Griffins beat Huskie men’s hockey team
A quick start is one of the building blocks for success in hockey and the Huskies men’s hockey team got one on Friday, but it didn’t translate into a victory this time as the rest of their game fell short in a 3-1 loss to the MacEwan University Griffins.
Connor Hobbs opened the scoring just 28 seconds into the contest and the Huskies appeared to be off and running. However, that turned out to be their only goal all night as a hardworking Griffins squad played them tough and did a better job capitalizing on its scoring chances than the Dogs did.
“I don’t know if we thought it was going to be easy. They’ve beat every good team in the league and they’re a good team too because they work hard,” Huskies head coach Brandin Cote said. “We didn’t make it hard enough on them and I didn’t think we deserved to win.”
It wasn’t’ as if the Huskies didn’t have any scoring chances, but when they did, Griffins goaltender Ashton Abel had the answers. When he didn’t, his goalposts did, with at least four Saskatchewan shots ringing off the iron. The Dogs also lost the special teams battle, going 0-for-6 on the power play while the Griffins scored twice in six power play opportunities including Carter Chorney’s empty-net insurance marker.