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University of Connecticut
6-5-0, 4-3-0
Providence
8-5-0, 4-3-0
UConn Loses at No. 12 Providence
11/13/2021 10:07:00 PM | Men's Ice Hockey
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Four different Huskies found the back of the net but UConn came up short at No. 12 Providence on Saturday night, losing to the Friars, 6-4, in a Hockey East match-up at Schneider Arena.
The Huskies dropped both league games on the weekend and fall to 6-5-0 overall and 4-3-0 in Hockey East. The Friars move to 8-5-0 and 4-3-0 in the league.
Providence had six different players score goals and scored three times on the power play Saturday night. The Friars scored three times in the first period and after the Huskies cut it to 4-3 early in the third period, tacked on two more to pull away.
UConn got a first period goal from grad student Jarrod Gourley (Calgary, Alberta), his first of the season and first with the Huskies. Sophomore Ryan Tverberg (Richmond Hill, Ontario) extended his goal scoring streak to five-straight games with a second period tally, his ninth of the year.
Senior Jonny Evans (North Delta, British Columbia) scored his second goal of the season in the third period while sophomore Nick Capone (East Haven, CT) had his third.
PC got power play goals from Parker Ford, Max Crozier and Brett Berard while Kohen Olischefski, Matt Koopman and Jamie Engelbert also found the back of the net. Providence goaltender Jaxson Stauber stopped 33 shots.
UConn held a 37-36 edge on shots but was 0-3 on the power play. Darion Hanson (East Bethel, Minn.) made 30 saves in net.
1st period:
The Friars scored first and put three on the board in the first period to take a 3-1 lead after one. Olischefski gave Providence a 1-0 lead at 5:12, pounding in a rebound in a scrum in front of Hanson, his fourth of the year.
UConn tied the game up at 6:29 as Gourley got his first goal as a Husky. Senior Marc Gatcomb (Woburn, Mass.) knocked the puck out of the corner and grad student Kevin O'Neil (Latham, N.Y.) fed Gourley curling to the top of the slot. He fired a wrister that beat Stauber thanks to traffic in front to make it 1-1.
The Friars scored on their first power play chance of the night as Ford notched his fifth on the season to take the lead back at 7:50. PC struck for a late one to make it 3-1 at 18:24. Craig Needham let one rip wide on a rush into the zone with the puck finding Koopman at the opposite post who banked it off Hanson who was sliding over for his first goal of the season.
Here is Gourley's first goal for the #IceBus He had 7 in his 3 seasons at Arizona State. pic.twitter.com/7LoIKmV55H
— UConn Men's Hockey (@UConnMHOC) November 14, 2021
2nd period:
The Providence special teams paid dividends again in the second period. After killing off a 5-on-3 chance for the Huskies the Friars got a power play chance of their own and made it 4-1. The puck cycled to Crozier at the high point and he blasted one through traffic for his third of the season for a three-goal lead at 14:47.
The Huskies got one back at 16:29 to pull within 4-2. Sophomore John Spetz (Oak Ridge, NJ) fired on net from just inside the blue line and Tverberg was in front to get a redirect for his ninth goal of the season.
Ryan Tverberg finds the back of the net in five-straight games. Pulls the #IceBus within 4-2 in the 2nd period. pic.twitter.com/KB6a31ZIgY
— UConn Men's Hockey (@UConnMHOC) November 14, 2021
3rd period:
UConn pulled within a goal at 6:50 in the period as Evans ended a seven-game drought without a goal. Sophomore Hudson Schandor (North Vancouver, British Columbia) picked up a rebound in front and back handed a feed to Evans all alone at the left post who buried it on the open net for his second of the season to make it 4-3.
Evans gets his 2nd of the season on a nifty pass from Hudson Schandor, ending a seven-game drought. #IceBus within 4-3 pic.twitter.com/tHsY3iafJA
— UConn Men's Hockey (@UConnMHOC) November 14, 2021
Providence got it back at 12:18 on a two-on-one chance with Englebert flying up the left wing and putting one past Hanson to the short side to make it 5-3. The Friars got their third power play goal at the 15:12 mark as Berard got a feed in the middle from Nick Poisson and walked in on Hanson finishing it off for a 6-3 lead.
UConn's Capone capped off the scoring at 16:37 with his third goal of the season, blasting a shot past Stauber from the slot area to produce the final, 6-4.
Up Next:
The Huskies will take on UMass Lowell next weekend in a Hockey East home-and-home series. UConn will travel to Lowell on Saturday for a 3:30 game on NESN and host the River Hawks on Sunday at the XL Center in the series finale on the CW20 in Connecticut.
