2008 Woodie Awards
MIH splits with Knights
Pat Pickens
Issue date: 2/9/06 Section: Sports
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Backup net minder Drew made 27 saves to record his third career win in four starts.
"We decided earlier in the week that we were going to start (Drew) on Saturday," head coach Shaun Hannah said. "It was a great opportunity for him, and he was very solid and made some big stops for us."
The win came after the Pioneers were shellacked 4-0 at West Point, N.Y. on Friday night.
"We really didn't play well on Friday," Hannah said. "We had to respond and I think we did a really good job."
One way the Pioneers responded was on its penalty kill, an area in which they have been dominant.
The SHU unit has killed 30 penalties in a row. After Parent scored a shorthanded goal midway through the second period, it came up especially big during a five minute major against Erik Roos that spanned from the second to the third.
"For the past month our penalty killers have been really good," defenseman Bernie Chmiel, a senior from Pittsburgh, Pa., said. "We have been taking some bad penalties, but our penalty killers have worked hard and really bailed us out."
The game was very physical; there were 98 penalty minutes. The emotion boiled over in the third period when four players were ejected for fighting after one of the Black Knights hit Drew.
"They took a run at our goalie and we had to stand up for him," Hannah said.
"They were very physical in Friday's game," forward Bear Trapp, a freshman from Regina, SK, said. "That is their style of play, but we went out there and didn't back down."
Trapp recorded two assists in the game from a couple beautiful plays.
The first came on the power play as Trapp set up behind the net and made a slick centering pass to Chmiel, who put the puck past Army goalie Brad Roberts.
"We work on that play in practice quite a bit. [Trapp] made a great pass and the goalie had no chance," Chmiel said.
The second assist for Trapp stemmed from Pierre-Luc O'Brien's great two-way effort.
The Pioneer defense gave up the puck in the defensive zone and O'Brien was there to block a great opportunity that Army had. The puck then came to Trapp, who led a two-on-one break before sending a sharp pass to O'Brien, who beat Roberts.