Mentor vs. Shaker Heights hockey: Power play goes dark, spelling end for Cardinals, 4-1

Mentor vs. Shaker Heights hockey: Power play goes dark, spelling end for Cardinals, 4-1

KENT — Should a post mortem occur for the 2023-24 Mentor hockey campaign, one item that will be a component of any critical analysis will be the power play. Or, unfortunately in this case, the lack thereof. Seemingly throughout this season, when the Cardinals needed it, it didn’t bear fruit. Feb. 21 during a Kent District quarterfinal against Shaker Heights, Mentor would have forgiven all its prior fateful intersections with the man advantage go…