How sweet it is
Kevin Kenealy/Pounce Editor
Issue date: 11/2/07 Section: Arts and Entertainment
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Eastern Illinois embarrassed Purdue through the first two periods at Danville's David S. Palmer Ice Arena Saturday afternoon.
After a loss Friday night in the shootout, EIU looked to split the series against former head coach Cameron Estes.
Eastern's 14-man roster, under last year players Ryan Hastings and Richie Nelson led the first period 2-0 by the end of one on goals by new players Wayne Kuhl and Brad Keane.
By one point in the second, Eastern led by as much as 6-0 and it looked as though the team's fast offense combined with their stiff defense wouldn't let up.
"The first two periods we came out flying like I've never seen us play before," said Nelson.
Derek Hay had a big game with two goals back-to-back in the second and two assists, including the one to Joe Kopka for the 6-0 deficit.
"Yea, it was a good feeling," said Hay. "I think I was just in the right place at the right time. I got the shot and picked up the rebound."
Perhaps the end of the second was a tell-tale sign; however, the third would not go as smoothly as Purdue scored their first past Eastern goalie Brian Blake.
While Eastern fans may have cheered "Look at the scoreboard!" with another goal by Purdue in the third, penalty trouble for Eastern began to slow their game down.
In the third period, Eastern had nine penalties. In the first two, it had seven. Of those nine included a game misconduct and a hitting from behind from Dan Moore and a hooking and interference call on Matt Lang who helped the team earlier with a couple assists.
The penalties allowed Purdue to edge their way to almost a real game, making it 6-4 with 7:36 left to play.
But Eastern wasn't going to go out too easy as rookie right wing Neil Fifer came up with the big 7-4 goal off the assist from Connor Maley and Matt Gross.
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Richie Nelson
posted 11/07/07 @ 11:01 AM CST
Awesome job Kevin!
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