Section N. Row 8. Seat 12.
Lovely Maine fans on both sides of me.
Carter Gylander led the team onto the ice for tonight’s pre-game warm-up.
Albin Boija Maine’s starting goalie.
Colgate penalty. Killed.
Beautiful Maine score by Bradly Nadeau.
Maine penalty. Killed.
Maine 10, Colgate 4, SOG after one.
Maine 1, Colgate 0, score after one.
Colgate came out strong, but Maine got a wraparound goal by Harrison Scott.
51 seconds left in the period, Maine won the faceoff and scored their third goal (by Brian Hopkins).
Maine 28, Colgate 19, SOG after two.
Maine 3, Colgate 0, score after two.
Maine penalty. Colgate emptied the net. And Ryan McGuire scored a PPG.
Colgate penalty. Then matching Roughing penalties. Killed. Colgate emptied the net.
Maine 3, Colgate 1, final score.
Got to chitchatting with Maine fans at the end of the game, so didn’t get final SOG. We came back, but they still led that category. The third period got very chippy, which wasn’t great to see.
Apparently the ‘Gate team will bus back to Hamilton, N.Y., tomorrow night after the game (in hopes of beating the forecasted incoming snow). I will leave early Sunday morning.
My take-away is that Maine’s third- year coach, Ben Barr, has been a main reason for their turnaround. The other is two freshmen brothers from New Brunswick, Bradly & Josh Nadeau, who chose Maine so their family could watch them (only 2.5 hours from home). They are wickedly talented.