The Maine men’s hockey team beat Northeastern 4-1 on Friday night to earn its first win at Matthews Arena in Boston since Feb. 25, 2012.
The Black Bears, who were 0-14-2 in their last 16 games at Matthews before winning the season’s Hockey East opener, improved to 4-0 for the first time since the 2006-07 season. Northeastern is 1-3 overall, 0-1 in Hockey East.
Thomas Freel scored a power-play goal with 7:07 left in the second period to give Maine the lead. Taylor Makar pushed it to 2-0 less than two minutes later.
Scott Harrison and Nolan Renwick scored empty-net goals in the third for Maine.
Cam Lund scored from Biddeford native Jack Williams and Vinny Borgesi for Northeastern.
Maine goalie Albin Boija stopped 24 shots, while Cameron Whitehead had 30 saves for Northeastern.
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