DURHAM, N.H. – The final score did not indicate the type of game 3,575 fans at the Whittemore Center enjoyed in this ECAC vs. Hockey East contest. Yale outshot New Hampshire 29-25 but the Wildcats broke open a one-goal game with a late tally and an empty-netter in a 4-1 final.
 
The first nine seconds were rough, but the Bulldogs bounced back from a quick UNH tally to outplay and outshoot (10-4) the home team over the last 19 minutes of the frame. The visitors applied the pressure again in the second only to fall behind by a pair before getting on the scoreboard with a Will D'Orsi power-play wrister at 13:26.
 
The Eli special teams came through to cut the margin to 2-1 as defenseman Graham Lillibridge moved the puck to forward Dante Palecco on the left side of the offensive zone. Palecco found D'Orsi cruising in from the blueline and put the puck on his stick. The senior left wing took a few strides and then fired low from the top of the slot.
 
"The game was right there for us," said Keith Allain '80, Yale's Malcolm G. Chace Head Coach. "We were pressing a little bit. The back-breaker was their third goal. We turned it over just inside the offensive blueline and they took advantage of it."
 
Corbin Kaczperksi, Yale's senior goalie, made 21 saves and kept the Bulldogs in the game most of the way while not allowing a tally on four advantages. He made instantaneous, consecutive saves from close range shots on a second-period advantage and turned aside some quality, third-period chances.
 
The Bulldogs continue their Hockey East road trip with a Tuesday night game at Vermont before Yale heads to New York City to take on Harvard on Jan. 11 at Madison Square Garden in the Rivalry on Ice.