Men’s Hockey Falls to #15 Curry, 5-2

EAST BOSTON – Suffolk men's hockey suffered a 5-2 Commonwealth Coast Conference setback to No. 15 Curry Friday night at Louis E. Porrazzo Memorial Skating Rink. 

THE BASICS
SCORE: Suffolk 2 | No. 15 Curry 5
RECORDS: Suffolk (1-4-0, 0-3-0 CCC) | No. 15 Curry (2-1-1, 2-1-0 CCC)  

HOW IT HAPPENED
Curry struck first 8:27 into the first period. Nolan McDonough caused a Rams turnover and took the puck up the boards from the Colonels zone to just outside Suffolk's right face-off dot. The freshman found his classmate in front of the blue-and-gold's net and Blake Rothstein buried the one-time to give the visitors a one-goal edge.  

Tyler Borys leveled the playing field less than three minutes later. Suffolk's sophomore picked up the pieces of a Curry turnover and sniped it past Shane Soderwall to make it a1-all at the 11:19 mark of the first. 

The Colonels regained the advantage 28 seconds later. In transition Matt Connor put the puck away thanks to feeds from McDonough and Ben Nichols to give Curry a 2-1 lead it held onto at the first intermission. 

Penalties picked up in the second period and it paid off for Curry as the Colonels poured in a pair of goals to pad their advantage to 4-1 at the second intermission. 

From behind the Rams net George Vonakis found Killian Rowlee in front and the sophomore scored on the short-handed opportunity at the 4:08 mark. Jacob Crespo helped set-up the score. 

Eelis Laaksonen tucked in a wrap-around power play go at the midway point to make it a three-goal distance. Tao Ishizuka and Conner assisted on the Colonels' second special teams' goal of the day. 

More penalties consumed the third period. Each team managed to tack on one goal to keep the three-goal margin, 5-2, at the end of regulation. 

Laaksonen had his second of the day for Curry with aid from Gage Dill at the 9:16 mark.  

Nick Liotino responded for the Rams 1:06 later on the power play. The freshman defenseman was set-up by Devin Lowe and Jake Grace.  

NETMINDER NOTES

• Kannon Flageolle had a 25-save performance.
• Soderwall put together a 14-save effort for the Colonels. 

STATISTICALLY SPEAKING

• Borys and Liotino were responsible for Suffolk's goals with one apiece. 
• Grace and Lowe had one assist each. 
• Curry outshot Suffolk, 30-16. 
• The Colonels commanded the face-off circle, 36-26. 
• The Rams went 1-for-4 on the power play and successfully skated off four of its five penalty kills. 

NOTEWORTHY

• Borys found the back of the net for the first time this season and second time in his collegiate career. 
• Lowe stretched his point streak to six games. In that span the graduate student has netted four goals and dished out five assists. 
• In his collegiate debut, Grace recorded his first collegiate point, an assist. 
• Liotino is the only blue-and-gold skater to produce a goal on a power play this season. 

WHAT'S NEXT?
Suffolk and Curry will clash in a rematch tomorrow, Saturday, Nov. 11 at 7 p.m. at the Canton Ice House in Canton, Massachusetts.