{"id":6818,"date":"2005-12-08T22:53:03","date_gmt":"2005-12-09T04:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2005\/12\/08\/daigneau-backstops-harvard-past-unh\/"},"modified":"2010-08-23T11:55:12","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T16:55:12","slug":"daigneau-backstops-harvard-past-unh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/2005\/12\/08\/daigneau-backstops-harvard-past-unh\/","title":{"rendered":"Daigneau Backstops Harvard Past UNH"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Daigneau recorded 32 saves to lead No. 15 Harvard to Thursday night’s 1-0 victory against 12th-ranked New Hampshire at the Whittemore Center.<\/p>\n

UNH, which had won six straight in the series including last year’s meeting in the NCAA tournament, is now 8-6-3 overall. Harvard, which had not won in Durham since Dec. 1988 (0-2-0 since then), improved to 9-4-1 with its first shutout of the Wildcats in 29 meetings.<\/p>\n

Harvard netted the game’s only goal on defenseman Brian McCafferty’s second tally of the season to take a 1-0 lead into the first intermission. Kevin Du and Jimmy Fraser were credited with assists on the goal, which was potted off a rebound in front at 5:27 of the first period.<\/p>\n

In a scoreless second stanza, Harvard went 0-for-3 on the power play but was outshot by the Wildcats, who did not have a skater advantage in the period, by a 7-5 margin.<\/p>\n

In the third period, Daigneau robbed Jerry Pollastrone, who was deep in the right circle, by deflecting a high shot to the near side away with his glove as the ‘Cats were skating on the power play six minutes into the stanza. Daigneau made another strong save with 4:30 remaining in the game when he slid from the right post to the top of the crease to deny Thomas Fortney from the low slot.<\/p>\n

The Wildcats called a timeout with 39.3 seconds to play and pulled goaltender Kevin Regan in favor of an extra skater. Immediately off the faceoff, Brian Yandle fired a low shot from the top of the slot that Daigneau snared. UNH gained control of the puck on the ensuing faceoff, but a pass back to the point sailed into the neutral zone.<\/p>\n

The ‘Cats re-entered the offensive zone with 20 seconds on the clock and Daigneau stopped a shot from the right doorstep by Josh Ciocco. Harvard was whistled for a penalty with :03 remaining and called a timeout. UNH’s Daniel Winnik drew the puck back to the left point but time expired before any shot could be attempted.<\/p>\n

Regan finished with 19 saves, eight of which came in the third period. Daigneau recorded half of his 32 saves in the first period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Daigneau recorded 32 saves to lead No. 15 Harvard to Thursday night’s 1-0 victory against 12th-ranked New Hampshire at the Whittemore Center. UNH, which had won six straight in the series including last year’s meeting in the NCAA tournament, is now 8-6-3 overall. Harvard, which had not won in Durham since Dec. 1988 (0-2-0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6818"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6818"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}