NORTH ANDOVER, Mass - The #14/15 Merrimack men's hockey team took four of a possible six points last weekend against #17 UConn. Merrimack won 5-4 on Friday before tying 5-5 with the Huskies on Saturday. The Warriors only have one game on the docket this weekend with Holy Cross on Friday.
The Warriors are currently on a seven game unbeaten streak, going 5-0-2 since October 8th, and on their fourth one under head coach
Scott Borek. The other times were February 27th to March 21st 2026, October 29th to November 22nd 2022 where they won seven games in a row and February 17th to March 17th 2023, where they also won seven games in a row.
In the two previous seasons reaching this mark, the Warriors have reached the Hockey East Final twice, winning one and they've reached the NCAA Tournament twice.
Merrimack men's hockey defenseman
David Green was named Hockey East Rookie of the week for his performance over the weekend as announced by the league office on Monday afternoon. Green factored into four of the Warriors five goals in their 5-4 win over #17 UConn on Friday, scoring his first two NCAA goals including the game winner to go along with two assists as well. Green's four points were the first time a Merrimack defenseman has had four or more points since Zach Bookman did so on November 10, 2023, also in a game against UConn (1 G, 4 A).
The Warriors enter the weekend with 36 goals in their first eight games, ranking at the top of Hockey East and third in country in the category and sixth in goals per game in the nation. This is most goals Merrimack has scored their first eight games since 1997-98 when they scored 43 times. This year's team is the third team to have 30 or more goals at this point of a season since 1996-97, joining the 1997-98 team (43) as well as the 2009-10 team (30). 13 Warriors have at least one goal and two players have five or more goals to this point in the season (
Nick Pierre, 8,
Ty Daneault 5)
Six players have at least two goals in a game in the last six games for Merrimack;
October 16 vs Minnesota State:
Nick Pierre (2), October 17 vs Minnesota State:
Ty Daneault (2),
Nathan King (2), October 23 vs Notre Dame: None, October 24 vs Notre Dame:
Seamus Powell (2), October 30 vs UConn:
David Green (2) and October 31 vs UConn:
Nick Pierre (3)
Merrimack currently has a five-game winning streak against Holy Cross and are unbeaten in their last 11 games against the Crusaders with their last loss coming on Oct. 24 2006. The Warriors were 5-2 winners in the last matchup with goals from
Caelan Fitzpatrick,
Seamus Powell,
Nathan King and
Justin Gill.
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