ORONO, Maine — University of Maine junior goalie Petter Wickstrom Stumer had a memorable debut at Alfond Arena on Friday night.
The Canisius University transfer from Stockholm, Sweden, made 24 saves and the Black Bears received goals from senior left wing Tanner Klimpke, sophomore defenseman Loic Usereau and junior right wing Lee Parks to beat Colgate University 3-0 in a hard-fought contest.
It was the second career shutout for the 6-foot-6 Wickstrom Stumer.
UMaine is now 3-2 while Colgate fell to 0-5.
The teams will play again Saturday at 4.
Reid Dyck made 34 saves for Colgate.
Usereau collected his second goal of the season at the 3:32 mark of the second period.
Isa Parekh slid the puck over to him at the top of the left circle and Usereau wristed the puck past the glove of Dyck, who was effectively screened by UMaine sophomore center Jaden Lipinski.
Colgate had a decided edge in offensive zone time in the middle period but only managed to put three shots on goal.
UMaine was credited with seven shots on goal.
Klimpke staked UMaine to a 1-0 lead on the power play with 5:28 left in the first period.
It was his third goal of the season and all three have come on the power play.
Owen Fowler made a cross-ice pass to Sully Scholle, who fired a one-timer from the circle to the right of Dyck.
Dyck made the save but the puck squirted free at the edge of the crease and Klimpke jammed it under Dyck.
Parks extended his goal-scoring streak to four games by finishing a nifty cross-ice feed from longtime friend Will Gerrior in the third period.
Both goalies were sharp in the first period.
Wickstrom Stumer made 12 saves and Dyck had 13.
Wickstrom Stumer had a pair of instances where he had to make multiple saves during goalmouth scrambles.
Dyck made a superb left pad stop on Charlie Russell’s one-time wrister from the middle of the low slot and he had a few more solid positional stops including a glove save off Will Gerrior, who broke in down the left wing.