games. With it, she had the fairly conventional, understandable readings of a still-acclimating newbie with the 10 PIM.
Fast-forward to the conclusion of her latest encounter with the Catamounts, yesterday’s 3-0 home win. With fifteen additional games to her credit, Friedman boasts a 3-3-6 scoring transcript and has only sprinkled three more misdemeanors to her record –one of those, incidentally, was a checking infraction late in yesterday’s first period.
Leading up to her last three outings, Friedman was inseparably complemented by classmate Christie Jensen, with whom she chiefly shoveled off the remainders of opposing attacks and set up statistically uncredited breakouts. But lately, the two have each partnered with a veteran and are unmistakably feeding off of the more seasoned twigs.
Jensen, who has been paired with sophomore Leigh Riley, finally scraped out her first point in last Tuesday’s 7-3 falter at Dartmouth. Friedman, who has ascended to a starting position with captain Brittany Simpson, coincidentally has a three-game point streak in the works after not having so much as a shot on net in her previous four ventures.
Repeated resilience
Goaltender Genevieve Lacasse has been forked out of her cage early in two of her last four starts, but has shaken off both muddles in the form of subsequent shutouts. She had been unplugged after a three-goal, seven-shot crumble in Part I of a two-game stay at Cornell, giving Danielle Ciarletta the rest of the weekend’s workload, but turned around to blank New Hampshire on a 43-save dolphin show. Yesterday’s less strenuous triumph of Vermont promptly rinsed the vinegar from Tuesday’s career-worst shellacking at Dartmouth.
With her continual backstopping resolve, the Friars –now 12-9-2 overall- have consistently averted consecutive losses since their chin-clipping 0-3 start. Having enhanced their conference record to 7-2-1, they have leapfrogged UConn –which dealt with Mercyhurst both yesterday and Friday- for sole claim to second place in this morning’s standings.
Sticking around up frontBarring any future emergency voids in the defensive corps, two-way connoisseur Erin Normore seems affixed to her full-time, even-strength role as a forward. Naturally, the crafty senior was perched on one the points with understudy Amber Yung on the Friars’ decisive power play conversion. But meanwhile, she won six of her 10 face-offs on the day.
Normore and classmate Katy Beach swapped their spots on the depth chart yesterday, Normore winging Mari Pehkonen on the right side opposite Kate Bacon, Beach centering Jean O’Neill and Abby Gauthier.
Quick Feeds: Ashley Cottrell nailed her second game winning goal on the season, linking her up with linemates Alyse Ruff and Veharanta as the other Friars with multiple clinchers. Ruff, meantime, shared credit with Simpson on Friedman’s third period dagger…Cottrell, Friedman, Ruff, Simpson, and Veharanta all finished with a day’s rating of +2…With the lone assist on Cottrell’s goal, Amber Yung splashed a personal six-game scoring drought…Freshman winger Lauren Covell was reworked into the lineup after she was omitted the last two games, filling in Arianna Rigano’s normal spot with Pam McDevitt and Stephanie Morris on the fourth line…After PC finished killing Vermont’s third power play at 7:44 of the second, the game ran through strictly even-strength play for the next 24 minutes and 42 seconds. Beach’s ultimately harmless interference minor was the lone infraction on either side in the closing frame…The overall shortage of developments -34 aggregate shots, three goals, six minor penalties- amounted to the quickest finish (one hour, 50 minutes) to a Friars game this season.
Al Daniel can be reached at hockeyscribe@hotmail.com
This article originally appeared in the Friartown Free Press
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Dartmouth 7, Women's Hockey 3
Report based on Live Stats
Hanover, N.H.- Pitting their own packages of stealth and anti-stealth against those of a frightfully truculent Dartmouth Big Green team, the Friars were given an oblique warning that their reactivity was running low in the waning minutes of last night’s second period at Thompson Arena.
Forty-eight seconds removed from Laura Veharanta’s pulling their third knot of the evening, PC slipped a pace behind yet again when Dartmouth freshman Kelly Foley leveled her team back up, 4-3. And this time, there would be no easy shot for amends; hardly any time to envision the prospect of it.
In just another 24 ticks, the Green’s Reagan Fischer granted her club the nightlong elusive multi-point upper hand to lay back out for the final twenty minutes. From there, they paced themselves to a ruggedly executed 7-3 final, the most abrasive voodoo doll treatment –perhaps the only performance fit for such a label- on freshman goaltender Genevieve Lacasse’s otherwise pristine young resume.
Lacasse (25 saves), would be forked out of her cage with 6:59 to spare upon admitting the seventh goal. Sophomore Jen Smith would fill in for her first sliver of action all season and face a melancholy calm after her team was clouted by a 53-minute tempest of red light blindness, endless Dartmouth-inflicted bruises, and spilled power plays.
One law of puck physics immortalized by every coach’s stay-out-of-the-box homily did not materialize against the Green last night. They simply continued to pile on the insurance goals and the penalty minutes (nine total minors) while the Friars recorded a mere three of each.
Upon planting a speedy 1-0 lead courtesy Sarah Parsons and an ominously tone-setting 5-1 upper hand on the shot board within the first three minutes of action, Dartmouth opted for a daring approach to nurture their primordial command. Just seven seconds after Parsons lit up Lacasse, Jenna Cunningham endured a two-minute citation for body-checking, the first of (four) unanswered penalties the Green would accept.
After initially fending off the Friars on their first two kills –which had overlapped towards a 5-on-3 set-up for 39 seconds- the Green felt a fleeting burn over defender Julia Bronson’s term in the box for elbowing. After striker Jennifer Friedman saw her initial bid blocked, she left things up to Alyse Ruff, who slugged home the equalizer on PC’s third shot in as many player-up offerings.
