ANN ARBOR — After struggling in conference play to start the season, Northeastern made the most of it’s first road trip, beating Michigan handily at Yost Ice Arena 4-1. The Huskies got two goals from sophomore forward Cody Ferriero along with contributions from Steve Quailer in the first period and Braeden Pimm in the third to wrap up the victory. Goaltender Chris Rawlings made 33 saves, getting the win in net.

Our Observations

• The Huskies stayed out of the box for most of the night, which is important when you play a team like Michigan. The Wolverines went 0-3 with the man-advantage and Northeastern won the special teams battle, getting a power play goal from Quailer 5:04 into the second period.
• Cody Ferriero seems to have found his game, scoring two important goals and keeping his legs moving all night. In the first two-goal-game of his career, Ferriero scored one late in the second period to give NU the lead and then added another 4:39 into the third period to put the Huskies up by two.
• Chris Rawlings kept his cool, after missing an easy one in the first period. Rawlings was able to keep his head in the game, stopping everything that came his way after allowing the first goal of the game to Travis Lynch.

Quotable

Jim Madigan: “We’re pleased with our effort. I think our team showed some resiliency, some character in coming back and this is a good win for our hockey club, coming into a venue that not many opposing teams win.”

“We need more scoring. I said earlier in the year that we have enough scoring, I still believe that but it needs to show. We had 4 here tonight but we had some good chances and some good looks on the power play but we just couldn’t get it across the goal line.”

Cody Ferriero: “It’s nice getting an out of conference game to change things up a little bit. What are they ranked 11th in the country? I don’t really care, we’re coming in here trying to win the game and it feels good to beat a ranked team out of conference, gets our confidence going.”

Next up

The road trip continues when the Huskies travel to South Bend, Indiana to face Notre Dame for two games (Friday and Saturday, 7:00p start for both)

Jared Shafran Hockey Michigan