Maine survives in Double OT to achieve the championship

College sports

Charlie Russell's shot steered Nolan Renwicks Shin into the second extra time into the northeast of NetAstern Net to send Maine to the boys's hockey championship game on Friday evening with a 4: 3 victory in TD Garden.

The Black Bears will play 5-2 against Uconn in the primary semi -final of the night to increase their unbeaten series to nine games and achieve their second championship game.

“You go deep into a second extension, we thought it would be a greasy goal to end it, so I just parked on the net,” said Renwick. “Charlie Russell played a great game there. He saw me and he threw it into this back position. And I was lucky, it went from me and we were able to end the game.”

It is the primary time that Maine and Uconn meet the correct to play for the Lamoriello Trophy, and the primary hockey-eating championship game with no team from Massachusetts since 2002. Maine improved to 23-7-6.

Northeasters, who was the primary seed No. 9 to achieve the semi-finals with a 3-1 fault of the Boston College within the quarter-finals, landed the season with 14: 20-3. Sophomore Cameron Whitehead achieved 57 parades. Maine goalkeeper Albin Boija recorded 34 parades.

“He replied and appeared in the big games when it was most important. That is what they need from their goalkeeper,” said Nu trainer Jerry Keefe from Whitehead. “And he gave us the chance to win here in extra time and in the playoffs. I know that our boys had a lot of confidence in him. Just like our team, I thought we played our best hockey here, and he was obviously online.”

Northeasters had gathered within the second half of a 2-0 deficit and took a 3-2 lead when Sophomore Andy Moore chosen a superb time for his first college goal and brought a rebound by Nick Rheaume's shot back to the third. While the remaining of the huskies celebrated, Rheaaume limited into the online to call up the puck for his linemate.

“Mooresy is one of the most respected boys in this room,” said Keefe. “He is a player. He comes to work every day. He is a leader in this team. And I thought it gave our team such a big boost to get the lead … so I know that the boys were excited about him. He deserves it.”

The tour stood until Luke Antonacci answered for Maine and sent a shot on the online, which was rejected by the north -east defender Jackson Dorrington and Whitehead after the equalizer. So the rating remained when the sport went extra time, with the black Bears held a 39-24 lead in Schüussen.

Maine took the early lead 14:02 to the primary when it killed an influence game, with Owen Fowler got here out of the box after serving it for 2 minutes and scored on an outlier and defeated Whitehead with five holes. The goal was founded by Harrison Scott, who got here to the puck after the northeast of James Fisher and located Fowler in Spreid.

The black bears doubled the lead at the start of the second period, with Fowler Breen's rest imitated by giving them the lead for his second night to Whitehead 2:03 at night and 2-0. In view of the proven fact that Northeasters had only scored 4 goals in three meetings with Maine in the course of the regular season, it gave the impression to be a rise.

But the huskies would cut the lead in half a minute later and scored in the ability play after Brandon Charbier held at 2:58 for holding. North Heasters had a variety of traffic in front of the online when Cam Lund docked a shot that Joe Connor led. Boija made the primary stop, but Dylan Hryckowian could get to the loose puck and knock him past him at 4:01.

Northeasters even pulled within the last minute of the second period for an analogous pattern as Maine's first goal. Dorrington left the penalty area after serving two minutes for interference. He created a 2-to-1 with Lund, who had buried it for his team leading 18th goal, sending the sport to a 2-2 draw within the third period.