{"id":390109,"date":"2026-01-04T11:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T11:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/390109\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T11:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T11:26:11","slug":"maine-womens-hockey-triumphs-over-holy-cross-with-2-1-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/390109\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine Women&#8217;s Hockey Triumphs Over Holy Cross With 2-1 Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Maine Women&#8217;s Hockey Team beat Holy Cross 2-1 at The Alfond on Saturday, January 3rd, as Lulu Rucinski scored a pair of goals for the Black Bears.<\/p>\n<p>After a scoreless 1st Period, Rucinski scored her 1st goal with 8:02 gone in the 2nd Period. Her goal was asissted by Brenna Curl.<\/p>\n<p>Maine led 2-1.<\/p>\n<p>Then in the 3rd Period, with 7:35 Rucinksi scored her 2nd goal of the night, this time assisted by Sade Sandilands.<\/p>\n<p>Harvard scored with 9:30 left to play, but Maine&#8217;s defense shut down the Crimson the rest of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Maine outshot Harvard 33-27<\/p>\n<p>Kiia Lahtinen picked up the win for Maine, coming away with 26 saves.<\/p>\n<p>Maine was 0-2 on the power play, while Harvard was 0-1.<\/p>\n<p>Holy Cross is now 14-7-1 and 6-6-1 in Hockey East. Maine is 8-11-2 overall and 4-5-2 in Hockey East<\/p>\n<p>Maine will host UConn next weekend. The puck drops on Friday night, January 9th at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the Hockey East Standings as of January 4th (games played thru January 3) with their conference records<\/p>\n<p>1. Northeastern 11-1-0 34 points2. UConn 8-1-1 23 points3. Boston College 7-4-1 22 points4. Holy Cross 6-6-1 20 points5. New Hampshire 5-5-2 17 points6. Boston University 4-6-2 14 points6. Maine 4-5-2 14 points8. Providence 4-6-2 12 points9. Vermont 2-7-1 7 points10. Merrimack 0-10-0 1 point<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WEZQFM.png\" alt=\"92.9 The Ticket logo\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Maine Women&#8217;s Hockey Team beat Holy Cross 2-1 at The Alfond on Saturday, January 3rd, as Lulu&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[5,19688],"class_list":{"0":"post-390109","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hockey","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-maine-hockey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115836589470674997","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}