No.15 Seahawks tie with No.9 Nor'easters

BIDDEFORD, Maine. (Friday, January 19, 2024)-- Salve Regina men's ice hockey tied 1-1 with the University of New England Nor'easters in Commonwealth Coast Conference play. After three 20-minute periods and a five-minute overtime the Seahawks outshot the Nor'easters 2-1 in a shootout for CCC ranking purposes. 

INSIDE THE MATCHUP:
Final: Salve Regina 1, University of New England 1
Records: Salve Regina (12-3-2, 7-1-2 CCC), University of New England (12-2-3, 6-1-3 CCC)
All-Time Series: The Seahawks are 8-10-1 all-time against the University of New England. The last time the programs met on Thursday, February 16, 2023, it was a 5-2 loss for Salve Regina.

BREAKDOWN: 

Beginning the day in net for the Seahawks was Cayden Bailey and his counterpart, Billy Girard stood in between the posts for the University of New England. Both starting goalies found themselves in the action for the full 65 minutes. To being the contest, each team expressed a similar cadence of play, both posting nine shots on goal during the first period. The 0-0 standstill wasn't broken until the second period, when Dominic Murphy poked it in for a 1-0 game in favor of the Nor'easters. It took the Seahawks the remainder of the second period plus ten minutes of the third period to counteract the Nor'easters' attack. However, following a University of New England boarding infraction the extra skater advantage led to a Seahawk goal off the stick of Garrett Szeremley (from Matthew Fawcett and Logan Calder). The 1-1 game quickly moved to overtime but 65 minutes ticked down and the game concluded as a 1-1 tie. For CCC tie breaking purposes the game move to a shootout and thanks to goals from Logan Calder and Joseph Kile, Salve Regina toped the University of New England in the shootout. 

NOTEWORTHY:

• The Nor'easters outshot the Seahawks 45-23 over the course of the game.
• Salve Regina went 1-1 on the power play and the University of New England went 0-2. 
• Both the Seahawks and the Nor'easters served six minutes on three infractions. 

ON THE HORIZON: 

Tomorrow the Seahawks return home with a 7 p.m. start time to host the University of New England in day two of the home-and-home series.