Box Score
VERDUN, Que. – Neal Prokop of Winnipeg scored the game-winner and added a helper as the No.6-ranked McGill men's hockey team rallied with three unanswered third-period goals and claimed the 27th annual Corey Cup game with a hard-earned 3-1 victory over Concordia at the Verdun Auditorium, Saturday.
 
The Redmen thoroughly dominated the game with a 54-25 margin in shots but ran into the hot goaltending of Antonio Mastropietro and found themselves entering the third period trailing 1-0, on a first-period goal by Olivier Hinse.
 
Freshman Alexandre Comtois finally broke the shutout bid on a power-play at 1:32 of the final stanza. He took a feed from Prokop, fired a shot and buried the rebound. Five minutes later, Prokop collected his second marker of the season. Sophomore Max Le Sieur put the game out of reach with an empty-netter at 19:21.
 
Andrew Flemming kicked aside 24 of 25 shots to collect his third win in four starts, lowering his stingy goals-against average to 1.79, to accompany a sparking .942 save percentage.
 
Mastropietro took the loss despite a 51-save performance.

"It was a good win for us because we faced adversity for the first two periods," said McGill head coach Kelly Nobes. "Their goalie played a really solid game and we had a hard time breaking that bubble. I thought we were playing well, carrying the play and doing a lot of things that we talked about in our game plan. The boys really persevered, getting pucks and traffic to the net front and eventually we scored to turn the game around."
 
One of the keys to victory was the play of Prokop, a rugged 6-foot-4, 201-pound left winger, who has been a big addition to a much more physical Redmen lineup this season. He showed up as a walk-on at training camp after not playing for a couple of years. The 23-year-old had a 44-60-104 record and 213 penalty minutes in 263 Western Hockey League games with Moose Jaw, Regina and Tri-City.  Prokop was ranked 95th overall among North American skaters for the 2008 NHL Entry Draft and received a free-agent tryout with the NHL's Columbus Blue Jackets the following season.
 
But at age 20, he suffered a badly broken femur that ultimately hindered his pro hockey aspirations. He enrolled at the University of Manitoba, where he played in two preseason games for the Bisons in 2011-12 and eventually obtained a bachelor's degree in kinesiology (2013). He is currently pursuing a master's degree in biomechanics at McGill. 
 
Since returning to competitive hockey, with the Redmen, it has taken him a few weeks to adjust to the pace. But in his last six games, he has tallied seven points, including a pair of goals.
 
McGill, which now sits atop the OUA East with a 5-1-1 record, will host Guelph (5-3-0) and Western (5-1-0) at McConnell Arena, Nov. 8-9. Both games are slated to start at 7 p.m.
 
The fifth-place Stingers, who have yet to play a true home game because of delays with the installation of a new refrigeration system at the Ed Meagher Arena, dropped to 2-2-2. They will host Laurier (0-4-1) and Waterloo (3-3-1), hopefully at their own barn, Nov. 8-9.
 
REDMEN RAP: McGill had lost the Corey Cup, an annual affair symbolic of Montreal hockey supremacy, last year after a decade long ownership of the trophy which was donated in 1988 by Ronald Corey, then president of the Montreal Canadiens. The Redmen improved to 15-7-3 lifetime in Corey Cup affairs, while the Stingers dropped to 8-16-3 in the annual showdown, including a 1-1 record against UQTR… The Redmen, who once had a 2-38-2 record in their first 42 meetings with the Stingers, are now 86-93-14 lifetime against their cross-town rivals, including a 15-4-0 mark in the last 19 confrontations.
 

SOURCE: 

Earl Zukerman
McGill Sports Info Office
514-398-7012 (Tel.)
earl.zukerman@mcgill.ca
 
SCORING SUMMARY
McGill 3 at Concordia 1
(Saturday, November 2, 2013 - Verdun Auditorium)

GOALS BY PERIOD:
McGill        0-0-3 -- 3
Concordia 1-0-0 -- 1

1st Period-
1, Concordia, Hinse 9 (Bourret), 1:18.

Penalties-Levesque Mcg (roughing), 11:59; Blunden Con (roughing), 11:59; Nobili Con (unsportsmanlike cnd.), 11:59; Dubois Con (holding opp. stick), 14:27.

2nd Period-
(No Scoring).

Penalties-Kaminsky Mcg (checking to the head minor, 10-minute misconduct), 10:26; Bourret Con (hooking), 17:22; Potvin Con (high sticking, high sticking), 20:00.

3rd Period-
2, McGill, Comtois 2 (Prokop, Vachon), 1:32 (PP).
3, McGill, Prokop 2 (Millette), 6:45.
4, McGill, Le Sieur 4 (Delisle-Houde, McKiernan), 19:21 (ENG).

Penalties-Nugent-Hopkins Con (roughing), 8:35; Gelinas Mcg (roughing), 8:51; Bourret Con (roughing), 8:51.

Shots on Goal-
McGill 18-17-19-54.
Concordia 13-7-5-25.

Power Play Opportunities-
McGill 1 / 6;
Concordia 0 / 1.

Goalies-
McGill, Flemming (W, 3-1-0, 25 shots-24 saves; 60:00).
Concordia, Mastropietro (L, 2-4-0, 53 shots-51 saves; 59:54).

Attendance: 200
Start: 8:03 PM
End: 10:30 PM
Length: 2:27

Referees- .(NOT AVAILABLE)
Linesmen- (NOT AVAILABLE).

MOLSON CUP THREE STARS:

1. CON - 30 Antonio Mastropietro
2. MCG - 21 Neal Prokop
3. MCG - 27 Benoit Levesque