{"id":230254,"date":"2026-01-10T03:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T03:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/230254\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T03:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T03:54:08","slug":"friars-skate-past-black-bears-in-hockey-east-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/230254\/","title":{"rendered":"Friars skate past Black Bears in Hockey East action"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Providence_College_200x200.png\" alt=\"Providence\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Next Game:<\/p>\n<p>at Providence<\/p>\n<p>1\/10\/2026 | 6:00 PM<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        ESPN+  &#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Jan. 10 (Sat) \/ 6:00 PM&#13;\n                <\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Providence_College_200x200.png\" alt=\"Providence\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        at\u00a0Providence&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                    <a class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-details-history\" href=\"https:\/\/goblackbears.com\/sports\/mens-ice-hockey\/opponent-history\/providence\/192\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">History <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    PROVIDENCE, R.I. \u2013 \u00a0The #18\/17 Providence College Friars skated to a 6-1 win over the #12\/14 University of Maine men&#8217;s ice hockey team on Friday night at Schneider Arena.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Friars took a 2-0 lead in the first period and then stretched it out to 5-0 by the end of the second, thanks to a string of three consecutive power-play goals.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Black Bears finally got on the board less than a minute into the third period, with <a href=\"https:\/\/goblackbears.com\/sports\/mens-ice-hockey\/roster\/brandon-holt\/11560\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11560\" target=\"_blank\">Brandon Holt<\/a> putting home a power-play goal of his own. The hosts, though, capped off the scoring 12 minutes later for the 6-1 final.<\/p>\n<p>#18\/17 Providence 6, #12\/14 Maine 1<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nJan. 9, 2026 | Providence, R.I.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nNOTABLES&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tMaine had the 27-26 edge in shots on goal.&#13;<br \/>\n\tProvidence was 3-for-7 on the advantage while Maine was 1-for-6.&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/goblackbears.com\/sports\/mens-ice-hockey\/roster\/albin-boija\/11552\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Albin Boija<\/a>\u00a0made five saves in moving to 8-6-2 on the season in 24:37 of action \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/goblackbears.com\/sports\/mens-ice-hockey\/roster\/mathis-rousseau\/12236\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12236\" target=\"_blank\">Mathis Rousseau<\/a> made 15 saves over 35:16 of action.&#13;<br \/>\n\tMaine is now 72-62-9 in the all-time series with Providence.&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/goblackbears.com\/sports\/mens-ice-hockey\/roster\/brandon-holt\/11560\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11560\" target=\"_blank\">Brandon Holt<\/a> scored his fifth goal of the season, setting a new career-high.&#13;<br \/>\n\tHolt led Maine with a game-high five shots on goal.&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/goblackbears.com\/sports\/mens-ice-hockey\/roster\/jeremy-langlois\/12231\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12231\" target=\"_blank\">Jeremy Langlois<\/a> led Maine with four blocked shots.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>RECORDS<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tMaine: 12-8-2, 6-6-0 Hockey East&#13;<br \/>\n\tProvidence: 10-7-2, 5-3-1 Hockey East&#13;<\/p>\n<p>UP NEXT<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tMaine and Providence will close out the weekend tomorrow with a 6 p.m. puck drop at Schneider Arena.&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; Next Game: at Providence 1\/10\/2026 | 6:00 PM &#13; ESPN+ &#13; &#13; Jan. 10 (Sat)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-230254","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}