{"id":7187,"date":"2006-02-11T23:30:25","date_gmt":"2006-02-12T05:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2006\/02\/11\/watson-helps-merrimack-tie-wildcats\/"},"modified":"2010-08-23T11:55:15","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T16:55:15","slug":"watson-helps-merrimack-tie-wildcats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/2006\/02\/11\/watson-helps-merrimack-tie-wildcats\/","title":{"rendered":"Watson Helps Merrimack Tie Wildcats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Freshman Rob Ricci scored his sixth goal of the season and classmate Patrick Watson made 40 saves as Merrimack College earned a 1-1 tie with No. 16 New Hampshire in Hockey East action Friday night at Lawler Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Jamie Fritsch scored for the Wildcats, who finished the season series against the Warriors 1-1-1 and leave North Andovor with a record of 15-10-5 (1 1-6-4 HEA). Merrirmack, meanwhile, improves to 5-19-4 overall and 2-15-4 in Hockey East.<\/p>\n<p>Ricci gave the Warriors a 1-0 lead at 10:33 of the first when he poked home a loose puck in front of Wildcat netminder Jeff Pietrasiak. Sophomore Jordan Fox and freshman Mickey Rego picked up the assists on Ricci&#8217;s second goal against UNH this season.<\/p>\n<p>The score remained 1-0 Merrimack until 14:19 of the third period when Fritsch tallied his second goal of the season on the power play. With junior Justin Mills in the penalty box for slashing, Fritsch took a cross-ice pass from Daniel Winnik and beat Watson to tie the game at one.<\/p>\n<p>The Wildcats outshot the Warriors 41-28 on the night and held Merrimack scoreless on nine power play opportunities. Merrimack killed off six of the seven power-play chances for UNH, while Pietrasiak finished the night with 27 saves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freshman Rob Ricci scored his sixth goal of the season and classmate Patrick Watson made 40 saves as Merrimack College earned a 1-1 tie with No. 16 New Hampshire in Hockey East action Friday night at Lawler Arena. Jamie Fritsch scored for the Wildcats, who finished the season series against the Warriors 1-1-1 and leave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7187"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7187\/revisions"}],"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=7187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7187"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}