AMHERST – No. 17/18 University of Massachusetts men’s hockey pulled level with No. 16 Providence in the third period on Saturday night.

But the Friars scored four unanswered goals to skate past the Minutemen at the Mullins Center. The loss leaves UMass at 8-7-0 overall, 2-5-0 in Hockey East, while PC improves to 6-5-2 and 4-3-1 in Hockey East action.

“We weren’t playing a great game, but it was 0-0 near the end of the second period, and made a poor puck decision to take an icing—faceoff, goal.” UMass head coach Greg Carvel said. “We came out in the third and actually started playing. We got a great goal from James Duerr .

“We started to get some momentum, and then their McQueen kid walked right through our defense and scored. Things fell apart from there.”

Late in the second peri

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