Maine Hockey Journal

Maine’s unbeaten streak snapped by UNH

The University of Maine men’s hockey team’s five-game unbeaten streak came to a halt on Saturday night as senior left wing Maxim Gaudreault and sophomore center Andrew Poturalski scored a pair of goals apiece and sophomore Danny Tirone made 28 saves to lead the University of New Hampshire to a 5-2 victory at the Whittemore Center in Durham, N.H.

The Wildcats, 1-4-3 in their previous eight games including Friday night’s 3-3 tie in Orono on Friday night, improved to 5-6-3 overall, 2-1-3 in Hockey East while the Black Bears will enter the holiday break at 4-9-3 and 2-5-1.

“Our puck management wasn’t good. The bottom line was we gave them three goals, two on turnovers and another on a broken stick which forced our defenseman to come to the bench,” said Maine coach Red Gendron. “We didn’t play a bad game. But we have to play better. You can’t give a team like UNH easy looks.”

Maine had been 4-0-1 in its previous five games.

McGovern finished with 24 saves.

The teams will play back-to-back non-conference games in Portland and Manchester, N.H., on Dec. 29-30, respectively.

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