BOSTON – Joe Connor scored twice and added an assist, and the Northeastern men's ice hockey team (1-0-0) used a three-goal first period en route to a 6-4 victory over Holy Cross (0-1-0) on Saturday night at Matthews Arena.
 
Dylan Hryckowian, Giacomo Martino, Matthew Perkins and Jacob Mathieu also scored for the Huskies, while Lawton Zacher made 25 saves in goal.
 
Holy Cross struck first less than four minutes into the game when Jack Stockfish gathered a loose puck in the defensive zone before beating Zacher up top for his first of the season.
 
Northeastern fired right back, though, with Hryckowian recording his first of the year during a delayed penalty. After an Austen May shot from the point was blocked into the corner, Hryckowian quickly corralled the puck and fired a shot from below the goal line that caught the skate of Hogg and in to level the score at one.
 
The Huskies went ahead 2-1 with 3:30 left in the opening frame from Martino ripped a shot from the slot past Hoog off a feed from Joaquim Lemay behind the cage.
 
NU extended it to 3-1 late in the period on Perkins' first of the year as he picked up a loose puck at the right side of the night and fired it home for the score.
 
Holy Cross made it a one-goal game two minutes into the second period on David Hymovitch's first of the year when he snapped a shot home from the slot.
 
Northeastern made it a two-goal game yet again less than a minute later in transition on Connor's first of the season, roofing a shot over Hoog's shoulder off a drop pass from Tyler Fukakusa.
 
Holy Cross continued to fight, and made it a one-goal game with 7:41 remaining in regulation when Timothy Heinke poked home a loose puck in front of the net.
 
Connor put the game out of reach with 2:38 remaining, using his patience to get Hoog to commit low before going top shelf to make it 5-3.
 
Holy Cross would add a late goal from William Elias before Mathieu potted an empty netter to close out the scoring.
 
The Huskies will be back in action next Friday when Northeastern hosts Army at 7 p.m. from Matthews Arena.