A flock of Redwings landed together on the bench in the period, and Carmel had two 5-on-3 power plays for short stints in the period.īut the Corsairs just couldn’t get a puck past Janus. That Benet survived a penalty-plagued second period without giving up a goal was a nearly magical feat.
The final six minutes of the first period saw Lloyd stop a pair of Szopinski shots, and Janus gloved shots taken from the point by Carmel’s Kyler Gornick and Charlie Lenihan. Five Corsairs were absent from Eberhardt’s Tuesday lineup for assorted reasons. And today, we only had three lines.”īenet was shorthanded due to ACT testing when the teams met in September, and it was Carmel missing some key contributors for the rematch. “I haven’t figured out if we’re better when they’re together or when they’re on different lines. “Stens and Nolan find each other and they complement each other extremely well,” Eberhardt said. Just 54 seconds later, Herubin gave Carmel a 2-1 lead with his 16th CCHL goal, on an assist from Stensrud. Stensrud crashed the net and buried a rebound shot in a crowd, with teammates Ryan Capulong and Andrew Munro earning assists on the goal. After Janus stopped a pair of Herubin shots to the 8-minute mark, Stensrud scored his 5th CCHL goal of the season at 7:12 to tie the game. The momentum Benet enjoyed to start the game turned in Carmel’s favor mid-way through the first period. “Their goalie played well because we had some really good chances and just couldn’t get them in. “I thought (Lloyd) played really well,” Carmel coach Paul Eberhardt said.
Janus was the player of the game, but Lloyd stood tall in net as well on Tuesday. Carmel goalie Dylan Lloyd saved a Budreck shot two minutes later, then saved on Budreck again near the 12-minute mark. They went on a run early, then we went on a run.”īenet ultimately closed with a 37-31 edge in shots by the final buzzer.Īn active first period saw Benet strike first at 15:12, when Budreck buried his 10th CCHL goal of the year with a wrist shot from the right side on a feed from Sperling. We had a ton of chances and just couldn’t finish on a goal,” Carmel’s Herubin said. “I thought the game was closer than the final (5-2) score. The teams were tied with 27 shots apiece in the third period and it was a one-goal game until Benet struck twice in the final three minutes. 11 and the score of Tuesday’s rematch was slightly deceptive. The two teams last squared off in a 2-1 Benet win on Sept. Through Tuesday, Saint Ignatius (13 CCHL games, 24 points) currently sits atop the CCHL standings, followed by Carmel (15 games, 22 points) and Benet (11 games, 20 points). We got that (goal) early and they came back and got two, but we’ve been a team with perseverance.”īenet - currently ranked 10th in Illinois by My Hockey Rankings - took on a host Carmel team ranked 13th at Glacier Ice Arena in Vernon Hills. “When you have two of the top goalies in the state, you’re able to play with a lot of confidence. “Our other goalie, Patrick Sullivan, has been playing really solid too,” Budreck said. He was dialed in.”īenet captain Tommy Budreck’s early-first period goal gave Benet a 1-0 lead but Carmel (10-3-1 in CCHL play) struck twice on goals from Bryce Stensrud and Nolan Herubin to take a 2-1 lead after one period.īenet (10-1-0) held Carmel scoreless the rest of the way while the Redwings' offense stayed the course Zandis Hoover and Curtis Sperling scored once each in the second period, and teammates Gabe Szopinski and Hudson Schlie each scored in the third.Īnd Janus shut the door in the second and third periods. The more pucks he sees, the more he’s dialed in, and if you watched him during those penalties he was out there pushing guys out of his way.
“That was his best game of the year,” Benet coach Jon Grzbek said of Janus. He stopped point-blank scoring chances, and even added a save on a penalty shot to boot. Janus kept the slate clean in a second period that saw multiple Carmel 5-on-3 power plays.
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