Saturday night wasn’t the best of nights for the New York Rangers prospects as two sat put for reasons unknown and only one scored a goal with another just an assist. Thankfully one goal was a game winning goal.
Gabe Perreault needed seventeen games last season to reach five goals as a freshman. This season as a sophomore, Perreault needed just six games, and his fifth goal of the season was a game-winning goal as his second-ranked Boston College Eagles rallied to edge tenth-ranked St. Cloud State 2-1 in a non-conference game.
If you have not seen this goal, then you are going to love it. St. Cloud fails to clear the puck and turns it over as James Hagen forces the turnover and gets the puck to Perreault. Perreault takes the puck right to the net and dekes the goalie into freezing and gives Perreault and easy tap in for the goal.
What a goal from Perreault 😲 pic.twitter.com/6V9dPzUpl2
— BC Men’s Hockey (@BC_MHockey) November 3, 2024
The St. Cloud TV announcer calling Perreault “Mr. Dangle” is so fitting as was their admiration for how Perreault scores that it tells you just how special a player he is.
The goal extends Perreault’s scoring streak to six games (5-5-10), with two power-play goals and two game winning goals. Perreault is already averaging 1.67 points per game which puts him just under the 60 points he had last year playing in fewer games.
The win though is going to be costly as fellow sophomore defenseman Drew Fortescue was hit with a “Hitting from Behind” major and the game misconduct that goes with it. Fortescue will miss next Friday’s contest against sixth-ranked Maine which is also the Hockey East opener for the Eagles.
E.J. Emery and his seventh-ranked North Dakota Fighting Hawks took on Hank Kempf’s eighth-ranked Cornell Big Red in the second game of their weekend series. This one was the tale of two games in one as Cornell won the first and third periods while North Dakota won the second period.
In the end, Cornell would win this one 5-3 to sweep the non-conference series. Hank Kempf would earn his first point of the season when he earned the primary assist on the game’s first goal at 2:59 when Jake Kraft would score to give his team the 1-0 lead.
Cornell would build it to a 2-0 lead in the second period before North Dakota would respond with three unanswered goals to take a 3-2 lead going into the second intermission. In the third period Cornell would tie the game in the opening minute of the third period and then take the lead for good and add an empty net goal to earn the 5-3 win.
Kempf would go 0-1-1 on two shots with a +1 and three blocked shots giving him five for the two games. Last season Kempf was credited with fifty-nine blocked shots in twenty-six games.
E.J. Emery was scoreless on one shot with a -1 and a “hitting after the whistle” minor penalty.
Brody Lamb saw his five=game scoring streak end as his fourth-ranked Minnesota Golden Gophers held off the tenth-ranked Penn State Nittany Lions 1-0 in Big Ten play. Call the Gophers lucky as Penn State outplayed them on the offensive end of the game almost the entire game.
Lamb was credited with three shots.
Raoul Boilard was scoreless as his Baie-Comeau Drakkar earned a 4-3 overtime win over the Gatineau Olympiques in QMJHL play. Boilard was not credited with a shot, but he was 10-5 on his faceoffs and was credited with a hit.
Nathan Aspinall and his Flint Firebirds were shut out for the second straight night, this time 4-0 by the Soo Greyhounds in OHL action. Aspinall was credited with three shots and was a -1.
Did Not Play
Noah Laba’s return to the Colorado College lineup lasted just one game as he was not in the lineup on Saturday night against Air Force. Our Colorado College friend tweeted this explanation as to why:
Noah Laba tweaked his ankle last night at Robson and after returning about 5 mins later to finish the game, he’s out of the lineup this evening. Hope he can rest up and get back to 100%, would be a huge bummer if it continues to nag him moving forward.
— Broadmoor Beauties (@CCHockeyNews) November 3, 2024
Rasmus Larsson was not in the Northern Michigan lineup for their game against Michigan Tech. Not sure why he wasn’t as he was the most active of defensemen on Friday might.
