{"id":171832469,"date":"2018-01-06T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/2018\/01\/06\/massachusetts-vs-umass-lowell\/"},"modified":"2018-01-07T16:05:43","modified_gmt":"2018-01-07T22:05:43","slug":"massachusetts-vs-umass-lowell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/2018\/01\/06\/massachusetts-vs-umass-lowell\/","title":{"rendered":"UMass Lowell defeats Massachusetts 8-3"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOWELL, Mass \u2013 <\/b>Massachusetts coach Greg Carvel was pretty frank when describing his team\u2019s loss to sister-school rival UMass Lowell on Saturday, a game where at times the Minutemen controlled the flow of play for stretches but still came out on the wrong end of an 8-3 score at Tsongas Center.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cA very ugly score but maybe not as ugly a game as the score,\u201d said Carvel. \u201cWe did a good job of hurting ourselves tonight. They\u2019re more mature than we are, we\u2019re a young team. I\u2019m not sure I\u2019m going to mark this one up as growing pain.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBut the big boys taught the little boys how to play hockey tonight.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

An apt description of a game where UMass fell behind, 2-0, early but clawed back with goals by Niko Hildenbrand late in the first and a power play goal from Philip Lagunov at the 8:09 mark of the second.<\/span><\/p>\n

From that point, the Minutemen dominated their sister school in the middle frame. But an icing with less than 90 seconds remaining in the frame changed the complexion.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lowell won that draw but didn\u2019t score. Instead, the River Hawks forced three straight draws in the offensive zone and, on the third, a red-hot Ryan Dmowski fired a shot through a screen that by UMass goalie Ryan Wischow (14 saves) and gave Lowell a lead it wouldn\u2019t relinquish.<\/span><\/p>\n

That final draw, taken by Charlie Levesque who jumped between wing and center for much of the game, exemplified something that pleased Lowell coach Norm Bazin: his team\u2019s ability to fill holes throughout the lineup for much of the night.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe were missing a couple of centermen tonight, so we went with a number of guys,\u201d said Bazin. \u201cThe depth was a big part of the game tonight. That\u2019s why I was so proud of the guys. A lot of guys were playing out of position. I thought we responded well to some adverse situations.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Still in a tight game and killing a penalty to start the third, the River Hawks were able to successfully target and hit the UMass jugular.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ryan Lohin potted a shorthanded goal to give Lowell its two-goal cushion. The tally, coning just 1:34 into the third stood up as the game-winner and was part of a four-point night for the sophomore talent.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a good job by the \u2018D\u2019 and [Nick] Marin to tie the guys who and get the puck loose,\u201d said Lohin describing his goal. \u201cI just saw an opportunity to take [the puck] and take a shot and fortunately it was able to go in.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Lohin\u2019s goal was the first of five for the River Hawks in the final period, though the final two were fired 4-on-6 shorthanded into an empty net. Lohin factored in all three of the shorthanded tallies.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c[Lohin] has been a first-shift penalty killer since he arrived as a freshman,\u201d said Bazin. \u201cThat\u2019s really out of the ordinary in college hockey. It\u2019s a tough role to play. He\u2019s a very headsy hockey player.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

By the end of the night, Lowell had netted eight goals on 22 shots, a night after scoring six goals against Vermont on just 24 shots. A good shooting percentage, certainly, but any coach knows those numbers are difficult to sustain, thus teaching points will still exist.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t think we necessarily played a complete game, but there are going to be times you have to gut through some stuff,\u201d said Bazin. \u201cAnd that\u2019s what it was, these guys gutted through some adverse situations. At the end you get the results, learn a few things and move on to the following weekend.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LOWELL, Mass \u2013 Massachusetts coach Greg Carvel was pretty frank when describing his team\u2019s loss to sister-school rival UMass Lowell on Saturday, a game where at times the Minutemen controlled the flow of play for stretches but still came out on the wrong end of an 8-3 score at Tsongas Center. \u201cA very ugly score […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":22374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[803],"coauthors":[812],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171832469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171832469"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171832469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171832868,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171832469\/revisions\/171832868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171832469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171832469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171832469"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=171832469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}