PC Hockey Gets Bounced Out of NCAAs By Defending Champs Denver
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PC Hockey Gets Bounced Out of NCAAs By Defending Champs Denver
The loss ends the Friars' season. The game was played in Manchester, New Hampshire.
PC outshot Denver but struggled to score. The Friars recorded 31 shots to Denver's 20.
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLASTThe trouble started in the first few minutes when Denver's Connor Caponi scored unassisted just 2:25 into the game. It was their first shot on goal.
The game was all but decided when the Friars finally got their first goal in the third period from Austen May from Logan Will.
That single Friar goal cut the lead to 4-1.
Ultimately, the Friars’ inability to score this season was their Achilles heel, and it proved to be too much of a weakness against a high-power offense like the Pioneers.
GOALIES
Philip Svedebäck (PC) – 16 saves, 4 goals against
Matt Davis (DU) – 30 saves, 1 goal against
NOTES
-The Pioneers struck first just 2:25 into the opening period on an unassisted goal from Connor Caponi.
-Denver doubled its lead at 3:17 of the second when Zeev Buium found the back of the net, assisted by Aidan Thompson and Jack Devine.
-On the power play, Sam Harris made it 3-0 at 6:01 of the second, with Thompson and Carter King picking up assists.
-Thompson extended Denver's lead to 4-0 at 3:53 of the third period, with assists from Buium and Samu Salminen.
-At 11:35 of the third, Denver's Garrett Brown received a five-minute major for elbowing. Four seconds into the power play, Austen May (Woodhaven, Mich.) fired a shot into the net to make it 4-1. Logan Will (Ames, Iowa) recorded the lone assist. The goal was May's first of the season.
-The Friars pulled Philip Svedebäck for an extra attacker during the extended power play, but the Pioneers sealed the win with an empty-net goal from King.
Denver will play Boston College next.