Regular Season Results Against Rowan University

For the last game of the semester, it was Slippery Rock against Rowan.

Slippery Rock jumped on the board first to take a 1-0 lead. Slippery Rock was unable to score again in the first, but were able to keep Rowan off the score board.

Rowan struck first in the second period to tie things up at 1-1, but Slippery Rock answered back by scoring two more to take a 3-1 lead at the end of the second period.

Rowan was able to stop Slippery Rock from scoring any more and were able to score two unanswered goals to tie the game up at 3-3 at the end of regulation and to send things into overtime.

Both teams exchanged scoring opportunities in overtime but both were unsuccessful at ending the game, sending the game into a shootout to decide the outcome.

It wasn't until five shooters into the shoot out that Rowan was able to score without Slippery Rock being unable to answer back and were able to take home two points for the win, with Slippery Rock only taking one point for an overtime loss.

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Regular Season Results Against West Chester University

Slippery Rock added started a winning streak by winning their second game during the final weekend of their regular season by defeating West Chester with a score of 9-5.

The game started out with back and fourth scoring with Slippery Rock scoring the first goal, but West Chester answered back both times Slippery Rock scored bringing the end of the first period to a 2-2 score.

Slippery Rock took the game into their hands by scoring five goals in the second period compared to the two goals West Chester scored to have a 7-4 score at the end of the second period.

Slippery Rock added two to their already commanding lead with two more goals and held off West Chester who only scored one goal in the third to end the game with a score of 9-5.

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Regular Season Results Against Hofstra University

For the first game of the last weekend of play in the first semester of the school year, it was The Pride of Slippery Rock against The Pride of Hofstra.

Both teams came out in the first period looking to take control of the game, but it was Slippery Rock who were able to get in the score board first going up 2-0 by the end of the first period.

Hofstra upped their level of play in the second period, but they were unable to put one behind Slippery Rock's goalie. But Slippery Rock were able to add another one to their lead to make it 3-0 at the end of the second period.

Hofstra was unable to come back in the third period. Although finally scoring their first, and only, goal of the game; Slippery Rock capitalized on three of their scoring opportunities in the third to bring the game to a 6-1 final score.

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The Third Weekend Of The Regular Season

For the third weekend of the regular season, The Pride of Slippery Rock will be playing the Pride of Hofstra, the Profs of Rowan and the Golden Rams of West Chester.

Although The Pride have not lost a game yet to any of these clubs, each of these games are crucial in the standings seeing as we are coming up on the half way point of the semester.

Slippery Rock looks to go undefeated on the weekend to improve their record.

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Regular Season Results Against Temple University

For the third game in a row of the season, and the second time of that weekend, Slippery Rock faced Temple.

This was the closest game between the two clubs.

Temple came out strong to start the game by scoring the first goal, trying to bounce back from the loss Slippery Rock handed them earlier that day. But Slippery Rock evened things up for a socre of 1-1 at the end of the first period.

As the teams exchanged scoring opportunities at both ends of the rink, Temple broke the tie bringing the score 2-1 in favor of the Owls. But Slippery Rock was able to tie the game back up for a score of 2-2 at the end of two periods of play.

The scoring pattern continued in the third where Temple scored trying to pull away on the score board but Slippery Rock was able to tie the game yet again at 3-3 being the final score at the end of regulation sending the game into overtime.

As both teams went at it in having their chances to end the game in the short 5:00 overtime period, neither team was able to put an end to the game.

To determine a winner, the game went into a shootout. Normally being a best of 3, Slippery Rock and Temple were tied yet again in the score of the shootout. So from there on it was sudden death rounds, first team to score without the other team to score would be the winners.

It wasn't until the 7th round of the shootout where Temple was finally able to end the game and walk away with the win.

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Regular Season Results Against Temple University

For the fifth game of the season, Slippery Rock were up against Temple for the second time in a row.

Slippery Jumped on Temple quick by scoring back to back goals to go up 2-0.

Temple then put one up on the board to bring the game 2-1 still in favor of Slippery Rock.

But then Slippery Rock answered back by scoring two more goals before the to end the first period with a score of 4-1, a great start for Slippery Rock.

Scoring slowed down in the second, with only one more goal scored for each team to bring the score 5-2 with Slippery Rock still leading Temple.

Then in the third period, it was back and forth action but the goalies for both clubs came up big with not letting in any goals, until the end of the third period. Slippery Rock scored the last goal of the game to bring the score 6-2, even though it wasn't noted by the score keepers.

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The Second Weekend Of The Regular Season

This past weekend, Slippery Rock traveled to New Cumberland for a short two game weekend. The Rock played Temple University for both games, which put that at three straight games against The Owls on the schedule.

After an upsetting loss to end the first weekend of the regular season, The Pride looked to get back at the Owls and improve in their regular season record.

Regular Season Results Against Temple University

Slippery Rock University faced off against Temple University for the fourth game of the season and their fourth game on the weekend.

With another 8:00am start on the weekend, the Slippery Rock Pride seemed to have still been asleep, seeing as they only registered 3 shots on net in the first period compared to the Temple Owls 8 shots, two of which put the Owls up 2-0 by the end of the first period.

