UConn dropped by No. 19 Northeastern, 4-1

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UConn men’s hockey suffered its second straight blowout loss, falling to the No. 19 Northeastern Huskies 4-1 at Toscano Family Ice Forum on Friday.

The visitors ran out to a four-goal lead before Joey Muldowney scored a power play goal in garbage time.

UConn had a 37-31 edge in shots on Friday, though it didn’t create much danger from those chances. It spent much of the night firing the puck from the outside or sending it straight at Northeastern goalie Lawton Zacher.

On special teams, UConn’s power play went 1-5 while the penalty kill went 4-5 (officially, though Northeastern scored as one of its man advantages expired).

In goal, Veeti Louhivaara started on Friday night for the first time all season and finished with 27 saves on 31 shots (an .871 save percentage).

UConn fell behind early and never bounced back. Northeastern converted on a power play 4:43 in and added a second goal midway through the first period just as a UConn penalty expired. Meanwhile, the hosts came up empty on two man-advantage opportunities in the opening stanza.

In the second period, Northeastern tagged on two more. First, Kai Janviriya lost a puck battle in the corner, which let Andy Moore set up Joe Connor for an early goal in front of net. Later, the visitors diced through UConn’s defense and scored on a backdoor tap-in from Jack Pechar.

Muldowney finally got UConn on the board with 3:43 left, though it proved to be too little, too late.

With UConn down to five healthy defensemen until Christmas, Joe Odyniec played on the blue line on Friday night. Kaden Shahan also returned after missing a game due to injury.

The loss drops UConn to 4-6-1 on the season and 2-4-1 in Hockey East. Next, it’ll try to salvage a split when it closes out the weekend series with Northeastern at PeoplesBank Arena in Hartford. Puck drop is set for 3 p.m. ET.

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