Minutemen with a 12-2 victory over UConn
Courtesy of UMass ACHA hockey (2022)
The Massachusetts club hockey workforce defeated Connecticut on Friday night time, because it grabbed its first win of the season with a 12-2 victory. Leading the way in which was once senior captain Dan O’Leary who netted a hat trick, with CJ Spillane and Jack McGrath every including two of their very own. The Minutemen have been dominant from begin to end, and because the rating prompt, they didn’t grasp again.
The first little while of the primary length have been shaky for the Minutemen as they hit the ice for the primary time this season. They have been sloppy with the puck, permitting UConn two high scoring possibilities proper off the bat, after which took a minor penalty that gave the impression as although it could give the Huskies a chance to construct up some momentum. The penalty kill alternatively, did its activity completely, now not permitting UConn any sustained zone time and successfully killing the penalty.
After that, it was once easy crusing for the Minutemen. The first little while proved to be an apparition, as UMass utterly ruled play for the following quarter-hour. The first strike of the sport got here from final season’s main scorer Scott Shorrock, who deflected some degree shot from Zach Reiser previous UConn’s netminder. Shortly after, junior Will Trischitta tacked on any other one with a lovely snipe from the highest of the left wing circle for his first of the season.
UMass would move on to attain 3 extra occasions in the final 10 mins of the length. McGrath, Spillane, and O’Leary all notched their firsts of the season, and gave UMass a 5-0 lead heading into the second one length.
What the primary seven mins of the second one length lacked in scoring, it greater than made up for it in physicality. UMass can have long gone into its first small scoring rut of the sport, however the Minutemen ramped up the physicality to the purpose the place they have been tiring UConn avid gamers out. This proved to be very efficient because the scoring floodgates reopened with O’Leary’s 2nd function of the sport, a breakaway function proficient by means of a turnover on the a long way blue line by means of a UConn defender.
The Minutemen went on any other run of function scoring prowess, getting their subsequent 3 objectives all inside the subsequent two mins. First it was once McGrath along with his 2nd of the sport, tapping the puck in the course of the goalies 5-hole after a slap-pass from Mitch Rickert. Then it was once Thomas Milne off of any other slick Rickert feed, and after all O’Leary ended the length’s scoring along with his 2nd breakaway function of the sport.
Spillane later added his 2nd of the sport and Rickert and Reiser each tacked on tallies as neatly, whilst UConn grabbed a few objectives of its personal in the 3rd length.
UMass will glance to support to 2-0 early on in the season because the Minutemen tackle UMass Lowell the following day, Saturday, October 1, at 6 p.m. again on the Mullins Center Community Ice Rink.
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