Men’s Hockey Stretches Streak to Nine, Handles WNE, 10-1

EAST BOSTON – Suffolk men's ice hockey rolled to its ninth straight victory in convincing fashion as it upended Western New England, 10-1, in Conference of New England (CNE) action Saturday night at Louis E. Porrazzo Memorial Skating Rink.  

Fifteen (15) Rams recorded a point in the team's 15th win of the season, the most triumphs 1992-93.

THE BASICS
SCORE: Suffolk 10 | Western New England 1
RECORDS: Suffolk (15-7-1, 14-3-1 CNE) | Western New England (5-19-0, 3-16-0 CNE) 

HOW IT HAPPENED

• In a penalty infested first period Suffolk took a 2-1 lead into the first intermission as it sandwiched a pair of power play goals around a Western New England marker. Both of the Rams goals, the first put away by Nolan Leonard and the second off Daniel McKiernan's stick came thanks to tape-to-tape passing. 
• Suffolk scored a touchdown amount of goals in the second to make things lopsided in its favor, 9-1, as the teams went to the locker room for the second time. 
• Aidan O'Connell's second of the night came at the 12:25 mark of the third period to give the blue-and-gold its 10th of the ninth for the lopsided 10-1 final. 

NETMINDER NOTES

• Austin McNicholas produced 17 saves in the victory.
• Lochlan Lauer had 47 stops in the setback. 

STATISTICALLY SPEAKING

• Fifteen Rams produced at least one point in the victory. 
• Alex Ondos led the way with five points on one goal and four assists. 
• McKiernan had a split four-point stat line of two strikes and two set-ups. 
• O'Connell found the back to the net twice. 
• Quinn Booth and Nick Liotino had identical one-goal, one-assist stat lines. 
• Ryan Webb and Matthew Pimental produced one goal each.
• Marko Giourof recorded three helpers.
• Michael Gallager recorded two assists.
• Leonard tallied two assists and one goal. 
• Josh Milso, Owen Hodgett, Scott McManus, Jack Kircher and Dimitri Voyatzis dished out one assist apiece.
• Suffolk outshot Western New England, 57-18. 
• The Rams went 3-for-6 on the power play. 
• The blue-and-gold won the face-off battle, 45-30. 

NOTEWORTHY

• Suffolk recorded its 15th win of the season, which marks its most victories in a single season since it went 15-10-0 in 1992-93. 
• The Rams extended its win streak to nine games. 
• The blue-and-gold has now won five games in a row against Western New England. 
• The Rams moved to 29-14-16 in the all-time series versus the Golden Bears. 
• Suffolk is 16-6-1 in Boston against WNE. 
• The Rams improved to 6-0-1 versus WNE in the Shawn McEachern era. 
• Suffolk poured in 10 goals, the most in the game-by-game record books, which date through 2000-01.
• Kircher (2a), Ondos (2g, 4a), Gallagher (3a), Pimental (2g, 1 a) and Leonard have produced points in back-to-back games. 
• Ondos logged a career-high in points (5) and assists (4). 
• McKiernan registered a personal-best in points (4) and helpers (2).
• O'Connell stretched his point streak to three games. In that span he has four goals and two handouts.
• Gallagher tied a career-high two assists.
• Booth matched a personal-best two points.
• Liotino logged a season-best two points.
• Leonard stretched his point streak to five games. Over that stretch he has three goals and six assists. 
• Leonard tied a career-high three points. 
• Giourof registered a career-high three assists and matched a personal-best three points. 

WHAT'S NEXT?
Suffolk closes the regular-season with a home-and-home series against No. 15 Curry next weekend, Feb. 21-22. The Rams entertain the Colonels Friday at 6:00 p.m. before the regular-season finale Saturday in Canton, Massachusetts at 3:00 p.m.