FINAL SCORE: UConn 5, Vermont 1
HARTFORD, Conn. – Stefanos Lekkas recorded his 1,000th save of the 2018-19 season and cracked the UVM's top-3 in career saves in Friday's setback at UConn.
 
UConn took a 5-1 win over Vermont at XL Center in Hartford and improves to 11-20-2 overall (6-15-2 HEA) while Vermont drops to 12-19-2 overall (5-16-2 HEA).
 
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COACH'S QUOTE
"We need to figure out how we want this last game to go because we were beat by a team that wanted it more," head coach Kevin Sneddon said. "It's disappointing to say the least."
 
HOW IT HAPPENED

• UConn captain Miles Gendron put the Huskies up early after wiring a shot from the slot past Lekkas (32 saves) at 3:51 of the first period.
• Freshman Jonny Evans doubled the Husky lead at 6:33 of the first period with a quick give-and-go with Jachym Kondelik.
• Kale Howarth made it 3-0 UConn at 11:43 of the second period. Howarth picked up a rebound behind the Catamount net and quickly brought a wraparound chance to the front of the net and scored. Alexander Payusov pushed the lead to 4-0 just over three minutes later on the power play with assists from Gendron and Wyatt Newpower.
• Andrew Petrillo scored his first career goal at 18:38 of the second period to make it 4-1 Huskies. The freshman received a pass from Derek Lodermeier and rifled a shot from the point past Tomas Vomacka (33 saves). Max Kaufman picked up the secondary assist on the goal.
• Evans netted his second goal of the night at 15:41 of the final period, deflected a blue line shot from Ruslan Iskhakov past a sliding Lekkas.

GAME NOTES

• Lekkas posted his second and the fifth 1,000 save season in Catamount history at 11:25 of the second period with a blocker save on a shot from Adam Karashik.
• Lekkas passed UVM Hall-of-Famer Joe Fallon '08 for third in program history in career saves. The junior now has the third-most saves in program history with 2,912 stops, behind Rob Madore '12 (3,352) and Tim Thomas '97 (3,950).
• Petrillo became the seventh Catamount this season to record his first career goal.

UP NEXT | Tickets
Vermont closes the 2018-19 season next Friday as hosts against UMass Lowell at Gutterson Fieldhouse. The three members of the Class of 2019: Liam Coughlin, Conor O'Neil, and Craig Puffer, will be honored prior to the game on Senior Night, presented by UVM Alumni Association.
 
Handy Toyota is the presenting sponsor of the 2018-19 men's hockey team