Dartmouth’s psychological slide and disciplinary fumbles carried precariously on to the cusp of the buzzer. A checking penalty to their top gun, Amanda Trunzo, allotted the Friars 1:48 worth of carry-over power play time to commence the second period. But once they cleared that kill unscathed, the Green got down to drawing their own opportunities, bolstering their ability to keep a consistent stride ahead of Providence.
Veharanta paid her club’s first trip to the bin within 35 seconds of Trunzo’s jailbreak. Dartmouth promptly pounced to renew their lead to 2-1 via Foley at the 3:20 mark.
The persistent Friars nibbled back right at 6:02, again circumventing their host’s New Jersey Devilishly defensive barrier and watching Erin Normore deposit their second equalizer behind stopper Carli Clemis (24 saves).
The same fundamental pattern reran in the latter half of the period, Trunzo inserting the Green’s second strike on as many power plays at 12:19 for the 3-2 advantage.
All the while, PC’s forward push was vexingly stuffed up on another two power plays, affording three stabs on one and a handful of wide/blocked attempts plus a shorthanded bid by Shannon Bowman on the other.
The Friars would knot the Green in the third period shooting gallery, 6-6, three of those shots distributed over two more full-length player-up segments. Another, granted at 10:07 on a hooking flag against Foley, was halted at 11:00 by a too-many-players infraction.
Providence would grudgingly settle for one power play conversion out of nine opportunities and 10 shots.
Meantime, connections by Maggie Kennedy (at 6:41) and Marley McMillan (13:01) solidified the 7-3 upshot and exiled the overcooked Lacasse.
Al Daniel can be reached at hockeyscribe@hotmail.com
This article originally appeared in the Friartown Free Press
Hanover, N.H.- Pitting their own packages of stealth and anti-stealth against those of a frightfully truculent Dartmouth Big Green team, the Friars were given an oblique warning that their reactivity was running low in the waning minutes of last night’s second period at Thompson Arena.
Forty-eight seconds removed from Laura Veharanta’s pulling their third knot of the evening, PC slipped a pace behind yet again when Dartmouth freshman Kelly Foley leveled her team back up, 4-3. And this time, there would be no easy shot for amends; hardly any time to envision the prospect of it.
In just another 24 ticks, the Green’s Reagan Fischer granted her club the nightlong elusive multi-point upper hand to lay back out for the final twenty minutes. From there, they paced themselves to a ruggedly executed 7-3 final, the most abrasive voodoo doll treatment –perhaps the only performance fit for such a label- on freshman goaltender Genevieve Lacasse’s otherwise pristine young resume.
Lacasse (25 saves), would be forked out of her cage with 6:59 to spare upon admitting the seventh goal. Sophomore Jen Smith would fill in for her first sliver of action all season and face a melancholy calm after her team was clouted by a 53-minute tempest of red light blindness, endless Dartmouth-inflicted bruises, and spilled power plays.
One law of puck physics immortalized by every coach’s stay-out-of-the-box homily did not materialize against the Green last night. They simply continued to pile on the insurance goals and the penalty minutes (nine total minors) while the Friars recorded a mere three of each.
Upon planting a speedy 1-0 lead courtesy Sarah Parsons and an ominously tone-setting 5-1 upper hand on the shot board within the first three minutes of action, Dartmouth opted for a daring approach to nurture their primordial command. Just seven seconds after Parsons lit up Lacasse, Jenna Cunningham endured a two-minute citation for body-checking, the first of (four) unanswered penalties the Green would accept.
After initially fending off the Friars on their first two kills –which had overlapped towards a 5-on-3 set-up for 39 seconds- the Green felt a fleeting burn over defender Julia Bronson’s term in the box for elbowing. After striker Jennifer Friedman saw her initial bid blocked, she left things up to Alyse Ruff, who slugged home the equalizer on PC’s third shot in as many player-up offerings.
Dartmouth’s psychological slide and disciplinary fumbles carried precariously on to the cusp of the buzzer. A checking penalty to their top gun, Amanda Trunzo, allotted the Friars 1:48 worth of carry-over power play time to commence the second period. But once they cleared that kill unscathed, the Green got down to drawing their own opportunities, bolstering their ability to keep a consistent stride ahead of Providence.
Veharanta paid her club’s first trip to the bin within 35 seconds of Trunzo’s jailbreak. Dartmouth promptly pounced to renew their lead to 2-1 via Foley at the 3:20 mark.
The persistent Friars nibbled back right at 6:02, again circumventing their host’s New Jersey Devilishly defensive barrier and watching Erin Normore deposit their second equalizer behind stopper Carli Clemis (24 saves).
The same fundamental pattern reran in the latter half of the period, Trunzo inserting the Green’s second strike on as many power plays at 12:19 for the 3-2 advantage.
All the while, PC’s forward push was vexingly stuffed up on another two power plays, affording three stabs on one and a handful of wide/blocked attempts plus a shorthanded bid by Shannon Bowman on the other.
The Friars would knot the Green in the third period shooting gallery, 6-6, three of those shots distributed over two more full-length player-up segments. Another, granted at 10:07 on a hooking flag against Foley, was halted at 11:00 by a too-many-players infraction.
Providence would grudgingly settle for one power play conversion out of nine opportunities and 10 shots.
Meantime, connections by Maggie Kennedy (at 6:41) and Marley McMillan (13:01) solidified the 7-3 upshot and exiled the overcooked Lacasse.
Al Daniel can be reached at hockeyscribe@hotmail.com
This article originally appeared in the Friartown Free Press
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