UNB overwhelm Tigers 11-1

RECAP BY: Peter Jewett/for UNB Athletics 

(FREDERICTON, NB) The UNB REDS men's hockey team returned to their winning ways on Saturday afternoon at UNB's Aitken Centre. 

Less than 24-hours after losing their first game in 598 days, the REDS knocked off the Dalhousie Tigers in a dominant 11-1 showing. 

UNB's stellar defence allowed just three Dal shots in each of the first two periods and 12 in total. 

In the first period, Ben Corbeil (Granby, QC) split two Tigers defenders and went top shelf to open the scoring less than four minutes in. 

Three minutes later, defenceman Oscar Plandowski (Halifax, NS) sniped one from the point. 

Drew Elliott (Musquash, NB), named Tim Horton's Player of the Game, gave UNB a 3-0 lead at 13:19. 

By the end of the second period, it was 7-0. 

REDS goals came from Elliott, Camaryn Baber (Sault Ste. Marie, ON), Michael Petizian (Mississauga, ON) and Peter Reynolds (Fredericton, NB). 

Tigers' head coach Chris Donnelly opted for a change in net after UNB's seventh goal, replacing Alex MacDonald (Truro, NS) with Robbie Forbes (Oakville, ON). 

In the third period, the UNB onslaught continued, as Kale McCallum (Rothesay, NB), Emmett Sproule (Collingwood, ON), Cole Huckins (Upper Kingsclear, NB) and Sean McGurn (Ottawa, ON) all scored goals. 

In the dying minutes of the final period, Dal's Brody Fournier (Perth, ON) robbed the REDS of the shutout. 

Tanner Somers (Miramichi, NB) made 11 saves in the victory. 

15 UNB skaters had points in the win, including six players with three points each. 

It's the team's highest-scoring outing of the season so far, and largest margin of victory in an Atlantic University Sport regular season game since January of 2020. 

The REDS are now 7-1-0-0 (W-L-OTL-SOL) and will be on the Aitken Centre ice again on Wednesday at 7:00pm, when they host second place Moncton. 

With the loss, Dal sinks to 1-7-0-0. 

The Tigers return to action on Wednesday at 7:00pm, in a home tilt versus Acadia.