HARTFORD, Conn. – UConn's Darion Hanson recorded his first shutout of the season as UConn defeated Vermont 4-0 Saturday afternoon from the XL Center in both teams' regular season finales. The Catamounts will face Providence in the Hockey East Opening Round while the Huskies earned a first round bye with today's win and other results in the league.
 
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COACH'S QUOTE
"Coming off two wins, we expected more from our team today," said Head Coach Todd Woodcroft. "We are trying to build off any momentum we can create - and we didn't capitalize on the positive energy from our last two contests. Once again, in a low event game, we got into penalty trouble early that could be avoided. We have work to do before Wednesday."
 
HOW IT HAPPENED

• The Huskies opened the scoring 7:15 into the first period on a five-on-three power play. John Spetz skated into the slot and fired a wrist shot past Vermont's Gabe Carriere who was partially screened on the play.
• After the Huskies killed off UVM's first power play chance of the game they struck in transition to double their advantage. Artem Shlaine redirected a centering feed from Ryan Tverberg past Carriere with 10:09 left in the first period.
• Carter Turnbull made it a three-goal lead with 7:57 left in the first period. Carriere made an initial save on a point-shot but the rebound came right to Turnbull who stashed it home.
• Jake Veilleux closed out the scoring in the second period with his first career goal. He fired a point shot that took a fortuitous bounce of a Vermont defender. 

INSIDE THE BOX SCORE

• Tyler Harmon came in after the fourth UConn goal and made 11 saves for Vermont.
• Joel Määttä won a team-high 10 faceoffs for the Catamounts.

UP NEXT
The Catamounts will travel to face No. 19 Providence in the Hockey East Opening Round Wednesday, March 9. Game time and broadcast information will be announced later this weekend. Check back to UVMAthletics.com for full details. Fans can listen live on the Vermont Sports Network, from Learfield IMG College on WVMT with Adam Lafleur on the call.
 
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