Two down, one to go

Hockey
Jon Pelland

UMass 2
UNH 2
2nd Intermission

I have to hand it to the Minutemen for sticking with the Wildcats through two periods. It really looked as if their nerves were holding them back in the early stages of the first period. For a skating team, UMass couldn't get out of its own way.

With a little help from Brad Flaishans' skate - Alex Berry's shot ricochetted off it and went directly in - tying the score at one apiece and eventually took the lead. From Level 9 (Press Area) UMass' second goal look very pretty. Chris Capraro has such an uncanny sense of space on the ice. He took a pass in the low slot from Cory Quirk - who got the puck behind the net - and got Kevin Regan to lunge with a deke. Capraro then simply flicked the puck in.

Despite failing to convert, UMass had a really good power-play in the second. The first unit really pressured Regan with four goals. They also failed to allow UNH to clear the puck as it was in the attacking zone for much of the two minutes.

As always Jon Quick is playing great in net.