ORONO, Maine — Junior left wing Josh Nadeau registered two goals and goalie Albin Boija made 22 saves as the University of Maine completed a non-conference sweep of Holy Cross with a 6-0 victory at Alfond Arena.
UMaine won Friday’s game 5-2 and is now 2-0 while Holy Cross fell to 0-3.
Nadeau’s two-goal game was his first since his freshman season, while Boija’s shutout was the seventh of the junior’s career.
Freshman center Jaden Lipinski scored a first-period goal for the Black Bears before Nadeau scored twice in the second period. Nadeau’s second-period goals came 6:09 apart and extended UMaine’s lead to 3-0.
Senior left wing Thomas Freel, freshman right wing Miguel Marques and freshman center Oskar Komarov added third period goals for the Black Bears with Holt’s coming on the power play and Komarov’s being shorthanded.
Brandon Chabrier and Max Scott assisted on Nadeau’s first goal. Nadeau stickhandled from left to right across the slot, allowing a screen to form in front of Leroux and then snapped a 20-foot wrist shot back across to the blocker side.
A pair of freshmen assisted on his second goal as defenseman Lukas Peterson flipped the puck to the net where it deflected off Justin Poirier over to Nadeau at the far post.
Leroux reached out to try to corral the puck but Nadeau beat him to it and backed up to create a better shooting angle before flipping it in from the tight angle.
Lipinski’s goal, his second in as many nights, came just 5:09 into the game and represented the only scoring in the first period. He carried the puck through the neutral zone and dished it to freshman defenseman Jeremy Langlois, who was breaking into the offensive zone on the left wing side.
Lipinski skated to the far post and received a perfect return pass from Langlois which he tucked into the short side from 10 feet out.
In the third period, Freel got a piece of Brandon Holt’s shot from the point, Brandon Chabrier’s wrister deflected in off Marques, and Komarov scored with a wraparound.
Holy Cross freshman goalie Danick Leroux made 14 saves in his college debut.
