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Nov 5 2011

Massachusetts College Hockey – Hockey East Scoreboard

By NoontimeSports.com 

Here’s Friday’s Massachusetts Hockey East scores and results.

Boston College 5 – Maine 1: Sophomore Bill Arnold netted his seventh goal of the season, as the Eagles cruised past the visiting Black Bears at Conte Forum, as well as picked up their eighth win of the season. Boston College’s junior goaltender Parker Milner saved 20 shots, while Maine sophomore Jon Swavely recorded his first goal of the season in the second period.

Merrimack 1 – Northeastern University 1 (OT): The Huskies earned their second tie of the season, as junior forward Justin Daniels registered his fifth goal of the season in the third period, which ended all scoring for the evening. Merrimack senior goaltender Joe Cannata finished the game with 30-saves. Both teams will square off against one another on Saturday at the Matthews Arena.

New Hampshire 7 – Massachusetts 3: The Wildcats blasted the Minutemen in New Hampshire on Friday, as well as recorded goals on all three UMass goalies too. Junior Dalton Speelman, sophomore Joel Hanley and freshman Grayson Downing each recorded their first goal of the season.

Oct 14 2011

Northeastern Blanks UNH, 4-0

By Joshua Kummins 

BOSTON, MA – After a tie and a loss last weekend, the Jim Madigan era at Northeastern University finally saw their first win on Friday night at Matthews Arena, as junior goaltender Chris Rawlings pitched his school-record ninth shutout in a 4-0 decision over No. 15 New Hampshire.

“Obviously, it was a great win for our team,” said Northeastern head coach Jim Madigan. “We had a good week of practice and we brought the game into its simplest form in all three zones.”

It was all Huskies in the first period, as they tagged New Hampshire senior Matt DiGirolamo for three scores on just six shots.

Northeastern took the 1-0 lead at the 6:29 mark of the first stanza, as Braden Pimm redirected a nifty pass in the slot from junior line-mate Steve Quailer. Then, sophomore Zak Stone was found at the right place at the right time and sent a loose puck through the five-hole on DiGirolamo for his first collegiate goal before Justin Daniels made it 3-0 for the home team at the 9:21.

“[The three goals] gave us a chance to believe in what we worked on all week in practice-just actually coming through,” said Madigan.

New Hampshire surrendered five goals in a shutout at BU last Saturday and had been blanked just six times in the last five seasons, including just two in ‘10-’11. Although, despite 14 total shots in the opening period, neither team was able to light the lamp in the middle stanza, as both goaltenders settled in to keep the score at 3-0 in favor of the home team.

At the start of the third period, the Huskies put several golden chances towards DiGirolamo’s cage, including a point-blank shot from Robbie Vrolyk on the right circle before eventually sophomore Luke Eibler connected with senior captain Mike McLaughlin on the right circle for his second goal of the season.

McLaughlin took a wrist shot that was deflected into the net over DiGirolamo’s right shoulder, allowing the Reading, Mass. native and sophomore Jeff Wyer to see his first regular-season game action ever in a Wildcat uniform.

Wyer made three saves in the final 11:23, while DiGirolamo made 14 stops in 48:37 and was credited with his second defeat of the season.

For Husky goaltender Chris Rawlings, this particular game was a great comeback from last weekend’s dismal performance.

“It was a complete 180 from Maine,” said Rawlings. “Our team was completely different in all three zones. The biggest key was all the shots we blocked…Pucks were not getting through, which makes my job a lot easier.”

The Huskies return to action next Friday night at Merrimack, while UNH’s home opener is tomorrow against the nation’s top ranked team, Boston College.

GAME NOTES:

* With the Huskies’ first blanking of the season, Rawlings record 27 saves en route to tying Brad Theissen’s career record with nine shutouts from ‘06-‘09.

* The Huskies had not scored three goals in a period since the third and deciding game of the Hockey East Quarterfinals at Boston University on March 13.

* Zak Stone played in 14 games last year, recording his only point on an assist against Harvard on Jan. 19.

* The Huskies have enjoyed recent success when leading after two periods with a [20-3-3] record over the past two seasons.

Oct 7 2011

Pimm Helps Northeastern Tie UMass, 3-3

By Matt Noonan 

BOSTON, MA – Prior to the start of the season, University of Massachusetts head coach Don Cahoon seemed rather concerned about his team’s youth and inability, especially since the Minutemen were coming off one of their worst seasons in their college history, and only mustered six wins – five of them came in the Hockey East Conference.

On Friday, Cahoon was once again reminded of his squad’s youth, as the Minutemen squandered a one-goal lead with two seconds left in the third period and allowed Northeastern’s Braden Pimm to score the game tying goal, which resulted in a 3-3 tie.

“I thought it was an early October game in many ways,” Cahoon said. “Pretty ragged play, a lot of anything that happened came off broken plays. There was a lot of effort out there, there’s was a lot of emotion – naturally [you’d] think you’d get that emotion given [Jim Madigan’s] first game and that team obviously wanted to come out and perform in their own rink for [their head coach] and we tried to trade off plays and … I though our guys played pretty hard too.”

Both teams struggled to gain any sort of momentum during the opening period, but eventually UMass’s Colin Shea found the back of the net and beat Huskies goaltender, Chris Rawlings [36-saves] to give the Minutemen a somewhat comfortable one-goal lead on their first power play.

Northeastern responded nearly 10-minutes later with two back-to-back strikes that came off the stick of Justin Daniels, who practically scored the same goal twice. Daniels was literally parallel to UMass’s goaltender Kevin Boyle [29-saves], and connected on two rebounds.

Yet, Northeastern’s lead only lasted approximately nine-seconds, as UMass’s Branden Gracel raced down the ice and tied the game prior to the first intermission. The Minutemen then registered their final goal during the opening minutes of the second period, as captain T.J. Syner provided some fireworks at the Matthews Arena before Northeastern’s Pimm forced a five-minute overtime period in the third.

“[There] was a learning curve for all of us – from a coaching staff and with the players who really worked hard all preseason long to get us to this point, so we were happy with the outcome,” Northeastern head coach Jim Madigan said.

“[The] first two periods, I was pretty happy with at least where we were and the third period was a challenge for us and Northeastern I thought carried the play to a pretty large extent,” Cahoon said. “That tie was well earned on their part and I thought the overtime was a pretty good five-minutes for us, but obviously in overtime anything can happen, but it’s a one-shot situation, so overall, it was a raged game, it was played hard [and] it probably showed more good on both sides than bad, but a lot of work still [needs] to be done.”

UMass will look to build off this tie next Friday, as they welcome Bentley University to the Mullins Center, while Northeastern University will head to University of Maine on Sunday for a 1:00pm face-off.