MANCHESTER, N.H. – Five different Huskies scored goals for the University of Southern Maine men's ice hockey team in their season-opening overtime loss to Saint Anselm College on Saturday evening.
 
When and Where: Saturday, October 29, 2022 – Manchester, N.H.
 
Score: Hawks 6, Huskies 5
 
History: The Hawks now have an all-time record of 17-11-5 against the Huskies.
 
The Records: Saint Anselm: 2-0-0; Southern Maine: 0-1-0
 
The Goaltenders: Nick Howard: 2-0-0, 29 saves, five goals allowed; sophomore Mason Palmer (Cumming, Ga./Connections Academy): 0-1-0, 33 saves, six goals allowed.
 
How It Happened/Inside the Boxscore:

• Nolan McElhaney (Natick, Mass./Long Island University) scored the first goal of his Southern Maine career in the first period to put the Huskies up 1-0. Mathieu Sabourin (Alexandria, ON, Canada) and Curtis Judd (Newton, Mass./Albany Academy) assisted on the goal.
• Each side scored twice in the second period with Southern Maine's goals coming from a pair of rookies in Jakub Suran (Liberec, Czech Republic) and Raphael Lajeunesse (Mont-Laurier, QC, Canada). Suran had two points in the period as he assisted on Lajeunesse's goal. Suran's goal was assisted by Nick Nault (Goffstown, NH) and Christopher Morrison (Ridgefield, Conn./Nichols School).
• Andrew Andary tied the game at 3-3 twenty second into the third period for the Hawks.
• Sabourin reclaimed the lead for the Huskies with a powerplay goal just over five minutes into the period. The Hawks then tied the game again with a goal by Liam Lyons before Tyler Mitchell (Burlington, ON, Canada Pomfret School) put USM ahead 5-4 just over 30 seconds later.
• The Hawks tied the game 14:15 into the third period to force overtime and in the extra period Tommy Schwartz found the back of the net to give Saint Anselm a 6-5 victory.
• McElhaney, Suran and Sabourin each tallied two points off a goal and an assist.
• Judd (Newton, Mass./Albany Academy) recorded two assists while Azam Jiwa (Calgary, AB, Canada/West Island College) and Tyler Gardiner had one.

 
 
Up Next: The Huskies will travel to New York on Friday, November 4 for a NEHC game against Elmira College.