No. 7 River Hawks with no. 10 New Hampshire for Hockey East Opening Round

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Lowell, Mass. The 7^one-Seed^one-Eded New Hampshire (13-15-6, 5-14-5 Hockey East) Wednesday evening at 7:05 pm

Scouting the River Hawks

Umass Lowell entered the 2024-25 season and came from an 8-24-4 campaign in which the River Hawks entered the hockey East tournament when the #11 seed. The team graduated from a handful of players and has strengthened their line -up of 17 returners with 15 newcomers, including seven transfers and eight first -year students. Of those transfers, there are five graduated students and two are juniors. The team started the 2024-25 season in ninth place in the survey of the Hockey East previous season with 40 points. Through 32 games this season they have a record of 15-13-4 (8-11-3 Hockey East). Nationally they rank #19 in the USCCHO Poll and #17 in the American hockey auction. They are in the purple rankings on #17.

Umass Lowell will arrive this weekend after a 0-2-0 weekend against New Hampshire. The team set the game one, 4-1, before he fails, 4-2, in the game two on Saturday. First -year Lee Parks (1g, 1a) and Chris Delaney (0G, 2a) the team with two points each.

At the moment, Owen Cole (8g, 12a) runs the road with 20 points while Mirko Buttazzoni (5G, 13a) is just behind with 18 and Truman exploration is third with 17 (9g, 8a). Henry Necks leads the two goalkeepers with a 2.51 GAA and has a .900 savings percentage, while Beni is a fish Also places a productive season with a 2.57 GAA EN .909 savings percentage.

Explore the wildcats

The Wildcats enter the weekend with a 13-15-6 general record (5-14-5 Hockey East), the most recently with 2-0-0 last weekend against the River Hawks.

The Wildcats come from a season year 2023-24 where they ended 20-15-1 (12-11-1 Hockey East) and fell to Maine in the quarterfinals of Hockey East, 5-0. They give all their top five point scorers back from 2023-24 in Ryan Conmy, Cy Leclerc, Morgan Winters, Colton Huard and Liam Devlin. Conmy (14g, 17a) was at the forefront of 31 points, while Leclerc (10g, 18a) had 28 to stand the second. Winters (10G, 12a) and Huard (5G, 17A) unions with 22 points, while Devlin's (13g, 7a) were 20 points in fifth place. They have not sent any goalkeepers back from last year's selection.

This season Conmy leads the team with 32 points (15 g, 17a), while Robert Cronin (16G, 11a) is second with 27 and Leclerc (7G, 19a) is in third place with 26. Devlin (9g, 14a) is just behind them with 23 points so far on the year.

Umass Lowell vs. New Hampshire

The River Hawks have seen a lot of New Hampshire during program history and register a 49-72-18 (.417) of all time against the Wildcats. The two teams played for the last time only four days ago on March 8, when the Wildcats won a 4-2 victory.

Score against the Wildcats

28 players have now played at least one match against New Hampshire in their career after last week. Ben Meehan Leads the road with 13 games played, while Isac Jonsson Leiden in points against the Wildcats, who count six (2g, 4a) in 11 games played. Meehan is the next with three points on three assists against the Wildcats.

Hockey East Tournament History

Umass Lowell is 51-54-3 of all time in the Hockey East Tournament, with 3 Hockey East Tournament titles on their resume. They are only 1-3 in the opening round, 36-30-2 in the quarterfinals, 9-13 in the semi-finals, 2-3-1 in the consolation match and 3-5 in the championship game.

Vs. New Hampshire in Hockey East Tournament

Umass Lowell and New Hampshire met in 9 earlier hockey East tournaments, where the River Hawks are progressing 6 times. When Umass Lowell is the higher seed, they have improved 5 times in 5 attempts. In general, Umass Lowell 8-7 is in tournament games against the Wildcats.

In the polls

Umass Lowell ranks #19 in the USCHO poll and #19 in the American Hockey survey this week. They also rank #17 in the purple ranking that this matchup goes with New Hampshire.

By the dot

Umass Lowell is currently in 45th place in the nation at the Faceoff Dot that will go in the Lei this weekend. The River Hawks have won 982 of their 1,905 faceoffs that were taken for a .483 Faceoff Win percentage due to their first 34 games.

Three is the magic song

When Umass Lowell scores 3 goals or more, they have been 11-3-3 and 224-43-17 this season since then Standard took over. If they score 2 goals or less, they are only 4-11-0 and 53-140-29 under Bazin this season.

On the other hand, when Umass Lowell allows 3 goals or more, this season they are 3-12-3 and 47-149-17 under Bazin, when they allow 2 goals or less, they are now 12-2-0 this season and 230-34-29 under Bazin.

Career best
Dillan Bentley This season has 9 goals and his career overshadows the best of 4 of last year. His 15 points are also a career best, which violated the 12 he had last season.

Matt Crasa Has 9 assists, connected to the career-best 9 that he had as a first-year student.

Pierson Brandon Has 6 goals this season and tied the career-best 6 he had as a second-year student in Colgate.

TJ Schweighard has 9 points this season (all assists). He only had 6 points (2 goals 4 assists) together in his freshmen and second -year students.

Scout Truman's 9 goals this season is a new career best, which comes beyond 8 that he had as a first-year student. His 37 Pim is by far a career high and beats the 18 he had as a second year.

Owen ColeS 12 Assists is a new career-bestee, who beats the 8 he had as a second year. His 20 points are also a career-best, at the top of the 17 he had as a junior.

Ben Meehan's 13 Assists bind his career high from 13 from his junior year.

Yak sailing work Has 5 goals and match the 5 goals he had as a first -year student. His 11 assists give him a new career-best, so that the 10 he had as a first-year student.

Henry Necks Already has 10 victories, which beat the career-best 6 that he had as a first-year student and again as a junior.

Beni is a fish Has 3 Shutouts, which corresponds to the career-best 3 that he had as a first-year student at Noord-Michigan.

Iron men

There are still 7 players on the Roster who appeared in every game this season: Ben Meehan” Jack Robilotti” Owen Cole” Truman explorationTJ Schweighardt, Connor EddyAnd Yak sailing work. Last season only 3 players did that – Owen Cole” Isac JonssonAnd Yak sailing work. Owen Cole Is the current Iron Man of the team, which appeared in 83 -following games, in which he last missed a competition in Maine on January 14, 2023. Yak sailing work Did not miss a competition in his 2 years at Lowell and appears in 69O far. Michael Kapla has the record for successive games player for Lowell, none of the 161 that Lowell played in Lowell for his 4 years.

A victory on Wednesday

A victory today would move the River Hawks to a 16-15-4 general record in the season and a record of 51-72-18 all time against the Wildcats, on Saturday 15 March to the Hockey East Quarterfinal Round.StandardWould also move to 21-18-3 against New Hampshire.