2008 Woodie Awards
Trapp tallies six points in Friday's win over Canisius
Juliana Wynohradnyk
Issue date: 2/7/08 Section: Sports
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However, Saturday's game ended with the Golden Griffins topping the Pioneers 4-2. The weekend series began on Friday night with an over-the-top effort by the men of Sacred Heart.
Trapp earned recognition for becoming the first player in Sacred Heart University history to record six points in one game. Trapp tallied two goals and four assists on the night. The last acclaimed Pioneer to record four assists in one game was Tony Cabana who did so on Nov. 7, 1995. Since then, only four other players have recorded five points in a single game.
Friday night's game remained scoreless until Canisius fired up the red light first and scored 49 seconds into the second period. The Pioneers took little time to react to the suddenly spirited Griffs.
Less than two minutes later, Sacred Heart junior Nick Johnson opened the flood-gates and tied up the score on an assist from Trapp.
Not even five minutes later, at 7:11 into the second period, Trapp recorded his second of six points with a power-play goal, placing the Pioneers ahead by one. Juniors Erik Boisvert and Johnson assisted him. After another Sacred Heart power play goal, scored by Boisvert, Canisius began to fight back to make sure the goal differential did not continue to widen.
The Griffs scored two quick goals in a 23 second time-span to tie the game at three. However, with a goal from Johnson, his second of the game, and one by freshman Patrick Knowlton, the Pioneers were able to close the first two periods with a 5-3 lead. Knowlton's goal was the first of his collegiate ice hockey career.
The third period deemed much of the same as the previous two periods. Sacred Heart was on fire and did not let up on the Griffs.
Trapp took advantage of a third power play for the Pioneers by scoring off of a pass from sophomore Dave Jarman. Boisvert then scored his second goal of the game on another power play when he was fed on a set-up from Trapp, who here recorded his record-setting sixth point of the game.
The game ended in a Pioneer victory over the Griffs by the score of 7-3. In net for Sacred Heart, junior Stefan Drew stopped 16 of the 19 shots he was faced with. Despite Friday night's victory, Saturday's game saw a different result for the men of Sacred Heart. They suffered a 4-2 loss to the Golden Griffins.
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