Temple Avoids Upset Minded Albany
Late rally pushes Temple past Albany 4-2
ECRHA November 21st, 2009 at 3:04PM November 21st, 2009 3:23PM
Old Bethpage, NY - Keith Goodman scored the winning goal with 14 seconds remaining in the game to rally Temple past Albany and avoid an early upset.
Andrew Barone opened the scoring for Albany, burying a Jon Russo pass into the back of the net with the man advantage. Temple answered in the second period with power play tally of their own, with Josh Altman finding the back of the net from a Michael Peterson pass to tie things at one.
Things stayed on terms for just under six minutes before Andrew Barone found the back of the net for the second time in the game, taking a feed from Mike Keenan and beating the Temple keeper for a 2-1 lead. The lead helf for almost twelve minutes of hockey before Chris Lucas fired a wrist shot through traffic that stunned Albany's goalie and clanked in off the post to set up the tense finish. Scott Kalbfleisch
The final two minutes of hockey featured back and forth hockey with oppurtunties at both ends of the rink, however, it was a fluke play that ending up being the deciding factor in the game. With Temple on a two on one rush in the closing moments of the game, Keith Goodman attempted to make a pass to a streaking forward across the goalmouth. Instead, the puck deflected off the defenders stick and past the goalie for the deciding goal. Scott Kalbfleisch added an empty net goal for the final margin.
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