Schandor Nets OT Winner As Huskies Take Down LIU

Thursday, December 29

East Meadow, NY

7:00 PM

University of Connecticut

12-5-3

LIU

6-12-1

OT 1

UConn

LIU

Photo by: Ian Bethune/The UConn Blog

12/30/2022 12:09:00 AM | Men's Ice Hockey

Box Score

East Meadow, New York – The UConn Huskies took down Long Island University Thursday night 2-1 behind freshman Arsenii Sergeev 29 saves. Andrew Lucas opened the scoring while Hudson Schandor scored the overtime winner.

The Huskies wasted no time as they jumped out to the 1-0 lead five minutes into the game following an LIU penalty. With the lead UConn continued to attack but the sharks netminder Vinnie Purpura made 11 saves to prevent another goal. Long Island eventually found the equalizer on the power play with five minutes remaining in the period.

The second period was a defensive battle as both teams netminders made key saves to keep the game knotted at 1. Freshman Arsenii Sergeev made 10 saves in the second period while Vinnie Pupura of LIU made seven. UConn's best chance of the period came early in the period when Andrew Lucas rang a shot off the inside of the post. LIU looked to take the lead late in the second period on a breakaway, but a save by Sergeev, followed by a block on an open net by Messineo kept the game tied at 1.