{"id":134046,"date":"2022-03-24T23:59:15","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T04:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/?p=134046"},"modified":"2022-03-25T00:05:57","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T05:05:57","slug":"wrights-third-period-deflection-sends-denver-past-umass-lowell-in-ncaa-loveland-regional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/2022\/03\/24\/wrights-third-period-deflection-sends-denver-past-umass-lowell-in-ncaa-loveland-regional\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright’s third-period deflection sends Denver past UMass Lowell in NCAA Loveland Regional"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cameron Wright (16) celebrates his third-period goal for Denver against UMass Lowell in Thursday’s game (photo: Katie Schroeck).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The high-scoring Denver men’s hockey team doesn’t play a lot of nail-biters. But the Pioneers weren’t spooked when things got close in the final minutes of the first round of the NCAA tournament.<\/p>\n

Cameron Wright scored the winning goal for Denver at 17:03 of the third period to break a tie and earn a 3-2 win over UMass Lowell Thursday night in Loveland, Colo.<\/p>\n

“We believe in each other and we believe in our team,” Wright said. “We know that we can win games and score goals. (We) haven’t had too many close games, so it was a good lesson for us to learn to stick with it and find a way to win that game.”<\/p>\n

No. 1 Denver (28-9-1) advanced to Saturday’s regional final, where it will play No. 2 Minnesota Duluth for a trip to the Frozen Four. No. 4 Lowell’s season is over at 21-11-3. Duluth (22-15-4) was a 3-0 winner over No. 3 Michigan Tech (21-13-3) in the afternoon semifinal on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Carter Mazur scooped up a bouncing puck off the boards at the red line on the right side, carried the puck into the Lowell zone and fed it to a streaking Wright who extended his stick just enough to deflect it into the goal past Lowell goaltender Owen Savory (22 saves), whipping the mostly home crowd into a frenzy.<\/p>\n

“They didn’t make it easy,” Denver coach David Carle said about Lowell. “It was a really challenging game, and for that I give our players a ton of credit for sticking with it. We have not been in a lot of these really tight games this year.”<\/p>\n

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The Wright man for the job! pic.twitter.com\/ptQG8lnooN<\/a><\/p>\n

— Denver Hockey (@DU_Hockey) March 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n