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Wilkes-Barre, PA – Senior Niko Schoner recorded his third career hat trick and junior Logan Kelly added two goals as the SUNY Canton men's hockey team earned a 9-1 win over Misericordia University in their season opener on Friday night.

THE BASICS

• Result: SUNY Canton 9, Misericordia 1
• Location: Toyota Sportsplex – Wilkes-Barre, PA
• Records: SUNY Canton (1-0-0) | Misericordia University (0-1-0)

HOW IT HAPPENED

• Freshman Trevor Dalton kicked things off for the Roos, gathering a faceoff win from classmate Ethan Rosenoff and snapping a wrister past goaltender Antoine Robidioux for the 1-0 lead at the 11:34 mark of the first period.
• Kelly doubled the lead less than three minutes later with a power play goal.  His slapshot from the top of the circle gave Canton a 2-0 lead.
• Junior Samuel Moshurchak's wrist shot at 18:23 of the first gave the visitor's a 3-0 advantage.  Moshurchak's goal was assisted by freshman Paul Schilcher and Schoner.
• Kelly extended the lead to 4-0 at 5:15 of the second period, snapping a shot from the slot and over the blocker of Robidioux.
• Schoner scored his first of the night less than a minute later, dipsy doodling his way through three defenders and wristing a shot glove high to put the Roos ahead 5-0.
• Freshman Sacha Trudel finished a nice cross ice pass from sophomore Dylan Pollock at 10:47 of the second to give his squad a 6-0 going into the third period.
• Jonathan Lush scored a third period marker to give Misericordia their first goal of the evening, but Schoner picked off a clearing pass on the power play less than two minutes later to make the score 7-1.
• Schoner completed the hat trick at 10:31 of the third, taking a pass off the rush from junior Nolan Zotter to put the Roos up 8-1.
• Senior Jackson Drysdale completed the scoring at 13:47, skating through the slot and beating Robidioux glove-side high, giving his team the 9-1 victory.

INSIDE THE NUMBERS

• Moshurchak, Trudel and Dalton all scored their first career collegiate goals.
• Rosenoff and Schilcher earned their first career points for the Roos.
• Schoner's three goals now ties him with Joe Deveny '19 for first in the D-III era program record book with 35 career goals.
• Canton outshot the Cougars 49-14 and had a 36-28 edge at the faceoff dot.  Sophomore Spencer Sasenbury was 11-for-16 to lead the Roos.
• Canton was 2-for-4 on the man advantage and 5-for-5 on the penalty kill.
• Senior Trey Miller made 13 saves on 14 shots, earning his 18^th career win. Robidioux made 40 stops in the loss for the Cougars.  

WHAT'S NEXT?
The Roos will look for a repeat performance against Misericordia on Saturday as they will face the Cougars again in a matinee performance at 3:30 p.m.
   
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