Despite a late, game-tying goal from junior forward Scott Wilson – and what appeared to be an overtime game-winner from Josh Holmstrom that was reviewed and eventually waved off – Massachusetts-Lowell and McGill played to a 3-3 stalemate at the Tsongas Center on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
For Lowell, the game marked the club’s only live-action competition before next Friday’s season-opener against Sacred Heart.<\/p>\n
The Redmen will continue their series of exhibition games tomorrow at Merrimack.<\/p>\n
“I thought we had some good moments,” said Lowell coach Norm Bazin. “[But] there’s plenty of stuff we can improve on.”<\/p>\n
The River Hawks thought they had the game toward the end of overtime when Holmstrom took a feed in the slot on the rush and jammed the puck past McGill netminder Andrew Flemming. However, after a short review, it was determined that a Lowell player had collided and interfered with the goalie.<\/p>\n
“We had a little bit of a break there, turned it into a three-on-two into their zone,” said Holmstrom. “Joey [Pendenza] made a great pass to me and [A.J. White] went in hard to the net. I didn’t see if he was tripped up there or if he just lost an edge, but they said that he interfered with the goalie. But there were still a lot of good things there.”<\/p>\n
While UML put up most of the pressure early on, it was the Redmen who were able to get on the board first on a goal from Patrick Delisle-Houde.<\/p>\n
After a broken play in the Lowell end, Carl Gelinas was able to get the puck to the front of the net where Delisle-Houde one-timed it past River Hawks’ goalie Doug Carr.<\/p>\n
McGill’s lead was short-lived.<\/p>\n
Playing his first game ever in a Lowell uniform, freshman Evan Campbell evened the score at 1-1 just 24 seconds after the ice-breaker on a rebound in front of the net.<\/p>\n
“I was just driving the net there,” said Campbell. “[Christian] Folin threw it on net and I just took a swipe at it. It just kind of trickled in.”<\/p>\n
After trading a pair of goals, the Redmen regained their lead late in the third when Guillaume Langeliere-Parent beat Connor Hellebuyck on a two-on-one wrist shot.<\/p>\n
“I liked the way we played tonight,” McGill coach Kelly Nobes said. “I thought we battled hard for 60 minutes. All in all, I thought it was a good game with good pace.”<\/p>\n
With less than five minutes left in regulation, the River Hawks went to the power play. Wilson took the puck at the point and wound up for a hard slap shot through a screen that beat Flemming and leveled the tally at 3-3.<\/p>\n
“It is that time of the year,” said Bazin. “There’s very little practice, very little structure, and you just want to see how guys react to those situations, and I thought that overall, I was pleased.”<\/p>\n
Saturday’s contest was the fifth preseason game for the Redmen and the first for Mass.-Lowell, who dressed an above-standard 23 skaters and two goalies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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