No. 16/15 River Hawk's fight against 2-2 draw against No. 17/14 Massachusetts, autumn 2-1 in the shootout

Amherst, mass. – The umass Lowell Ice Hockey Team No. 16/15 (15-12-4, 8-10-3 hockey East) fought on Thursday evening in the Mullins Center in Amherst.

Junior Dillan Bentley (Peoria, Ill.) And Senior Stefan Owens (Midlothian, Va.) Scored the two goals for the River Hawks while the senior Owen Cole (Dunnville, Ontario), Sophomore Jak Vaarwerk (Clarence, NY), newcomer Mirko Butazzoni (Langley, BC) and doctoral student Jack Robilotti (New York, NY) All outdated helpers.

10 total cats had at least one blocked shots for the River Hawks with doctoral students that day Pierson Brandon (Irvington, NY) lead with two, while nine others had one each. Junior Beni Halasz (Budapest, Hungary) got nod on the net and achieved 29 parades.

“The fans were spoiled again with a good college hockey game,” said head coach Bazine standard. “You are a good hockey -eating opponent and overall, I thought we bent and we were sometimes not broken.”

The River Hawks used a power play and senior at 6:34 a.m. Isac Jonsson (Ängelholm, Sweden) had a chance to score in front of the net with an outlier, but it was separated before he was able to get a quality recording on the net. However, the squad managed to open the gate when the power play had expired when Bentley took a pass from Vaarwerk and ended the umass goalkeeper Michael Hrabal. Cole started the piece from the blue line and found Vaarwerk in the Faceoff district. A little more than three minutes later Massachusetts bound it with a goal and made it 9:31 after 1: 1.

Later, with 1:26 on the clock Ben Meehan (Walpole, mass.) Get a solid chance to score with less than five seconds, but it was only saved. Both teams went 1-1 into the changing room.

The remaining 34 seconds in the Massachusetts Power Play were killed by the Hawks river to start the second period, and Vaarwerk started one of the first chances on a backhand in front of the network at 6:36, but it was just the blocker of Hrabal. Later newcomer Libor nemec (Bratislava, Slovakia) had a chance to be his own with a nice shot after the area of ​​the network, which was also saved. Finally, the Hawks river received the 3:14 mark when Robilotti brought the puck into the net after a pass from Butazzoni, and Owens could get a stick on it to distract it on the back of the network and to give Lowell the lead. At the end of the period, the team killed an opportunity for the power play of the Massachusetts games and took the 2-1 lead for the second break.

The River Hawks fought in the first half of the third half, but it was the minutemen who first came to the scoreboard at 9:13 a.m. and tied the game together at two o'clock. The collision lasted for the rest of the third and both teams went back and forth until the horn sounded, and the game went for a 3-counter 3 overtime time.

The River Hawks gained a lot of momentum in the extension and shot five shots on goal compared to the two of the minutes and scored a few moments near goals, but both goalkeepers held each other's squad to send it to one shooting, the Massachusetts won 2-1 for the additional point in the conference stands.

The two teams will now complete the two-game series on Saturday, March 1st in the Tsongas Center in Lowell, from 6:05 p.m.