Bears tame Huskies
11/14/09 | 9 comments
Men's Hockey

Bears tame Huskies


Maine scores 3 in 2nd period
By Larry Mahoney
BDN Staff

BOSTON — It had been since Dec. 7, 2008, that the University of Maine men had won a Hockey East road game at an opponents’ own rink.

Maine did pick up a win over New Hampshire in Manchester, N.H., in February.

But the Black Bears snapped that 14-game losing streak Friday night as they scored the game’s first five goals, including three in the second period, to beat the injury-riddled Northeastern Huskies 6-2 at Matthews Arena.

Adam Shemansky’s first-period goal; second-period goals by Spencer Abbott, Will O’Neill and Mike Banwell and Robby Dee’s third-period goal supplied the Bears with a comfortable cushion.

Justin Daniels and Garrett Vermeersch sandwiched NU goals around Kyle Solomon’s shorthanded goal for the Black Bears later in the third period.

Maine has now won three straight and improved to 4-5 overall, 3-2 in Hockey East. Northeaestern fell to 3-5 and 1-4.

The teams play again tonight at 7.

Former New Hampshire Junior Monarch linemates Shemansky, Matt Mangene and Kyle Beattie teamed up for the only goal of the first period.

Beattie dished the puck over to Mangene on the right side and his shot was deflected over to the far post where Shemansky shoveled it into the half-empty net for his sixth goal of the season.

Abbott expanded the lead 3:22 into the second period with Shemansky playing distributor on this occasion.

Shemansky spun off a check behind the net and wheeled around the post to goalie Chris Rawlings’ left before threading the needle with a cross-crease pass that Abbott one-timed into the short side.

A five-minute major and game misconduct on Northeastern left wing and captain Tyler McNeely for hitting from behind and a minor penalty on Alex Tuckerman following a Maine minor on Josh Van Dyk gave the Bears a golden opportunity to extend the lead and O’Neill did just that.

Dee had a shot blocked but chased down the rebound and slid it across to O’Neill in the middle of the slot.

The unattended O’Neill took a stride and wristed a rising 20-footer over Rawlings’ blocker.

Banwell made it 4-0 as he came out of the penalty box, skated on to a Van Dyk flip out and converted a breakaway with a wrister between Rawlings’ pads.

Dee scored a five-on-three power-play goal early in the third period when he was camped out at the top of the crease and jammed home the rebound of a Van Dyk shot.

Northeastern was without four defensemen and winger Steve Quailer due to injury.

Daniels backhanded home a rebound before Solomon scored off a three-on-three as he cut to the middle of the slot and wristed the puck past Rawlings for his first collegiate goal.

Vermeersch capped the scoring.

Maine outshot NU 26-23.

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On 11/14/09 at 8:04 AM, HKyNorth wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

Positive WIN...name that small young line... KID LINE or Jr. MONARCH LINE...? Keep scoring...play HARD..beat NU again 2night....

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On 11/14/09 at 8:19 AM, JeffBragdon wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

So how many of the goals were scored by crashing the net? All but the 2 breakaways. Interesting. Keep crashing the net, boys!

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On 11/14/09 at 9:54 AM, yaddayadda wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

Amazing how a couple of good wins take the negative SOB's out of these blogs. Where'd they all go?

Nice job team..go get em tonight!

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On 11/14/09 at 10:55 AM, grayson21 wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

1-4 in the hockey east,,, Id hope like heck they would beat this team and beat them good..... and this northeastern team beat bu,,,,, so whats my point..... both teams are pretty terrible folks dont get to excited... Dump whitehead........... yaddayaddayadda

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On 11/14/09 at 11:30 AM, JeffBragdon wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

yadda yadda,

you really are a casual observer, at best. Or Tim. Whitehead, himself, because you just don't get it.

If Maine can beat Lowell in 2 weeks at Lowell, WITH a healthy Hutton, Hamilton, Edwards, Schaus, Falite, and Holmstrom, then I will be impressed. You DO realize that Northeastern does not have a single player as good as the Lowell players I just listed, right? If Maine can split with BC next weekend, I will say that Tim is doing an OK, job. But it is not really about a few games, it is about the National picture.

It was not that long ago that Maine expected to win every game at the Alfond, no matter who they were playing. Right now, I would not bet on a split with Merrimack. And it was not that long ago that Maine had a chance against anybody, anywhere. This is not the case right now.

You think that is ok?

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On 11/14/09 at 12:31 PM, yaddayadda wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

oh woah is me.....here we go again.....negative negative negative....pretty sad the glass is always half empty instead of half full...

tough outlook on life...are you a postal worker? You're always going postal in the blogs....yadda yaddayadda...keep blogging ...I need a laugh

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On 11/14/09 at 12:31 PM, HKyNorth wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

Negative SOB's............???? Hahahaha thats a laugh...its the SOB's that care about this Hockey program and what direstion it's been and is heading....so get a CLUE...people care....they don't have to paint a rosey picture for YOU....telling it like it is HURT's....with that I ALWAY's root hard for the Maine HKy team.....and I bet you do TOO..............agreeing to disagree never is a BAD thing......

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On 11/14/09 at 12:46 PM, yaddayadda wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

yadda yadda yadda.....I love Umaine Hockey and I love the university....season ticket holder and tuition payer or many years...they'll come back...they're exceeding realistic expectations and building confidence as they go...go Black bears

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On 11/14/09 at 4:11 PM, mefaninla wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

3 wins against teams who are not winning and under 500....still doesn't change what needs to be done at the end of the season. Starting looking now and putting out feelers, that way the new coach can jump in quickly and get going asap when the season is over.

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