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LOWELL, Mass. – With his team trailing 3-1 with less than eight minutes to play in regulation, junior Dylan Sikura took control the game, scoring three times in the final 7:29 of the game, including the game-winner with 16.2 seconds left, to lift the Northeastern men's ice hockey team (10-10-5, 4-8-3) to a come-from-behind victory at No. 7 UMass Lowell (15-8-3, 7-6-1) on Friday night at Tsongas Center, 4-3.
 
Sikura became the first Husky since Cody Ferriero on Dec. 29, 2012 at Harvard to score three goals in a period, and the first to net a natural hat trick since Kevin Roy against Connecticut on Feb. 13, 2015. Sikura now has 41 points on the year (16 goals, 25 assists), tied for the third most in the nation, and recorded his second hat trick of the season to make NU the only team in the country to have two players (Zach Aston-Reese) with multiple hat tricks this year.
 
UMass Lowell jumped out to a 2-0 lead with power play strikes from Ryan Lohin midway through the first period before Jake Kamrass netted his ninth of the year eight minutes into the second period. Grant Jozefek brought the Huskies back within a goal with his first collegiate goal, a power play tally, with 4:18 to go in the middle frame.
 
The River Hawks regained its two-goal edge on Josh Edwardh's 12th of the year on the man advantage before Sikura put the team on his shoulders with three straight goals over the final eight minutes to give NU its third straight victory.
 
Adam Gaudette and Garret Cockerill both recorded two assists on the night while Ryan Ruck made 21 saves, including several game-saving stops on odd-man rushes to keep the Huskies in the game. Garrett Metcalf had 23 stops in goal before being replaced by Tyler Wall
 
Northeastern outshot UMass Lowell 29-24 in the game and went 2-of-5 on the power play while UML was 3-of-4 on the man advantage.
 
Goal descriptions:
• UMass Lowell drew first blood midway through the opening period with a tally from Lohin, his fifth of the season. With the River Hawks controlling the puck on the man advantage, Dylan Zink fed the puck down to Chris Forney along the half wall. Forney then fired a seam pass across the zone to Lohin atop the left face-off dot, who ripped a shot top shelf for the score.
 
• The River Hawks struck again with another power play tally eight minutes into the second period on a goal from Kamrass. With NU in the box for a hooking minor, Zink controlled the puck along the right wall before sending a pass into Connor Wilson for a shot that Ruck handled, but the rebound popped right onto the stick of Kamrass, who tucked it home for his ninth of the year.
 
• Northeastern cut into the deficit with a power play goal of its own with 4:18 remaining in the second period. NU's power play unit, comprised of three freshmen and two sophomores, moved the puck around the zone before Eric Williams sent the puck down to Matt Filipe on the right side. Filipe patiently waited in the circle before cutting to the net and firing a low shot on goal that Metcalf knocked down. Jozefek, however, was there waiting for the rebound, and pounded home the second opportunity for his first collegiate tally.
 
• UMass Lowell regained its two-goal edge less than eight minutes into the third period on the River Hawks' third power play goal of the evening. Ruck was up to the test early on during the UML man advantage, and stoned Edwardh with a blocker save on a shot from the left dot following a feed from Mattias Goransson. The rebound popped right back to Edwardh, though, who fired another bid that Ruck got a piece of, but it trickled over the goal line with Goransson on the doorstep for the score.
 
• Sikura brought the Huskies within one with 7:29 left in regulation with his 13th of the season. As the Huskies transitioned from the defensive zone, Garret Cockerill tossed the puck to Sikura in the defensive zone. Sikura then sped coast to coast and across the attacking blue line before threading a wrist shot from the point that rang off the right post and past Metcalf to make it 3-2.
 
• Sikura leveled the score with 6:13 to go in the third period with a power play strike. After UML dumped the puck 200 feet down the ice, Cockerill dropped the puck in the neutral zone for Adam Gaudette coming up ice with speed. Gaudette then tossed it over to Sikura and let him to the rest, flying down the left side before ripping a shot under the left arm of Metcalf to knot the game at three.
 
• Sikura completed the natural hat trick with 16.2 seconds left in regulation to give Northeastern its first lead of the evening. Gaudette began the play by flying up ice and beating out an icing call after a clear from Ryan Shea. Gaudette then took a peek over his shoulder and spotted Sikura heading towards the cage and tossed a backhand into the slot. Sikura then settled the puck before beating Wall down low to give Northeastern a 4-3 late in regulation.
 
Stats of the game:
• Northeastern is now 44-59-10 all-time against UMass Lowell, and is now unbeaten in four straight games (2-0-2) at Tsongas Center for the first time since 2013.
 
• The Huskies have now logged 11 road victories against teams ranked in the top ten of the USCHO.com poll under head coach Jim Madigan.
 
• Sikura has 12 goals and 16 assists in his last 14 games, and reached the 40-point plateau for the first time in his career. It's the second straight year that Northeastern has had two players reached 40 points in the same season. Sikura also has points in 21-of-25 games this season.
 
• Sikura is the first player since Cody Ferriero on Dec. 29, 2012 at Harvard to score three goals in a period. The only other time it's happened since in the last 12 years was on Nov. 4, 2005 (Ryan Ginand vs. New Hampshire).
 
• Sikura's third period performance was also the first natural hat trick for a Husky since Kevin Roy against Connecticut on Feb. 13, 2015. It's the fourth time that's happened since 2012 (Cody Ferriero, twice; Jan. 27, 2012 at Vermont and Dec. 29, 2012 at Harvard)
 
• Gaudette extended his point streak to four games (three goals, three assists). He has five goals and 11 assists in his last nine games.
 
• Jozefek's second period goal extended Northeastern's power play goal streak to 14 games, dating back to Nov. 18 against Providence. Northeastern has 36 goals on the power play this season, the most in the nation.
 
• Cockerill has four assists in his last three games, and is now tied for 12th in the nation in points among defensemen (0.84).

• Ruck now has 30 victories in 61 career starts, which is tied for seventh on Northeastern's all-time wins list.
 
The road ahead:
• Northeastern will be back in action on Tuesday night when the Huskies travel to Amherst, Mass. for a matchup with Massachusetts. Puck drop is set for 7 p.m. from the Mullins Center.