HIGHLIGHTS: Dover-Sherborn/Weston hockey downs Sandwich in D4 Elite 8
The Dover-Sherborn/Weston boys hockey team pulled ahead of Sandwich in the second period and held the Blue Knights down to reach the state semis.
WELLESLEY – The Dover-Sherborn/Weston coaching staff poured over its roster once the state tournament started. They knew the Raiders would potentially face overtime or a shootout and drilled their lineups every practice. Only, Alex Marlow and Co. couldn’t decide on five shooters they could trust with their season on the line.
Senior defenseman and captain Calvin Roman’s name emerged.
“We finally realized we knew he had lots of skill, but we didn’t know if a shootout-type moment was his,” Marlow said. “When we were making the list we decided we needed someone that the moment wasn’t too big for him. The moment is never too big for him. He’s always calm, cool and collected.”
That decision, in part, saved D-S/Weston’s season in the Division 4 Final Four against top-seeded Winthrop. Neither team broke the 1-1 tie after two overtime periods, sending the matchup to a shootout to decide a spot in the state championship game. Raiders goalie Andrew Goldstein stopped four of the Vikings’ five attempts, and Brayden McKenna tucked away a goal in regulation and the shootout to match Winthrop.
Roman shot third, varying the position of the puck as he approached. The Winthrop goalie dove right. Winthrop brought the puck back around and deposited it into the net for the winning goal.
“He’s without a doubt positive in everything he says. He might get down on himself, and honestly, when he does, you can see that the team that things shift. We learned that early on that he needs to flush things and keep himself in the right mindset,” Marlow said. “Because once he does that, everybody just follows him.”
‘He steers the ship’
He hasn’t scored much this season, putting the puck in the back of the net just three times in 24 games. But what Roman has done both on and off the ice is provide answers for a D-S/Weston program that had questions. The Raiders knew who would lead the team on ice by example but weren’t sure who would become the voice in the locker room.
“From the beginning, (Roman has) been that guy when we need someone to get the boys back up in the locker room or calm them down on the ice, without fail he’s the No. 1 voice in our locker room,” Marlow said. “He steers that ship in the right direction.”
Before the shootout and before the overtimes against Winthrop,…
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