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D3 Game Updates 2012-13

Re: D3 Game Updates 2012-13

No because they will just choke at the final four anyway!

Choke suggests that they are good enough to win at the final four and don't. This may be doing a disservice to the Eastern teams that have beaten GAC at recent FF events. Without going into any further detail, I think that recent history at FF must be considered when the poll voters rank GAC. If the top Eastern teams have losses due to playing each other, I see no reason to rank GAC ahead of them.
 
Re: D3 Game Updates 2012-13

. While on the subject on choking, where is the sting in those Jackets this year? Who we blaming this year?

Coaching would be my best bet. Where've you been the last couple weeks when I've been questioning his decisions??


Obserbear...i do agree the style of play is a lot different between the regions....which probably has lead to the demise of some western teams going east.
 
Re: ncha logjam

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Plattsburgh's transfer from UConn (Ali Vakos) making a big impact in her first game. She scored the go-ahead goal and assisted on the goal that made it a 4-2 lead late in the third period against Norwich.
 
Re: D3 Game Updates 2012-13

Great game this afternoon. The Cardinal goal with 11 seconds left in the 2nd was HUGE. Plattsburgh looked like a totally different team in the third period.

Hats off to Ali Vakos on her successful debut with the Lady Cards!
 
Re: D3 Game Updates 2012-13

No. 1 PSU scores four unanswered to beat No. 5 Norwich at home
By RICKY ST. CLAIR The Press Republican


PLATTSBURGH — This might have been the statement win the Plattsburgh State women’s hockey team was looking for.

Down 2-0, the No. 1-ranked Cardinals (11-0-1) rallied for four unanswered goals en route to a 4-2 victory over No. 5 Norwich University (6-2-3) at the Ronald B. Stafford Ice Arena Sunday afternoon.

After playing what head coach Kevin Houle said was one of their worst periods this season, Shannon Stewart put the Cardinals on the board with a backhand shot in the low slot with 11.6 left in the second period.

“That’s a huge goal heading into the third period with some momentum, and it showed,” Houle said. “We came out in the third and played with more intensity. We just had to come out of that hole we were faced with in the second period, and that goal helped.

“We made a couple adjustments, but the biggest thing was that we needed to start winning some loose pucks. It paid off, and it’s a credit to the girls for going out and executing and getting the job done.”

As if it were a tale of two periods, the Cardinals managed to control possession and win 50-50 battles on the boards. The result — Teal Gove punching home a trickling puck in the paint at 1:46 of the third to tie it.

Then, the unlikely happened.

Ali Vakos, in her first game for Plattsburgh since transferring from Connecticut College after the first semester, raced up the far-side boards on a breakaway and went top shelf on Cadets goaltender Kelly Fisk for the eventual game-winner.

“I think (Norwich) got caught on a change, but she was flying down the wing after coming off the bench,” Houle said. “That was a great goal. She went upstairs on the shortside, and it was a great finish for her.”

Mia Favretto provided the insurance goal with her first marker of the year just 51 seconds later.

With the victory, the Cardinals improved to 3-0-1 on the year when the opposing team scores first.

“We’ve been resilient all year, but I’d like to see us have more of a 60-minute effort,” Houle said. “When you play a team like Norwich, they’re as talented … if not the most talented team in the country, and they can really wind it up at times, which showed in the second period. We were fortunate to weather the storm.”

Sydney Aveson was credited with the win, her eighth of the season, for Plattsburgh, fending off 16 of 18 shots.

After making her second career start in net and keeping the Cardinals off the board for the first 39:11 of play, Kelly Fisk was handed the loss.

The Cardinals sit at 11-0-1 on the year and are 6-0-1 in non-conference play.

The squad hosts a pair of ECAC West home games against Oswego State Jan. 12 and 13.
 
Re: ncha logjam

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Plattsburgh's transfer from UConn (Ali Vakos) making a big impact in her first game. She scored the go-ahead goal and assisted on the goal that made it a 4-2 lead late in the third period against Norwich.

Is she from UConn or Connecticut College (as was reported in the Press Republican)?
 
Re: ncha logjam

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Yeah, the article on gocardinalsports.com states UConn as well...

P-R article also says Fisk was making her second-career start, which obviously isn't true, and that she held Plattsburgh scoreless for the first 39:11, which is incorrect math. Other than that, a bang-up job ;)
 
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