Ohio State has bad luck in loss to Fighting Irish
SOUTH BEND, Ind. - The Ohio State men's hockey team put up a great effort, but fell to No. 11/8 Notre Dame by a score of 3-1 Friday in the first game of a Central Collegiate Hockey Association series at the Joyce Center in Notre Dame, Ind. The Buckeyes are now 2-5-0 (1-2-0), while the Fighting Irish are 4-3-0 (1-0-0). The teams will close out the series at 5:05 p.m. Saturday. WOSU will carry the game live at wosu.org.
Tied at 1-all going into the third period, the Irish took advantage of a 5-minute power play opportunity after Matt Bartkowski was given a major and 10-minute game misconduct at 9:02. Dan Kissel scored just 15 seconds into the power play to give Notre Dame a 2-1 lead.
The Buckeyes killed off the remaining 4:45 of the penalty and had two power play opportunities themselves in the final half of the stanza, but came against some bad luck. With less than seven minutes left in the period, Taylor Stefishen ripped a shot that pinged off the crossbar.
Ohio State then pulled goaltender Dustin Carlson for the 6-on-4 advantage in the final minute and took a timeout with 33 seconds on the clock. After drawing up their play, the Buckeyes fed the puck off the faceoff to Sergio Somma who wound up and broke his stick on the slap shot. Notre Dame's Billy Maday then sailed the puck down into the empty net at 19:42 for the 3-1 final.
The teams exchanged power play goals in the opening period for a 1-1 tie after 20 minutes. Ohio State capitalized on a 5-on-3 power play when junior John Albert picked up a pass from the boards and fired a shot from the slot that flipped in over the glove of ND netminder Mike Johnson at 13:04. Assisting Albert on his second goal of the season were sophomores Zac Dalpe (his fourth) and Stefishen (his third).
Notre Dame evened the score at 14:53 when Calle Ridderwall knocked in the rebound of a shot by Christiaan Minel. Brett Blatchford had the second helper.
Carlson finished the game with 30 saves while moving to 0-4-0 this season. Johnson (2-0-0) had 27 saves for Notre Dame.
Overall, Notre Dame had a 33-28 advantage in shots and was 2-of-9 on the power play. Ohio State was 1-of-7 with the man-advantage.
Game Notes:
- It was Dustin Carlson's third game this season with 30 or more saves.
- Senior Mathieu Picard played in the 100th game of his career.
- Dalpe now leads the team with five points, with a team-best four assists. He has a point in each of the last four games.
- Ohio State has been held to two or less goals in five games this year.
Ohio State (2-5-0/1-2-0-0) vs. Notre Dame (4-3-0/1-0-0-0)
Date: Oct 30, 2009 Location: Notre Dame, Ind. Arena: Joyce Center
Attendance:2839 Start time:7:35 pm End time:9:45pm Total time:2:10
Goals by Period 1 2 3 Total
Ohio State 1 0 0 1
Notre Dame 1 0 2 3
1st period - 1, OSU, John Albert/2 (Zac Dalpe/4, Taylor
Stefishen/3) 13:04 (pp). 2, ND, Calle Ridderwall/4 (Christiaan
Minella/3, Brett Blatchford/1) 14:53 (pp). Penalties - Corey Toy, OSU
(hooking) :29; Nick Larson, ND (faceoff interference) 3:55; Ian Boots,
OSU (hooking) 6:54; Sean Lorenz, ND (charging) 11:34; Kyle Lawson, ND
(interference) 12:03; Mathieu Picard, OSU (cth elbowing) 14:20; Shane
Sims, OSU (interference) 16:20.
2nd period - Penalties - Nick Larson, ND (goaltender interference)
2:25; Cory Schneider, OSU (interference) 7:07; Corey Toy, OSU
(hooking) 14:53; Ben Ryan, ND (goaltender interference) 16:21; Peter
Boyd, OSU (cross-checking) 19:29.
3rd period - 3, ND, Dan Kissel/2 (Kyle Palmieri/2, Ben Ryan/5) 9:17
(pp). 4, ND, Billy Maday/2 (Kevin Deeth/6, Kyle Lawson/3) 19:42 (empty
net). Penalties - Ben Ryan, ND (o-tripping) 4:35; Calle Ridderwall, ND
(roughing) 9:02; Corey Toy, OSU (roughing) 9:02; Matt Bartkowski, OSU
(checking from behind) 9:02; Matt Bartkowski, OSU (game misconduct)
9:02; Ian Cole, ND (checking from behind) 13:50; Sean Lorenz, ND
(tripping) 17:19.
Shots on goal - OSU 10-10-8 28; ND 13-14-6 33.
Power plays - OSU 1 of 8; ND 2 of 9.
Penalties - OSU 10 (31 min); ND 9 (18 min).
Goalies - OSU, Dustin Carlson 0-4-0 (58:50 minutes, 32 shots-30
saves) , EMPTY NET (01:10, 0-0); ND, Mike Johnson 2-0-0 (60:00,
28-27).
Penalty shots - None.
A-2839 T-2:10
Three stars: 1. Mike Johnson 2. Dustin Carlson 3. Dan Kissel
Ref: Brian Aaron; Barry Pochmara Line: Erick Wood; Timothy Likens
Win-Mike Johnson (2-0-0). Loss-Dustin Carlson (0-4-0).
