Oct. 30, 2004

Dave Iannazzo and Billy Hengen had two goals each and Tim Boron earned a shutout in net with 26 saves as St. Cloud State converted three power-play goals and one shorthanded score on the way to a 10-0 victory.

It was SCSU's greatest margin of victory since a 10-0 win over Guelph on Jan. 5, 1991, at St. Cloud and completed a weekend sweep of two (Princeton on Friday) ECACHL teams.

The Huskies outshot Yale 32-26 and blanked the Bulldogs on eight power-play chances.

Yale penalties were a killer in the first period as SCSU took advantage of a 5-on-3 to light the lamp first. Just as the fourth Bulldog skater was coming on the ice, Andrew Gordon sent a crossing pass to the left circle where Grant Clafton banged it into the open side of the net. Yale goalie Josh Gartner (10 saves) slid across the crease too late as the visitors went up 1-0 at 6:56.

The Huskies made it 2-0 on a great one-timer by senior tri-captain Matt Gens, who took a feed from Peter Szabo at 16:28 of the first on another man-advantage.

The SCSU special teams (3-for-5 on PP) added another score to finish off the first period, but this one came shorthanded. Iannazzo, a senior tri-captain, had a defender on him but managed to get a shot off that hit Gartner's glove and trickled over the goal line with 44 seconds left.

"We had four lines trucking pretty good and a couple of power-play goals to give us the lead," said SCSU head coach Craig Dahl.

The Bulldogs went to backup goalie Peter Cohen (5 saves) in the second frame but got similar results, though none of the three goals were on power plays. Iannazzo notched his second goal of the night at 3:47 before Hengen, a junior center, tallied twice to put the game away. Hengen made it 4-0 when he took the puck in the corner and skated around a blueliner before tucking the puck inside the near post at 7:48. His second came on a 2-on-1 with a one-timer from 10-feet out at 15:26.

"We expected Yale to come out hard, we were surprised to get up on them so early. But to their credit, they still had over 25 shots," said Hengen.

Matt Modelski (8 saves) was the Bulldogs' third goalie of the night and fared no better than the first two. He gave up goals to Joe Jensen, Gordon, Matt Hartman and Brock Hooton on the way to Yale's worst home loss since a 12-1 decision to Harvard in 1993.

"We have major problems and need to learn how to fix things at the beginning of the season," said Yale forward Christian Jensen, whose team is now 0-2 overall with league games a week away.

"It just seems to me we are very fragile. Everything we do becomes magnified because of our inability to deal with it," said Yale head coach Tim Taylor, who lost to North Dakota by the same count on the opening weekend last season.

report filed by Steve Conn, Yale Sports Publicity Director