The Pride still seemed to sleeping in the second period where the Owls put up two more goals to take a 4-0 lead.

The Pride finally got something going in the third period scoring two goals to make it a game with a score of 4-2. But the Owls managed to put the game away by scoring two more goals for a final score of 6-2.

The Pride ended the first weekend of the regular season with a 2-2 record, not bad but there's some work to be put in before the next few games.

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Regular Season Results Against West Chester University

For the third game of the regular season, Slippery Rock battled against West Chester University, looking to get back on track after the blow out from Neumann University.

Slippery Rock came out firing putting 13 shots on the West Chester goaltender and putting 2 behind him to go up 2-0 in the first period.

West Chester battled back scoring 2 unanswered goals in the second to tie the game at 2-2. The Slippery Rock Pride were able to put 1 more past The Golden Rams goalie to end the second period on a good note leading 3-2.

Slippery Rock got the last goal of the game early on in the third period to take a 4-2 lead. West Chester tallied another goal within the last two minutes of the third period to put them in position to tie the game if they could score another goal.

But time ran out before The Golden Rams could get another goal leaving the game at a 4-3 score in favor of Slippery Rock, who went up 2-1 on the weekend.

Slippery Rock out shot the West Chester 29-21.

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Regular Season Results Against Neumann University

The Pride of Slippery Rock looked to carry the momentum of their first game into the second game against the Knights of Neumann University, but seemed to have gotten a taste of their own medicine that that dished out against Rowan.

The Knights came out ready to play in the first period going up 3-0 against the Pride.

Neumann did not stop their, they kept the pressure on Slippery Rock and tallied another 4 goals in the second period to take a whopping 7-0 lead.

Finally, The Pride found a sign of hope getting the first goal scored in the third period making the score 7-1, and preventing a shut out. The Knights still had some scoring left in them, burying 2 more goals in the third for a final score of 9-1.

The Knights out shot the Pride 30-9, making 9 of those shots count putting the puck in the net.

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Regular Season Results Against Rowan University

The Pride of Slippery Rock started off the regular season against the Rowan Profs, a rematch of last years regional championship.

An 8:00am start for the game seemed to have been a bit early for the team, even though going up 1-0, the Rowan Profs bounced back to take a 2-1 lead at 7:28 into the first period. But the pride were able to bounce back and lead Rowan 3-2 by the end of the first period.

The Pride eventually woke up and found their rhythm in the second period outscoring the Profs 4-0 to take a 7-2 lead.

Rowan struck first in the third period bringing the score to 7-3 hoping to have a chance of coming back. But Slippery Rock shut the door on Rowan scoring 4 more goals to finish the third period and put the game away at a score of 11-3.

The Pride out shot the Profs 31-17, keeping pressure on the Profs goaltender at all times.

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A Start To The Regular Season.

This weekend, October 25th and 26th, The Pride will start off the regular season with four games. They look to build off of their 2-1 preseason record. The Pride will also have their full roster of ten skaters this weekend unlike the seven skates that made it to preseason. We're looking to the fact that having our full team on hand will help us to continue our success and play even better than preseason.

The four game The Pride will be playing this weekend will be against Rowan University, Neumann University, West Chester University, and Temple University.

Two of the teams, Neumann and West Chester being familiar faces from preseason.

The other two, Rowan and Temple, being a first time match up for the season against The Pride.

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Preseason Results Against West Chester University

For the second game from preseason weekend, The Pride of Slippery Rock took down the Golden Rams of West Chester University.

The Golden Rams got on the score board first in the first period taking the early lead. The Pride then tied things up before the end of the first at a score of 1-1.

After the first period, The Pride used the momentum they had going from the end of the first period and carried it out for the rest of the game scoring two goals in the second and one goal in the third while keeping the Golden Rams scoreless for the second and third period.

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Preseason Results Against Hofstra University

The Slippery Rock Pride opened preseason weekend against The Hofstra University Pride.

Hofstra got on the board first taking a 1-0 lead.

Slippery Rock battled back, eventually leading Hofstra 3-2 towards the end of the game. With only 0:30 left in regulation time, Hofstra was able to tie the game at 3-3 to take things into over time.

Both teams exchanged scoring opportunities throughout the five minute over time period, with neither team able to score

The game went into a shootout to decide who was going to win. Although shootouts are a best of three, Slippery Rock and Hofstra ended up tied at 2-2 in shootout goals. Slippery Rock then ended things in the fourth round of the shootout to take the 4-3 victory and to start the weekend off 1-0.

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Preseason Results Against Neumann University.

This weekend Slippery Rock had a three game schedule for preseason. The Pride (Slippery Rock) won two out of three games on the weekend, their only loss coming from the Neumann Knights by a score of 7-2.

The Pride were out shot by the Knights 25-20. The Knights goalie played a great game by stopping 18 of the 20 shots, posting a .900% save percentage.

The Pride traveled short handed this weekend only having a seven skater bench while the Knights had almost their full roster to what it seemed like. Along with having a shot roster to work with on the weekend, this was the third game on the weekend for the Pride, so everyone was feeling the fatigue from all the games.

