HANOVER, N.H. – Charlie Finn (North Vancouver, British Columbia) stood on his head for the second straight night as he made 26 saves for the Colgate men's ice hockey team in a 2-0 loss against Dartmouth at Thompson Arena.
 
Finn was remarkable in the third period, making 11 saves. With 5:12 left in the third period, the Big Green went on the power play and Finn made three incredible saves in the first 30 seconds of the Raiders' penalty kill.
 
Overall, the Raiders were a perfect 8 for 8 on the penalty kill and Finn stopped all 11 of the Big Green's shots. Colgate went 14 for 15 on the penalty kill this weekend to boost their percentage to 89.2 percent on the season.
 
Colgate went 0 for 4 on the power play themselves, snapping a streak of six straight games with a power-play goal.
 
Jacob Panetta (Belleville, Ontario) made the play of the game for the Raiders midway through the third period that kept the game scoreless at the time. Dartmouth's Grant Opperman had a breakaway up the left side but Panetta slid in front of the shot for the block on a great defensive play.
 
The Raiders and Big Green were scoreless through the first 57:44 of the game before Dartmouth broke through for the first goal of the game. Carl Hesler worked the puck to Troy Crema who skated into the offensive zone and blasted a shot to the top right corner past Finn for the 1-0 lead.
 
Hesler added an empty-net goal for the Big Green with 43.4 seconds left in the third period.
 
BOTTOM LINE
Dartmouth 2, Colgate 0
 
WON-LOST RECORDS
The Big Green extend their unbeaten streak to three games to open the season with a 2-0-1 (1-0-1 ECAC Hockey) record while the Raiders fall to 1-4-4 (0-1-1 ECAC Hockey) with the loss to snap their three-game unbeaten streak.
 
KEY RAIDER INFO
-Finn recorded 26 saves on the 27 shots he faced, allowing just one goal for the second straight game
-Finn finishes the weekend with 67 saves for the Raiders, good for the third most in the country.
-Jake Kulevich (Marblehead, Massachusetts) blocked a season-high four shots to lead the Raiders followed by Panetta, Tim Harrison (Duxbury, Massachusetts), Ken Citron (Cos Cob, Connecticut) and Willie Brooks (Locust, New Jersey) with three each.
 
FACTS AND FIGURES
-The Big Green used a 13-5 edge in the third period to outshoot the Raiders 28-21 for the game.
-Colgate was 0 for 5 on the power play but a perfect 8 for 8 on the penalty kill.
-The Raiders blocked 21 shots to give them 48 on the weekend
-Colgate held the advantage in faceoffs won at 24-22, led by Mike Panowyk (Whitby, Ontario) and Tyler Penner (Winnipeg, Manitoba) at seven each.
 
UP NEXT
Colgate hits the road for the second straight weekend to open conference play with a trip to New Haven, Connecticut on Friday to face the Yale Bulldogs at Ingalls Rink at 7 p.m. before continuing up Interstate 95 to face the Brown Bears on Saturday night at Meehan Auditorium at 4 p.m.