“I’m very happy for our kids,” Carvel said. “We have pushed them very hard for the last four years, especially the senior class.”
Junior goalkeeper Filip Lindberg, who missed Thursday’s semifinals due to COVID-19 contact detection protocols and school policies, was back in the net for UMass and recorded 24 saves for his fourth career finish in the tournament, an NCAA record.
Junior Bobby Trivigno, who took advantage of a bad line change by St. Cloud and the goalkeeper of St. Cloud, David Hrenak, with 14 minutes of playing time for UMass’s fifth goal with a wrist on the side, was named the Most Standing Player of the Tournament.
“We have a very deep team,” Trivigno said. ‘We [defensemen] did a great job tonight. It was a group effort in the D-zone, and it takes a lot to close a team. I think we deserved it. They did an amazing job. ”
UMass got goals in the first 20 minutes from some unlikely sources to take a 2-0 lead.
First-year Aaron Bohlinger chose a good time to achieve his first college goal, and he kicked the packed ice off a turnover. It quickly became a two on no one when some St. Cloud skaters collided and crashed. Bohlinger broke to the left and kicked it over the ice for classmate Ryan Sullivan, who pulled Hrenak to his side before sending it back to Bohlinger, giving it a one-time 1-0 7:26 lead in the game has.
UMass’s second goal has a slight resemblance to Thursday night’s match winner, with second-year Cal Kiefiuk around the back of the net and circling the kick over the crease to Reed Lebster, who beat it for his second goal of the season by just 1 . : 04 left in the first period.
“Our depth was a big reason why we made it through tonight’s game,” said senior captain Jake Gaudet. ‘I’m so glad these guys are putting picks in the net; they deserve it completely. We would not be here without a solid team with four lines, and we have six excellent [defensemen] who plays an excellent goalkeeper.
St. In the first minutes of the match, Cloud had a chance to take the lead, as Veeti Miettinen fired a wrist joint past Lindberg, but the kick slammed off the crossbar. The Huskies would end the first period with just three shots on goal.
A few goals for special teams gave the Minutemen a cushion in the second period. St. Cloud apparently had a chance to return in the game when it was left with 16:03 left, but Philip Lagunov turned the Huskies off the table, causing a turnover and carrying the puck over the blue line. defensive defender Nick Perbix and beat Hrenak with a backhand, five holes for a 3-0 lead.
It was the senior’s fourth goal of the season and the 16th of his career with 129 games.
“We talked a lot about five holes and tried to spread the goalkeeper open over the last few months,” Lagunov said. “As far as that is concerned, it has been applied in practice.”
Nadat St. Cloud in the middle of the period collected just one shot at a power play, UMass went on its own power play after the Huskies were whistled for too many men on the ice.
The Minutemen executed the advantage of the man perfectly by the shooter in the St. Keep Cloud Zone and extend the lead on Matt Kessel’s one-time player from the point of a Oliver Chau feed for a 4-0 lead with 6:45 left in the middle period.
The Huskies managed to come off a spate of shots late in the period and finished with 12 shots for a total of two periods of 15, but Lindberg had the answer every time UMass took the 4-0 advantage in carried in the last 20 minutes.
While the game was three minutes away, Carvel called his team together over a period of time so that they could embrace the moment.
“One does not get an opportunity so often in a championship situation,” Carvel said. ‘Some people told me today to enjoy the moment and pull it in, and I told the kids.
‘The game was over, of course, and I wanted to tell them something before things went crazy. I wanted them to come in tight and look each other in the eye and remember the moment, because honestly it would be the best moment in their lives, and I just wanted them to hear it from me and hear my gratitude for everyone. it did. ‘
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Jared Wickerham for the Boston Globe
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