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University of Massachusets Athletics
Saturday, January 18
Burlington, Vt.
7:05 P.M.
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Photo by: Brian Jenkins - Vermont Athletics
No. 10 Hockey Skates Past Vermont, 3-1
January 18, 2020 | Hockey
Leonard, McLaughlin and Kessel all provided goals for the Minutemen to help complete the weekend sweep.
BURLINGTON, Vt. – No. 10 University of Massachusetts hockey used a 2-0 first period lead to skate to a 3-1 win at Vermont on Saturday night. With the victory, the Minutemen improve to 16-7-1 overall, 9-4-1 in Hockey East action, while the Catamounts fall to 3-15-3 overall and 0-11-1 in league play.
"It wasn't easy, Vermont's a pesky team," said UMass head coach Greg Carvel. "They had momentum for parts of the game, but ultimately we found a way to sweep on the road. That's four big points for us and we had to earn it both nights. Vermont didn't lay down. I thought we did a good job defensively for the most part and it was really nice to see a power-play goal to salt the game away tonight."
Junior John Leonard opened the scoring 1:37 into the contest, picking up a loose puck off a defensive zone faceoff and taking it the length of the ice to score his team-leading 17th of the season on a breakaway.
Senior Jake McLaughlin made it a 2-0 margin for the Minutemen later in the frame, flinging a puck past Stefanos Lekkas from the half-wall with sophomores Ty Farmer and Anthony Del Gaizo picking up the assists at 12:54.
The Catamounts had an opportunity to cut their deficit in half as Max Kaufman was awarded a penalty shot with 4:33 to go in the opening period, but his attempt was easily turned aside by sophomore Filip Lindberg.
Vermont eventually did solve Lindberg, though, pulling to within 2-1 of the Minutemen at the 9:17 mark of the third period. Matt Alvaro was at the back post to put a rebound from Christian Evers and Simon Boyko into an open net.
UMass eventually took the goal back as freshman Matthew Kessel roofed a shot past Lekkas on the power play 17:22 into the final stanza. Sophomore Bobby Trivigno and junior Oliver Chau earned assists on Kessel's seventh tally of the season.
The Minutemen finished with a 39-35 shot advantage and went 1-for-4 on the power play, while the Catamounts were 0-for-1. Lindberg totaled 34 saves and Lekkas ended the evening with 36 stops.
UMass will return to action next Friday, January 24, when the Minutemen will host New Hampshire at the Mullins Center at 7 p.m.
"It wasn't easy, Vermont's a pesky team," said UMass head coach Greg Carvel. "They had momentum for parts of the game, but ultimately we found a way to sweep on the road. That's four big points for us and we had to earn it both nights. Vermont didn't lay down. I thought we did a good job defensively for the most part and it was really nice to see a power-play goal to salt the game away tonight."
Junior John Leonard opened the scoring 1:37 into the contest, picking up a loose puck off a defensive zone faceoff and taking it the length of the ice to score his team-leading 17th of the season on a breakaway.
Senior Jake McLaughlin made it a 2-0 margin for the Minutemen later in the frame, flinging a puck past Stefanos Lekkas from the half-wall with sophomores Ty Farmer and Anthony Del Gaizo picking up the assists at 12:54.
The Catamounts had an opportunity to cut their deficit in half as Max Kaufman was awarded a penalty shot with 4:33 to go in the opening period, but his attempt was easily turned aside by sophomore Filip Lindberg.
Vermont eventually did solve Lindberg, though, pulling to within 2-1 of the Minutemen at the 9:17 mark of the third period. Matt Alvaro was at the back post to put a rebound from Christian Evers and Simon Boyko into an open net.
UMass eventually took the goal back as freshman Matthew Kessel roofed a shot past Lekkas on the power play 17:22 into the final stanza. Sophomore Bobby Trivigno and junior Oliver Chau earned assists on Kessel's seventh tally of the season.
The Minutemen finished with a 39-35 shot advantage and went 1-for-4 on the power play, while the Catamounts were 0-for-1. Lindberg totaled 34 saves and Lekkas ended the evening with 36 stops.
UMass will return to action next Friday, January 24, when the Minutemen will host New Hampshire at the Mullins Center at 7 p.m.
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