Riley Wetmore netted the game winner early in the third period as the ninth ranked Massachusetts-Lowell River Hawks defeated the Princeton Tigers, 4-1, in a\nnon-conference game in front of 3,808 fans at Tsongas arena.<\/p>\n
Wetmore scored his goal while on the power play to give the River Hawks a 2-1 lead. Wetmore stole the puck in the neutral zone, and snuck a shot between Michael Condon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s (23 saves) arm, and his body trickling over the goal line. The goal came at 4:18 into the third.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I was going down the wall and I saw a lot of guys going to the net hard, and the goalie kind of played like he was going to go there [in front of the net]. I just shot it short side, and it snuck under his armpit,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Wetmore.<\/p>\n
Princeton got on the board first, when Dan Bartlett received a pass inside the offensive zone, he fired a shot over the right shoulder of goaltender Carter Hutton (29 saves).<\/p>\n
After the opening goal by the Tigers, each team played a sluggish period. The River Hawks never really got any momentum going. Their best chance came on the power play when Scott Campbell made a pass right in front of the Tigers net to Paul Worthington, who was able to get his stick on it, but the shot went wide. <\/p>\n
Lowell head coach Blais MacDonald doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have an explanation of why his team has been struggling in the first period as of late.<\/p>\n
<\/embed><\/object><\/html><\/p>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We talk about establishing our game, getting out of the gate early, really getting after it and for some reason we have a hard time establishing our game in the first period.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\nLowell came out in the second with a lot more urgency, but the Tigers were able to fend them off with good shot blocking and goaltending.<\/p>\nMacDonald was impressed with the performance of the Tigers goaltender.<\/p>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I thought their goaltender played really well. It was unfortunate for him that a couple slipped through.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\nLowell tied the game at one, when Scott Campbell buried a loose puck that bounced to the far post at 12:41 of the second period. His goal was one of two on the power play.<\/p>\nLowell gave Princeton five power play opportunities in the period, but they weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t able to set up in the River Hawks zone and create chances for themselves.<\/p>\nThe flow of the period was much faster than the first, but the chances were few and far between.<\/p>\nThe River Hawks (10-5-1 overall, 5-4-1 in Hockey East) came out in the third, and buried any hope the Tigers may have had of coming back in the game.<\/p>\nMichael Budd gave the River Hawks a two goal lead by picking up the puck at his own blue line and carrying it down the left side, rifling a shot past Condon, at 10:27 of the third.<\/p>\nPaul Worthington wrapped the game up with a shorthanded empty net goal. It was his team leading eighth goal of the year to secure the win.<\/p>\nPrinceton (3-8-1, 2-6-1) came into the game on a six game losing streak, and only had 16 players dressed due to injuries. <\/p>\nTigers head coach Guy Gadowsky doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t use the lack of players as an excuse to the team\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s struggles.<\/p>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Any time you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re a couple men down, I think you face challenges, but by no means does that mean you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t win a hockey game,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Gadowsky. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think right now we are struggling through it. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a couple things, injuries maybe a factor, but were struggling putting the puck in the net, and maybe everybody is squeezing the sticks a little too tight.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\nThese two teams meet again on Saturday for a matinee game starting at 4 p.m. at Tsongas arena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Riley Wetmore netted the game winner early in the third period as the ninth ranked Massachusetts-Lowell River Hawks defeated the Princeton Tigers, 4-1, in a non-conference game in front of 3,808 fans at Tsongas arena. Wetmore scored his goal while on the power play to give the River Hawks a 2-1 lead. Wetmore stole the […]<\/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\/9968"}],"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=9968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9968\/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=9968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9968"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We talk about establishing our game, getting out of the gate early, really getting after it and for some reason we have a hard time establishing our game in the first period.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
Lowell came out in the second with a lot more urgency, but the Tigers were able to fend them off with good shot blocking and goaltending.<\/p>\n
MacDonald was impressed with the performance of the Tigers goaltender.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I thought their goaltender played really well. It was unfortunate for him that a couple slipped through.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
Lowell tied the game at one, when Scott Campbell buried a loose puck that bounced to the far post at 12:41 of the second period. His goal was one of two on the power play.<\/p>\n
Lowell gave Princeton five power play opportunities in the period, but they weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t able to set up in the River Hawks zone and create chances for themselves.<\/p>\n
The flow of the period was much faster than the first, but the chances were few and far between.<\/p>\n
The River Hawks (10-5-1 overall, 5-4-1 in Hockey East) came out in the third, and buried any hope the Tigers may have had of coming back in the game.<\/p>\n
Michael Budd gave the River Hawks a two goal lead by picking up the puck at his own blue line and carrying it down the left side, rifling a shot past Condon, at 10:27 of the third.<\/p>\n
Paul Worthington wrapped the game up with a shorthanded empty net goal. It was his team leading eighth goal of the year to secure the win.<\/p>\n
Princeton (3-8-1, 2-6-1) came into the game on a six game losing streak, and only had 16 players dressed due to injuries. <\/p>\n
Tigers head coach Guy Gadowsky doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t use the lack of players as an excuse to the team\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s struggles.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Any time you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re a couple men down, I think you face challenges, but by no means does that mean you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t win a hockey game,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Gadowsky. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think right now we are struggling through it. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a couple things, injuries maybe a factor, but were struggling putting the puck in the net, and maybe everybody is squeezing the sticks a little too tight.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
These two teams meet again on Saturday for a matinee game starting at 4 p.m. at Tsongas arena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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