CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Freshman ahead Gio DiGiulian scored for the third consecutive recreation and junior ahead Jonathan Castagna scored twice, together with a late short-handed breakaway aim, to steer the No. 17-ranked Cornell males’s hockey group to a 3-1 victory over Harvard within the ECAC Hockey opener for each groups Friday night time on the Vibrant-Landry Hockey Heart.
Freshman goaltender Alexis Cournoyer carried his spectacular efficiency from final Saturday right into a 30-save outing to enhance to 2-0-0 on the yr for Cornell (2-1-0, 1-0-0 ECAC Hockey).
“I assumed it was an important hockey recreation, up and down the ice,” stated Casey Jones ’90, the Jay R. Bloom ’77 Head Coach of Cornell Males’s Ice Hockey. “I assumed we got here to play and set the tone early. Our penalty kill took an enormous step ahead, and [Alexis] was good in web. Plenty of positives, however it’s nonetheless early within the season — it wasn’t as clear a recreation as we might play, so there’s a variety of alternative for us to develop.”
Freshman ahead Aidan Lane opened the scoring for Harvard (1-1-1, 0-1-0 ECAC Hockey) after the Crimson compelled a giveaway within the impartial zone. The takeaway resulted in Harvard’s all-freshman line of Richard Gallant, Heikki Ruohonen, and Lane taking part in tic-tac-toe, inflicting Cournoyer to chew too early and permitting Lane to open the scoring seven-plus minutes into the competition.
Cournoyer settled right into a groove after permitting the sport’s first aim, stopping all 17 pictures he confronted within the second interval and the ultimate 29 pictures he noticed total.
“I believe that’s been essentially the most spectacular factor about him — he’s bought composure,” Jones stated. “There’s only a calmness to him. He’s exhibiting that now in two back-to-back highway video games the place we really feel assured. The blokes on the bench can sense the boldness in him. It’s good to see as a freshman, that’s for positive.”
After Harvard registered the primary eight shot makes an attempt of the second interval, 5 of which have been on aim within the opening 3:23, Castagna netted his first aim of the night time, changing a give-and-go with junior defenseman Hoyt Stanley. Sophomore ahead Charlie Major additionally factored on the tally.
