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UW vs UCLA - Game 3 - Away
December 3, 2000
The UW finished their three game
road trip to Southern California by playing UCLA. The UW had never beaten
UCLA in recent history.
The game Sunday afternoon started at
a fast pace. Each team felt out their speed as they rushed back and forth
for the first three minutes of the game. Then the Huskies took control and
started forcing the puck in UCLA zone. The tables had turned and the play
was 80% in UCLA’s end. The Huskies had the first power play because a
UCLA high sticking call, but they could not put the puck in the net. The
period started coming to a close and each team pushed the envelope. It was
not until 2:49 when UCLA rushed the puck, a UW defense fell, and the UCLA
player beat the UW goalie. The period ended with UCLA up by one point.
The Huskies started the second
period with a new purpose. Within two minutes they realized the damage
they could do when Steve Hyun streaked through the neutral zone, passed to
Marty Boyd who stepped into the zone and found UCLA goalies’ five-hole.
UCLA then got a tripping call which was followed by a UW roughing. UCLA
was then called for slashing. At 10:45 Boyd fore checked UCLA’s defense,
stole the puck and scored in the lower corner. A few seconds later UCLA
took a high stick call and the UW was able to capitalize on it. Brett
Lawrence backhanded the puck over the heads of UCLA’s defense and Clay
Josephy was able to rush in, beat the defense and rush the net. Josephy
put the puck top shelf and was checked into the net, thus breaking the
shaft of his stick. The Huskies then lead 3-1. Next, the Huskies took a
roughing penalty but UCLA could not convert. Then UCLA found themselves
with a 5-on-3 advantage but the Huskies played tight defense and didn’t
allow a goal to be scored. The final goal in the second period was scored
at 2:34 when UCLA’s defense attempted to clear the puck; Marty Boyd
intercepted it behind the net, and then passed it out front to Brett
Lawrence who put it home. UCLA took one more penalty before the horn at
1:22 for slashing.
The Huskies stepped into the third
period leading 4-1. UCLA was short one man to start off the period but
killed the power play. They then were charged for hooking at 13:00 but the
Huskies did not score. The UW then took a tripping penalty, which cause a
4-on-4 situation. Both teams skated even. Then at 9:47 Paul Margolis
miss-hit a shot, which trickled to David Gasperino who scored on the UCLA
goalie’s lower right side. At 8:27 Clay Josephy passed the puck to Sam
Kim, who rushed it through the neutral zone, jammed it at the goalie and
Josephy came in to stuff it for the goal. Then at 6:12 the UW was called
for roughing and they killed off the penalty. UCLA finished off the game
by taking 5 more penalties including three roughing calls, a misconduct
and a major high sticking.
The game ended with a score of UW 6
and UCLA 1. The UW had 12 minutes in penalties while UCLA had 18 minutes
in penalties, plus a 10-minute misconduct and 5-minute high stick. UW took
35 shots while UCLA took 29 shots on net.
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