But at the end of the weekend, it's only preseason, so a loss isn't something to hang out heads about. We just have to look back and reflect on it and take it as a learning experience so we know what to expect next time the Pride take on the Knights.

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Preseason Preview Against Neumann University

For the third and final game of the weekend, Slippery Rock University will attempt to take down Neumann University.

These two clubs only have a three game history. In this three game history, Slippery rock has won all three games.

In these three games, Slippery Rock has put up an impressive 26 goals why Neumann has only posted 6 six goals.

Rumor has it that Neumann has recruited after last season. Their Division 1 team was the runner up in the National Championship, so they're looking to have their Division 3 have similar success this year. So while Slippery Rock looks to stay undefeated against Neumann, they're not gonna make it easy this year.

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Preseason Preview Against West Chester

For the second game of preseason weekend, Slippery Rock University will be facing off against West Chester University.

These two teams have a history of ten games against each other. Slippery Rock has 6 wins, 3 losses and a tie against West Chester.

Collectively between all 10 games, Slippery Rock has 61 goals against West Chester. West Chester has a combined 44 goals against Slippery Rock.

There is a little bit of a history between these two teams, West Chester defeated Slippery Rock in the 2012-2013 Regional Championship game by a score of 8-5. Ever since that loss in the championship, Slippery Rock hasn't lost a game to them. This weekend we are looking to keep up that streak.

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Preseason Preview Against Hofstra University

This preseason weekend, for the first game, Slippery Rock University will be taking on Hofstra University.

Out of the five games these two clubs have ever played against each other, Slippery Rock is 5-0 against Hofstra.

In all five haves, Slippery Rock's goals for against Hofstra is 34, the goals against Slippery Rock from Hofstra is 6.

Slippery Rock is looking to start off preseason on a good note and keep the undefeated streak against Hofstra going. After the history between the two clubs as the records show, Hofstra will probably coming out with hopes to end their streak of losing against Slippery Rock.

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PRESEASON

Coming up this weekend is the first action of the season for Slippery Rock Universities D3 Inline Hockey Team. IT'S PRESEASON WEEKEND! This means exhibition games before the start of the regular season. These games do not count towards the teams regular season record.

Preseason is the time where you work on playing your game and doing so effectively. This is the time to get the kinks and bugs worked out of your teams systems. These games are where you make your first impression on the other teams and try to make a statement showing that you're there to compete.

Not only is this the time to work on all the aspects of your game, it's a time to just have fun and enjoy playing since the games don't go towards your season record. Mistakes are meant to be made in preseason so it's all about finding out what needs to be worked on and having fun while doing so.

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Player Profile

I'm a defenseman for Slippery Rock's Division 3 Inline Hockey team. More notably, I'm more of the stay at home type of defenseman. With that being said, I play a very defensive minded game. I'm not one to make a lot of offensive rushes or try to score a lot. I prefer trying to prevent the opposition from scoring and I rather try to set plays up because I feel like my skating abilities and passing abilities are stronger that my scoring abilities.

My preferred defensive position is on the right side because that helps to keep my stick more in the middle of the rink. I feel as if I can complete my passes better and get better shots on net while being on the right side of the rink.

I am a left handed shot. For those of you who don't know, when a player is a left handed shot that means their right hand is on the top of the stick and their left hand is placed around the middle of the stick to do most of the shooting work.

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Preseaon Rankings

Before every season is started, preseason ranks are released based on predictions of who the top teams in the nation will be.

But before I dive into the rank of my team here at Slippery Rock University, I feel like it is important that you know the breakdown of the divisions. You have your normal top two divisions in Division 1 and Division 2, and Division 3 which is the division my team competes in. Now Division 3 is not just a normal division. It is a division where if you have a team competing in either Division 1, which the division Slippery Rock fields their top team in, or Division 2 and you can field a second team, the second team of your school gets placed in Division 3, formerly known as B Division.

Now back to the preseason rankings. The preseason rankings are based off of your teams previous years record and success. Last year, Slippery Rock's Division 3 team went 13-3 throughout the regular season and finished in the final four at nationals. So with the success this team had last year, this year we have the pleasure of starting off with a preseason rank at number 4 in the nation.

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An Introduction To The Game Of Inline Hockey

For those of you who don't know the game of inline hockey, it is a little different from the ice hockey games you watch on television. To start off, as it says in the name of the sport, it is played on inline skates rather than ice skates. Unlike how ice hockey typically has five skaters on the ice per team, for inline hockey you only have four skaters on the rink. Inline hockey is a non contact sport, which is a benefit for people like me who are not really the biggest out there on the rink. What also makes inline hockey different from ice hockey is that there is no off sides, so you can spread the play of the game out the entire length of the rink without having to worry about offsides. So with the sport having less skaters on the rink, being a non contact sport, and having no offsides, it makes the game a lot faster paced. Along with having less skaters on the rink, teams typically do not have as many players as the typical ice hockey team does, the preferred amount of skaters is usually between eight to ten. So if you didn't know about the game of inline hockey, you now have somewhat of an idea of how the game is played.

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