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The recent winning ways of the University of Maine women’s hockey team continued this weekend as the Black Bears dominated the University of Vermont Catamounts 6-0. But one figures that coach Rick Filighera could find a gray lining to any cloud, especially a cloud that seems to be a dominant win for his team.
“I liked the way we played probably for the first two and a half periods, I really didn’t like the third period again,” Filighera said. “We had many other glorious opportunities that we didn’t finish on. We’ve played some teams that maybe have a little bit more talent that are going to give us some problems if we don’t put the puck in the net. Right now it has been a pet peeve of mind.”
The Black Bears moved to the .500 mark with the win, to 12-12-2. UMaine is also 5-9-2 in ECAC EAST conference play.
“That’s what we work for,” Filighera said. “We want to get to .500 and then get over because you only get ranked if you are a .500 team.”
The Black Bears used a strong first period to propel the team to its 12th win. UMaine got four goals in the period, starting when freshman defenseman Laura Maddin scored from the outside left circle at 6:12. Five minutes later, sophomore forward Meagan Aarts scored, on the power play, the first of her two goals.
UMaine would end the scoring in the period with goals from freshman forward Tristan Desmet and senior defenseman Tracy Caridade with 42 seconds remaining.
In the second period, Aarts added her second goal at 8:26 with traffic in front of the net. The last goal came at 17:01 when ECAC East Rookie of the Week Cheryl White shot the puck through Vermont goaltender Tiffany Hayes.
UMaine peppered Vermont with 59 shots in the game with 53 saves made by Hayes. Vermont managed only seven shots in the game. UMaine goalie Dawn Froats saved two shots and sophomore Lara Smart stopped five pucks for the Black Bears.
Filighera was realistic, however, about the 59 shots and the six goals that his team tallied against a 1-20-1 team like the University of Vermont.
“Even though you look at the standings, we score as many or more goals than most of the teams in Division I hockey. But I’m still not happy. When we play a team like Northeastern and we lose 4-3 and we outchance two to one, we got to start putting more pucks in the net. That was my only disappointment. I liked the way our power play looked today. I thought we were moving the puck very well.”
